Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

#BBCNews live page https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c75nekwkd4yt
Israel-Gaza war latest: #Gaza #polio vaccination campaign begins as #Israel finds hostage bodies

File under weird AF - it's emergency services day at the football and the riot squad just did a demo

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works, huh?

Let’s call Nazis “Nazis”.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/08/31/brazil-judge-bans-x-as-musk-challenges-top-courts-orders/

Let’s call disinformation, lying, and propaganda what they are too.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/29/brazil-judge-blocks-starlink-accounts-as-x-suspension-deadline-looms

This isn’t about speech rights of the “far right” on some ideological spectrum of rational policy disagreement. It’s about hate speech and strategic lying to promote violence and white supremacy.

Countries have been plunged into genocide with such tactics. Speech has consequences. Social media has inadequate countermeasures. https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/113056833635789357

We have a winner! #Taiwan was first to post an event 🎉 https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/software-freedom-day/events/open-culture-festival#SoftwareFreedomDay2024

We're less than a month away from #SoftwareFreedomDay2024. Check if there's an event in your area: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/events?view=map If not, help us create one. #SFD #SoftwareFreedomDay #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS

I’m hearing a reports that a brazillian people have signed up for Mastodon in the last day.

Thats a lot!

“What seems clear now is that UK counter-terrorism #police have a list of every pro-Palestinian journalist, blogger and prominent #socialmedia user, and they’re trawling through their posts to find an excuse to arrest them. If you wonder why France is so keen on capturing #Telegram, it’s because it’s an intelligence goldmine with vast activist networks hidden behind end-to-end encryption. They’re not going after child traffickers, they’re going after dissidents.”

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/uk-police-have-arrested-another-pro

I know there are people who don't think that LLMs, even at their current level, will radically affect development. I just don't understand how it's possible to still have that view.

Steve Yegge has written on "The Death of the Junior Developer"

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-death-of-the-junior-developer

You could say he's talking his book here, but this stuff really does work. Follow @simon as an example

Forest Bazell commentary on it "The death of the [modified] developer" https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-death-of-the-modified-developer is also good

@zleap @EndIsraeliApartheid Hello everyone im roaa from gaza
Im new here and im try to find Society can help me, need your help me to survive🇵🇸🙏🙏
I had displaced more that 6 time and now living in tent with high degrees of heat
Donate or share evey little support make a difference!!
https://gofund.me/3de91d5d

#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

The Israeli army stormed the city of Hebron on Saturday, shutting down the Ibrahimi Mosque and preventing worshippers from entering.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that Israeli forces raided the Wadi al-Hariya neighborhood, searching several homes. The incursion also targeted the Jabal Abu Rumman neighborhood, where soldiers and snipers were seen taking positions on rooftops of residential buildings, they added.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-storms-hebron-closes-ibrahimi-mosque-amid-heightened-tensions/3317714

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This doesn't look good:

Eight locations experienced temperatures of 50C + this year, most of them in the Tropic of cancer.

Hotest spot was Death Valley, USA, 7/7/24 - 53.9

the rest in deciding order, all 50C + peak:

Jahra, Kuwait
Sindh, Pakistan
Sanbao, China
Tepache, Mexico
Abadan, Iran
Churu, India
Agadir, Morocco
Hassi Messaaod, Algeria
Arafat, Saudi Arabia.

Moreover, the impact of these peaks has been intensified by high humidity.

climate change is here!

#climate
h/t Nikkei Asia/WMO

My 6th grader has class this year called "Digital Literacy" where students learn about how to search for reliable information online, interpret data, and avoid misinformation & disinformation. They will also discuss #AI.

I cannot think of a more important subject in 2024. #education cc @Noupside

‘The only lasting medicine is Peace’ as #Gaza Polio Vaccination Planned for 1 Sept

Orkney islanders meet in their vigil for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as escalating Israeli settler violence continues in the illegally occupied West Bank. Last week The Orkney News reported on the polio vaccination programme which was hoping to get going in Gaza following the first emergence of polio in 25 years in the region. (Baby Paralysed by Polio in #Gaza…

https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/08/31/the-only-lasting-medicine-is-peace-as-gaza-polio-vaccination-planned-for-1-sept/

Stonehenge Altar Stone Latest: Portable XRF analysis of Stenness and Brodgar stones indicates Altar Stone NOT sourced from Mainland Orkney. Previous results about 'Scottish' (Laurentian) source still apply so the search must continue... New paper by Bevins, Ixer et al. Was the Stonehenge Altar Stone from Orkney? Investigating the mineralogy and geochemistry of Orcadian Old Red sandstones and Neolithic circle monuments:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24003663 #stonehenge #archaeology #prehistory #geology

Physicist Ernest Rutherford was born in Brightwater, New Zealand #OTD in 1871.

He discovered the nucleus, proton, and α and β particles; explained nuclear decay; and was the first person to successfully transmute one element into another.

Image: George Grantham Bain Collection, LOC

This is absolutely nuts. SQL Injection 101 attack on a site authorized by DHS for TSA vetting of known crew members. I’d bet there aren’t even audit logs that would be able to show if the system was tampered with.

How many other auxiliary sites with deep ties into critical infrastructure are this poorly secured?

https://ian.sh/tsa

/cc @briankrebs @dangoodin

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