Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org
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@zleap @sortius @passthejoe common misconception, a thing at some point we wanted to believe, but no, Bill Gates never said "640K of memory should be enough for anybody.", nor their variations:
https://www.wired.com/1997/01/did-gates-really-say-640k-is-enough-for-anyone/
Gates has said and done very bad things but that one by is not one of those.
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OTD in 2003 the World Health Organization officially released a global warning of outbreaks of SARS https://toilet-guru.com/blog/45.html?s=mb #COVID19 #PublicHealth
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Today in 1993, 30 years ago: Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
So this seems to be what the UK government are doing with Migrants, making them ALL out to be criminals.
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Quality popular science. A delightful book about biochemistry (narrowly focused on poisons) wrapped in true crime stories of their use. Despite the popular branding, the author doesn't oversimplify the chemistry. A reminder of how fascinating a machine the body is.
#BookReview
Meta exploring plans for Twitter rival
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64917397
As we have been discussing this recently, just posting the BBC tech news report. Clearly at this stage we are not fully sure what Meta are planning to do.
I think what we CAN be sure of is:
Agressive marketing to get people to use their new platform
Early integration with things like Websites, word press
Algorithms that will help people find THEM and related software first
Speculation : Some sort of hidden agenda
And probably other tactics.
As a community we are strong, established, so we can counter this, by making sure integration works really well and we just carry on innovating and developing, but importantly spread the word.
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Apparently someone gave Ron DeSantis a hand-made snowflake at a Republican political rally in Davenport, Iowa last week. Look carefully: you'll see the word "Fascist" secretly embedded in it.
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Remember back when search engines were somewhat usable? That was nice. #comics
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In July of 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote to President Truman, responding to a request made by Roosevelt in 1944.
He submitted a report titled "Science the Endless Frontier." It outlined a plan for federal support of the sciences and the establishment of what would become the National Science Foundation.
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The many branches of the #fediverse (#Mastodon instances are but one) ~ via https://axbom.com/fediverse/ ~ #SocialMedia #community
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Paignton Library STEM Group – April 2023 https://personaljournal.ca/paigntonlibrarystemgroup/paignton-library-stem-group-april-2023
Didn't Bill Gates once say that we won't need more than 640KB of memory :)
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In five years most of us won't be using Google or Google-like search engines.
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What’s for dinner?
The #Landsat mission observes crops from space, helping farmers make decisions about how to better grow food. In this data sonification, see and hear how crops in the U.S. have changed over 20 years.
How #Landsat data is used: https://go.nasa.gov/3T5z6GZ
#NASAEarth
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RT @TheGreenParty: 💚 The Green Party is standing firmly with @GaryLineker over his suspension from Match of the Day.
#IStandWithGaryLineker #BBCBias #GaryGate
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1634630331327295488
The way things are going the working day for these graduates will end up being midday, assuming employers are happy to put up with that and employ them.
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What nonsense! I find the students sleep perfectly well during my early-morning lectures.
I think perhaps we need to remember that the holocaust started with deportations and rounding up jews and hosing them in ghettos. Perhaps this is what Gary Lineker was getting at, as I am sure many people seem to link the holocaust with WWII as if it only happened during WWII, where as didn't persecution sart in the early 1930's.
I am not a historian in this area, and only know so much, so would welcome any correction to my thinking or understanding here.
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A lot of people seem to think that any comparison between Nazi Germany in the 1930's and a "democratically elected government" is illegitimate.
I suggest they brush up on their history.
The Nazis came to power precisely because German people voted for them. They then removed legal rights, censored the media and disenfranchised or killed their enemies.
Sound familiar?
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
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