Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

I was just at our local #demonstration against the proroguing of #Parliament. I reckon there were around 2500 people but I can’t be sure. All very good natured and a sudden heavy shower dampened nobody’s spirits. There were speeches by my #MP #BenBradshaw and #SarahWoolaston, MP for #Totnes (a former Tory) as well as others such as trades unionists and a leave voter who had changed his mind.

#Exeter #England #UK #Politics #Brexit #Europe #EU #StopTheCoup

Lucas calls further for a written constitution and a people's vote

#Brexit #StopTheCoup

#StopTheCoup #protests across the #UK – in #pictures | #Politics | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/gallery/2019/aug/31/stop-the-coup-protests-across-the-uk-in-pictures

#EU #Brexit

I want to thank everyone for your patience. As many of you know we have been redoing the entire QOTO architecture. This included many new services for our users (all free!) but also some very big changes.

It took us some time to move over to the new infrastructure plus our founder, Jeff, was in the hospital for about 9 months and that seriously slowed us down.

However the latest version of QOTO's variant of mastodon has been beta tested and is ready to go. We will begin the upgrade of the official server tomorrow evening.

As always the QOTO server will include all our usual additions to the code base and MathJax support will be reenabled on this upgrade as well.

We will update the community with the exact time of the upgrade sometime tomorrow once we know. But expect it to be in the middle of the night for both Europe and USA time zones.

#Qoto #Mastodon #upgrade

#QOTO is upgrading to v2.9.3 tomorrow (finally got tests working). All the usual QOTO enhancements are still there. Really excited to play with all of @Gargron 's new features!

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage:
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

-- To Althea, from prison (last stanza only)

#poem #poetry #english #literature

🐦 RT: @ThomasDurcan@twitter.com

🧠🔬 To cure brain diseases, neuroscientists must collaborate: That’s why I’m giving my data away

https://theconversation.com/to-cure-brain-diseases-neuroscientists-must-collaborate-thats-why-im-giving-my-data-away-118672

8 weeks, 9 blog entries, 10 online protocols..........over 500 protocol downloads — fantastic response. Catch up on why I am doing the blog (http://bit.ly/2U9aTRY ), and read previous posts from summer (http://bit.ly/2TN0vND ). @SGClabNotebooks @TheNeuro_MNI

#science #openscience #data #opendata #openaccess #brain #disease #neuroscience #parkinson

#JairBolsonaro claims #NGOs behind #Amazon #ForestFire surge – but provides no evidence | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/21/jair-bolsonaro-accuses-ngos-setting-fire-amazon-rainforest

#Brazil

#Cuadrilla halts #fracking after biggest #tremor yet at #Lancashire site | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/22/cuadrilla-halts-fracking-after-biggest-tremor-yet-at-lancashire-site-preston-new-road

#England #UK #FossiFuels

#UK should cut #vehicle use to hit #zero-carbon target, say MPs | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/22/uk-must-reduce-personal-vehicle-ownership-meet-zero-carbon-target-mps-report

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGases #FossilFuels #Health #Pollution

Site etiquette indicates my first toot should be by way of an introduction. Seldom comfortable tooting my own horn (pun intended)* I'll keep this brief(ish).

I am a philosopher and historian based in Sydney and currently a doctoral candidate at the #Macquarie Business School; researching Edmund #Burke and his implications for executive leadership.

I chose to undertake my study in a business school, grubby though commercial ends may seem to elevated minds, because Burke was an intensely practical thinker. As he noted:

'‘The End of learning is not knowledge but virtue; as the End of all speculation should be practice of one sort or another… [for] Knowledge is the Culture** of the mind; and he who rested there, would be just as wise as he who should plough his field without any intention of sowing or reaping.'***

In this context, it seems fitting to attempt to apply Burkean research to practical ends.

I am also a passionate advocate for technology reform, which drew me to Mastodon, as I do not think unrestricted access to an individual's data is necessary for the provision of services. #ProtonMail, #Signal, #Threema, #NextCloud, #Mastodon and co. are all demonstrating that FAANG methods are not the only viable way of providing digital connections.

N.B.:
*Thinking intended puns, I am always reminded of the joke about a man who entered a local newspaper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

**Culture in the original sense of ploughing for sowing later.

***Burke, A Note-Book of Edmund Burke, 82-83.

#introductions