Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

1 in 2 people were estimated to have at least one mental illness, according to an analysis of WHO data.

It's a sharp increase from 1 in every 8 people worldwide in 2019. https://t.co/6jZHJt28ia

Today in 1991, 32 years ago: Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.

#OnThisDay

Facial recognition products are a public menace -- but law enforcement (and private companies) are moving full speed ahead to ruin lives. Because they can. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html

Interesting pre-print on the metabolic interactions between species that drive #microbiome structure and function. Emphasises the importance of considering community-wide interactions when microbiome #engineering, rather than focusing on individual bugs.

#biorxiv #metabolism

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.26.477953v2

Zoom terms and conditions now allow training AI on user content with no opt out. 🤣 See section 10.2 https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

There will sadly never be a better software name than Nero Burns ROM.

I'm following the devastating news from Slovenia, where one month's worth of rain fell in 24 hours. It's the biggest natural disaster in the young country's 32-year history. Large parts of the country are flooded. I can't even begin to imagine the time and money needed to recover from this.

But it's hard to find non-Slovenian coverage of this disaster. Press agencies like Reuters and AP are reporting it, but newspapers in, say, Germany or the US aren't picking it up.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/floods-hit-slovenia-forcing-evacuations-disrupting-transport-2023-08-04/

The restroom sign we need to see more of in the world.

On 6 August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee wrote to a newsgroup: "The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system."
He noted "Try it" and the world was changed.
Thanks Tim!
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt

Wanna feel old?

"The World's First Website Launched 30 Years Ago Today" (august 6th, 1991)

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later

On this date: In 1999, "The Sixth Sense" was premiered in United States 24 years ago.

https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/08/06/today-in-history-aug-6-u-s-drops-atom-bomb-on-hiroshima/

When Google was asked why it tried so hard to not allow local communities know how much water it was using, it's spokesman, Philip Wateryeyes said:

"We are Google! What rights have local people? None! And those local politicians? Boy, do we know how to handle them! Go cry a river baby!"

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2308/S00011/water-wars-cooling-the-data-centres.htm

This is shocking. Patients who face long NHS waiting lists & cannot afford to go private are being encouraged to sign up for “buy now, pay later” deals & other personal loans to cover the costs of basic healthcare. How did we allow it to come to this?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/06/buy-now-pay-later-medical-loans-on-rise-as-desperate-patients-go-private-amid-nhs-backlogs

ECHO...ECHOO...ECHOOO

Ron DeSantis Met With Swathes of Empty Seats at Iowa Event, Photo Shows
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Desantis #Florida #Republicans #iowa

https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-met-swathes-empty-seats-iowa-event-photo-shows-1817767

@zleap they're mycorrhizal, thriving in association with many kinds of broadleaved trees. It's not rare, and it can come up in the same woods over and over, year after year. But I've never seen it in the numbers I'm seeing now, something about conditions right now.