Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

"Getting rid of physical books because we now have databases is like getting rid of sunshine because of the existence of vitamin-D pills and cod liver oil." --love that.

a cogent plea for keeping physical libraries available:

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/death-of-the-physical-library/

Anyone remember the Graphic Adventure Creator?

Originally made for the #Amstrad #CPC, my experience of it was from a #YourSinclair covertape.

Anyway, it's been on my list to attempt porting it to #Psion #EPOC16 for ages. It's not top priority, but the machine is perfectly designed for playing #textadventure games (see @root42's escapades with #Infocom).

Be great if it could decompile and play old games, too.

#retrocomputing #Psion3 #adventure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Adventure_Creator
https://gac.interface1.net/

Dissatisfaction is rising in Russia. For several days in a row, military enlistment offices around the country have been attacked with molotov cocktails.

Let me get this straight. Republicans are banning books, drag shows, and life-saving gender-affirming care, all to "protect children"

But they're also rolling back child labor laws, blocking gun reform, and passing laws to force adolescents to give birth.

Do I have that right?

Scientists develop breath test that rapidly detects COVID-19 virus

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-scientists-rapidly-covid-virus.html

@zleap @waitnwallflower @Knaughty @GregSargent
Luckily for us, I don't think that X is going to have nearly as much political influence in 2024 as it had in 2016 - 2022 🤞

The West African bloc has a history of successful military interventions to restore constitutional order in the region.
Timeline: A history of ECOWAS military interventions in three decades

Among LGBT youth, those raised Christian and Catholic were much more likely to have contemplated suicide than those raised agnostic/atheist or Unitarian/Universalist. Religious affiliation may protect heterosexual youth from suicidal ideation but not sexual minorities.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32744388

#NICHDImpact #LGBTQ #Religion #Suicide

Biden Administration Creates Office To Coordinate Long COVID Response https://www.huffpost.com/entry/long-covid-office-clinical-trials_n_64c8e237e4b03ad2b89aafb4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@zleap @waitnwallflower @Knaughty
Did you see the polling results of Murdoch's outlets audience's beliefs about the orange chump's crimes that @GregSargent discussed yesterday.

Provides a prime example of how well some of our nefarious actors are able to take advantage of these media, social or otherwise, bubbles using propaganda for sure.

@waitnwallflower @Knaughty
Our media is and has been just too damn interested in that orange chump.

Social media shares the blame too. I wish we could just ignore him and his statements unless it's a new indictment or something tangible, but alas here I am.

I bang this drum occasionally because all the optimistic climate projections rely on some form of carbon capture and sequestration to paint the rosy picture they do.

But this technology is primitive and while it might, potentially, someday scale up to be useful, at the moment, it is primarily being used to justify continued carbon burning on the theory we'll deal with it later.

When this is later.

Good morning y'all

For those that weren't aware, IEMBot from Iowa State has come to the Fediverse officially. I'll leave it up to the bot maintainers whether or not they would rather continue running their own version which many of you are most likely already following.

Either way, the list of the bots maintained on the Fediverse by IA State can be found from the official site here https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/projects/iembot/#bots

I appreciate all the bot maintainers. Thanks for all y'all have done! ❤️🤗

#Weather #WX