Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

The book battle is escalating, with library funds on the line : NPR

Libraries risk losing funding if they have books deemed inappropriate.

#Fascism #BookBan #BookBans #BookBanning #Libraries

Hi, people in the UK!

I just got a bill for $3,001.36, which is for one visit to the hospital. That amount is what I have to pay *after* insurance.

Vote the Tories out and protect your #NHS. The system in the US is the system they want for you. They want a profit-making health service because they'd own it and you'd be making them richer every time you go to the doctor.

And people in Scotland: in the long term Labour are not going to save the NHS. Vote #SNP. Make Scotland independent!

Interested in a 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 in a stimulating, multicultural & multi-disciplinary research environment? 👩🏻‍🏫🧑🏽‍💻👨🏼‍💼 👩🏿‍🔬

Applications are open for our scientific traineeship!

𝙅𝙊𝙄𝙉 𝙐𝙎!
👇
https://europa.eu/!R76dyc

#EUcareers

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ScienceHub/status/1654062548868636672

Facebook/Meta laid off 11,000 people and now is doing 40 BILLION in stock buybacks. None of these companies care about cost cutting, they saw an opportunity to suppress wages without any criticism and they took it. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/01/facebook-parent-meta-announces-40-billion-stock-buyback.html

I'm absolutely amazed how often I reference this article at work. #memory #storage #RAM

Understanding RAM versus hard-drive space via an analogy - CNET https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/understanding-ram-versus-hard-drive-space-via-an-analogy/

We need responsible people to STOP pushing only #Mastodon as this is not helping, just look at the SPAM currently spewing from this process. With this mess we are building a codebase and an instance that are "too big to fail" this is absurdly stupid and not needed.

Please link and talk about the #openweb or the #fediverse to start to compost the mess you are, making, thanks.

Spacetime: is it real and physical, or just a calculational tool?

Matter and energy tells spacetime how to curve, and curved spacetime tells matter and energy how to move.

But we can directly measure matter and energy. Can we say that about spacetime?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/spacetime-real-physical-calculational/

@skyblond ;)

The good sites have a functional website where you don't need apps. That's how I can judge them. If you need an app, they usually suck. :D

Fun fact with that is:

All those accounts that have used a one-time mail address will get deleted, because the notification mail about the pending account deletion is undeliverable.

It's stated quite clearly that you'll need a permanent valid mailaddress for exact that purpose in my ToS.

Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h

In a first, astronomers spot a star swallowing a planet
https://news.mit.edu/2023/astronomers-spot-star-swallowing-planet-0503?utm_source=DamnInteresting

🌟🌎 A "planet-eating" star has been caught in the act by astronomers

🌌This rare phenomenon happens when a star consumes its own planets, and it could help us better understand how stars evolve

#astronomy #space #planeteatingstar

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/planet-eating-star-caught-in-the-act

Antibiotic resistance has contributed to millions of deaths worldwide. But besides developing resistance, there’s another threat: some bacteria are developing “antibiotic tolerance,” where they stay dormant until the human stops taking the antibiotics, then rebound. A microbiologist explains:
https://theconversation.com/looming-behind-antibiotic-resistance-is-another-bacterial-threat-antibiotic-tolerance-200226
#health #science #antibiotics

How can researchers develop mutually-beneficial collaborations with communities?

Lucas Wright and William Frey are organizing a CAT Lab big tent conversation and storytelling session about extraction, reciprocity, and the practicalities of working with communities.

Here are the readings they queued up for us:

https://citizensandtech.org/2023/05/practical-challenges-of-participatory-research-a-discussion-on-reciprocity-collaboration-and-extraction/

Video: Water Worlds: Hideouts for Alien Life? [5:25]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URyiCGZNjdI&utm_source=DamnInteresting

WebGPU, the new graphics API for JavaScript, shipped in a stable web browser (Chrome 113) about… an hour ago!

I have written a blog post about it, covering a brief (okay, not brief) history of graphics APIs to ~situate WebGPU in a context~, a brief general guide to writing WebGPU, and some specific resources for making WebGPU projects in TypeScript, Rust, and C++ (you can use it on desktop! it doesn't have to be in a browser).

I think WebGPU is really good.

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/1406157-i-want-to-talk-about-webgpu

Oh good. Within a few days of losing my blue tick an impersonator account pops up.

For the avoidance of doubt, this is not me.

Please help me out by sharing this tweet and reporting the account.

These abstract-looking data points tell an extraordinary story: The first time anyone has witnessed a star eating one of its planets.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-time-astrophysicists-star-eating-planet #Astronomy #Cannibalism