Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Free virtual event on OER and open pedagogy on 11-12th August. It's PST, but all sessions are recorded so anyone can benefit!
#education #oer #academic #academicmastodon

https://cptc.libguides.com/TLC/CPTC-OER-Faculty-Institute

Using #ALMA, astronomers have found the possible sibling of a #planet orbiting a distant #star PDS 70.

The team has detected a cloud of debris that might be sharing this planet’s #orbit and which, they believe, could be the building blocks of a new planet or the remnants of one already formed.

If confirmed, this discovery would be the strongest evidence yet that two #exoplanets can share one orbit.

#astronomy
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2311/

@gorskon @realtegan @sidereal @mekkaokereke @mickeleh

I lived in Michigan for nearly all my voting life until we moved to Oregon a few years ago. Mail-in / drop-off voting is the only civilized way.

In Oregon, I get a text & email when the ballot is coming. The ballot arrives on my doorstep. I read the info packet and vote at my leisure in the kitchen. We drop the ballots off, we get email & text that it's been received.

At no point in that process do I stand in a line, not like I did back in Michigan. Everyone should get to do it this way

In just over an hour the #NHS #radiographers start their #strike.

I know I keep saying this, but if in the next couple of days your #treatment is delayed due to their action, please remember no-one in the NHS wants to harm #patients.

The strikers have been backed into a corner by an aggressive policy of defunding the NHS carried out by a party contemptuous of our #HealthService!

Lay this at the #Tories door and...

#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourNHS
#GTTO

Hey y'all! This is a tech job thread! I know this is a tough market, and I want to create visibility for people so that they can get help finding jobs. If you're hiring, let me know!

*ESPECIALLY* for

- Entry level (especially for people with no prior work experience)
- Underrepresented folks
- Nontraditional backgrounds
- Companies with an ethical mission

Please boost! It means a lot ❤️

(+ copy the hashtags so people can find you)

#jobs #jobsearch #fedihire #techishiring

A great story via @Edent:

A customer complained that their bank was spelling their name incorrectly. The bank refused to solve the issue because it didn't have support for diacritical marks on US mainframe era software, so the customer raised a GDPR complaint under Article 16, sued and won!

"EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR"
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/

And yeah, unfortunately, we will have to use more frakkin' #nuclear energy because #FossilFuels are REAL BAD, and the switch to #renewables has been stymied by #OilCompanies and others. We should be WAY AHEAD on renewable technology by now. Grrrrr....

#German #LGBTQ+ #Activist Warns Over 'Worrying' #Rise in #HateCrimes.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #Germany #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-07-23/german-lgbtq-activist-warns-over-worrying-hate-crime-rise

State investigating claim that troopers were told to push migrants back into the Rio Grande

A state trooper’s claims that superiors ordered officers at the border in Eagle Pass to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water has sparked a state investigation
The trooper also reported that razor wire deployed by troopers has injured people — including a woman who had a miscarriage while entangled in the wire.

We fought wars over crap like this..😡

https://sanantonioreport.org/texas-rio-grande-migrants-dps-troopers-orders-treatment/

A new paper from the Stanford Internet Observatory finds troubling amounts of CSAM on Fediverse servers.

IFTAS is working on providing hash and match service and reporting support for ActivityPub servers, and will be convening platform and app developers to integrate CSAM scanning options in the default installation.

Providers are encouraged to consider blocking servers known to be a source of illegal content.

Read the report: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vb515nd6874/20230724-fediverse-csam-report.pdf

#Moderation #MastoAdmin #TrustAndSafety

Archaeologists discover a lost ancient Maya city in the Mexican jungle

Archaeologists have recently made an exciting discovery in the dense forests of the Balamkú Ecological Reserve in the Mexican state of Campeche.

Through the use of high-resolution photography and LiDAR, they have uncovered a previously unknown Maya city called Ocomtún, meaning “stone column” in the Mayan language...

Continue Reading: https://archaeologymag.com/2023/06/lost-maya-city-in-the-mexican-jungle/
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From 24 Jul: Outrage as DeSantis Staffer ’Retweets’ Nazi Symbol Video: ’Disgusting’ - https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-nazi-symbol-campaign-sonnenrad-1814801 #uspol-bigots

PDS 70 is a K-type star cooler than our Sun. Around it is a huge disk made up of planet-forming materials, further separated into an inner and outer disk. A 5 billion mile gap separates those two layers, and within that gap are 2 known gas giants in the making.
#JamesWebb

On our world, water is life. But how did it get here? Are there similar environments around other stars?

Webb has us one step closer to answers. In a still-developing “solar system,” Webb detected water in the zone where rocky planets like Earth may form: https://go.nasa.gov/3O5LR2j
#JamesWebb

The GOP is rushing headlong into huge election losses in 2024

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4114318-the-gop-is-rushing-headlong-into-huge-election-losses-in-2024/

#GOP #ElectionLosses #2024 #RepublicanParty #PoliticalStrategy #FutureElections #Politics #News

I note sky will rent you their “Sky Glass” smart tv. Proving there’s nothing new under the sun as I recall my grandparents used to rent their colour TV from Radio Rentals.

@zleap Not for me, but I think it depends on both the mastodon instance you're on, and whether your browser/app can render LaTeX etc. Similar to Reddit, some subreddits can render it, others (mileycyrusmemes etc) have no need to.

@zleap If you look at the replies to my post you'll see somebody pointed out that my image alt-text has the same error, I pasted "10 superscript 57" in and it came out "1057" 😂
And yes, I generally default to "^", it's fairly foolproof.