Ocean Libraries: The Ultimate in a Mobile Service theorkneynews.scot/2024/11/20/β¦ #Culture, #Libraries #BookWeekScotland
Ocean Libraries: The Ultimate in a Mobile Service
In Orkney we have a superb library service but up and down Scotland local libraries are either closing or have been closed. In this series during Book Week Scotland we are looking at libraries, theβ¦The Orkney News
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Multiple election offices report receiving mailed ballots misdirected from other states | AP News
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Multiple election offices report receiving mailed ballots misdirected from other states
The Associated Press has found numerous instances of completed mail ballots from around the country being sent to election offices in the wrong state.CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY (AP News)
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Researchers made crack-resistant concrete using fibers from cheap carpet scraps
Researchers made crack-resistant concrete using fibers from cheap carpet scraps
Researchers have found a way to use waste carpet fibers to create stronger and more durable crack-resistant concrete.Joshua Hawkins (BGR)
The Weirdest Domains Alex Jones Has to Give to The Onion
The Weirdest Domains Alex Jones Has to Give to The Onion
From infowarsbabes.com to goblinlove.com, Infowars owns some strange domains.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
Solar panels on Denver rooftops throw shade to help crops grow
Solar panels on big Denver buildings throw shade that helps crops grow βΒ and the plants return the favor
CSU researchers find crops shaded by solar panels yield more food while plants cool the panels helping them generate power more efficientlyMark Jaffe (The Colorado Sun)
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Enslaved.org is bringing together data sets of enslaved people to make them easier to locate. enslaved.orgEnslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.enslaved.org
Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.Justin Carter (Game Developer)
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In the US and those who talk to Americans:
Don't discuss abortions, accessing HRT, organising protest, etc. on insecure platforms. All platforms which have no verifiable third-party auditing for security should be deemed insecure and unsafe.
That includes Discord, Telegram, Fedi, Twitter, Bluesky, SMS, whatever. Anywhere where it's not end-to-end encrypted.
These platforms are NOT your friends. They are in the business of making MONEY. They do not care what happens to you, your friends, your family, whatever. They will comply with any laws and court orders they're told to.
Your life and liberty will depend on using encrypted communications very soon and may already depending on what you talk about. I am deadly serious. Unless you like prison or worse, do NOT discuss these things on anything but an encrypted medium.
suggestions can be helpful tho! after all, telling people theyβre doing things wrong wonβt help much if they donβt know what the solutions are
so I guess thatβd beβ¦. Signal and maaaaaaaaybe Telegram secret chats? Iβd like to trust up-to-date Matrix clients but
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Have you really enjoyed my posts about working at Monterey Bay Aquarium? My team is hiring an admin coordinator. It's a hybrid role. The job listing says on-site but I have it on good authority it is full time and hybrid.
linkedin.com/jobs/view/4077601β¦
My threads about working there:
Photos hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/1134β¦
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Read banned books
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Hundreds of books pulled from Florida schools listed in new DOE release. Here are the titles
The Florida Department of Education released a list of more than 700 books that were pulled from school shelves. during the 2023-2024 school year.C. A. Bridges (Tallahassee Democrat)
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β οΈβTom's of Maine toothpaste was manufactured with water containing bacteria, while a "black mold-like substance" was found in a factory where the product was made, according to a warning letter from FDA
The Nov 5 letter stated that Tom's Simply White Clean Mint toothpaste contained Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a germ that can cause infections in the blood and lungs, the FDA letter said. β
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Tom's of Maine toothpaste made with bacteria-tainted water, FDA warns. Here are the details.
The FDA sent a warning letter flagging "significant violations" of manufacturing regulations for Tom's of Maine toothpaste.Aimee Picchi (CBS News)
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For fans of #DoctorWho with a qualifying print disability, the following title was recently added to the BARD service by NLS. The phrase "Doctor Who" is not found in the title or description, so people who search BARD for "Doctor Who" may not find it. I haven't checked to see if BARD has grouped it into a Doctor Who series.
I've already read this book from Bookshare, as it's been available from that service for quite some time.
Harvest of time
DB124336
Reynolds, Alastair. Reading time: 11 hours, 49 minutes.
Read by Geoffrey Beevers.
Science Fiction
"When Unit is called in to investigate a mysterious incident on a North Sea drilling platform, the Doctor discovers that the Brigadier and others are starting to forget about the Master, Unit's highest-profile prisoner."-- From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
"We are the kingmakers, we are the sovereign people of this land and the world is watching us!
All #Indigenous people are relying on us."
NZ MP Hana-RΔwhiti Maipi-Clarke, who was suspended for ripping up a controversial bill to reinterpret the 184-year-old founding treaty between #MΔori and the crown, and leading a #haka in parliament.
#NewZealand #TreatyOfWaitangi #Colonialism #SettlerColonialism
@TorontoStar: βHogwash.β
Thatβs Premier Doug Fordβs blunt assessment of city bureaucratsβ $48-million estimate for removing bike lanes that cost $27 million to install on Yonge Street, Bloor Street and University Avenue. t.co/Scq0rMlsVG -twitter.com/TorontoStar/statusβ¦
Doug Ford says $48M estimate to remove Toronto bike lanes is βhogwashβ
The premier wants to dismantle up to 22 kilometres of cycling infrastructure on Yonge Street, Bloor Street and University Avenue.Robert Benzie (Toronto Star)
Overall, I agree that all that weβre seeing from Trump is not βnormal.β And we should not let it become normalized.
With one caveatβ¦.as a 19-year old student corrected me a few years ago when I told a group of college students that what we were experiencing w Trump wasnβt βnormalββ¦
βMr. Pepper, for us, this is normal. Itβs all weβve ever seen.β
She was right.
All the younger generations have seen is insane politics and right-wing extremism, from birtherism (when many were not even 10) to today.
Weβve got work to do to show these generations what normal even is, or could beβ¦because theyβve never seen it.
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Surveillance technology could supercharge Trump's plans, rights groups say
Trump could use surveillance systems and artificial intelligence as part of his plans to carry out mass deportations and more.Avi Asher-schapiro (The Japan Times)
The Android part is kinda interesting, considering that it's technically open source, kinda like Chromium and Chrome, though I'm not sure how much you can do with Android without the Play framework installed.
theverge.com/2024/11/18/243000β¦US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android
The Department of Justice will recommend that Google be made to sell Chrome, unbundle Android from products like the Play Store, and create AI opt-outs, writes Bloomberg.Wes Davis (The Verge)
The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz
The untold story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel
smithsonianmag.com/history/theβ¦
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at PG:
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Do any #GIMP users follow me?
If so, can anyone shed any light as to why GIMP on macOS won't scroll left and right when I hold shift? It works in other apps, and I've made sure it's configured, but it won't work.
ODIN
IP search engine.
Search by ip, domain name, ASN, geolocation, BGP prefix, ASN number, WHOIS updated date and other parameters.
search.odin.io
Creator twitter.com/OdinThreatIntel
Does anybody know if there's a chromium-ish browser that provides binary tarballs for both (linux) amd64 and arm64?
I could really use that for something job-related and I'm apparently not finding anything.
How much does Meta, X, Google, etc make from an average, non-paying user each month?
Iβm considering donating the same amount to the development of #fediverse in one way or another.
@jayispainting started #ArtAdventCalendar 10 years ago. Although he canβt be here on Mastodon to run the event this year, we, all of us, can continue his tradition.
Share your original art from December 1st to 24th. Any art, drawings, paintings, scultpure, photographs. Tag it with #ArtAdventCalendar.
ALT text it for accessibility. Provide details on your work. Follow the #ArtAdventCalendar tag. Follow your fellow artists. Repost their work. Celebrate art. Celebrate each other.
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in reply to The Whore of Blahbylon • • •Aka and dba Hypocrisy
Very well said, @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon .