Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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‟Concerns over Australian stadiums using facial recognition technology”
https://www.news.com.au/finance/concerns-over-australian-stadiums-using-facial-recognition-technology/video/d6b5b0d3ebfe4c87f892a7d4896a1243 #biometrics #privacy #tracking #surveillance
“There’s got to be a balance between using technology for good things and identifying and managing risk.”
@mayonesa@berserker.town @grrrr_shark
I think that anyone is teachable and able to learn, they just need the right environment to learn in, the right teacher and support in place anyone can or should be able to thrive.
The problem is when you have a class of 30 children of very mixed ability it seems that it is too easy for some to just fall behind.
Yes, it is more complex than that, but if a teacher gives up why should the child bother?
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Why is the government flying in the face of tech and security experts?
The Online Safety Bill reveals the government’s hand: their priority isn’t safety, it’s surveillance.
Read today's open letter from 68 experts about powers that breach encryption to scan our private messages ⤵️
I agree, saying sorry isn't enough, We need action on #Inquality. Slave owners made huge amounts of money from the slave trade, modern billionares make their billions off the backs of users, some of whom can't put a decent meal in from of them.
With a world population of between 7 and 8 billion people, having a small number being worth over 100 billion is really grotesque.
In both cases slave owners & billionaries have set up instiutions to help people (e.g schools), however if we redistrubute this modern weatlth then everyone will have access to healthcare and education, the basic building blocks to give people a real chance.
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Stephen Bush (FT) on why apologising for #Slavery while necessary isn't sufficient to right history's wrongs:
'People & places that have been dealt a bad hand by history don’t need apologies or hand-wringing from those of us with the dumb luck to get a good one. Mostly, what they really need is a plan to redress the imbalance — and the money to make it happen'!
So whatever we think about 'rewriting history', what is really required is real action on global #inequality!
Amen to that!
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Suggestion: Reach out to your local government, emergency service provider, and/or news org. Let them know that Twitter has ended public access to content and that Mastodon is a working alternative *today*. I did this on the weekend with my local emergency folks and this morning I got a reply back saying they had noticed the embedded Twitter feed on their webpage was broken.
They didn't realize Twitter had cut that service. Now, hopefully, they are considering their options including Mastodon.
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With this current surge of new people on Mastodon, keep an eye out for a surge in hate and targeted harassment (especially the sneaky type).
Not seeing anything major on this server, but a scan of certain hashtags and the federated timeline is showing a rise in racism, and targeted harassment (mostly sealioning) towards Muslim, Arab, Black and other peoples.
Reporting works here, mostly (some of the mega instances struggle at bit with moderating). So don't stay silent
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'In the field of cybersecurity, the Republic of Korea and the European Union envisage to enhance information sharing on cybersecurity threats and intend to expand information sharing on cybersecurity policy and explore ways to cooperate'.
Is that really all the EU and ROK could write on their cyber cooperation in the joint statement of their inaugural Digital Partnership Council meeting (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/republic-korea-eu-joint-statement)? What is this, the noughties?
Though, yes, it's unfair for me to 'single out' the EU and Koreans for vagueness. When compared to AI and chips and even 'the IRBO', cyber feels tacked on in most diplomatic statements.
Also, good to see EU building ties with ROK and JPN, having set up Digital Partnership Councils with both Indo-Pacific countries.
(Most specific and decent language on cyber I've seen thus far is in Quad (Cybersecurity Partnership) material.)
Happy July 4th
So lets have conversations off line about this, as in ask people if they know about Threads and drop in to the conversation about Federation and mastodon.
We are ALL the marketing department for the Fediverse.
BBC breakfast news
Threads - text based coversation app, linked to Instagram.
Come ON BBC get a grip, hopefully BBC Click will do a better job.
Good point here, just spotted a BBC text news article on this and no mention of Mastodon or the Fediverse.
@mayonesa@berserker.town @rher @grrrr_shark
People don't like the way their goverment work, so they manage to band together, and overthrow them. The problem then, is the fact they don't know what to do, how do you run a country. Either that there is a power vaccum and people from different ideas can't decide what to actually do.
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Ukrainians under occupation face deportation, loss of property after Putin's new order
Putin signed an executive order in late April that set a deadline for applying for Russian citizenship in the occupied areas of Ukraine.
Those who refuse and elect to hold onto their Ukrainian passports face losing their property rights, prison sentences, and deportation from their homes.
#Ukraine️ #Russia
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3Pillar Global is hiring Senior React Developer
🔧 #html #java #react #javascript #ruby #rubyonrails #redux #css #tdd #seniorengineer
🌎 Guatemala
⏰ Full-time
💰 $90k - $210k (Estimate)
🏢 3Pillar Global
Job details https://jobsfordevelopers.com/jobs/senior-react-developer-at-3pillar-global-may-18-2022-962a78?utm_source=mastodon.world&ref=mastodon.world
#jobalert #jobsearch #hiring
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Hammy’s Law: Those who try to do everything will achieve nothing.
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O-oh-h, . . . the irony. You just can't make this s**t up.
And, on top of that, this probably went right over their ignorant, narrow-minded heads.
😁 😁 😆 😆 😂 😂
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The Early Universe Ran in Slow Motion
One of Einstein's predictions is that we should see time moving at different rates at different ages of the Universe. Researchers have confirmed this prediction out to half the age of the Universe using Type 1a supernovae as standard candles. Astronomers have gone much further back in time, observing quasars that sent out their light 12 billion years ago. Over this vast distance, time has slowed to a crawl, with every second experienced by those quasars taking five seconds from our perspective.
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Homophobia and Transphobia on the rise in the so-called US, a failed coup attempt in Russia and protests in Argentina in this 24th installment of System Fail.
#Pride #Pride2023 #PrideMonth #RainbowCapitalism #Russia #Argentina #WagnerGroup #Jujuy #QueerResistance #vivajujuy #jujuyargentina #coup #mutiny #wagnerpmc #tinprigozhinwar #putin #ProudMonth
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FYI I am now co-moderating this new Magazine just focused on the #TwitterMigration will be cross posting all big news and new data there as well as on my feed.
@fediversereport @fediversenews
@fediverseobserver
@spreadmastodon https://kbin.social/m/TwitterMigration
- Website blog
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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