Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

For all the Lemmings fans, here's the documentary Can You Dig It, in which I took part.

https://youtu.be/RbAVNKdk9gA

Hear me out: What if community engagement doesn’t mean convincing the community that your plan is good for them, but planning things with the community from day one?

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#introduction #crossstitch #knitting #t1d #gaming

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that governments asking tech companies to provide encryption backdoors violates human rights.

This is awkward as various European countries are trying to pass laws mandating exactly that. Hopefully this is one more nail in the coffin.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/human-rights-court-takes-stand-against-weakening-of-end-to-end-encryption/

“I do not recall any front-page story saying that Donald Trump’s shocking threat last week to sell out NATO allies was a ‘political disaster.’

“I did not see any front page headline saying that in so doing Trump had ‘Put Subservience to Putin Back at Center of 2024.’”

I wish every political editor would take the day off and consider what James Fallows has to say here.

https://open.substack.com/pub/fallows/p/election-countdown-264-days-to-go?r=g7z5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Trump has proven eye-opening — or should have — for many of us, as we learn that a not insignificant proportion of Americans think the Constitution is optional and not the foundation on which our democratic republic is built.

And it should be eye-opening that a whole slew of "liberal" media types are right on board with this trashing of the Constitution — including 99% of straight white men on social media, who are suddenly Constitutional experts.

#Trump #Constitution #Republicans
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NASA researchers finally opened the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule, revealing the asteroid treasure inside from Bennu. According to the mission team, the spacecraft grabbed a total of 121.6 grams from the asteroid, including the samples found outside the collector. NASA will now distribute samples to 200 scientists worldwide who will study the properties of the regolith. They'll also release a catalog of the samples so scientists can request access.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2024/02/15/nasa-announces-osiris-rex-bulk-sample-mass/

How is it that in 2024 I still can lose half an hour of my work day trying to get a stupid journal article, from a major journal that my university pays for, to open?

I usually route around this bullshit, but I wanted to actually get the publishers copy for once. Bad decision.

I guess this is why scientific peer review has pretty much moved to blog posts about stuff in arXiv...

#Science #sciencepublishing #publishing #openaccess #bullshit #academiclibrariessuck #publishersuck