Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Update #2: Both preauthorisations have now been cancelled.

Will update once/if there’s some confirmation of what the core was/is and when/if it’s fixed.

In the meanwhile, they also accept payment via (spit) PayPal and invoice. The last of those is likely the safest option until this is properly sorted.

I’m going to try that now.

Microsoft has removed an article that advised tourists to visit the "beautiful" Ottawa Food Bank on an empty stomach, after facing ridicule about the company's reliance on artificial intelligence for news.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/artificial-intelligence-microsoft-travel-ottawa-food-bank-1.6940356

#Microsoft #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Ottawa #Canada #travel #journalism #news

Just when you thought he couldn't get any more unhinged Melon Musk is going to remove the block feature.

Enjoy getting spammed by Trolls, nazis, racists and other crazed idiots.

#twitter #musk #twittermigration

@faiz @rosamundi Seek your college university extension office for recs on plant and mushroom identification guides and keys for foraging. And please for the love of Pete, don't use Amazon for anything, ever.

Lucy Letby injected her sick and pre-mature young victims with air, overfeeding with milk and poisoning with insulin.
Nurse found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies in UK

Do you have a Facebook account?

Do you like free money?

You have until Friday night to file a claim in the $725 million settlement on Facebook data privacy —
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Every tall trans girl needs an even taller friend they have to stand on their tip toes to hug

I'm thrilled to announce that you can actually just say "no" to people who don't respect or value your time.

It's PAST TIME for America to start treating the far-right for who they are - criminals, racists, thugs, & terrorists!

Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #BREAKING #BreakingNews #AureFreePress

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194471162/trump-indictment-fulton-county-grand-jurors-threats

This month's cover accompanies an article about Shared Evolutionary Paths in Social Microbiomes https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad153 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

Over 90% of teachers spend their own money on school supplies - an average of $500.

Iowa school district asked ChatGPT which books had sex in them, then banned them, including "Beloved," "Friday Night Lights" and "Handmaid's Tale." We must protect high schoolers from independent thought at all costs https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

This week Biden forgave federal student debt for 804,000 borrowers. A judge upheld the decision—proving yet again that Biden has authority to cancel student debt.

Furthermore—if we can bail out Wall Street with $10T & cancel $2.1T in billionaire taxes & cancel $800B in PPP loans—then we can cancel $1.7T in predatory student loans.

We've bailed out corporations and billionaires long enough. Let's elevate working people.

Heavy, highly magnetic star may be first magnetar precursor we’ve seen

A strange history has produced a helium-rich star with kilogauss magnetic fields.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/heavy-highly-magnetic-star-may-be-first-magnetar-precursor-weve-seen/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

It wouldn't be a late 1970s coloring book without Godzilla boogying the night away at Studio 54 with Lizard Minnelli.

Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.

His solution: Fewer government subsidies for fossil fuels and use of renewable energy.

Authors raise concerns over Baillie Gifford’s sponsorship of Edinburgh International Book Festival
https://theferret.scot/authors-concerns-baillie-gifford-sponsor-edinburgh-book-festival/
More than 50 authors due to appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival have called on the event to drop Baillie Gifford as a sponsor if the firm continues to invest in fossil fuels.

Aiming to promote teen hopelessness and suicide, Republicans in North Carolina pass three anti-LGBTQ+ laws in a single day, overriding governor's vetoes. https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/north-carolina-passes-3-anti-trans?r=1e885&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email