Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

MASS MURDER STOPPED

A possible mass shooting at Tuesday’s Stanley Cup finale may have been thwarted by Las Vegas police, who arrested 33-year-old Matthew DeSavio after he made online threats to commit a massacre
#News #USA

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-police-thwart-las-vegas-mass-shooting-stanley-cup-20230614-o4jhaiydx5dyrnlya5ohw3wbfy-story.html

Just a reminder that leaving content in closed platforms is a good way to lose it. Take some time *this week* to move your key information out of Slack, Discord, Reddit, Google Docs, etc. and into text files or html pages on the open web for folks to find.

Always Be Opening.

Megacorprations should be fined $10 bn everytime they suggest poor people should give up or reduce their need for basic necessities of life.

Here's an idea, how about megacorps go without their fucking tax loopholes for a year or two? Use that money to pay for heating and cooling every single home in Australia for a decade.

#FuckNewsCorp #FuckMudoch #LateStageCapitalism #AusPol

I'm only 3-and-a-bit weeks out from doing the 210km fundraising #cycle. I'll be riding Manchester - Blackpool, and then back again, raising money for The Christie cancer research and treatment facility, Europe's largest.

Any donations or boosts would be hugely appreciated, thank you!

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/lewis-dale-bikes

Remember that today has a wonderful gift in store for you - the chance to be nice to somebody who needs it but who doesn't know they need it.

If you act with kindness, it will shine on that special somebody's day.

Thank you for being the kind stranger.

#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
‘Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed 🤓
https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-could-explain-why-life-molecules-are-left-or-right-handed

With the data accumulated during the first two and a half years of the mission, a team of #planetary #scientists mainly from the Royal Observatory of Belgium has precisely measured the rotation of #Mars. They detected a signature that can only be explained by the presence of a liquid core.
#SpaceScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/06/sn06142301.html

If Trump’s inauguration is held in prison at least it should be easy to get a headcount this time.

Former FBI assistant director says if former President Trump is convicted he could end up in a supermax prison with just one Secret Service agent for shower time. https://www.mediaite.com/radio/nbc-news-analyst-says-trump-could-end-up-in-supermax-prison-with-one-secret-service-agent-for-shower-time/

Tech Press don’t understand the #Fediverse, so how can they understand its growth?

To hear them talk, most of them believe that #Mastodon and the Fediverse are one and the the same. Some of them go so far as to call the Fediverse the “Mastodon network”.

Which means that they don’t have a clue about what the Fediverse entails, nor how it has grown.

Case in point: between Jan-May 2023, #Misskey and its forks grew by 300,000 accounts. No one in the Tech Press reported this.

Okay, perhaps they didn’t know because the bulk of growth happened in Japan. But still, this is fairly important to know since Misskey is now responsible for generating the bulk of Fediverse content. Still, Tech Press think the Fediverse is about Mastodon.

And now, #Lemmy and #Kbin are experiencing lots of growth, with both collectively gaining 100,000 users in a week. This is quite a noteworthy event since the #RedditMigration is part and parcel of dissension on #Reddit – a pretty major Big Social platform.

Does the Tech Media report on this? Nope. But again, that’s because they don’t understand the Fediverse nor what it entails.

Then Meta signal that a new project they’re making, #P92 (a.k.a., #Barcelona), will be joining the Fediverse. There’s even screenshots that show this app interacting with remote Fediverse servers.

But instead of reporting about how this will affect the existing Fediverse, press such as the #BBC say this is an altogether different social network than Mastodon.

That’s right! Tech Press don’t even realize P92 will be joining the Fediverse – a social network that already exists!

Is this all ridiculous? Yes.

But this is why we have to be forthright about what the Fediverse is, what it entails, and what it all matters.

We, on the Fediverse, must be our own Press.

@fediversenews

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already banned Diversirty, Equity and Inclusion programs in Florida. Now he confirms that if elected president he would use the DoJ to go after DEI programs nationally.
He must never become President.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/617881-desantis-doj-dei/?s=09

Sad news today, which I got from the other social media platform. Nick Kaiser has passed away, he was one of the giants of gravitational lensing. So here is one of his last lectures from about a month ago as a last inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/live/tV8zYaMvsLA?feature=share

my condolences to all his near and dear ones.

source:
https://twitter.com/JossBlandHawtho/status/1668946680639799296

#cosmology #astronomy

Day 77 #BikeStreak
Today I rode my #bicycle to Lincolnshire Park in #RochMN where Park & Rec held a grand opening of the 1st public splash pad in town. After, I continued up the Douglas trail to Douglas and then back home logging 30 miles.
Along the way I inspected the newest bicycle infrastructure in town, a culvert bridge over a drainage ditch which separated the post office, a community disability support center and a popular brewery from the Douglas Trail.
#cycling
#BikeLeans
#BikeTooter

This was our planet's third-warmest month of May on record, according to NOAA. https://www.noaa.gov/news/earth-saw-its-3rd-warmest-may-in-174-years

Search engines are useless. Windows is packaging Internet features few asked for. The major public sites are sealed tight to avoid third party tools.

Web 1.0 is back, baby!

Friendless 'hot Jupiter' exoplanets may not be so lonely after all https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2Fhot-jupiters-may-have-planetary-companions&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1fYCQu9Ia62EWUr_ZIHPaf&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Science #Technology

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/climate/enriched-uranium-nuclear-russia-ohio.html Fascinating article on U.S. dependence on Russian enriched uranium and the need for the U.S. to do it’s own enrichment. A bill to push this is in the works… from Manchin.

Sometimes I doubt capitalism can solve climate change.

NASA finds key building block for life in a moon of Saturn https://www.rawstory.com/nasa-finds-key-building-block-for-life-in-a-moon-of-saturn/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon