Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Uncovering Magnetism’s Mysterious Role in the Galaxy - Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic fie... - https://www.wired.com/story/uncovering-magnetisms-mysterious-role-in-the-galaxy/ #science/physicsandmath #attractiveproposition #science

This new piece in @niemanlab is a great showcase of our work and what we’re trying to do at @wearenew_public

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/could-social-media-support-healthy-online-conversations-new_public-is-working-on-it/

👏 to @heidilifeldman for her grassroots #mastodon campaign.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/25/2257916/-Mastodon-users-donate-a-quarter-million-dollars-in-2-days-for-VP-Harris-MastodonForHarris

Aerial Photography #OnThisDay

On 28th of July 1858, the French photographer Gaspard-Félix Tournachon aka  Nadar or Félix Nadar, took the first aerial photograph which he did from a balloon. Nadar invented a gas-proof cotton cover and draped it over his balloon baskets, he was able to capture stable images. He also pioneered the use of artificial lighting in photography, working in the catacombs of Paris.

https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/07/28/aerial-photography-onthisday/

There's no gentle way of putting this anymore

People who vote for this psychotic lunatic FREAK are a danger to you, your family, and every human being on this godforsaken planet

Trump Tells Christians They Won’t Have to Vote in Future: ‘We’ll Have It Fixed’

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-warns-vote-rigging-asks-christians-vote-just-this-time-1931018

Elon Musk’s X under fire over harvesting users’ data to train AI chatbot

The platform’s lead EU regulator is looking into the matter, which may infringe upon the bloc’s privacy rules.

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musks-x-under-fire-over-harvesting-users-data-to-train-ai-chatbot/

The European Union has a mix of 17 kinds of tanks, 20 types of planes, and 27 different military offices. The U.S., on the other hand, has just one military headquarters and fewer kinds of tanks and planes. If European countries shared their military resources and worked together more, they might be stronger within NATO and less reliant on the U.S. So, the big question is: Should the EU team up for its own defense and foreign policies, maybe even start a European army?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI4vT5nNp1c

Top Christian body, CAN, opposes planned protests [in #Nigeria], gives reasons, suggests alternatives

“CAN stands in solidarity with the citizens of our great nation during these challenging times of economic hardship..."

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/717558-top-christian-body-can-opposes-planned-protests-gives-reasons-suggests-alternatives.html

#EndBadGovernance #Africa

@pvonhellermannn @alx @shojiwax
You can also buy kayaks made from recycled marine plastics e.g. here
https://odysseyinnovation.com/

Scientists, deep-sea miner spar over ‘dark oxygen’ discovery
https://www.eenews.net/articles/scientists-deep-sea-miner-spar-over-dark-oxygen-discovery/
The Metals Co. is trying to discredit new research that bolsters opponents’ claims that the deep sea is too unknown to mine.

Let's be clear, this is research funded by Metals Co. and published in Nature Geoscience. But they don't like what the science is telling them, so they try to discredit it. The same play book as the fossil carbon industry has used to stop action on #ClimateChange

👍 The U.S. Department of Commerce announced today the release of new guidance and software to help improve the safety, security and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

The Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released three final guidance documents as well as a draft guidance document from the U.S. AI Safety Institute that is intended to help mitigate risks. NIST is also releasing a software package designed to measure how adversarial attacks can degrade the performance of an AI system. In addition, Commerce’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a guidance update on patent subject matter eligibility to address innovation in critical and emerging technologies, including AI, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) delivered a report to the White House that examines the risks and benefits of large AI models with widely available weights.
NIST’s document releases cover varied aspects of AI technology. Two were made public today for the first time. One is the initial public draft of a guidance document from the U.S. AI Safety Institute, and is intended to help AI developers evaluate and mitigate the risks stemming from generative AI and dual-use foundation models — AI systems that can be used for either beneficial or harmful purposes. The other is a testing platform designed to help AI system users and developers measure how certain types of attacks can degrade the performance of an AI system. Of the remaining three document releases, two are guidance documents designed to help manage the risks of generative AI — the technology that enables many chatbots as well as text-based image and video creation tools — and serve as companion resources to NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) and Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF). The third proposes a plan for U.S. stakeholders to work with others around the globe on AI standards. #Infosec #MachineLearning

@weatherwest

He says that X it completely useless for staying up to date on real time information. All of the fire tags, like #CAfire #ParkFire are useless on X/Twitter and are only filled with "not safe for work" content.

In less then 60 hours it went to one of the top 20 largest modern state history fires.

GOP: The Dems have to stop exaggerating and calling Trump fascist.

Trump: “Get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore... You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again.”

I'm sorry, what is he suggesting, exactly? #VoteBlue to save democracy.

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-cryptically-declares-you-wont-have-to-vote-anymore-if-he-wins-second-term/amp/

Okay, this is part of my contribution to the idea of a monoculture on mastodon.

I'm Nigerian. Nigeria is about to go on a huge public strike, and I haven't heard anything about it here. Now, I don't blame anyone for that, obviously, but I think it shows the fact that perhaps there aren't as many Africans as I'd like.

@Steve

We're looking for folks that can write copy: short blog articles, pitch stories to media publications etc.

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