Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Most people don't care if you're transgender or non-binary. They care about who you are, not what you are. Remember that Republicans are a dying breed. The fascists, the white supremacists, the Christian nationalists— they're all completely outnumbered by every day folks who reject prejudice and discrimination. We will annihilate their hate and leave zero ideological space left for them. I know times are fucking insanely tough right now. But this far-right movement is destined to implode and its followers will eat each other alive (their leaders already are). Fascism is an ouroboros. Let's hold out and fight. We've still got a lot more work to do.

🔗: https://twitter.com/transscribe/status/1651582301786996741?s=20

@zleap @Minetest once I finish the back, I'll publish the .svg file so anyone can translate in any language they want (you simply need a tool like Inkscape to edit the file) :)

For those who didn't know (or have forgotten), there's a PeerTube channel here with videos of the talks and Q&A sessions from the #ActivityPub conference we had in late 2020:
https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos

Picking through these videos is a great way to get a sense of where some of us wanted fediverse development to go, both technically and politically.

#videos #PeerTube #ConferenceTalks

Plutonium Pu-238 has a half-life of 87.7 years, i.e., in 87.7 years, 50% of its atoms decay to uranium-234 and then to lead-206.

But the RTG has already lost half its power in ~45 years. Why?

That is because the bi-metallic thermocouples, which are quite inefficient to begin with, also degrade over time.

Every year, Pu-238 degrades by 0.7872%. The thermocouples must also degrade by a comparable amount to account for the net power loss rate. See graph below.

#Voyager #Space
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Glad to see UK rejected the blatantly anti-competitive, anti-customer Microsoft buyout of Activision. Common sense prevailed, for once. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/26/23689252/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-blocked-uk-cma

And let's stop calling buyouts "mergers" --

@zleap @boilingsteam You should never eat plutonium.

A super exciting talk at ISSI Bern today: Gavin A. Schmidt in "Climate Change from Space"

➡️ https://www.issibern.ch/online-seminars-game-changers/

(The ISSI talks are publicly broadcasted but they are very much scientific talks aimed at a professional scientific audience.)

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #space

Jeff Bezos reportedly purchased a $75 million "support yacht" with a helipad to trail his $500 million superyacht.

Meanwhile, Amazon doesn't want workers to organize for better pay and safer working conditions.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

How much does the academic peer review cost in notional staff time?

This paper got me thinking about how much my time commitment to the review process has cost my employers over my career so far.

The authors in this paper suggest each paper review has a US dollar cost of $1272 of time commitment.

And a previous paper suggests a US dollar cost of $1900 per person per year for the lead author submitting a paper. That is the time taken to format and submit a paper and then revise it.

These figures blow out to more than one billion US dollar annual cost for peer review alone. Which of course is typically done for free and often poorly recognized.

Scientific sinkhole: estimating the cost of peer review based on survey data with snowball sampling - Research Integrity and Peer Review https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-023-00128-2

#peerreview #science #research #academia #academicchatter #publishing #ResearchIntegrity

I am not a doctor or a scientist, but doesn’t it make sense that if pollen is prevalent in the air, that wearing a mask 😷 would cut down on the amount you’re inhaling? You know, prophylactic? I’m seeing lots of “news” stories on cable, and local news stations which are highlighting OTC drugs - you know their advertisers. 🤨

I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.

The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.

If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.

The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.

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A case study by @CSLee & yours truly just dropped, and YOU can read it for free!

Learn why we think of hackathons like *social interventions*: lightweight-but-effective team moments that can create new self-concepts for skill building

https://www.pluralsight.com/resource-center/guides/how-hackathons-increase-team-development

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-scientists-rare-element-exoplanet-atmosphere.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-04-scientists-rare-element-exoplanet-atmosphere.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1651277221741445146#m

Scientists discover rare element in exoplanet's #atmosphere @AandA_journal @arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04285 https://phys.org/news/2023-04-scientists-rare-element-exoplanet-atmosphere.html

Independent Bookstore Day takes place on the last Saturday of April each year, and there are many different ways to participate. From city-wide bookstore crawls to author events to live music to great deals. Help Independent Bookstores and protect the 1st Amendment! https://bookriot.com/independent-bookstore-day-2023/

I overheard them at the bus stop.
"Which is best, supplying a regular or getting someone new hooked?"
"Hm. To satisfy the desperate, or create a lifelong addiction? I-"
I turned around. "Have you drug dealers no shame?"
"What? We're booksellers!"
"Oh. Um. Do you have any here?"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

I think I may have just put the last touch on my dissertation’s bibliography.

I still need to obsessively go over it ten more times…but I think it’s done.

"The lab is locked," the student said, "so how..."
The professor looked at the camera feed.
"Ah. You know how subatomic particles can spontaneously come into existence?"
"Yes, but that is not-"
"It happens. Put a note up that we have another cat available for adoption."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

🚨One week left to apply!🚨

@ProPublica
is hiring 3 -- yes, three!! -- reporters to join our newly formed Northwest office.

📌Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho
💰$85,000 to $170,000
📅 Deadline to apply: May 3 at 7 a.m. ET

All of us very often use Wikipedia to find out more or less accurate information about everything that interests us.💫
Therefore, we created a wiki department of our team, which works on creating wiki articles for Ukrainians.
In the beginning, it was a passion of the founders of the NUAAR project, which grew into something much more. Now most of the team is engaged in active writing of Wikipedia articles.
In future posts you will find out more about our wiki team⭐ #mastodon #ukraine