Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.

The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.

If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.

The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.

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A case study by @CSLee & yours truly just dropped, and YOU can read it for free!

Learn why we think of hackathons like *social interventions*: lightweight-but-effective team moments that can create new self-concepts for skill building

https://www.pluralsight.com/resource-center/guides/how-hackathons-increase-team-development

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-scientists-rare-element-exoplanet-atmosphere.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-04-scientists-rare-element-exoplanet-atmosphere.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1651277221741445146#m

Scientists discover rare element in exoplanet's #atmosphere @AandA_journal @arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04285 https://phys.org/news/2023-04-scientists-rare-element-exoplanet-atmosphere.html

Independent Bookstore Day takes place on the last Saturday of April each year, and there are many different ways to participate. From city-wide bookstore crawls to author events to live music to great deals. Help Independent Bookstores and protect the 1st Amendment! https://bookriot.com/independent-bookstore-day-2023/

I overheard them at the bus stop.
"Which is best, supplying a regular or getting someone new hooked?"
"Hm. To satisfy the desperate, or create a lifelong addiction? I-"
I turned around. "Have you drug dealers no shame?"
"What? We're booksellers!"
"Oh. Um. Do you have any here?"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

I think I may have just put the last touch on my dissertation’s bibliography.

I still need to obsessively go over it ten more times…but I think it’s done.

"The lab is locked," the student said, "so how..."
The professor looked at the camera feed.
"Ah. You know how subatomic particles can spontaneously come into existence?"
"Yes, but that is not-"
"It happens. Put a note up that we have another cat available for adoption."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

🚨One week left to apply!🚨

@ProPublica
is hiring 3 -- yes, three!! -- reporters to join our newly formed Northwest office.

📌Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho
💰$85,000 to $170,000
📅 Deadline to apply: May 3 at 7 a.m. ET

All of us very often use Wikipedia to find out more or less accurate information about everything that interests us.💫
Therefore, we created a wiki department of our team, which works on creating wiki articles for Ukrainians.
In the beginning, it was a passion of the founders of the NUAAR project, which grew into something much more. Now most of the team is engaged in active writing of Wikipedia articles.
In future posts you will find out more about our wiki team⭐ #mastodon #ukraine

Astronomers have directly imaged a supermassive black hole emitting a powerful jet for the first time. The image of the black hole in M87 could help better understand this powerful and violent phenomenon. W/@SPACEdotcom #Space #astronomy #blackhole https://www.space.com/black-hole-jet-first-direct-image-m87

A farmhouse sits abandoned on the sprawling grassland near New Raymer, #Colorado
#rurex #urbex #abandoned #abandonedphotography #photo #photography #mastoart

The Leidenfrost effect is the phenomenon whereby a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer which keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly.

#science #sciencefacts #liedenfrost #liedenfrosteffect

A quick history lesson. From 1940-1980:
•Wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax
•0 of them went broke from taxation
•0 of them left USA
•All remained exceedingly wealthy
•Manufacturing boomed
•The middle class was 62% of US economy (It's now 40% post 'trickle down scamenomics)
•We had the strongest middle class growth in US History

Let's do that again. Stop protecting billionaires. Start taxing them.
#TaxBillionaires