Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

I really hope the concept of the fediverse takes off. Having social media completely independent of huge corporate interests would be a huge step toward helping people realize the power of decentralization

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning DEI initiatives in public colleges https://www.npr.org/2023/05/15/1176210007/florida-ron-desantis-dei-ban-diversity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

please, anyone with experience with Sass / NPM, i desperately need help, i promise it’s a simple problem but i’m completely lost

To generate true random numbers, you could integrate some radioactive probe and a Geiger detector tube into a computer. Alternatively (and cheaper), amplify the noise produced by a avalange diode (Zener diode with more than 5.6 V) and pipe it into some ADC.

@zleap @ianrosewrites

Finally they admit it https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/15/jacob-rees-mogg-says-voter-id-was-attempt-to-gerrymander-elections-for-the-conservatives/

'Everybody, in fact, I think is pretty intrigued': NFL broadcasting executives explain Broncos' 2023 prime-time scheduling

https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/everybody-in-fact-i-think-is-pretty-intrigued-nfl-broadcasting-executives-explai

www.DenverBroncos.com

#2023ScheduleReleaseNews #adpartner=ticketmaster #2023ScheduleRelease #TopStories #BenSwanson

Broncos sign S Kareem Jackson

https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/broncos-sign-s-kareem-jackson

www.DenverBroncos.com

#adpartner=chevron #KareemJackson #Transactions #AricDiLalla #TopStories

FerretDB announced its release 1.0 and thereby brings MongoDB database workloads back to their free software roots. Read more at https://u.fsf.org/3za

People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer.

Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work.

Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.

@w7voa
Just going to remind y'all that President Trump reposted a video of a supporter saying that the "only good Democrat is a dead Democrat. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-trump-shares-video-of-supporter-saying-the-only-good-democrat-is-a-dead-democrat/

This monstrous explosion might be the result of a black hole consuming a gas cloud a billion times as massive as the Sun. If so, it "represents an extreme extension of the known scenarios of black hole accretion."
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/522/3/3992/7115325?login=false #BlackHole #cosmology

A rare genetic mutation never seen before protected a man with an inherited form of Alzheimer’s from developing the disease for decades.

He's just the second person found to have such protection. Both cases may have staved off the disease for years by acting in similar ways in the brain, an insight that could lead to new treatments for all forms of Alzheimer’s.

Learn more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rare-mutation-alzheimers-gene

#science #alzheimers #demenetia #health

⚡️BREAKING⚡️
#BBCmicrobit the next gen: a new partnership between the foundation, @BBC_Teach & @Nominet to inspire primary children to get more confident with technology & digital skills through the donation of 30 micro:bits to every UK primary school🎉

https://microbit.org/news/2023-05-15/bbc-microbit-the-next-gen-groundbreaking-initiative-announced/

(Echoed from the official twitter feed, as there is no offical Mastodon account yet that I know of: https://twitter.com/microbit_edu/status/1658006368928907265?s=46)

BREAKING: U.S. Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) says a man with a baseball bat entered his office and attacked 2 staff members

#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science
QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I tell my students I have become a hunter … I hunt for grants.”
Africa has talented scientists who can address their continent’s challenges, says materials chemist Emmanuel Unuabonah — but a lack of funding is holding them back.

Science on a shoestring: the researchers paid $15 a month

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01397-z

Anyone still looking for a short-term technician/field assistant? I have an incredible honors thesis student who just graduated, will work with me this summer, and is still looking for a 1-2yr botany-related position before applying to grad school. For fun, she documents our plants like in this photo.

When leading climate scientists are asked anonymously or off-the-record what they actually expect we will have to endure in the decades ahead, you'll find they are not very optimistic.

In 2021, the journal Nature conducted an anonymous survey of IPCC authors and received responses from 92 scientists. Their answers suggest strong skepticism that governments will significantly slow the pace of global heating, despite all those fancy promises we've heard ("blah-blah-blah").

Six in ten of the survey respondents expect the world to warm by at least 3°C by the end of the century. Some think 4°C or even 5°C is where we're headed. Fewer than 5% of these scientists believe we will stay under 1.5°C, which is the optimistic — and totally unrealistic — outcome that politicians and the major media want you to swallow.

#ClimateCrisis

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02990-w