Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

📢 Funding opportunity!

We're thrilled to launch the Open Infrastructure Fund pilot, which offers 5-25k USD to projects worldwide that strengthen resilience + increase adoption of #openinfrastructure underpinning research & scholarship.

We are committed to reserving at least 60% of the funds available to applicants working in/services widely adopted in Low and Middle Income Economies (LMIEs).

Applications are accepted in both Spanish and English.

Find out more at https://investinopen.org/blog/open-infrastructure-fund-pilot-cfp/

This morning, a dam in Kherson, where most of my family comes from, was blown up, creating the worst human-made ecological catastrophe in the region since Chernobyl. As a result, 16000 people lost their homes, a dozen of towns and villages were wiped out, including a chunk of Kherson city. A huge part of Ukraine, including Crimea will lose its main source of water, the nearby nuclear power plant, the biggest one in Europe loses its ability to cool off the reactors. Local zoo was completely destroyed killing all the animals in it except the swans. Due to the flooding of a cemetery, it is feared that chances of disease outbreaks will rise. Also, because ruzzians left many minefields before retreating from the right bank of the river, these mines are now being washed away by the influx of water and will end up randomly scattered along the river bank. All of this happened in less than ONE DAY. It is not even the peak of flooding yet. Also, as I mentioned before, Kherson is being shelled by the ruschists EVERY SINGLE DAY since they retreated to the left bank of the river. Today was no exception. They shelled the city WHILE this tragedy was unfolding, WHILE people were being evacuated from the affected areas.

Russwines are like reverse Midas. Everything they touch turns into shit. I swear, everywhere they go, they bring hopelessness, despair, corruption and destruction. Absolute scum on Earth.

And here comes UN, rushing to not let us forget about the Orwellian nature of our geopolitical reality: they found it appropriate to remind us that today is "russian language day". Russian was the first language I learned and the one I use to communicate with my family, we are all phasing it out since everything that is remotely related to those genocidal orcs reminds us of how rotten this world really is.

"We thought we hit rock-bottom but then we heard someone knocking from below"
- a russian proverb that is as applicable to them today as it was yesterday and as it will be a century from now.

Over 60,000 Android apps disguised as legitimate applications have been quietly installing adware on mobile devices while remaining undetected for the past six months.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-60-000-android-apps-secretly-installed-adware-for-past-six-months/

@zleap That is a most excellent suggestion. Thank you Paul.

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One of our most popular cartoons of all time is the "Who can work in science" pie chart. We felt that it was long overdue a small update. Happy #PrideMonth everyone #LGBTQ

French authorities are now considering that using encryption (eg encrypting your harddrive, using @signalapp, educating others about privacy-preserving apps) as evidence of conspiracy and terrorism. That's much scarier than "AI" taking over the world.

https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/

Fascists hate it when you shine a light on their dirty actions.
Judge agrees to unseal names of those who helped George Santos make bond - NBC News https://apple.news/AL0mjb_DqSRqckHJJaE95wg

Record 106 vetos: Gov. Hobbs says 'no' to GOP bills criminalizing homelessness, ranked-choice voting https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/060623_hobbs_veto_streak/record-106-vetos-gov-hobbs-says-no-gop-bills-criminalizing-homelessness-ranked-choice-voting/
Arizona Gov. Hobbs has racked up more than 100 vetoes, rejecting Republican-backed bills that criminalized homelessness, banned ranked-choice voting, and a bill that created penalties for filming sexually explicit acts on school property - but also threatened educators with prison.
#Tucson #Arizona

The two iROSA roll-out solar panels will be installed by NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg on June 9 and June 15. These will be the 5th and 6th iROSAs installed at the ISS, on the 1A and 1B power channels. See graphic below for the locations of the various iROSA panels.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/facts-and-figures
#NASA #SpaceStation #ISS #IROSA
2/n

From the article:

“Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now the highest they’ve been in more than 4 million years because of the burning of #oil, #coal and #gas.”

(HT @samlitzinger)

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-carbon-dioxide-hawaii-warming-194da356db37ff4d465c6ffebdf0e3fb

Donald #Trump, when asked by an audience member at the #CNN town hall what he would do to “bring the cost of things down”:

“Drill baby, drill!”

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels

Unsupervised Deep Learning Can Identify Protein Functional Groups from Unaligned Sequences https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad084 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

Alzheimer's went into the textbooks with n=2

Many of you might know (or not) that Alzheimer's disease is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer who first reported that the brains of some patients with age-related dementia had "a peculiar substance" (which today we know as beta-amyloid plaques).

But did you know that he found that in exactly 2 patients that he studied before his boss put it in a 1910 textbook and coined it "Alzheimer's disease"? That substance could have been a complete coincidence! (And in that case, I guess we never would have heard about it again) ...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546010/how-not-to-study-a-disease/

Republican presidential candidates are eager to appease Putin—and Putin's surely listening https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/6/2173649/-Republican-presidential-candidates-are-eager-to-appease-Putin-and-Putin-s-surely-listening?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon