Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Former FBI assistant director says if former President Trump is convicted he could end up in a supermax prison with just one Secret Service agent for shower time. https://www.mediaite.com/radio/nbc-news-analyst-says-trump-could-end-up-in-supermax-prison-with-one-secret-service-agent-for-shower-time/

Tech Press don’t understand the #Fediverse, so how can they understand its growth?

To hear them talk, most of them believe that #Mastodon and the Fediverse are one and the the same. Some of them go so far as to call the Fediverse the “Mastodon network”.

Which means that they don’t have a clue about what the Fediverse entails, nor how it has grown.

Case in point: between Jan-May 2023, #Misskey and its forks grew by 300,000 accounts. No one in the Tech Press reported this.

Okay, perhaps they didn’t know because the bulk of growth happened in Japan. But still, this is fairly important to know since Misskey is now responsible for generating the bulk of Fediverse content. Still, Tech Press think the Fediverse is about Mastodon.

And now, #Lemmy and #Kbin are experiencing lots of growth, with both collectively gaining 100,000 users in a week. This is quite a noteworthy event since the #RedditMigration is part and parcel of dissension on #Reddit – a pretty major Big Social platform.

Does the Tech Media report on this? Nope. But again, that’s because they don’t understand the Fediverse nor what it entails.

Then Meta signal that a new project they’re making, #P92 (a.k.a., #Barcelona), will be joining the Fediverse. There’s even screenshots that show this app interacting with remote Fediverse servers.

But instead of reporting about how this will affect the existing Fediverse, press such as the #BBC say this is an altogether different social network than Mastodon.

That’s right! Tech Press don’t even realize P92 will be joining the Fediverse – a social network that already exists!

Is this all ridiculous? Yes.

But this is why we have to be forthright about what the Fediverse is, what it entails, and what it all matters.

We, on the Fediverse, must be our own Press.

@fediversenews

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already banned Diversirty, Equity and Inclusion programs in Florida. Now he confirms that if elected president he would use the DoJ to go after DEI programs nationally.
He must never become President.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/617881-desantis-doj-dei/?s=09

Sad news today, which I got from the other social media platform. Nick Kaiser has passed away, he was one of the giants of gravitational lensing. So here is one of his last lectures from about a month ago as a last inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/live/tV8zYaMvsLA?feature=share

my condolences to all his near and dear ones.

source:
https://twitter.com/JossBlandHawtho/status/1668946680639799296

#cosmology #astronomy

Day 77 #BikeStreak
Today I rode my #bicycle to Lincolnshire Park in #RochMN where Park & Rec held a grand opening of the 1st public splash pad in town. After, I continued up the Douglas trail to Douglas and then back home logging 30 miles.
Along the way I inspected the newest bicycle infrastructure in town, a culvert bridge over a drainage ditch which separated the post office, a community disability support center and a popular brewery from the Douglas Trail.
#cycling
#BikeLeans
#BikeTooter

This was our planet's third-warmest month of May on record, according to NOAA. https://www.noaa.gov/news/earth-saw-its-3rd-warmest-may-in-174-years

Search engines are useless. Windows is packaging Internet features few asked for. The major public sites are sealed tight to avoid third party tools.

Web 1.0 is back, baby!

Friendless 'hot Jupiter' exoplanets may not be so lonely after all https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2Fhot-jupiters-may-have-planetary-companions&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1fYCQu9Ia62EWUr_ZIHPaf&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Science #Technology

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/climate/enriched-uranium-nuclear-russia-ohio.html Fascinating article on U.S. dependence on Russian enriched uranium and the need for the U.S. to do it’s own enrichment. A bill to push this is in the works… from Manchin.

Sometimes I doubt capitalism can solve climate change.

NASA finds key building block for life in a moon of Saturn https://www.rawstory.com/nasa-finds-key-building-block-for-life-in-a-moon-of-saturn/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Good morning, #SFBA!
You may have seen your posts boosted by an account from “relay.fedi.buzz”. This ActivityPub relay is misbehaving, creating a lot of boosts. We are most concerned that it continues to boost public posts even when the account is blocked. We have suspended connections to this site in response.

We are happy to answer any questions you have!

#FediAdmin #FediMod

Twitter evicted for non-payment of rent in Boulder, CO. Sheriff ordered to evict.

#Twitter owes three months’ rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from its office there

The judge issued an order that the sheriff should assist in the eviction of Twitter within the next 49 days — i.e. before the end of July

More than 150 staff work there.

The case number is 2023CV30342 in Boulder District Court.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/twitter-is-being-evicted-from-its-boulder-office-over-unpaid-rent/