Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Of course Biden won’t pardon his son. It would be scandalously corrupt for the president to use his pardon power in behalf of a family member.

The only reason anyone even asks is that Trump used his pardon power corruptly, in behalf of cronies, donors, and—literally—his own criminal co-conspirators. By and large the news media gave him a pass. Just Trump being Trump.

https://wapo.st/3yQWQZy

Unlock the power of systemctl on your Linux system with these simple command examples.

https://itsfoss.com/systemctl-command/

Biden should be more concerned about Recall than Tik Tok.

Globally all governments should be very concerned about all of this and have immediately demanded a recall & get our privacy rights back.
This is critical for privacy, security.
They are allowing a world without rules, complete chaos because they are so enamoured by thievery, supremacy, power. I hope they all fall by the sword they forced in all our paths for seeking power without providing governance or leadership.

All nine Republican senators running for reelection this year just voted against the right to contraception:

John Barrasso
Marsha Blackburn
Kevin Cramer
Ted Cruz
Deb Fischer
Josh Hawley
Pete Ricketts
Rick Scott
Roger Wicker

So much for the party of "freedom."

President Biden: "Crime is near a 50-year record low."

FBI: Our data reflects a near 50-year record low.

Criminologists: Yeah, our analysis shows that, too.

Political press: Biden claims crime is near a 50-year low, but who can say for sure?

#PhD #Geology #mining
For anyone interested in working on historic mines, we just got an EU grant to look at the potential of mine waste as a source of desperately needed 'Green' metals, and the environmental implications of leaving this waste be.
Looking to hire a PhD this year yet, strong petrology and analytical chem background needed, preferably some knowledge of metallurgy. German is a ++ as community outreach is important to us.
Reach out if interested. Advert coming soon..

Starliner has separated from it's booster and is now on it's way to the ISS
All is nominal.

#Starliner #NASA

#Microsoft to "invest" $3.2bn in #AI in #Sweden, "drawing on the country's green energy"

When you read that "AI consumes as much energy as a small country", that country is now Sweden.

And this basically means the country's *public* power infrastructure is being sold out to private interests.

Shit like this makes me livid.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/06/03/microsoft-invest-3-2-billion-swedish-ai/

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

Remember: Trump asked oil execs at Mar-a-Lago for $1 billion for his campaign.

In return, Trump pledged to reverse environmental protections and cut their taxes.

The deal would net Big Oil $110 billion in tax breaks — 11,000% more than a $1 billion donation.

Utter corruption.

AI is flooding the world with fake content and fake books on how to get rich or to how to program better. Once you’ve found an AI author on Amazon, with fake face and fake bio, then Amazon will recommend you a range of other AI fake authors. AI can churn out books in the blink of an eye. If you write a popular book, AI will write fake workbooks to accompany your book, riddled with lies and errors.

https://gerrymcgovern.com/ai-content-production-machine-advertising-engine/

Not antisemitism: criticizing Israel and calling out their war crimes in Gaza.

Antisemitism: shooting at a Jewish school, especially one in a different country.

Good talk.

As folks discuss the pundering of the open internet/sharing economy by the data-hungry LLM trainers, it seems like a good time to remind ourselves to find something other than "the tragedy of the commons" as a metaphor. On the racist, terrible origins of that phrase:

https://discardstudies.com/2019/07/15/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

'If the bizarre campaigning on behalf of private schools does not illustrate, given its remoteness from majority preoccupations, the still disproportionate influence of the privately educated and their educators, it is otherwise mystifying.'

Must we pity put-upon parents sacrificing all to send their offspring to private school? | Catherine Bennett | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/02/must-we-pity-put-upon-parents-sacrificing-all-to-send-their-offspring-to-private-school

“Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.”

- Keith Ellison, attorney general of Minnesota

The Con Party will build more GP surgeries. Presumably there will be no GPs in them. We currently have GP premises available and GPs looking for work but the current Con government is refusing to pay them.

I'm really really really not interested in computers getting more powerful.
I am super interested in them being more repairable and modifiable, drawing less power, lasting and being supported for way longer etc. That stuff still gets me excited