Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

“I think individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content in the grand scheme of this,” Zuckerberg said.

Can you feel the arrogance?
Can you smell the disdain?
Can you taste the contempt?

“Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn’t valuable enough for it to matter."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254042/mark-zuckerberg-creators-value-ai-meta

So it was only a hundred years ago- 1924 -when someone figured out the Sun, and all the rest of the stars, were made mostly of hydrogen with some helium. All the other elements were in trace amounts

She was a student at Harvard named Cecilia Payne.

At the time the consensus was that stars were made up of pretty much what Earth was made of.

It took 4 more years for a man to claim the discovery before it was widely accepted, with him as discoverer.

It's all hers now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

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https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html

US citizens: call on Israel to comply with the UN General Assembly vote calling for Israel to withdraw its army from the occupied …

Moon's surface reproduced in Europe to prepare for future missions

Europe is seeking to place itself at the forefront of missions to the Moon with a facility covering almost 1,000 square metres that reproduces the lunar surface to train astronauts for future missions.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/09/25/moons-surface-reproduced-in-europe-to-prepare-for-future-missions

Like most humans, I don't actually want to be rich. I just want to never have to worry about money.

There's a difference.

I play with my toddler's marble run when I'm home alone because I can build much better runs when she's not around to interfere.

@baldur UBI would end up as libertarian in most cases, unless you nearly dismantle capitalism first. And if you do that, you don't really need UBI as such...

[Back to the far side ... of the #Moon] Tel est l'intitulé de ce documentaire consacré à la mission Chang'e-6, qui emporta l'instrument #DORN (IRAP & @cnes ) sur la face cachée de la #Lune et rapporta des échantillons de #régolithe lunaire.

Ce documentaire détaille les enjeux de cette mission, les #collaborations internationales (France, ESA, Italie, Pakistan), le déroulé et les attendus de la mission.

A voir et revoir, ici : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt6AdXCVY1w

High school flag football: Week 5 scores

Check out this week’s latest Los Angeles area high school flag football scores. #press

https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2024-09-25/high-school-flag-football-week-5-scores?utm_source=press.coop

The Case Against Academic Publishers

It seems appropriate to pass on news of a federal antitrust lawsuit being brought in the United States against six commercial academic publishers, including the "Big Four" (Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley). The case is filed by lawyers Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein. The plaintiff is Lucina Uddin, Professor of Psychology at UCLA. I suggest you read the full document linked to above for details, but in a…

http://telescoper.blog/2024/09/25/the-case-against-academic-publishers/

Analysis: Israel is breaking international law with its attacks on Lebanon just as it is in Palestine.

"Areas across Lebanon have come under the worst Israeli bombardment in decades, & legal experts are accusing Israel of violating international law.

"Here’s why":

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/24/has-israel-broken-international-law-with-its-attacks-on-lebanon

#IsraeliWarCrimes #Lebanon #Gaza #BDS .

Some chemicals make you feel good. Other chemicals will burn your mustache off. Science is complicated

*What's weirder: tiny primordial black holes all over the universe, or that you can measure the distance to Mars down to ten centimeters

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-mars-dark.html

UK regulator stops LinkedIn from training AI models with British users’ content https://therecord.media/uk-regulator-stops-linkedin-ai-models

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8QhKJRk84Q

#PalestineDeepDive

EXPOSED: How Western Media Can Be Prosecuted For Its Role in #GazaGenocide

#CraigMokhiber

#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸

Our cat is still not back :(

I made a new web / wiki page about the search for him...

https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/GrapjeVermist

Please share & help us find him!

Israeli middle schoolers harass Palestinian classmate | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Breeding racism, hatred and division.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5foP1h55nA

NASA's "Hidden Figures”, the four Black women whose pioneering work put Americans on the Moon: Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden, were awarded Congressional Gold Medals, the highest civilian honor granted by Congress.

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/19/nasas-hidden-figures-awarded-congressional-gold-medals/
#BlackHistory #BlackWomen #RocketScience #astrophysics #math #Finally