Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org
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I have never understood what white space means.
@hasmis I am not sure what is going on in France, so can't really comment, I was just commenting on the UK.
The French used to be far more vocal on issues anyway, but IIRC they are raising the retirement age
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TikTok helps our youth stay in a permanent vegetative state, addicted at watching influencers' quick stunts.
In his excellent blog, Gurwinder shares analysis of the mortal dangers TikTok and similar apps pose to us and our societies.
"And this is why TikTok could prove such a devastating geopolitical weapon. Slowly but steadily it could turn the West’s youth—its future—into perpetually distracted dopamine junkies ill-equipped to maintain the civilization built by their ancestors."
The literacy levels of children have dropped rapidly, and the school performance with it. This has led to falling IQ levels of our youth.
"We seem to be halfway there already: not only has there been gray matter shrinkage in smartphone-addicted individuals, but, since 1970 the Western average IQ has been steadily falling. Though the decline likely has several causes, it began with the first generation to grow up with widespread TVs in homes, and common sense suggests it’s at least partly the result of technology making the attainment of satisfaction increasingly effortless, so that we spend ever more of our time in a passive, vegetative state. If you don’t use it, you lose it."
China has regulated TikTok, and India has banned it outright. What should we do in your opinion?
https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/tiktok-may-be-a-chinese-bio-weapon
Appareny children in the UK think they get more education from TikTok than from school. Makes one wonder what they are learning at school and on Tik Tok.
If the UK civil servants who work in Job centres are striking over pay, the irony is that they expect Universal credit claimants to take jobs at the lowest wage. If the National living wage is good enough for those claiming UC, then it is good enough for these civil servants, the truth is, Living wage is not enough for a lot of people, couple that with low number of hours or zero hour contracts and workers are just struggling.
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New edition of our monthly magazine.
📖 Read online or download a PDF: http://memoria.auschwitz.org/January2023
🔹 The summary of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with text of speeches by two Survivors: Eva Umlauf and Zdzisława Włodarczyk
🔹 Sixteen object from Yad Vashem on display in Germany
🔹 Thou Shalt Not Be Indifferent. 80th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
🔹 The awareness of the Holocaust in The Netherlands
🔹 Silent witnesses. A series of podcasts.
Yes, IIRC i read somewhere that there is a lot of oestrogen mimicking chemicals in the environment.
Sounds interesting, so from this I would guess it would look at a string such as
The cat sat on the mat., or The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. From these generate a hash, is this similar to how say md5sum works, as I could write one of the above in a text file, save and generate a md5sum from that, this would be unqie, if you want back in and changed a lower case letter to upper case, or added a comma, it would change the file, and the md5sum would be different. We could then compare the two checksums to see if they match or don't match.
Or am I completely off track here. Given I am not remotely an expert in this.
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Ah, that makes sense,
surely distilled water is simply heated to steam then condensed back,
Don't people do this to purify water if out camping for example.
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#WhatAboutMagneticFields ?
Galaxy mergers edition, cool paper by Joseph Whittingham and collab.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13208
with quantitative studies (based on Arepo moving mesh simulations) of the influence of galactic magnetism in the transport of angular momentum, bar stability, formation of a remnant disc, large scale impact of stellar feedback and post-merger growth of central supermassive black holes.
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Days later, Twitter is still blocking links to the BBC documentary about Modi and Musk has yet to say anything about the censorship other than that he didn't know about it. That was 6 days ago. https://kenklippenstein.substack.com/p/elon-musk-continues-to-block-access
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If it's anything like NYC if you want to have a good classroom library you build it yourself. Sometimes you can get the school to buy the books, but just as often they just slowly collect as you find things you know your students will like or might need.
I have a fairly big math library. That's also becoming an electronics library.
Lots of cool stuff you can't find online.
Point is these collections take years and years to build and represent a huge investment from teachers.
@VPS_Reports This is someone that brainless idiot Nick Clegg considers suitable to let back on to Facebook / Instagram.
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My latest on @dailykos: On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump released an anti-transgender tirade of a speech on his social media website Truth Social, outlining a genocidal plan against all transgender existence in the United States. Everyone on the right from mainstream Republicans to hardcore neo-Nazis are celebrating the video while Democrats and legacy news media outlets have so far completely ignored it. “So this is what we are up against,” tweeted legislative researcher and pro-transgender activist Erin Reed. She continues, “a national transgender ban in 2024. This is what they are planning. DeSantis is practicing this through executive actions in Florida. Trump is openly saying he will do the same.”
How does plagiarism detection software work normally?
I agree, we can't do much from the UK, the BIGGEST thing we can do is make sure people know about this, thankfully there are updates here on fedi, so boosting is essential. I can add or embed posts in to my blog and hopefully people will read and take note as to what is happening.
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Good morning, the empty bookshelves in Florida schools keep my head busy, since I'm a teacher with a library in my classroom in Berlin myself. That's a history lesson in front of our very eyes and exactly how fascism started in Germany. Books were banned and then burnt and everyone said, well, I can't do anything, I don't want to loose my job, I don't like it, but... Many little steps were made by many little people who didn't stand up against a new little rule. You know how this ends.
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"The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is a fundamental attack on the peace and security architecture in Europe.
So, we urgently need to strengthen our common Foreign and Security Policy in the European Union", says @davidmcallister MEP.
Watch⤵️
#EPP4EU
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1620693437740728322
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
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