Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Romulans and Klingons would not be putting warships dangerously off the Neutral Zone if I were President- NO WAY, NO HOW!!! No respect for Picard. #StarTrek

i appreciate that this is the crime reporter's beat

story: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/they-made-their-lawn-a-butterfly-paradise-the-city-of-burlington-threatened-a-daily-10/article_e1222104-8cfd-5f6c-9aa3-9307f79b7b15.html
archive: https://archive.li/Ud64c

(seriously tho, love jpags' stuff)

#BanLawns

“AI is going to take our jobs!”

AI:

"It's as if a stock exchange was owned by a brokerage that was also an underwriter, and also owned several of the largest companies on its exchange, and was free to deploy all kinds of contractual restrictions and dirty tricks to force everyone doing business to use all of its services."

Just your friendly neighbor @pluralistic raining fire on #Google and #Meta choke point ad market

https://euobserver.com/opinion/157187

NYT’s opinion writer Paul Krugman is declaring #climate is now a culture war issue 🤔

I worked in the U.S. Senate ~20 years ago. Covered climate as a journalist. Cofounded an NGO focused on science policy issues during elections. Am finishing a dissertation on how Congress has made decisions about #science policy for the last 1/2 century - with climate as a central theme.

This isn’t new. #ClimateChange has *always* been a culture war issue.

For 4 years my agent
Joe Regal tried to sell my 1st novel, "Acts of the Apostles." No luck, despite many nibbles from NY publishers & Hollywood.

Since 1999 I've self-published 'Acts' & 3 novel(la)s. New editions coming soon, w intro's by Cory Doctorow, David Weinberger, Ken MacLeod & John Biggs. I feel vindicated. A new novel coming this fall too.

Please invite me on your literary, SF or tech podcast.

Please boost. Pretty please.

@pluralistic, @dweinberger, @amendlocke @johnbiggs

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Welcome to the #Fediverse to colleagues in @PolarRES -

a #HorizonEurope project developing and running leading edge #RCMs (regional #ClimateModels) of both the #Arctic + #Antarctica...

#PolarRES is also something of a sister project to @OceanIceEU

https://fediscience.org/@PolarRES/110848282411568651

@MartinEscardo - yes, it's amazingly impressive. The computers on board the Voyagers have ridiculously little memory by modern standards, but it was deployed expertly:

"There are three different computer types on the Voyager spacecraft, two of each kind, sometimes used for redundancy. They are proprietary, custom-built computers built from CMOS and TTL medium-scale CMOS integrated circuits and discrete components, mostly from the 7400 series of Texas Instruments Total number of words among the six computers is about 32K.

The Computer Command System (CCS), the central controller of the spacecraft, has two 18-bit word, interrupt-type processors with 4096 words each of non-volatile plated-wire memory. During most of the Voyager mission the two CCS computers on each spacecraft were used non-redundantly to increase the command and processing capability of the spacecraft. The CCS is nearly identical to the system flown on the Viking spacecraft.[37]

The Flight Data System (FDS) is two 16-bit word machines with modular memories and 8198 words each.

The Attitude and Articulation Control System (AACS) is two 18-bit word machines with 4096 words each."

I'm calculating that this is a total of 425,984 bits!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program#Computers_and_data_processing

The really sad thing that keeps happening is users get locked out of Gmail, with no way to jump through Google's flaming hoops, and that's the end. They are permanently punished. No phone associated with their account, or phone number out of date, no working alternate email addresses for recovery. Years of email likely lost forever. Don't use Gmail. They will not help you and they don't care.

I spotted this on archive.org. The first bit of code I ever got published - back in 1981. A mere 23 bytes long.

I wonder how I got the code to Practical Computing magazine as I had no printer. Maybe it was handwritten.

I am trying to work on this syllabus, but my research assistant has decided that I don’t need to use the left side of the keyboard to do that…

MIT Press maintains a set of their books that are listed as "Open Access", and of them, 297 different books and documents provide a helpful PDF edition of their titles.

I have "ported" these over to the Internet Archive where they live a life and have links back to their original MIT Press pages should you want to buy a hard copy:

https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access

The most egregious thing about doctors no longer wearing masks as a universal precaution is that they are most peoples' most immediate role model in terms of anything public health related -- if their doctor doesn't care, then why should they?

"... we propose an updated standard for universal precautions in healthcare settings: permanently including universal masking in routine patient-care interactions."

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/abs/back-to-the-future-redefining-universal-precautions-to-include-masking-for-all-patient-encounters/107B5F8A54FE39F7A9296C3B2EAF762C

#covid #longcovid #SARSCoV2 #publichealth #healthcare

The FBI reopened its case briefly against Hillary over her emails just weeks before the election, and Trump didn’t call it “ELECTION INTERFERENCE.”

It's a bit weird to have somebody close to you with a chronic illness who needs to regularly use healthcare services and be the only one in their life that actually worries about COVID.

It's still around. Long COVID is still a thing. People with chronic illnesses can get really sick.

But nobody seems willing to take even the slightest precaution. Not even my relatives with the chronic illnesses, because everybody everywhere is telling them that COVID is over. 😑

just watched a video about the lack of bicycles in hollywood productions. e.g. there are post apocalypse shows where there's no fuel or they can't use engines for other reasons, and the characters are shown walking or riding a horse. they never try bikes even though it's the most popular mode of transportation on the planet. Daryl from TWD on a bicycle? uncool. if a protagonist is doing it, it's a comedy. riding a bicycle is seen as a ridiculous thing to do unless you're a child. I am stunned.

Ever wonder who you should follow on Mastodon? I just published updated lists of accounts I follow, covering InfoSec, STEM, NatSec, politics, and more. You can import the lists using my mastodon-listmanager utility.

#Follow #FollowReccomendations #SocialMedia #InfoSec #NatSec #politics #USPolitics #Geopolitics #Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSource #Python #Automation

Eagle Creek wildfire burns as golfers play at the Beacon Rock Golf Course in North Bonneville, Washington.

This shot perfectly displays our approach to #ClimateChange.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wildfire-season-western-us-2017-9?IR=T

@siderea It's also not great that the "Posts" tab lumps together original posts with boosts. When deciding whether to follow, I'd like to know what they actually have to say.