Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

If Biden wants to get back in the fight against Trump, he can cancel the rest of the arms shipments to Israel and force Nutty Yahoo to accept the ceasefire that Hamas has already agreed to. If he goes to November with the death of all those in Rafah to his name, antiwar voters will vote for Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck.

Since Trump has also sent millions of voters home with the abortion bans that offend even GOP women, the election is a tossup race between Genocide Joe and Theocracy Don.

Low turnout is not out of the question, and it is quite likely to be the last election ever in the so-called "United States."

We are launching the #ESA Science Newsletter! It serves the scientific community and welcomes everyone interested in more programmatic and technical news from the Directorate of Science: calls for proposals, announcements of opportunity, research fellowship announcements, calls for memberships, job announcements, major mission updates, conference announcements, etc. for all our missions!

More infos & subscription link here:

▶️ https://cosmos.esa.int/web/scinews

#astrodon

A lovely story about an acclaimed 89-year-old photographer, David Hurn, whose name I’d never heard but whose work I've certainly seen — including a famous Sean Connery / James Bond poster.

“I must be one of the few people that's played Monopoly with The Beatles.”

“I've become the village photographer, so I cover little Johnny's birthday party and this and that and I do it very seriously, as though I was working for Life magazine, and I love doing that.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89zeg04w8go
#photography

@nixCraft Is there any way to find these sites? You are correct in that they disappeared but there must be a way to find them. Hopefully 🤞

OpenAI, Mircosoft, and Google together kill the open web. Thousands of independent blogs and forums are now nowhere in search engines or pushed back to page two to support their AI and partnerships with Reddit, StackOverflow, and more. Many humans contributed to these sites hoping to build a knowledge base for humanity, but now greedy people like Sama and OpenAI are taking over everything.

If the West continues to arm this genocide after 7 months of saying Rafah was a “red line” not one leader shipping weapons should retain their elected office:

Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.

“Israel’s military offensive in Rafah could lead to the deadliest phase of this conflict, inflicting horrific suffering on approximately 1.4 million displaced civilians in the area. The relocation orders issued by Israel today to thousands of Gazans, directing them to move to Al-Mawasi, are beyond alarming. The area is already overstretched and devoid of vital services.” - Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland

Research on vaccines which might remain effective against future variants.
#COVID #vaccines
https://www.healthday.com/health-news/infectious-disease/scientists-developing-vaccine-against-present-and-future-covid-viruses

That's it. It's official and acted. My Alma Mater (West Virginia University) has killed my department and the program that gave me my degree and so many people so many opportunities to expand their world.

The American Right attack on Humanities has made another victim.

https://twitter.com/LMDiBartolomeo/status/1787204526698549319

#WestVirginiaUniversity #WVU #Humanities

Amazon provides free communication monitoring technology to prisons that monitor all of their phone calls.

They thenutilize that communication data to build out their AI systems,

creating massive profit for Amazon and zero compensation for communities who are unaware of their role in their own forced labor.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/us-prisons-jails-ai-mass-monitor-millions-inmate/story?id=66370244

Well, I got my first white supremacist reply from the fediverse after posting an article about Elon from Flipboard.

I reported and blocked the account. I also looked at the instance admin's account and it's clear he's also a white supremacist. So that instance will be blocked on flipboard.com and flipboard.social as well as shared with other instance admins as a problematic instance for them to take action if they also deem appropriate. Took all of 2 minutes to help make the fediverse a bit better for everyone.

And the best thing is that anyone in the fediverse can do this too. Decentralized moderation FTW.

I am not pro-Palestine or anti-Israel. This isn’t a football match between two equally-matched teams where you support your favourite. I am anti-genocide and Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

My father died 15 years ago or so without ever seeing this come about, but if a larger group of people with more power had forced this issue through the courts in the late 1970's we could have had fairly widespread solar and combined-heat-and-power generation in CA by 1989, dramatically reducing greenhouse emissions from CA over the last 30 years.

Very happy to announce that @tomcoates and I have been given a #SummerOfProtocols grant to develop an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for #ActivityPub, including a reference implementation and a report to submit to the W3C SocialCG.

https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/sop-2024-pig-and-pog-grantees/1270

A former NSA employee named Jareh Dalke was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in prison for attempting to sell classified national defense information to Russia for $85k. His buyer was actually an undercover FBI agent. Oops. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-nsa-employee-sentenced-over-21-years-prison-attempted-espionage

the united states showing the world it will eagerly erode its own democracy to defend its genocidal colonial outpost in the middle east, regardless of whether democrats or republicans are in power

Laser excitation of Th-229 nucleus: New findings suggest classical quantum physics and nuclear physics can be combined https://phys.org/news/2024-04-laser-nucleus-classical-quantum-physics.html #science

Are Microsoft and Adobe really the only ones making software that can create #accessible tagged PDFs?

I would rather not use either of them!

Please boost this question 🔁

I can't find any alternatives :(

#accessibility