Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Judy Levitt, wife of our friend Walter Koenig.
Judy was a wonderful actress. We studied theatre arts together at UCLA, and she celebrated our 2008 wedding along with Walter, our best man.
Our heartfelt condolences to Judy's family.

I'm loving my time with cousins. The 1yo twins and I are doing great, too; one waas stacking play-doh containers with me and clapping when he got them all. The other is asking me to carry him around and playing the piano from my lap.

So much fun.

Merry Christmas Fedi family

Twitter was a shithole before Elon Musk. Twitter is a shithole during Elon Musk. And Twitter will be shithole after Elon Musk.

The goal of the fediverse has not been (nor should it be) to recreate some version or other of a shithole.

It can be (and is) so much more.

#fediverse #twitter #elonMusk #mastodon

Infectious disease docs mocking people wearing masks is a whole other level of disgusting.

All I want for Christmas is universal health care, universal basic income, no machine guns in private hands, higher taxes on billionaires, free breakfast and lunches for everyone at free schools, and maybe a book and some good chocolate.

Researchers at MIT Media Lab have tested modular tiles that autonomously assemble to create habitats in space on the latest mission to the International Space Station.

Called Tesserae, the project aims to create future space habitats from reconfigurable tiles that assemble while in orbit around the moon or Earth.

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/05/27/tesserae-mit-media-lab-self-assembling-tiles-international-space-station-mission/

Rendering courtesy of MIT Space Exploration Initiative / TU Dortmund Fraunhofer Institute

#Space #Science #Futurism #Explore #Architecture

How did one rental startup I'd never heard of obtain, and subsequently leak, my home address? That's the question I posed in my June story looking at the lack of consequences for companies that expose people's personal information. Bryce created this beautiful, vibrant, Fauvist-esque cityscape with a map location marker. This is one of my personal favorites.

[1] https://tcrn.ch/3QZwGZe

School Librarians Are in the Crosshairs of Right-Wing Book Banners and Censors
https://truthout.org/articles/school-librarians-are-in-the-crosshairs-of-right-wing-book-banners-and-censors/
#Censorship

#fediblock

Someone has apparently written open-source software to circumvent fediblocks by "woke" instance admins (I kid you not -- they're unironically using that term).

The only domain we currently know of providing this service is activitypub-proxy.cf, but I'd expect more to pop up.

We may need a tool to periodically scan federated domains for heavy subdomain usage that could be this software in use.

Anyway, thought everyone should know.

-- your woke administrator (well... partly woke... I haven't had my morning caffeine yet)

"Christmas Eve". A painting by an Auschwitz survivor Janina Tollik (1946).

#art #Auschwitz #Christmas #ChristmasEve #painting #arts #history #ChristmasTree #prisoners

"Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo."

Looks like there will be a market for AI vuln remediation!
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/

Smart swaps for Hard-To-Find Boards (#Arduino / Pi)

https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/the-replacements-smart-swaps-for-hard-to-find-boards/

Stop asking "could this meeting be an email?" and start asking "could this discord server be a support forum?"

It would be good if more people aspired to be kinder than to be filthy rich.

Just in case you are spending the next couple of days with people who are not on #XMPP yet and have some time on your hands. 😊

Conversations is currently available for free on the Google PlayStore.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations

So, I'm finding out the hard way that if you start a new Mastodon server, nobody can find you.

This is a shameless request for some boosts so some of the bigger instances see me.

#mastodon #twittermigration #mastodonserver #findme #helpimtrappedinawell #imlonely

@aral Frankly, we need to socialize the notion that the Fediverse itself shouldn't centralize around one singular app or service.

Let's start using as many apps as we can!

As Christmas present this year I would love to have somebody who knows about stochastic calculus/statphys to answer a pair of questions about noise interpretations in conserved systems (when a white noise field has a multiplicative term and both are *inside* of a gradient).

I have been searching in the literature for weeks and I'm stuck, please help :)