Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

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- #Galaxies
- #Cosmology

Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" video shows footage from riots in other countries and his fans are sending threats to the Tik Toker who found the real sources https://boingboing.net/2023/07/25/jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-video-shows-footage-from-riots-in-other-countries-and-his-fans-are-sending-threats-to-the-tik-toker-who-found-the-real-sources.html

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin!

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure. But she never received proper acknowledgement for her contribution.

James Watson & Francis Crick were awarded the credit & Nobel Prize, but their work was only possible bc they saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/science/rosalind-franklin-dna.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #science #history #HistoryRemix

Welcome to Soviet Texas, where criticism of the government is illegal.

#Texas #TAMU #FreeSpeech

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

In your responses to anyone anywhere, I would ask you to remember there is a difference between "I see your struggle and I want to be helpful to you" and "You're doing it wrong and I want to be the one to say that to you" and also a difference in how they will be taken in by others. If you don't know the difference between the two (or don't care), perhaps it would be best for you not to say anything at all.

Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm

Vendors knew all about it, but most customers were clueless.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/researchers-find-deliberate-backdoor-in-police-radio-encryption-algorithm/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Dear journalists:

By remaining on Elon Musk's platform you are -- knowingly or not -- directly supporting your enemy. He is systematically turning his platform into a showcase for people and entities that see democracy as an impediment to achieving what can accurately be understood as fascist goals.

Wrecking democracy means destroying freedom of expression -- the basis of what you do.

For your own sake, and for your honor, please leave.

When you and your partner get matching sleeve tats. #caturday

The latest Moderated Content podcast with @evelyndouek and I is up.

This includes a long discussion of safety issues with the Fediverse, how Meta might deal with them, and some potential solutions to get ready for the challenges without Meta effectively calling the cops on a huge number of instances.

Have a listen:

https://law.stanford.edu/podcasts/mc-weekly-update-why/

#Mozilla has published its position on the "Web Environment Integrity API" proposal put forward by the #Google #Chrome team.

First paragraph: "Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web."

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#issuecomment-1648820747

In honour of the new season of #Futurama, I once again present to you my (holy shit a decade old) 'Futurama and Philosophy' chapter "Go Upgrade Yourself;" or "The Upgrading of Hermes Conrad":
http://afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=5006

ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS
The Cardassian Occupational government will be rebranding Bajor. Bajor will now be known as Q. The rebrand will take effect immediately. That is all. #startrek #twitter #X

Why is it that when progressive policies that help the bottom 90 percent are proposed, the question always seems to be, "How will you pay for it?"

But when the top 1 percent ask for bailouts, tax cuts, and subsidies, the question always seems to be, "How much do you need?"

Buoy on the FL coast up to 101 now. Yikes.

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/prayer-4

Also please give my new kickstarter a look: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-universe-abridged-beyond-the-point-of-usefulness?ref=6vghse

Happy Monday, Thunderbird family! Join Jason, Ryan, and Alex as they take a deep dive into the features of Thunderbird 115, and share insights into WHY some of the features and improvements were developed.

Welcome to episode 3 of the ThunderCast!

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/thundercast-podcast-3-behind-the-scenes-of-supernova/

Twitter Executives: We need you to hire back all the people you spontaneously fired.

Elon Musk: Okay, I will change Twitter's name to X.

Twitter Executives: Why?

Elon Musk: So we can tell all our ex-employees that they are actually X employees.

Shame on the Israeli Parliament for passing laws stripping their courts of power to block government decisions. This anti-democratic action sends the country down a dark path, indeed.

Newbern is majority black, but like many small towns in the Black Belt the town leadership is all white. Newbern has historically not had elections for Mayor--

Some residents from First Baptist Church of Newbern are fed up. Braxton among them. The small funds the Mayor controls are not spent with transparency. COVID supplies were squandered. When Patrick Braxton put up signs encouraging people to get vaccinated the signs were thrown in the burn heap.

So Braxton decided to run for mayor. 2/