Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

New 'chain mail' material of interlocking molecules is tough, flexible and easy to make: New process for making catenanes for potential use in airplanes, armor and other resilient needs -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230118195906.html

The source article has depictions of the molecules connected together.

#science #NanoTech

I realized it's kinda useful to note down what is inside the box, lol

We must ensure justice for the victims of Russia's crimes in Ukraine.

We have to set up a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.

#EPlenary #StandWithUkraine
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1616903587862388736

Let’s make 2023 year of the personal website.

I think a political scientist called Florida’s voter suppressing “surgically removing black people’s votes” or sth.

Also, simply because a majority of blacks identify as Democrat doesn’t mean that they exist in large enough numbers, so next to Gerrymandering and suppressing their votes through other methods, they are a minority.

UM is hiring a cog sci postdoc, and a lot of philosophers would be good fits for it.

https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/229457/postdoctoral-research-fellow-cognitive-science

@zleap I think I was in Toronto almost a decade before I went up the CN tower. :)

Amazon is shutting down #AmazonSmile, its charitable wing. I analyzed its TY2020 tax filings.

Four groups — the ASPCA, St. Jude’s, the Nature Conservancy and the American Red Cross — received more than $1 million. Only 24 secured more than $100,000, while about 230 got more than $10,000.

*Thousands* of churches, neighborhood associations, animal shelters and little leagues received just $5.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/01/19/amazonsmile-charity-closing/

Happy Lunar New Year!

International students are dying from overdoses at an alarming rate, faith leaders and community workers say.

But BC’s government isn’t tracking the problem. #bcpoli #cdnhealth

https://pressprogress.ca/international-students-overdoses-british-columbia-20230116/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=news

--Oh and Florida banning (banning!) AP African American history ought to be enough of a mask off moment to wake up anyone who thought this was about some kind of historically unstable, politically charged courses. This is the got dammed college board and all the most moderate of moderate and boring voices in history.

So cannon you could put balls in it and sink a ship.

I can only assume they want young people to learn literal myths and legends. Chopped cherry trees and all instead.

Meanwhile, on Scotland’s Isle Of Skye …
Photo by Juuso Hämäläinen