Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

17 February 1901 | A Polish Jew, Lejzer Perez Blum, was born in Gorlice. He was a merchant.

In Auschwitz from 12 December 1941.
No. 24277
He perished in the camp 8 days later.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #Germany #otd

Mostly offline today, teaching Wilderness First Aid. Have a great Saturday all!

I don't want cheap beer.

I want a family doctor
I want a public health office that is concerned with...public health
I want affordable rents
I want well-funded education for all
I want special education supports for those kids that need it
I want paid sick days
I want Emergency rooms open and functioning every day
I want our seniors well cared for
I want our green spaces left as they are

#DougFord #priorities #ontario @onpoli #cdnpol

#gaza #palestine #historic #picture #peace

@palestine

#Jaffa #beach, Palestine 1921. Long gone times....citizens of all ethnicities and religions once lived peacefully. Picture by Dr. Mustafa Elmasri, Gaza.

‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for #smartphone-free childhood - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/thousands-join-uk-parents-calling-for-smartphone-free-childhood some parents clearly don't understand children...

This is what #globalwarming looks like if you remove the effect of El Niño, volcanic eruptions and solar activity.

The author is a professional statistician with much experience in climate data analysis. The method is described here: https://tamino.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/adjusted-global-temperature-data/

Public transit timetables should be open data, published in an internationally standardised format.

That way, instead of each region having its own route planner, maintained separately and with varying quality, we could have a large choice of route planners (even offline ones) that work in a large region.

Reforestation programs could threaten vast area of tropical grasslands

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1034016

"A study published in the journal Science reveals that an area the size of France is under threat by forest restoration initiatives due to inappropriate restoration in the form of tree-planting."

"They warn that planting trees in these grassy areas [..] could be a risk to wildlife such as rhinos and wildebeest, as well as people who depend on these #ecosystems."

#Ecology #Reforestation

This is the day.

From now on, the Digital Services Act becomes enforceable on all online platforms in the EU.

The #DSA empowers users, EU countries and platforms to:

⏩ Counter illegal content, goods, and services
⏩ Ban sensitive data for targeted ads
⏩ Protect minors and their personal data
⏩ Inform users about ads and their sponsors
⏩ And more

We will ensure all platforms play by the rules.

Discover how 👉 https://europa.eu/!4fXYH4

In 1979, my parents (a nurse and a car factory worker) allowed themselves a rare indulgence and bought a very expensive (£389.99) National Panasonic SG-5070 music centre.

For context, £389 was twice what they paid for their car and 10% of what they paid for their house!

It replaced the TV as their focus and music became their 'thing' at weekends and whenever shift patterns allowed.

It's taken me a decade to build this from many broken donors, but today it's finished.

I could cry right now.

If I thought that "Social Media" meant using X or Facebook... I might agree with "stay away" But, that isn't the whole universe (we know that here, but who else knows?) and these are the kind of people who should know!

In the future social media will be media. The end.

What will that be like? We are building it now. Please for the love of God we need smart people to participate in this project. 4/4

🎉 To commemorate CONFIRMED RAPIST DONALD TRUMP having to pay another $350 MILLION FOR COMMITTING FRAUD, how about chipping in $350, $35 or even $3.50 to help re-elect President Biden & keep the Senate blue? #blue24

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/senateblue24?refcode=gabamasto

I think we reached the point in this spam wave where every admin in the fediverse should disable free registration on their instance for the moment. And we need better tools for spam protection. #mastoadmin

And for the person who thinks making many volunteers a lot of work is funny. I wish you the most annoying and unfixable bugs for the rest of your life. 😘

Israel grants gas exploration license in areas considered to be within Palestine's maritime boundary
Israeli government grants licenses to six Israeli and international companies to explore for natural gas in areas recognized under international law as Palestinian maritime areas

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-grants-gas-exploration-license-in-areas-considered-to-be-within-palestines-maritime-boundary/3138367

Even for creative uses, I dislike this. What is impressive about generating a clip of a beautiful bird in close-up? It’s not real, no photographer sat patiently with their camera to catch that movement.
Or rather: many photographers did, and OpenAI is stealing their work and plagiarizing it. Both notions are sickening to me.

I wish this tool had never been created.
#ResistTheHype