Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

International community must act to end Israel’s annexation of occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and defend international law: UN experts
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/07/international-community-must-act-end-israels-annexation-occupied-west-bank

The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth.

And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.

50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use.

The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels or Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.

Interesting observation: U.S. media references to “oligarchs” invariably refer to Russians, whereas Americans with comparable amounts of money and influence are simply called “businessmen” or even “philanthrophists”: https://is.gd/MTpAOI

The evidence that cars don’t work as primary mass transport in cities is everywhere: traffic jams, air pollution, accident rates, the shocking fraction of city space taken up by parking spaces, safety barriers/bollards etc. This 100 year experiment should be declared over, and we should put proper effort into the systems that HAVE been shown to work and scale: walking, cycling, e-cargo bikes, cheap/accessible/reliable public transport. This “argument” about LTNs is just lazy delay. #LTN #cities

Ethereal New Image Reveals The Birth of Giant Jupiter-Like Worlds : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/ethereal-new-image-reveals-the-birth-of-giant-jupiter-like-worlds

#Astronomy

Putting this r/law screencap in context:

1. In the US, CSAM content is strict liability and could land you in prison (either for viewing or creating).
2. Elon reinstated someone posting CSAM content (and therefore whose tweets are more likely to hit your feed).
3. Twitter's timeline is algorithmic, so you don't control what's shown on your feed.

Ergo, there is no way to guarantee avoiding CSAM on Twitter/X except by deleting your account.

https://famichiki.jp/@stopthatgirl7/110791017748981553

India produces nearly half of the world’s rice but has placed a four-month ban on the export of non-basmati varieties to ensure local supply.The government m...
India rice export: Four-month ban targets food price inflation

Dunno if this will work with Mastodon but here goes:

I’m in Brussels for a week on holiday (staying around Saint Gilles) and my MacBook charger just died. So, I’m looking for a 60W USB-C charger to replace it. I’m not bothered about it being an Apple charger.

In Berlin there is almost nowhere open on a Sunday - is it the same for da Brux? All the Mediamarkt stores seem to be closed 😅

Some Sunday Morning Reading to share.

Arts in space and on the stage. Booby trapped tombs and age-old pathogens thawing out of the ice. And X marks the Rot.

Featuring among others @NatashaMH and @craiggrannell among others.
#arts #culture #space #X #Twitter #science #lunarcodex #theatre #dance #ellemeno #SundayMorningReading

https://warnercrocker.com/2023/07/30/sunday-morning-reading-11/

"Voters have little faith in either Labour or Tories to tackle climate change, polls shows"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/three-quarters-voters-worried-climate-change-net-zero-election-issue-2513139

Public libraries are critical infrastructure.