Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Today's the day! It's the first day of this year's LibrePlanet conference. LibrePlanet: Charting the Course is the fifteenth edition. Check out the schedule for today and tomorrow: https://u.fsf.org/3yr

Downpour on Bourbon Street
By Diane Millsap

#art #painting #mastoart

At the urging of @alexcox, I just placed my two phone calls. It took a sum-total of two minutes.

Americans, will you do it too?

https://5calls.org/issue/transgender-state-legislation/

Transgender people are people too. Somehow we've lost sight of that. This is not okay.

https://bookmarks.sysop.cafe/shaare/KSVfsQ: "The LaTeX Companion", third edition https://www.latex-project.org/news/2023/03/17/TLC3/ #latex #books #typesetting

I know I’m a year late to this but I’m noticing the Florida “stop woke act” prohibits teachings that “suggest a person is privileged or oppressed based necessarily on their race, color, sex or national origin.”

National origin.

So it’s illegal in Florida to promote the USA as the best country to be born in.

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky passed a measure to ban gender-affirming care for trans children

Kentucky ranked as one of the worst places to live in the United States:

44th and healthcare
48th in fiscal stability
Consistently in the bottom 10 for education

Number 2 in the nation for domestic violence

But your problem is trans children? Republicans are nothing but evil.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

I'm not going to link to a New York Times article (because they're fascist imperialists), but I will steal a quote and a nice graphic from them...

"The richest 10% of Americans — who make an average of $233K a year — produce 56.5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per person, per year. That’s more than double the emissions of the richest 10% in Europe. It’s nearly double that of the richest 10% in China.”

🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 We love inequality!

"People need to realize not to make assumptions. Be open and curious about the abilities of everybody."

Dana Bolles is an External Information Technology Lead at NASA Headquarters. Discover how her community shapes her life, professionally and personally http://go.nasa.gov/3lgEBXb
#NASA

UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/17/uk-backs-rolls-royce-project-to-build-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon.html

#moon #space #rollsroyce #nuclear #energy

Happy 70th Birthday to Richard Stallman. RMS started GNU, and launched the free software movement with it. He founded the @fsf and has remained a champion for software freedom over these many decades. Thank you for your unwavering dedication to the cause and for inspiring so many of us to fight for a world where users have control over their computing. Please join me in wishing him a very happy birthday! I'm sure you have his email. 🎉🎂 #HappyBirthday #FreeSoftware #GNU #FSF

The Webb Telescope team is honored to receive the 2023 Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy. This year, the award recognizes the 20,000 people around the world who designed, developed and now operate Webb: https://go.nasa.gov/42if6p0
#JamesWebb

President Biden says assault weapons must be banned. A major veterans group insists Fox News must be banned, too. They’re both right.

https://america.substack.com/p/the-need-to-do-something-big

In Silicon Valley, a boom era feels like it’s ending

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-silicon-valley-a-boom-era-feels-like-its-ending-21fcbe64

#technology #money

BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has asked if Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank executives would return the bonuses and salaries they earned “in the last five years” before their banks collapsed.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Blind Mice Regain Eyesight After Crispr Gene Editing
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2023/03/17/blind-mice-regain-eyesight-after-crispr-gene-editing/?sh=1b7297601947&utm_source=DamnInteresting

So the penalty for fomenting insurrection and attempting to retain power by force is being put in platform timeout for ~2 years

Got it.

Quoting @w7voa: https://journa.host/@w7voa/110039072572287784 #retoot

Happy St. Patrick's Day to anyone celebrating.

Here's hoping I can get a little luck of the Irish going and actually find a nearby McDonald's that sells Shamrock Shakes.

Trump's "a changing America is the real threat to Western civilization" rhetoric from his new video is about as explicitly white nationalist as he's been. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/17/trump-white-nationalism-russia-2024-election/