Brent Williams @hbw@social.cleverlibre.org

The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved. An atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory. https://www.wired.com/story/the-high-temperature-superconductivity-mystery-is-finally-solved/

I wrote about how political parties are allowed to define journalistic ideas about balance and bias. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-rough-week-and-the-press-bias-avoidance-framework/sharetoken/SnYrinGh2jVE

ATTENTION EVERYONE WRINGING THEIR HANDS OVER “#MASTODON ADMINS CAN READ MY DIRECT MESSAGES”: #SysAdmins have *always* been able to read your #email and DMs unless encrypted, including at the big #SocialNetworks and Internet providers. We used to have t-shirts that said, “I READ YOUR EMAIL.”

It’s just hitting now because you got used to places where the admins were kept away in their cubicles and data centers instead of greeting you at the front door.

#privacy #security #InfoSec #cybersecurity

When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.

Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.

This is the only real time travel paradox.

Happy Birthday to Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, born #OnThisDay in 1832. Dr. Walker was the first woman surgeon in the United States Army and was captured by the Confederate forces in the Civil War. After the war she was awarded a Medal of Honor, the only woman to ever receive one. She later wrote & lectured in support of women's suffrage.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#quotes #literature #books #imagination

As right-wing extremists are re-platformed everywhere from Twitter to Mar-a-Lago, it’s more important than ever that we hold our journalists, researchers, & others to high standards of accountability when it comes to reporting on extremism and extremists. We need journalists who will tell us the truth, not stake out a position in the middle of two unequal sides. I keep coming back to this quote about reporting on the weather, but it was missing something — so I modified it to make it complete.

5. The key part is Mastodon is part of an open protocol and not a corporation seeking to extract money from you by mining your network

Tumblr says it is going to adopt the same protocol so people on Tumblr can follow Mastodon accounts

It makes social networking more like email

@davew @Jelaniya The thing the moguls must learn is that they don't own communities. They might pave over the commons where conversations occur but they cannot own our relationships. (Similarly, news brands--I choose the word purposely--think everyone has a relationship with them; they, too, don't understand where the real value lies.)

"The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed.

You can’t write this off as “Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t.

It took leadership."
@BrentToderian

#Verkehrswende #Autokorrektur @SheDrivesMobility

@craignewmark We tested that idea here, and it was fairly effective at preventing readership compared to contextual warnings, if that is the goal https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/kaiser

These are the 10 largest countries in the world imagined at the equator for size comparison.

They look different because a traditional Mercator map distorts countries, making them appear larger toward the poles.

You can make comparisons at https://www.thetruesize.com #world

Today’s Far Side is on topic for this place! It’s like a rerun gift from Gary Larson to us all. https://www.thefarside.com

What are clouds made of?

#linux

#Ukraine's trenches in Bakhmut
Flooded with mud, but the soldiers keep fighting
#RussianUkrainianWar

The US is the only country with more civilian guns than people
https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-firearms-holdings