Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Elon Musk Twitter Meltdown Megathread Part 3

Part 1: https://mastodon.cloud/web/statuses/109520799673427113

Part 2: https://mastodon.cloud/web/statuses/109542103348007605

This time, Elon had a long Twitter Spaces conference earlier and it's quite a doozy...

Written summary: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605439080958816256.html

Image collage summary: https://i.imgur.com/H2kVHXb.png

Audio recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXXQr28MXs

Scenario: A refugee enters the UK without papers {he had them, but were lost) and he’s denied asylum from war. His application is denied. He goes to America instead where he is accepted.

This is Sunak’s plan.

This actually happened in 1933. That man was Albert Einstein.

Tories don't want you to know this: April 5th is the deadline to apply for voter ID - or register for a postal vote by April 18th. Get the word out. #VoterID
https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate

Done Right, Tutoring Can Greatly Boost Student Learning. How Do We Get There? – The 74 https://www.the74million.org/article/done-right-tutoring-can-greatly-boost-student-learning-how-do-we-get-there/
#tutoring #education #teaching #learning #schools #k12

Oh hey look! (Yes, I did take that photo. <3 )

Pull quote: The Community Library Network Alliance, independent of the library network, was officially formed in November 2022 by Emily Christopherson of Post Falls and Angela Drewien of Hayden. It is a grassroots movement effected by those who are passionate and concerned about local library goings-on and who believe a thriving public library system is necessary for a community to be vibrant and well-informed. Part of the group's mission is to ensure the integrity and success of the local libraries through qualified, library-minded and trustworthy library trustees.

https://cdapress.com/news/2023/feb/14/library-allies/

#PublicLibraries #libraries #CLNA #Community #DefendLibraries #BannedBooks

This is why I love the commandline.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1339456/how-to-extract-a-currupted-zip-file

I had a zip of photos and it wouldn't open, said it's not a zip. I knew it was...but it let me open it with a document viewer and all the photos were there....but in like almost a PDF. So I knew there must be a way to get at them. the zip command fixed it with the -FF flag and...yeah. Got them all extracted.

1/5 ✊🏽Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of their online communication!

New poll results reveal that the proposed CSA Regulation would disempower youth, stop them from organising for social change & exploring their sexuality.

Read more: https://edri.org/our-work/press-release-poll-youth-in-13-eu-countries-refuse-surveillance-of-online-communication/

@epicenter_works @chaosupdates mnemonic Gong hr European Youth Forum
@bitsoffreedom @digiges @eff @Volksverpetzer JAAKLAC iniciativa

"As we chart the course of the future of software, these examples shine light on the importance of educational institutions in the struggle for #softwarefreedom and the urgent need for broader community support [...]" -- Glass to keynote #LibrePlanet2023 https://u.fsf.org/3w5

ooh, missed this:

https://www.eejournal.com/article/mips-rolls-out-its-first-risc-v-processor-core-its-a-big-un/

MIPS has now gone full RISC-V, which kind of makes sense, since RISC-V is 4 Berkeley iterations down from the original MIPS architecture. and they've clearly applied everything they learned modernising the MIPS architecture to their first RISC-V offering! exciting times... even if the poor old MIPS architecture is now orphaned (but it lives on, i guess, in Loongson - and in various textbooks... and in Microchip's oldest PIC32s)

if only we'd stuck with 36-bit computers, we wouldn't have a date problem until 3058, by which time we could reasonably assume that computers had become sentient, wiped us all out, and would have to fix their own damn date bugs

We need a new tool to help onboard communities to Mastodon. Who's up to create it?

There are great tools to find and one-click follow people from the bird site.

Needed next: Think a google sheet like the ones for academic fields (see link), but with better UX like being continuously available for one-click following as new names are added.

This is needed and could easily become a paid project.

@debirdify @pruvisto @Luca @wessouza @spreadmastodon @mastodonmigration https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective. Kurt Vonnegut, American writer and novelist (1922 2007)

david tennant wearing a pride pin ever since one of his kids came out as nonbinary and saying cis people need to step up to make sure we stop a slide into fascism and loss of human rights is making him my fav doctor for the week

Northern lights over a campsite (vertical shot)

One of my favorite nl shots.

#photography #NorthernLights #night #Minnesota #bwcaw #LandscapePhotography

National Institute of Standards and Technology - Systems Administrator (GS 13 equivalent, remote)

NIST is hiring for a sysadmin. Note that this is a 4-year term position, but it is a remote job!

closes: 2023-03-29

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/709591200

Energy bills: Why does Scotland pay more than England?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23351986.energy-bills-scotland-pay-england/

Hubble Observes Cosmic Contortions in a Massive Galaxy Cluster

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-observes-cosmic-contortions

Search over 1,500 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories

#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #ESA #Hubble #NASA

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling

Apparently there is now a genuine "Mastodon For Dummies" book:

➡️ https://www.dummies.com/article/technology/social-media/general-social-media/mastodon-for-dummies-cheat-sheet-297062

It's a real physical book, it's in bookshops and libraries! Depending on where you live, it's out now or out this week.

I haven't read it (yet) but the index seems promising and they even cover non-Mastodon Fediverse platforms including lesser known ones like @inventaire

(Thanks to @technomancy for highlighting this release!)