Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Happy Lunar New Year!

International students are dying from overdoses at an alarming rate, faith leaders and community workers say.

But BC’s government isn’t tracking the problem. #bcpoli #cdnhealth

https://pressprogress.ca/international-students-overdoses-british-columbia-20230116/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=news

--Oh and Florida banning (banning!) AP African American history ought to be enough of a mask off moment to wake up anyone who thought this was about some kind of historically unstable, politically charged courses. This is the got dammed college board and all the most moderate of moderate and boring voices in history.

So cannon you could put balls in it and sink a ship.

I can only assume they want young people to learn literal myths and legends. Chopped cherry trees and all instead.

Meanwhile, on Scotland’s Isle Of Skye …
Photo by Juuso Hämäläinen

@zleap Some provinces are doing just that. BC has just launched a program to lower the barrier to entry for foreign and out-of-province workers, as well as providing bursaries and support for relocation, and Canada as a whole provides numerous means of procuring VISAs for nurses with a year or more experience.

First time of my life I spent an entire pen.

I normally lose them and never fully spend them entirelly.

@zleap I've heard it's been rough for NHS users and that the Tories have been pushing privatization. Just awful, I'm sorry. :(

I just added another anecdote that I just remembered to the part of my book about web scraping:

"Somewhere around 2002, when I was in high school, my friends and I decided to make a song lyrics website. Similar sites existed but they were incomplete. I thought it would be simple to just scrape the lyrics from all of those other sites and make a single site that had all of the lyrics. I wrote a script to scrape thousands of lyrics from one of these sites, but my script crashed while it was running, and I realized this was because the website had stopped working. A few days later, the site came back online with a message: The owner was overjoyed to learn how much traffic they were getting, but they had to raise money to keep their site online to keep up. I felt bad about it, and we never ended up launching that lyrics site."

Now we have a career panel on what you can do with a physics degree. Julie Claveau (program officer) from the Canadian Space Agency, Lisa Glass (medical physicist) from the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, Marie-Cecile Piro (research particle physicist) from University of Alberta, and Mia Scavella-Little (cybersecurity attorney) from Microsoft's digital crimes unit. This is going to be FASCINATING.

#ccuwip2023

Gary Kasparov:

"Putin's russia has been the greatest destabilizing force in the world, from interfering in elections to supporting dictators from #Iran to #Venezuela, to destroying entire cities in #Syria and #Ukraine. Victory for Ukraine will spell his end and a chance for a new russia. Planning for every contingency, yes. Using worst-case scenarios as an excuse for inaction in the face of evil, never. #Ukraine must win, and the sooner the better for the world."

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/dont-fear-putins-demise

Here's the FreeCAD model for it:
I'm not gonna publish it as a project as it's all designed for my hand-bodged PCB...

Hey #Canadian folks! The Federal #NDP is going to be starting up a 6 month campaign end of Jan to get people across #Canada involved in the fight against healthcare privatization.

I'm volunteering to help, & so can you!

If you'd like to join in, all the info is at https://teamjagmeet.ndp.ca/ring-for-singh-jan-29.

Real names & a contact email are required, but kept private. First phonebank is on Jan 29 & we'd love to see you there!

DM me with any general questions. Plz boost!

#CDNPoli #CanPoli #Activism

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It appears that billionaire Kelcy Warren essentially bribed Greg Abbott with a $1M campaign donation. I follow Texas politics and knew nothing about this… until Kelcy sued in an attempt to curtail free speech. Thanks for letting us know about what you did— and are now trying to do to the 1st Amendment— Kelcy!

An Oil & Gas Billionaire Is Suing Beto. Here's Why It Matters For Future Elections.

https://neverleave.substack.com/p/an-oil-and-gas-billionaire-is-suing

Kids: Save the planet!

Adults: Oh, grow up.

Kids: *organize serious, disciplined global protest movement*

Adults:

Kids:

Adults: Not like that.

Alison Clarke (Dalhousie): Lithium batteries get hot while in use and require cooling systems, and don't last as long. What if we make one that works well at high temps? They are using a new electrolyte (DMOHC) to allow more cycles at higher temps, but it's very viscous and not conductive (can't charge or discharge quickly). Mixes seem to strike a good balance, need more experiments.

#ccuwip2023

Today I'm volunteering at the #ccuwip2023 conference for Canadian undergraduate women in physics taking place (hybrid) at the University of Regina. I'll share a few highlights when I can!

Keynote: Nadya Mason (U. of Illinois): the way they did this is kind of cool, there are little satellite undergraduate women in physics conferences that are happening all across the US and Canada this weekend, and all of them connected to this talk via Zoom. Talk started with a role call to a dozen or so classrooms all over the US (+ours in Canada), all full of women physics majors! COOL.

The speaker talked about her path to physics, loads of advice as a Black woman physicist

#ccuwip2023

Julie Claveau (Canadian Space Agency) gave a lovely talk about her career path that went through loving the dark skies to thinking about engineering to working in a coffee shop to admin work to the Canadian Space Agency, where she's been a program manager for RADARSAT1&2 and now JWST, a super successful science missions.

#ccuwip2023

Twitter shuts down all third party apps. So I guess we aren’t going to get twitter as open source open protocol then.

@kentbrew @cbroome @pluralistic This seems to have significantly worsened in the last few months.

Something similar going on on LinkedIn. A job search returns a page of a dozen paid boosted jobs with only a couple actual results mixed in randomly.

Everyone taking profits at the expense of their product-"customers".