Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@Barrikoi1 I have donated to the MSF in the past. I should again. I have a good friend who worked with them in Africa for a long time. Incredible people work for that organization (including her). Thank you for supporting them.

Adblockers are legal, German courts ruled. Their argument: users not only have the right to receive information but also to refuse it.
That sounds about right. It'd be positively dystopian if companies can claim the right to force-feed information. A win for internet user freedom :).
One of the downsides of the ruling is that a company can exclude users with an activated adblocker from accessing its website.
@fsfe wrote an interesting article about the case
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231220-01.en.html

☣️ Posted today: Video overview of massive moderation failure across all #Meta networks filled with criminal activity and abuse.

Yet somehow countless #MastoAdmin folks still think we need to "give them the benefit of the doubt" and "wait and see".

We have seen more than enough abuse to exclude them. For nearly two decades.
https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=jk7crtzDl_E&local=true

#Threads #Facebook #Instagram #FediPact

The European Space Agency's amazing Gaia Mission launched 10 years ago today.

Code Club Electronics 7 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/code-club-electronics-7

Code Club Electronics 8 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/code-club-electronics-8

Code Club Electronics 9 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/code-club-electronics-9

Code Club Electronics 10 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/code-club-electronics-10

Code Club Electronics 11 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/code-club-electronics-11

Code Club Electronics 12 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/code-club-electronics-12

NASA's Winter 2024 Astrophoto challenge is now on. Make your own images with real NASA data using a simple, online tool. Then, submit your image. Standout entries are featured on the website and get comments from expert judges.

I've been a guest expert in the past, and I find all of your technicolor space images delightful. Please go make some weird space pictures: https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/astrophoto/index.html

https://youtu.be/qtkHA2wBr0c?si=t1oyfcV3tyreW2ko

RT by @EU_ScienceHub: Last but not least, the Nanobiotechnology Laboratory.

Here @EU_ScienceHub scientists work on innovative responses to health threats and on sustainable materials.

Impressive to see their work in improving early warning for pollutants and testing therapies like mRNA vaccines!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Ili_Ivanova/status/1736738284061991239#m

[2023-12-18 13:20 UTC]

A reminder to #artists that there is now a tool meant to combat AI tools that are stealing creative works for use in services like #Midjourney by adding imperceptible pixels which in turn poison their databases 🤟

Protect yourself and your work!

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-data-poisoning-tool-enables-artists-to-fight-back-against-image-generating-ai-companies-1234684663/

#NightShade #AI #MastoArt

*Please Boost and pass it on to other Artists

@harriettmb @DrALJONES It is because, with American backing, Israel is immune to conventional warfare. It can take on all of the Middle East combined, with American backing.

Frankly, again with American backing, it could take on all of NATO that isn't America.

This isn't WW2 where number of soldiers or whatever means anything at all.

And since Israel, clearly, does not care about civilian deaths at all, sure some of its people will die, but the exposure is minimal.

With American backing.