Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

The 2022 Annual Report is now available for download! 2022 was an interesting year for #Mastodon to say the least.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/10/annual-report-2022/

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but ADHD does NOT mean you are hyperactive.

While some ADHDers are hyperactive, there’s a whole other presentation of ADHD called Predominantly Inattentive, which is more common in women and doesn’t look hyperactive at all.

"Utrecht University has decided not to provide any data to the makers of the Times Higher Education Ranking, which is why the university is not featured in the 2024 list. According to UU, rankings make people focus too much on scores and competition, while the university would like to concentrate on partnerships and open science instead." https://dub.uu.nl/en/news/utrecht-university-not-participating-ranking-anymore and now I want to apply for a position at Utrecht !

Musk "falsely told the world that Ben Brody participated in a violent street brawl on behalf of a neo-Nazi extremist group."

You might remember the plaintiff's lawyer, Mark Bankston, from viral clips of him last year obliterating Alex Jones and his lawyers. He'll shred Musk.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-defamation-lawsuit-neo-nazi_n_65146bace4b05bd1c4d60d14

Here in Manchester, we're waiting for confirmation that Rishi Sunak is as monumentally dumb as to use his conference speech, in Manchester, to announce the scrapping of the HS2 high speed rail link, to Manchester.

#UKPolitics
#HS2
#MCR

LIVE: HS2 to Manchester to be scrapped, according to reports - latest updates

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/breaking-hs2-manchester-scrapped-according-27826808#ICID=Android_MENNewsApp_AppShare

Over the next two weeks, I'll be publishing a series of four (well, 4.5) posts about Meta's role in the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar.

Part I is up now, along with a little meta-post with notes on terminology and sources and ct.

https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-i-the-setup

https://erinkissane.com/meta-meta

These posts are aimed squarely at people like me and my tech-world peers—people who work on and care about social technologies.

UK had joint-warmest September on record, says Met Office

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-faced-joint-warmest-september-record-provisional-data-2023-10-02/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #UK

James Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66974738#
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37736194

#astronomy #JWST #plants

"More than 60,000 protesters gathered in the Swiss capital #Bern on Saturday demanding tougher policies to combat #ClimateChange, organisers said, less than a month ahead of a national election.

Such large protests are rare in #Switzerland and show growing public frustration with the pace of policy-making to combat #GlobalWarming despite ample evidence of its impact."

https://emeatribune.com/tens-of-thousands-demand-climate-action-in-swiss-capital/

Stop using Twitter / X.

Stop it.

Right now.

#twitter #x

More than 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as water hits 102 F.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/01/americas/amazon-river-dolphins-dead-temperatures-drought-intl-hnk/index.html #ClimateChange

Happy 99th Birthday, Mr. President!

#HappyBirthday #JimmyCarter #POTUS
#OTD

No.

Even if this is clickbait, no.

Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.

No.

Say what you will, but what is really the most optimistic thing about TNG, more so than the poverty-less and money-less utopia, is when somebody goes to the captain and says "this weird, unbelievable thing happened to me" and they believe them.

Reg says he sees a creature in the transporter beam and rather than saying "Reg, you well-known anxiety haver, you're imagining things!", they take the transporter apart, twice, to find out.

Beverly says she hears voices at night and has an overwhelming sense of deja-vu, and the captain doesn't say, "my, what an overactive imagination you have! Sleep more and do yoga!", he instructs the crew to sweep the entire ship with sensors, from top to bottom and starboard to port, until they've figured it out.

THAT is a world I'd like to live in.

#StarTrek #TNG

@alexwinter @marisakabas How is this man and his social network, car company, space rocket company, and satellite internet company still considered socially acceptable? How is it that these enterprises aren’t being nationalised as we speak? How have we built a system that franchises a handful of billionaire psychopaths at the expense of everyone else?

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