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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Toxic Masculinity is the gateway drug to #Fascism.
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Early disease-outbreak warnings matter. So why is the major alert system ProMED being hollowed out? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-early-disease-outbreak-warnings-matter-so-why-is-a-major-alert-system/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links
Minecraft is still very popular and despite this being owned my Microsoft they have made a educational version.
Would be good to see something like this integrated in to Minecraft too, if it helps to educate people about what happened, fantastic
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The Holocaust museum in Fortnite will let players walk its halls, read plaques describing the genocide against Jews in Nazi Germany, and see photos of Jewish resistance fighters and heroic individuals who sheltered Jews.
https://t.co/xw4B33VSER
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Just realised chatGPT is violating the gov.uk content licence:
You must (where you do any of the above):
acknowledge the source of the Information in your product or application by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;
What an idiot, even if he is proven to be totally innocent of Jan 6 (unlikely) he will be hauled before the judge for this behaviour and charged with something like contempt of court. The sooner that happens the better.
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Trump Refuses to Stop Attacking Prosecutor, Judge, & Witness Following His Arraignment https://video.ploud.jp/videos/watch/53009c74-f4ba-449a-9f0b-083bd7948dcb
Is this announcement just a coincidence given their terms and condition changes, or is it a ploy to deflect attention from the changes to these so people take less notice.
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Zoom trying to do damage control by obfuscating what they say VS what they mean is a good reminder to take PR statements with a grain of salt. By looking at what Zoom has actually done, you'll quickly see all the times they've flat-out lied.
Remember when Zoom claimed to offer end-to-end encryption but didn't? I do.
Remember when they said they've made joining meetings on macOS easier but actually installed an exploit that made Zoom re-install itself if a user uninstalled it? I do.
Remember when Zoom said they were protecting user privacy but then handed user data to Facebook? I do.
It's always good to have a reminder that what a company says is often of significantly less importance than what they've done.
Earth to Harmen
I appreciate MPs live in a different reality but the UK population has far more important things to actually worry about.
1. Cost of living
2. Interest rate rises = higher mortgate costs
3. Cost of rent
4. ULEZ stopping working people actually getting to work or making journeys unviable
5. Skills shortages
6. Waiting lists
7. Shortage of NHS workers
8. Shortage of care workers
9. War in Ukraine
10. Home office in disarray and incapable of stopping people smugglers
ALL under the Tory Watch
Stop going on about our Former PM and get on with dealing with some of the actual issues people are concerned about.
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Update: Zoom has now updated their terms of service: https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/
Specifically, they added a sentence after paragraph 10.4:
"Notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent."
It remains for lawyers to parse out whether "consent" is implied by agreeing to the terms of service, or requires a separate action, and whether "your" is user-level or company-level. I am not a lawyer.
Well yeah, I can see HIM being sued before too long.
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Hackers are increasingly abusing the legitimate Cloudflare Tunnels feature to create stealthy outbound HTTPS connections from compromised devices, bypass firewalls, and maintain long-term persistence.
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“The main lobbying group for US electric utilities plans to oppose a Biden administration proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions from existing gas power plants” #ClimateAction
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/us-utilities-gas-power-plants-lobbying-eei-epa
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A more encyclopedic overview is available in Wikipedia [1] (experts can debate which is more encyclopedic, or even better, improve both of them ... ummm, well, improve one of them further). Although mortality was still in the 10s of % or so in the late XXth century, there's at least one Italian hospital claiming 100% cure with no sequelae for patients hospitalised within 36 hours of eating the mushrooms [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_phalloides
[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15563650701365834
That explains why Indeed seem to think I am suitable for any post that cites the town where I live, regardless of if I am actually qualified for the post.
If employers are too lazy to do the recruitment properly they don't remotely deserve the best staff.
He may have a problem in Scotland as far as I understand it, a verbal agreement is legally binding.
So if I say I will by item Y for X amount I am legally obligated to do so.
I am sure someone from #Scotland can give more info on this one.
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Friendly reminder to my friends in #academia that in the same way you credit #science plots when you give talks, write #SocialMedia posts, etc, you should also credit artist impressions and photographs. There's a lot of work behind them. Don't take #art for granted!
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Dana Hedgpeth: ‘12 years of hell’: Indian boarding school survivors share their stories: Forced by the federal government to attend the schools, Native American children were sexually assaulted, beaten and emotionally abused
"Now a reckoning is underway as Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe whose grandparents were stolen from their homes and sent to boarding schools, tours the country to expose the devastating legacy of the schools on families and tribes. At the same time, a major nonprofit group, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, is collecting tens of thousands of documents on Indian boarding schools to build an interactive, digital archive that is expected to launch later this year."
#nativeamericans #boardingschools #abuse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/08/07/indian-boarding-school-survivors-abuse-trauma
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
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