Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Climate Scientists Leave Twitter For Mastodon

So, it is possible for a group to make the collective decision to leave Twitter. Scientists "suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter," and setting up shop on Mastodon.

Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges >>> https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230524-climate-scientists-flee-twitter-as-hostility-surges

"Glaciologist Ruth Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists' forum powered by Mastodon."

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#twittermigration #climate

Ron DeSantis is expected to enter the Presidential race this week. You might want to hide your Dalmatian puppies now.

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Unapologetically boosting this because it's a nice story about a kid who fell in love with computing through @PyretLang (which runs fine on 6yo computers) and now runs his own education program. Go Isaac!

Majority of book ban requests were made by only 11 people: analysis - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism

Tyranny of a very small group.

https://www.rawstory.com/book-ban-2660547890/

I’m done cross-posting @elementary to Twitter. I really hoped it would get better, but with the latest news of Elon promoting Ron DeSantis’ presidential run, I’m done. It’s become a far-right social network no different from Parlor or Truth Social and I won’t be a part of it.

@dsfgs the follower counts are acreate with no algorithms - to build followers, talk to like-minded people.

Ron DeSantis is announcing his run for president on Twitter

Both Twitter and Florida are diabolically aligned:

Lying about Covid
Pushing Russian propaganda
Threatening educators
Pushing conspiracy theories
Aiding white suprematists
Attacking trans people
Outing LBGTQIA minors
Gathering student menstrual data
Remove companies’ 1A protections
Restricting reporter access
Promoting fraud

If you are still on Twitter: You are part of the problem.

Using the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling is perfect given MAGA is today’s Confederacy. My new article on how Section 4 of 14th Amend was enacted to protect the US economy from the traitorous Confederates. Today that threat is from MAGA: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/using-the-14th-amendment-to-raise

If you want to discover a whole host of wonderful accounts to follow check out:

@Flipboard

Flipboard also curates the following excellent accounts:

@TechDesk
@ScienceDesk
@NewsDesk

#follow #twittermigration

How Much Damage Will Lunar Landings Do to Other Lunar Landers?

When lunar landers reach the Moon, they will kick up a cloud of lunar regolith. Because of the lack of atmosphere and low gravity, some of that regolith will be hurled into orbit and cause a hazard for future lunar landers. Each landing will create a plume that future landers will need to route around, and eventually, the lunar surface will be unreachable until the debris returns to the surface. In. a new paper, researchers attempt to calculate how much of a risk this will be to our lunar landing efforts.

http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12234

You can now relive LibrePlanet: Charting the Course and catch up on the talks you missed with videos, slides, and audio on GNU MediaGoblin: https://media.libreplanet.org/

I like how the White House is taking a pragmatic and responsible approach to AI policy

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/23/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-new-steps-to-advance-responsible-artificial-intelligence-research-development-and-deployment/

There are many, many people who hate Ron DeSantis, hate Elon Musk, and will continue to use Twitter because the loathsomeness of these men simply does not affect how Twitter fits into their lives. They aren’t interested in making a statement, or think doing so would be futile anyway.

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@zleap Hi Paul, see what the school says – but you can always attach it to a bug report at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org for the QA community to take a look!