Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

#Debian 11.7 “Bullseye” Released with 102 #Security Updates and 92 Miscellaneous Bug Fixes, Download Now https://9to5linux.com/debian-11-7-bullseye-released-with-102-security-updates-and-92-bug-fixes

#Linux #OpenSource

Physicist Marietta Blau was born #OTD in 1894. She pioneered the use of nuclear emulsion plates for particle detection, and discovered "disintegration stars" produced by cosmic rays interacting with nuclei in the plates.

Photo: Agnes Rodhe

a friend is nearly in tears because changing their KDE font to opendyslexic also changed the font ePubs render in in okular, meaning they can actually read their assignments.

this is why apps respecting your preferences is important, and it's why libre software (and KDE in particular) is so awesome.

unrelatedly, fuck electron.

Canadian PhD students and postgrads plan mass walkout over low pay - when are UK PhD students, postdocs, etc going to follow suit? #Science #Research #Academia

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01453-8

2,571 books were banned or challenged in 2022, according to the American Library Association.

That’s up 40% from 2021.

Why the spike? Because nothing scares conservatives more than a multi-racial generation of young people who ask critical questions and speak truth to power.

CW’s are not and never are about silencing people or asking being to be invisible. They are about being considerate about other people’s needs, be it things that might trigger them to spoilers for their favourite show.

If you want to talk about something that deeply emotionally affected you, there’s a good chance it might have a similar affect on other people, people that might have had a very similar experience to you.

And they might not be in a place that means they can deal with that.

My stance on AI produced content for wellbeing of humanity: 2023 (1/3)

I am always open to discussion and correction.

If a model is trained on content of given license, say GPL or Creative Commons, I believe it's fair that content produced from this model must also comply with the original license.

Standardisation proposal:

Starting fediverse urls with fedi:// to inform your client that the URL should not open in a new tab/browser but directly inside the client itself.

(was thinking of mastodon:// but realized this could apply to any ActivityPub URL)

#mastodon #fediverse #activitypub

This is first on Mastodon! Please boost this thread. It’s an important one.

Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Some career news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically reduced the company’s workforce.

I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.

But this time, alone.

Last image from Japanese probe Hakuta-r, showing Australia during a solar eclipse.

Hackers Take Control of Government-Owned Satellite in Alarming Experiment
https://gizmodo.com/hackers-control-government-owned-satellite-test-esa-1850383452?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Are you ready for a spacewalk?

Astronauts Steve Bowen and @Astro_Alneyadi will step out of the @Space_Station around 9:15am ET (1315 UTC) on Friday, April 28 to prepare for upcoming power upgrades. Coverage starts here and on NASA TV at 7:45am (1145 UTC): https://go.nasa.gov/40Iopww
#NASA

Twitter is dying, but my advocacy work helping trans people raise money via fundraisers depends on my five years of work I've spent writing on Twitter, so I need help.

If you're a trans person who needs help raising money for any reason, reply to this toot with your fundraiser. I'll reach out.

If you're a cis person and you can, please boost this post so your trans followers can see it.

#trans #lgbt #signalboost #transgender

Lab-made lungs fast-track drug testing, can replace animal test subjects
https://newatlas.com/medical/lab-made-lungs-test-drugs-animal-testing/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

My #Robin friend Ribin this morning. His mate Rosy is on the nest and I helped him hunt for food to give to her this morning. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #Wildlife #BritishWildlife #UKBirding #UKBirds #Birdwatching #Bird #NatureCommunity #Spring

So much bad news, everyday, everywhere... does it lead you to despair? Or does it does it make you ANGRY? 🤬

I hope it's the latter, because anger might just be our best hope.

That's the message of this stirring opinion piece by Alec Connon...
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In the last twelve months, one-third of Pakistan has been submerged in flooding that killed thousands and displaced millions. Prolonged heat waves and drought have exacerbated a global food shortage that has raised the number of people living with food insecurity from 440 million to 1.6 billion. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a desperate warning of approaching climate cliffs, and fears have emerged of the impending collapse of oceanic currents critical to Earth’s climate system.

Given this context, the fact that *fewer* investors now support ending fossil fuel expansion should appall anyone paying attention. It’s a sign that our current economic system is fundamentally flawed, that it’s incapable of adapting to the demands of a heating planet, and that investors, the people and institutions at the very heart of our economic system, are incapable of thinking about anything other than the most short-term of profits.

I know this is the part of the article where I’m supposed to pivot to hope, to leave the reader feeling that there’s something they can do, an action they can take that will make a difference. But today, I’m finding solace not in hope, but in anger.

Anger is the rawest of emotions, an emotion uniquely capable of destruction ― destruction of both the self and broader society. But anger, properly channeled, is also one of the great motivating forces of social movements. In the face of injustice, we can and we must be angry. Not only is it okay to be angry at the institutions and people pushing us toward irreparable ecological breakdown, it’s essential.

Anger at the institutions hurtling us toward climate breakdown is not only okay and understandable. In the fight to rein in the climate crisis, it might just be our best hope.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism

The former President of the United States, currently on trial for rape, is a helluva phrase.

Go, #GOPFamilyValues! #politics

Oh, one of the joys of Mastodon: seeing a post you’d written awhile ago, and more or less forgotten about, be discovered by a whole new cluster of people & subsequently undergo another wave of explosive amplification across their networks.

@georgetakei Thank you on behalf of my adult autistic friends. Thank you for boosting autistic voices.

Seems like a fair analysis to me from my side of the Atlantic