Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@flexghost

Check this ^^ out.
Florida is not being a special case. It's practice. All this stuff that's happening in FL? They're pilot programs.

Pay attention.

Rock Dove

There certainly is no shortage of these birds at my feeder. This morning there was a red-bellied woodpecker at the feeder, and he was mobbed by pigeons. It's not at all an unusual event since the pigeons found my feeder. I installed a hanging feeder off a hook attached to the fence and so far, the pigeons seem unable to negotiate that feeder. All that they can do is congregate underneath and get the seeds knocked down by smaller birds.

This is a female (I think) and she has a rather odd-looking head. It makes me wonder if something happened or if it's genetic. I'm not a pigeon expert, it could be common, and I just haven't noticed.

"The rock dove, rock pigeon, or common pigeon is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons). In common usage, it is often simply referred to as the "pigeon". " - wikipedia.org

#photo #photography #photographer #birds #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #pigeon

Elijah McCoy was born in 1844 in Ontario to formerly-enslaved parents from Kentucky. They saved enough to send him to Scotland to study mechanical #engineering. When he returned and couldn't get work in his field, he took a job as a train oilman and invented a method of automatic lubrication that eliminated the frequent stops trains had to make to oil up axles & bearings. Railroad companies asking for his product rather than copycat devices spawned the phrase "the real McCoy." #BlackHistoryMonth

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #physics

Building models of topological quantum criticality from pivot Hamiltonians

Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Ryan Thorngren, Ashvin Vishwanath, Ruben Verresen
SciPost Phys. 14, 013 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.2.013
#CalTech
#HarvardUniversity
#MIT
#KITP
#CRSNG
#SimonsFoundation

Today the House GOP will "celebrate" #Blackhistorymonth by removing Rep Ilhan Omar from House Foreign Affairs committee. She is the only Black woman on the committee--plus she's Muslim + an immigrant. This is what white supremacy looks like. My article https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kevin-mccarthys-rationale-removing-ilhan-omar-makes-no-sense-rcna66366

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic wrote: The EU's top privacy regulator may declare Facebook's business model illegal, banning surveillance-based ads: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/#schrems-revenge
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#JCPA #surveillance #adModel #networkEffects #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #cookieWall #business #commercial surveillance #consent theater #contextualAdvertising #corruption #dma #dsa #eu #gdpr #ireland #link tax #Schrems #noyb #private #surveillance #advertising @dataGovernance

@zleap I don't need to encourage society to revolt. It's doing that for itself already. I hope some time in my lifetime the oil companies pay for the damage they cause and I'm convinced we'd have progressed as a technological society more quickly if they had been forced to do so the whole time.

Meanwhile, in a normal country:
#Finland #GenderRecognition

"Finland passes new, progressive trans rights laws on gender recognition"
https://www.euronews.com/2023/02/01/finland-passes-new-progressive-trans-rights-laws-on-gender-recognition

Since it is Groundhog Day, it is obviously the perfect day to watch the greatest film ever made, and my personal favourite film, Groundhog Day!

BBC News - Shell reports highest profits in 115 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64489147

And it would go right into the red if it was charged for the environmental and social damage it caused. Money is fake, I get it, but accountability doesn't have to be.

The F-droid app is undergoing major changes: Faster and smaller updates thanks to a new repository format.

For this, we needed to change the entire app database. To ensure that there are no regression we need your help: Please install the latest alpha version of F-Droid 1.16 and report anything unusual.

One Year Later, a Tongan Eruption Is Still Reverberating
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/one-year-later-a-tonga-eruption-is-still-reverberating/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who died OTD in 1907, created the periodic table of elements https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/hospital.html?s=mb #travel #Russia #science

The mad lads finally did it. Twitter is killing the open API for everyone:

"Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead."

They get zero points for this so-called advance notice - it's not enough time for any app with a significant user base to perform a graceful shutdown.

Twitter's relentless march toward irrelevance continues unabated.

People that got "As" in AP history, that didn't know this, are running to their favorite search engine right now to try and fact check this. Let's wait for them... ⏳

Why do US people not know their own history?

Before folks ask, "Why was I not taught this in school?!" Look at what DeSantis is doing to AP history in Florida. You know exactly why you weren't taught this in school. Because it's easier to get you to accept mistreatment of Black people, if you don't know white American history.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I'm still not ready to talk about Black history. I want to talk about white US history.

Q: "Why don't Black people build any generational wealth? Newer immigrant groups seem to be doing just fine? Must be a lazy and shiftless people!"

A: Because for most of US history, white folk have *intentionally* destroyed the wealthiest Black neighborhoods in the US and stolen all the wealth.

Greenwood. Allentown. Seneca Village. Rosewood. Freedmen's town.

#BlackMastodon

I'm trying to find my friends bc I forgot to export my following/followers list lol

Share this post or face 8 years of bad luck ​:misato_finger:​

@WiseWoman @Cmastication @zleap @ben
I am sorry, you are of course absolutely correct. I meant "for software in courses", and forgot the broader context.

Incidentally, Prof. Weber-Wolff, your Nature article on plagiarism detectors [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00893-5] is one of the readings in my introductory computer science course, tied to an assignment about document comparison [https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs019/2022/docdiff.html#%28part._dd-rcs%29]. That article is more relevant today than ever!