Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Congrats to @XOrgFoundation for almost doubling their Twitter followers on Mastodon in just one day!!! ✨✨

I'm still at a bit less than half... ^^;

#Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) Daily Build ISOs Are Now Available for Download https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-23-10-mantic-minotaur-daily-build-isos-are-now-available-for-download

@ubuntu #Linux #OpenSource

I dream of a world where drag queens are accepted but Nazis are not.

On Monday 8th May at 7pm I'm doing my brand new talk "A Beginner's Guide to Observing & Photographing the Sun" for Newtown AS. It's online & open to non-members for £3 but you need to book before 10pm tonight! Email secretary.newtownastrosoc@gmail.com for details
#SolarAstrophotography #SolarFeatures #Sunspots #SolarObserving

VOA: 40 Journalists Still in Myanmar Prisons After Junta Amnesty https://www.voanews.com/a/voa-40-journalists-still-in-myanmar-prisons-after-junta-amnesty-/7081017.html #voanews #voiceofamerica

Tell your kids about Ruby Bridges, the first black child at an all-white public elementary school in Louisiana.

She turned 66 this year.

She’s only 66.

66.

Google Summer of Code 2023 projects have been announced, let's see what this year's internship program is bringing to @GIMP, @krita, @inkscape, @Blender, @FreeCAD, IfcOpenShell and BlenderBIM, @OpenSCAD, Pitivi, and MuseScore

https://librearts.org/2023/05/google-summer-of-code-2023-projects/

How to get famous on Mastodon:

1. Be genuine and engage with people
2. Carefully consider the impact of what you say; some people can be offended or put off by something you think is innocuous
3. Get a cat and post pictures

Mental health condition of the moment: "AI anxiety"

https://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/my-health-story/are-the-headlines-about-ai-changing-the-world-stressing-you-out/

UAE astronaut completes 'exciting' mission: Spacecraft relocated outside ISS https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.khaleejtimes.com%2Fspace%2Fuae-astronaut-completes-exciting-mission-spacecraft-relocated-outside-iss&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw01XkZnai7aoLH-z0sN3mAU&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Science #Technology

BREAKING: Starbucks to shut down *all* Ithaca locations as a part of its union busting efforts.

This means that over 30 people will lose their jobs, as a result of Starbucks' illegal anti-union efforts.
Ithaca was the first city that had 100% of its Starbucks stores unionized & now it will the first city to have all of its Starbucks stores shuttered.

The story hasn't broken locally yet (SB did a news dump last night); message me if you want to cover this

#Labor #Union #Unions #Unionization

11.6 million people using Mastodon now. It is hosted on over 22,000 servers, but like with email, everyone can communicate with everyone else.

Since no one person or company owns those servers, no one person or company can buy them or break them. #Mastodon #TwitterMigration

One year ago today I left Twitter to pursue my dream of being an indie dev, and I’m really doing it.

It hasn’t been linear, I built Boutique and Bodega, have done a lot of writing, launched the Plinky beta, but it still felt a bit like I was playing indie since I hadn’t shipped yet. People using and *paying for* Short Circuit over the last few days has changed that.

It’s not about the money, it’s been proving to me that I can really achieve a dream I’ve had for over a decade. Thank you all. 🙏🏼

Mathstodon.xyz is a server for people who love maths. We have LaTeX rendering in the web interface!

https://mathstodon.xyz

We hope there’ll be lots of maths chat, but any topic of conversation following the code of conduct and the principle of getting along together is OK.

If you have any questions, contact the admin at @christianp

#FeaturedServer #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Mathematical #Mathematicians #Mathematician #LaTeX #Science #Mastodon #Fediverse

Orson Welles was born OTD in 1915. His "Citizen Kane", based on William Randolph Hearst, is considered one of the greatest movies ever. https://toilet-guru.com/hearst.html?s=mb #Hollywood #history

This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.

"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.

In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/

#Europe #RightsRetention

I’m genuinely not worried about BlueSky. Some people are rushing to see what’s behind the velvet rope and be part of the “New Twitter.” The cryptos, trolls, and bots will be there soon enough, Mastodon and the Fediverse is building something wonderful, and shows that even the old, pre-Musk Twitter was problematic.

@dangoodin @slut @kurtisj @dangillmor No not at all. I'm saying that journalists aren't leaving because they feel they have an audience on Twitter, be it ever so and increasingly deplorable. And because mastodon can't deliver them an audience which is centralised and captive they don't see the value in it. I feel if you ask a journalist or a politician or an advertiser to choose between morality or an audience, they will always choose the audience.

And the problem is that one of the things I love about mastodon is that I am not a captive audience for all of those egotists. And I don't wish mastodon to ever evolve into that. I would like mastodon to be a place where I follow those that I respect.

Mastodon is a peaceful village square, Twitter is Times Square where you are imprisoned in stocks and buffoons shout at you. When everyone is in the village square, what will the buffoons do?