Ben Taylor @VoxDei@social.cleverlibre.org

The message appears to be that if you are trafficked and made to work as a slave in the UK, there's no point telling the authorities. At best you'll be deported. Right now a slave is having this explained to them by their abuser.

If there's one thing I think we can all agree on its that the idea of #BorisJohnson nominating his father for a knighthood is a wonderful demonstration of #Torycorruption mixed with reverse #nepotism.... if you fancy joining the petition against this extraordinary (but all too believable) circumstance here's the link:
https://chng.it/rQgJQgGsgn

Something I have heard NOTHING about from Starmer's Labour party but which it is VITAL they act upon the instant they form a government:

Fully implement the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry, immediately conduct Part Two of the Inquiry process, and add a Part Three examining the role of large social media organizations in manipulating public opinion and electoral outcomes in the UK (especially on behalf of foreign or commercial interests):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry

Scenario: A refugee enters the UK without papers {he had them, but were lost) and he’s denied asylum from war. His application is denied. He goes to America instead where he is accepted.

This is Sunak’s plan.

This actually happened in 1933. That man was Albert Einstein.

"More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022"

Hard to know what the most shocking part of this story is, but just the idea that 25% of current warming is from methane and **40%** of that methane is from entirely avoidable fossil fuel facility leaks is horrifying. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/revealed-1000-super-emitting-methane-leaks-risk-triggering-climate-tipping-points #methane #climate #fossilfuels

"STAR WARS

Episode IV

A New Hope

The Story of an orphaned boy who becomes radicalized after a military strike kills his family.

He is indoctrined into an ancient religion,

Joins a band of rebel insurgents,

And carries out a terrorist attack on a government installation that kills 300,000 people."

| #StarWars #EpisodeIV #StarWarsEpisodeIV #ANewHope #LukeSkywalker #Treatment

I have been writing about Fox and what makes it different for 20 years. http://archive.pressthink.org/2003/10/21/oreilly_voice.html

Two days ago, Josh Marshall wrote about Fox the best short form description and analysis I have ever read.

Marshall has a history PhD. As he says, "it’s worth stepping way, way back, not just to the beginning of Fox News in 1996 but to the beginning of the broader countermovement it
was a part of..."

No essay I know of puts it all together like his.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-deep-archeology-of-fox-news/sharetoken/WKLM5YQ0yue5

#uspol #journalism

It was Timothy’s second week undercover, and frankly, he was getting absolutely nowhere.

Excellent article on #Python and why it is so popular.

https://github.blog/2023-03-02-why-python-keeps-growing-explained/

When I'm President Of Video Games, all games will have an "adults with busy lives" feature.

"Hi, I see you haven't played this game in a month. Here's a reminder of the last things you did and where you need to go next. Press X for a quick tutorial of the controls you forgot."

how to exit vim

@Lamal @stephenjudkins @SheDrivesMobility

Retoot for alt-text

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGktIVwlnI&lc=Ugz0cj_O-a2I5AhK93N4AaABAg

Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:

1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made

Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant

With No Mailing Address, a Letter Gets Delivered Via Hand Drawn Map (2016) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-31/with-no-address-a-letter-gets-delivered-via-a-hand-drawn-map-in-iceland

Holy shit!

"First measurements of p + 11B fusion in amagnetically confined plasma"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36655-1.pdf

Proton-Boron fusion is aneutronic and Boron is a *lot* easier to come by as reactor fuel than 3He: if true, this is the holy grail of nuclear fusion research.

... On the other hand, this is just first light on a P-B experiment. There's a LONG way to go to power break-even, much less a viable production reactor design. Like, oh, fifty years ...