Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Keynote: Nadya Mason (U. of Illinois): the way they did this is kind of cool, there are little satellite undergraduate women in physics conferences that are happening all across the US and Canada this weekend, and all of them connected to this talk via Zoom. Talk started with a role call to a dozen or so classrooms all over the US (+ours in Canada), all full of women physics majors! COOL.

The speaker talked about her path to physics, loads of advice as a Black woman physicist

#ccuwip2023

Julie Claveau (Canadian Space Agency) gave a lovely talk about her career path that went through loving the dark skies to thinking about engineering to working in a coffee shop to admin work to the Canadian Space Agency, where she's been a program manager for RADARSAT1&2 and now JWST, a super successful science missions.

#ccuwip2023

Twitter shuts down all third party apps. So I guess we aren’t going to get twitter as open source open protocol then.

@kentbrew @cbroome @pluralistic This seems to have significantly worsened in the last few months.

Something similar going on on LinkedIn. A job search returns a page of a dozen paid boosted jobs with only a couple actual results mixed in randomly.

Everyone taking profits at the expense of their product-"customers".

When I got my cat I thought he was a a little dumb.
But today he pulled a shrimp magnet off the fridge to play with, then he was done with it, he PUT IT BACK ON THE FRIDGE.

@cheerfulmadness I have to admit I had forgotten about that comet... From what I read, it is in the constellation of Pavo, in the southern sky. So, yeah, we're pretty much screwed to see it in the UK. #astronomy

Newfoundland first responders walk off the job following strike order from union leadership
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/paramedics-strike-teamsters-union-fewers-ambulance-1.6720302

Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/21/microsoft_office_count_update/

remember that @libreoffice exists and is free

If you live where there is a moderately dark sky at night, you can find this #constellation without too much trouble. Look for #Orion, and from there go south. The stars of #Lepus are visible to the west of the bright star #Sirius. #astronomy

📷: Stellarium

The British malaise is, it seems to me, down to the fact that we've developed a political and journalistic class of utterly trivial people, with no real grounding in or understanding of any intellectual discipline: not history, not philosophy, not political theory, and most certainly not any science or technology. I'm talking mainly of the #Conservatives, of course - but by no means only of the Conservatives. >>>

The next time you hear Republicans in Congress complaining about increasing IRS enforcement, remember that the richest 1 percent of Americans evade as much as $163 billion in taxes each year.

Hey all,
So I went to the thrift store to see if I could find the #8 book in this series but it wasn’t there. So, if anyone has it or any other books in the series I will gladly buy them from you.

“North Dakota lawmakers rejected a bill Friday that would have made people pay $1,500 each time they refer to themselves or others with gender pronouns different from the ones they were assigned at birth” #LGBTQ+ #ProtectTransYouth
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/lgbtq-people-allies-could-face-1500-fine-in-north-dakota/