Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

For a real solution, checkout: https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.petities.nl/?locale=en

Playboy: How do you feel about those who are making attempts at alternate social structures – such as communes?

Vonnegut: They want to go back to the way human beings have lived for 1,000,000 years, which is intelligent. Unfortunately, these communities usually don’t hold together very long, and finally they fail because their members aren’t really relatives, don’t have enough in common. For a community really to work, you shouldn’t have to wonder what the person next to you is thinking. That is a primitive society. In the communities of strangers that are being hammered together now, as young people take over farms and try to live communally, the founders are sure to have hellish differences. But their children, if the communes hold together long enough to raise children, will be more comfortable together, will have more attitudes and experiences in common, will be more like genuine relatives.

Playboy: Have you done any research on this?

Vonnegut: No. I’m afraid to. I might find out it wasn’t true. It’s a sunny little dream I have of a happier mankind. I couldn’t survive my own pessimism if I didn’t have some kind of sunny little dream. That’s mine, and don’ t tell me I’m wrong: Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities. That’s my utopia. That’s what I want for me.

– excerpt from an interview in Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, published July 1973 (borrow at the @internetarchive here).

Trans People Say They’re Leaving England Because of Non-Stop Transphobia

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkqn7/trans-people-leaving-england

Monthly active users on pixelfed.social are down from peak levels so I'm gradually allowing more users to join!

➡️ 250 invites to join, expires in 48 hours!

https://pixelfed.social/auth/invite/a/18185b03-df46-47c9-9726-9b7e657d5b75j

Because @buffer has made the awesome decision to add #Mastodon to their services, I'm strongly considering switching @thunderbird over from Hootsuite.

I'll be A/B testing them for a few weeks before deciding, but I'm elated to see this!

🗞 W3C invites implementations of WoT Thing Description 1.1, WoT Discovery and WoT Architecture 1.1 https://ift.tt/Ukczr01

Hail to the TikTok heroes who fight
Lies and myths with truth and insight
Armed with science and stitch
They help us to switch
From bogus beliefs to what is right

#tiktok #myths #science #health #ode #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/well/live/tiktok-misinformation.html

🚨BIG NEWS🚨

Buffer just added Mastodon as one of its supported social networks!

Amongst social media professionals this is HUGE!

See screenshots!

https://www.coywolf.news/social/buffer-adds-mastodon/

Let's break down barriers and create a future of software freedom together with @fsf: https://www.fsf.org/appeal #SoftwareFreedom #FreedomToShare.

Don't forget your oscillator coils

#InternetPictureShow
#HamRadio
#CBRadio

Mona Heidari was married at the age of 12 and was the mother of a 3-year-old boy when she was murdered, according to Iranian media reports.
https://trts.io/kHnht

Twitter is only offering a vague reason for why third-party clients such as Tweetbot and Twitterrific, remain down. Thus, the apps have no way to fix the issue. https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-issues-vague-response-after-third-party-client-shutdown

We're hiring: Head of Human Resources ✨
https://glplive.org/jfh

Developers, every one of your machines should have its own ssh key. Creating one is very simple. Here’s a handy one-liner by Ben McDonald that you can add as an alias to your dotfiles:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f $HOME/.ssh/id_ed25519 -C "$(whoami)@$(hostname)-$(date +'%y%m%d')"

This will create those lovely tiny ed25519 keys that we all know and love (thanks, Daniel!)

https://www.mebmc.uk/posts/creating_ed25519_ssh_keys.html

#ssh #security #authentication #ed25519

All kinds of #exoplanets orbit very close to their #star. Some look like the Earth, others like #Jupiter. Very few, however, are similar to #Neptune. Why this anomaly in the distribution of exoplanets?
#Astronomy #SpaceScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/01/astr01182301.html

Every day provides a new reason (same as the old reason) to disband the Met Police and replace it with something better (like they did with the RUC).

There was no need to leave #Erasmus and indeed the devolved administrations wished to stay in the scheme but were kept in the dark by the U.K. Government - specifically by Lord Frost - regarding the matter right up until the end of negotiations . Young people are now paying the #Brexit price. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/turing-scheme-brexit-eu-erasmus-programme-study-abroad-funding-cuts/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter