Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Republicans don't say they hate gay people.
—They say groomers.
—They say pedophiles.

Republicans don't say they hate Jews.
—They say Soros.
—They say New World Order.

Republicans don't say they hate black people.
—They say thugs.
—They say looters.

Republicans don't say they hate Hispanic people.
—They say illegals.
—They say animals.

Republicans don't say they hate democracy.
—They say cancel woke.
—They say radical left.

Be very, very careful of any group deliberately using dehumanizing language. Because eventually, when they do finally come for you and everyone you've ever loved...
They won't say they hate you.
—They won't have to say anything at all.

Seaweeds are not plants. They’re algae, without roots or leaves, although they do photosynthesize: harvesting the sun’s energy to build themselves. BUT there are a small number of real flowering plants in the sea: the seagrasses, which evolved from terrestrial plants and grow in large meadows.  Mostly water moves pollen around, but for at least one species, small crustaceans do the job of bees and carry sticky pollen from one plant to another.  Underwater gardening, anyone?  #Ocean #Seagrass

#qotojournal

I can't seem to get the Latex to work in Markdown. Is is that I can't see it with my browser? How do I fix this? (I use Chrome or Brave)

example: \ (x+y=z\ )

The existential threat to Oil and therefore the existential threat to Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel comes from China, not from net zero or from green deals in the West.

Sit up change is afoot!!

#Oil
#electrification

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-green-leap-forward-nightmare-070000668.html

Bigger flowers, greater rewards: Plants adapt to climate disruptions to lure pollinators

There’s been a well-documented shift toward earlier springtime flowering in many plants as the world warms. The trend alarms biologists because it has the potential to disrupt carefully choreographed interactions between plants and the creatures—butterflies, bees, birds, bats and others—that pollinate them.

https://globalplantcouncil.org/bigger-flowers-greater-rewards-plants-adapt-to-climate-disruptions-to-lure-pollinators/ via @umichnews #botany #plantscience #plantsci #flowers #science

Two year old chips. Unbelievable. They could've been swimming in cocaine if they used their new CPUs, but I guess we'll have to wait for two more full years to have a RISC-V CPU with vector extensions.

Only we don't, because YOU CAN'T STOP CHINA!
XuanTie announced their C908 in December, the follow-up to their C906, which 2.5 years ago shocked the world with the first RISC-V Vector implementation, which was still a draft spec, and sold it cheap enough to buy 16 dollar boards with the CPU!
And unlike certain Intel-funded yuppies, they're actually producing their CPUs right now. Canaan announced their Kendryte K230 development board practically the day C908 was announced, they're mass-producing their boards so there's supply, and are going to release them within probably a month or two. And they're fully open-source hardware too, and they'll have RISC-V-V, and they'll be affordable!

Interesting

A Completely Bogus Study Is at the Heart of the Ruling to Ban the Abortion Pill

The far-right Texas judge who cited the study in his ruling apparently didn’t care about where it came from.

The bombshell ruling that could take #abortion pills off the national market was based in part on a “study” of anonymous posts on an anti-abortion website
That study analyzed anonymous posts on an anti-abortion website called “Abortion Changes You,”
#Texas #mifepristone
https://newrepublic.com/post/171761/completely-bogus-study-heart-ruling-ban-abortion-pill

"We see Nextcloud as a powerful, flexible solution with huge potential. Between the core product and the 100+ apps you can add to it, you can create anything from basic cloud storage to a complete environment for home or business use."

https://www.techspot.com/article/2521-privacy-first-cloud-storage/

Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party? (Robert Reich)

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-supermajorities
http://www.memeorandum.com/230410/p54#a230410p54

libraries need your help. the Internet Archive needs your help.

Please come to the Don't delete our books! Rally
in San Francisco
Start: Saturday, April 08, 2023 • 11:00 AM by Fight for the Future

location: Internet Archive• 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118 US

https://actionnetwork.org/events/dont-delete-our-books-rally-in-san-francisco

From Freedom Trail to free boot and free farms: Read about the second day of in-person and online LibrePlanet 2023 activities: https://u.fsf.org/3yw

I'd like to take the time to promote a really cool project, called "fases":

https://utils.vitali64.duckdns.org/INDEX.html

The author is attempting to recreate a fully posix (posix-ONLY) unix userland. It has several utils already.

I felt like linking it because I've been chatting with the author on IRC. I'm working on a few fixes, in his implementation of "ln".

I sometimes just work on his code when I'm bored. Helped him fix a few bugs before. He has a TODO page here of things to work on:

https://utils.vitali64.duckdns.org/TODO.html

Extraordinary news this morning: a boat with 400 people in it is adrift in the Mediterranean and *nobody is going to help*. Two merchant ships have apparently passed it and ignored the boat with its hundreds of passengers and is at risk of foundering

One day, on a school bus, when I was about 14yo, some bully said loudly "he's a fag" in response to some altercation about something stupid.
I looked directly at this person and asked "so what if I am ?".
There was absolutely no response.
Haters need to be challenged immediately, if you have the opportunity. I take it whenever I can.

Postdoctoral Researchers to Study Aberrant Heterochromatin in Cancer @PeterLewisLab

The Lewis Lab at UW-Madison is seeking motivated postdocs for multiple positions in studying the role of aberrant heterochromatin in cancer.

...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/the-lewis-lab-at-the-university-of-wisconsin-madison-27778-postdoctoral-researchers-to-study-aberrant-heterochromatin-in-cancer/?feed_id=42036

A file manager feels like an essential part of an operating system. In a blog where I talk largely about using terminal applications instead of GUIs, you might think I'd spend this article exploring some terminal-based file managers.

Not so. Spare me a moment of your time, friend, and I will endeavour to illuminate why you, master of command-line secrets, have no need for such a petty thing as a "file manager."

https://tty1.blog/articles/no-file-manager/

#tty1