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QB Jared Goff says being traded to Lions ‘was the greatest thing that ever happened to me’ https://www.nfl.com/news/qb-jared-goff-says-being-traded-to-lions-was-the-greatest-thing-that-ever-happened-to-me

QB Jared Goff says being traded to Lions ‘was the greatest thing that ever happened to me’ 
After a shocking trade in 2021, Jared Goff was sent off to the Detroit Lions, but despite low expectations, seems pleased with how it all went. “In hindsight, (being traded to Detroit) was the greatest thing that ever happened to me, for my career and my development as a human," Goff said.

Gab, this is too little too late.
https://news.gab.com/2024/03/were-cleaning-up-gab-and-its-long-overdue/

Facts are a good antidote to moral panic.
BBC News - Internet use linked to higher wellbeing, global study suggests - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89z2v0pjl3o

Le sigh... 😔
No timeline for Senga's return as he works on mechanics
#Mets

Starting an #AI company requires a heavy investment up front. Which means that most startups will have no option but to piggyback on existing AI models like chatgpt.

🎮 Video game devotees are much more likely to be working-class than middle-class, says research
#games

Video game devotees are much more likely to be working-class than middle-class, says research
Adults who play video games daily are much more likely to be working-class than middle-class, new research shows.

These always look so terrifying to me! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-68521108

Call for major rethink on ‘floating bus stops’
The National Federation for the Blind UK has warned of the dangers of London’s new style “floating bus stops”.

This write-up on #Kagi does not fill me with confidence in their service or any of their other products. Also news to me that they are heavily involved in #ai products of all sorts.
https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html Thanks to @… for putting this all together.

I clearly missed the Cade Cowell to Chivas news. It makes sense. He always gave me Chivas vibes.
#Concacaf #ChampionsCup

Good news/bad news after my first night in the new place…
I really hope I can get used to the bathroom fan noise if I can’t turn it off. 😳
I managed to wake up “naturally “ instead of from the banging and thumping from the asshole above me. 😳
Because of the house design, there’s NO morning light and little evening light because of the surrounding trees. 😢

These always look so terrifying to me! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-68521108

Call for major rethink on ‘floating bus stops’
The National Federation for the Blind UK has warned of the dangers of London’s new style “floating bus stops”.

Day P(roposal) 2
Number of journal articles that have adopted #ChIVEs instead of #BRICS: 0
Number of news articles using it: 0
Mastodon hashtag participants: 1, me.
Number of original column commenters who have called it "the worst article I have ever read" or similar: 5
I'm starting to think this nomenclature may not take root.

Didn't need the wannabe dictator to tell me that... this was pretty clear. #RussiaUkraineWar
If you are American and are concerned about Ukraine and the freedom of Europe, you sure as heck better vote for Biden in November!!

Holding my nose and voting for him in Nov, but we really needed better than Biden for this moment in history. And by "we", I mean the entire planet.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112423052802769780

#Texas is losing Californian transplants again. No surprise to me, as Texas politicans use Californians as rhetoric bait—at the same time boasting about how Californians are moving into the state to create the next Silicon Valley in Austin, while simultaneously scapegoating Californians as disgusting commie liberals invading their state, lumping them together with “illegal immigrants” in their xenopho…

Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.
The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.

My adopters starved me, too. & despite the fact that I was CLEARLY malnourished, no one ever tried to help me. Why not? Because society has been taught to believe adopters are saviors & saints. But abusive adoptive parents are not uncommon. That “better life” trope needs to be yeeted into the sun—when you give up your child to #adoption , you’re abandoning them to an utter crapshoot, &…

There's been a ton of conversation about the xz exploit, but the real reason this kind of thing could even happen is because of *human* vulnerability, not a technology vulnerability. So we have to take a deep look at how we truly support the people who make open source happen. Here's the real, substantive investment @… has been providing:

What can you actually do to reduce the threat of hacks like xz?
With the recent xz hack in the news, it's crucial to support maintainers of open source projects. Fastly has been doing just that with our open source program, Fast Forward.

“I would believe TV reality figure Ohad Buzaglo telling me I'm his one true love before I would believe one word from Netanyahu. …
The system is to procrastinate for as long as possible, and in the meantime – lie.”

Fat Princess: Piece of Cake: not what I was expecting
I read a recent email from Sony which told me that Fat Princess: Piece of Cake was closing down its servers at the start of next year. This was bad news, since Fat Princess is a game series I always liked the sound of, and I wanted to try it out - and a free version of the game is a good way to do so.

Almost feels like news worth celebrating until you remember the track record of child protection regulations in the UK, a country where the economy is being propped up by pushing junk food and nicotine onto children.
Tech firms must ‘tame’ algorithms under Ofcom child safety rules | Social media | The Guardian

AG Bonta “noted there is a political pendulum swinging away from treating unhoused people with compassion because ‘now people are at wit’s end with homelessness. The pendulum swings come from emotional decisions. When fear or anger go up, reasonable policy-making goes down. And so I try to be a voice of reason, and not everyone listens to me.’”

Good news/bad news after my first night in the new place…
I really hope I can get used to the bathroom fan noise if I can’t turn it off. 😳
I managed to wake up “naturally “ instead of from the banging and thumping from the asshole above me. 😳
Because of the house design, there’s NO morning light and little evening light because of the surrounding trees. 😢

This news led me to a set an alternative DNS on my iPhone and iPad (for WiFI). (https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Schneller-und-ohne-Sperren-Alternative-DNS-Server-einsetzen-8659971.html)
But that seems not to be so eas…

Schneller und ohne Sperren: Alternative DNS-Server einsetzen
DNS-Server lösen Namen zu IP-Adressen auf und sind essenziell fürs Surfen. Wer nicht die Standard-Server der Provider nutzt, surft schneller und ohne Blockaden.

47th Mechanized Brigade has a new commander: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/10/th-mechanized-brigade.html

#Texas is losing Californian transplants again. No surprise to me, as Texas politicans use Californians as rhetoric bait—at the same time boasting about how Californians are moving into the state to create the next Silicon Valley in Austin, while simultaneously scapegoating Californians as disgusting commie liberals invading their state, lumping them together with “illegal immigrants” in their xenopho…

Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.
The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.

We've written guidelines for news reporting that supports democracy. This column from Cleveland.com is a great example of what we think we need.
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor

Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor
This is a tough column to write, because I don’t want to demean or insult those who write me in good faith. I’ve started it a half dozen times since November but turned to other topics each time because this needle hard to thread.

Irish entrepreneur Michael O'Rourke brings UK news and lifestyle newsbrand Joe Media out of administration in a £3.6M deal, after a similar rescue deal in 2020 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Joe Media bought out of administration for second time
Joe.co.uk previously went into administration in June 2020 but continued to suffer "sustained losses".

Has anyone else tried to install Usenet on Thunderbird?
news.mozilla.org has been loading its list of newsgroups for days and days. It never has actually produced a list of groups for me to pick from.
How long does this go on for? Or do I just get rid of the app and do something else?

I notice that news articles refer to "Disgraced" ex-congressman George Santos, but don't refer to "Disgraced" ex-president Donald Trump. This seems to me like a double standard by objective measures, given the similarities between them.

“The good news is that people still read lots of books and that anybody who has the content and wants to deliver it into the marketplace as a book can do so at a highly manageable cost. The bad news is that new careers delivering the creative works in a structured and predictable ecosystem that values experience and a network of professional contacts are vanishing before they begin.” #publishing

"This is not subjective. We all saw it. ... Trust your eyes. Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War. You know that. You saw it.
The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts.
Chris Quinn, Editor
#Trump

Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor
This is a tough column to write, because I don’t want to demean or insult those who write me in good faith. I’ve started it a half dozen times since November but turned to other topics each time because this needle hard to thread.

Author Jeff Pearlman noted, “I honestly feel like someone gave me Herpes. Dear @elonmusk — I didn’t ask for this blue check, and I don’t want it.
Anyone here on Masto know how to remove the involuntary blue "B"?
https://www.rollingstone.com…

Elon Musk Restores Blue Checks on Twitter for Popular Users, Much to Their Dismay
Elon Musk has implemented a plan to give free Premium accounts to popular X users.

Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor - cleveland.com
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some…

Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor
This is a tough column to write, because I don’t want to demean or insult those who write me in good faith. I’ve started it a half dozen times since November but turned to other topics each time because this needle hard to thread.

Super excited for these! I will ABSOLUTELY be playing Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD on the @… Twitch.
https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/112072078875780976…

I'm attending The Democratic National Committee's event, “Women for Biden National Call with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Caroline Randall Williams” - sign up now to join me! https://events.democrats.org/event/624…

Women for Biden National Call with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Caroline Randall Williams · The Democratic National Committee
Join Women for Biden-Harris for our national call on Monday, May 6 at 6:30 PM ET. We'll hear from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Caroline Randall Williams, and other leaders about the latest news on the fight for our reproductive rights. This is also a chance to find out what's happening with the campaign and what you can do to help re-elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris! Sign up now to join us - and then ask a friend to join us too!

First measures in Dublin city traffic plan set for August https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0408/1442452-traffic-plan/
<< long overdue especially given the inevitable "I am all for helping reduce polllution but wait this affects me so I must block it" lawsuits are yet to happen.

I was reminiscing last week about our previous MP. James Lunney was a Reform/Conservative MP and he was 'famous’ for saying dumb anti-science things. He was also a chiropractor... which tracks. He was the only politician on Twitter to block me. He didn't like his constituents asking him how his ancestors walked with T-Rex I guess. 🤷‍♂️
Here's the blast from the past:

So I posted a direct link to an article (I just searched for a site that had a copy of the CNN article that wasn’t VIA Apple News which not everyone has access to.
I think he thinks that’s “stealing it”!?! LOL
It’s a CNN article, my dude. Here’s the actual CNN link for good measure rather than stealing via Apple (I know, Apple pays to distribute these articles, so I’m just mocking him at this point.)

If you legitimately think a 20 year old picture of me is evidence that I slept with someone for a promotion feel free to send it to bellingcat https://discord.com/invite/bellingcat If you are right it is a huge news story, since it happened at Uber. If I am right you and my shitty ex can rot in jail for revenge porn

"The facts involving #Trump are crystal clear, and as #news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to #facts. People who say the earth is flat don…

Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor
This is a tough column to write, because I don’t want to demean or insult those who write me in good faith. I’ve started it a half dozen times since November but turned to other topics each time because this needle hard to thread.

In 2013, I was laid off from Accenture because they didn’t have any projects that fit my skills and I was “on the bench” for too long. I had to go to the SF office to return my laptop to the IT desk. The person in line in front of me was seeking help with a laptop that wouldn’t boot.
The IT person plugged it in, and it booted right up.
The *senior manager* didn’t realize that they had to charge the laptop.
Sounds like that person wasn’t an edge case…

Seems like things are getting worse? (It does to me)
Whose idea was it to force citizens to subscribe to insurance from for profit companies whose fastest way to profit is to deny necessary ( often lifesaving) care.
Who’s reviewing the decision makers, why aren’t there stiff fines and penalties for wrongly denying care?
https:…

I'm considering the future of my #newsletter #AsiaUndercovered, and seeking a collaborator who wants to work with me on a revamp and relaunch.
anyone interested? Details here:

Nithin C. on LinkedIn: Asia Undercovered
Some news - I'm seeking a collaborator for my Asia Undercovered Newsletter As many of you know, I’ve put my newsletter on hiatus since late last year. Now, as…

The End of the World Began A Long Time Ago
Hello Fedi-Friends
I really found this to be an excellent and well written article. I find he hits the nail on the head so often in his posts. #EllieKPosts #FolkMusic #NateBear #doNotPanic #EnglishFolk

#Chrome users: if your targeted ads have ceased to relate to your porn searches... That's why.
Google to delete records from Incognito tracking - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-687091

This essay about #adhd hurt to read: https://wandering.shop/users/johncoxon/statuses/112231159018021144
And I loved it for making me feel seen. Even as I curled …

Irish entrepreneur Michael O'Rourke brings UK news and lifestyle newsbrand Joe Media out of administration in a £3.6M deal, after a similar rescue deal in 2020 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Joe Media bought out of administration for second time
Joe.co.uk previously went into administration in June 2020 but continued to suffer "sustained losses".

I’m Maxwell Alejandro Frost – and damn proud to be.
As an organizer, I don’t usually talk about myself when there’s work to discuss. But I wanted to reintroduce myself and share my story.
You may have heard about me on the news as the first member of Gen Z elected to Congress, representing FL-10.
But before that, I drove Uber to pay the bills while I ran to represent my people.
Before that, I was organizing with March for Our Lives, because kids can’t keep dying fro…

Chip in to support Maxwell Frost!
Join our fight for a better future >>

Until early this year I had had a New York Times subscription for a couple of years as it was an interesting way to get US news. But after the way they've bent over backwards to try to absolve Israel of guilt for committing a genocide, they'll never get a penny from me again

The editor of Cleveland.Com tells his readers:
"Trust your eyes. Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War. You know that. You saw it.
The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. People who say the earth is flat don’t get space on our platforms."

Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor
This is a tough column to write, because I don’t want to demean or insult those who write me in good faith. I’ve started it a half dozen times since November but turned to other topics each time because this needle hard to thread.

I'm following quite a lot of French news sources on Masto, and it seems to me that most of the stories are about kids being killed (often by police, or other kids, or just maybe by wolves) or about #MeToo situtations. Obvs I'm trying to be funny here, but there are far too many of both types of story.

Le réalisateur Nils Tavernier visé par une plainte pour viol
La plainte de cette femme de 32 ans concerne des faits de viol commis en 2012 alors qu'elle avait 19 ans.

Remember freshmeat?
➡️ https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/

freshmeat.net, 1997-2014
A former coworker pointed me to the news today that freshmeat has suddenly ceased operations. I spent the rest of the day flooded with memories and the urge to jot a few of them down before they’re…

Seems like Reddit isn't quite done sucking. Sometimes I miss aspects of the site, but neither the Web version nor the app are worth using, so it's history to me. Now they are blocking VPN users, because of course they are.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883747

@… This might be of interest.
BBC News - The Amache National Historic Site: How an abandoned confinement site became the newest US national park - BBC Travel

Just seeing the news about EA layoffs from last week. Are there anyone in my circles here on social media that knows if this is affecting the Galway offices?
If it is, feel free to connect with Game Workers Unite Ireland at @GWU_Ireland or DM me.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ea-cutting-5

EA cutting 5% of workforce
Electronic Arts today announced that it is laying off approximately 5% of its employees as it leans in on the parts of …

I read the headline thinking "poor old fellow", then woke with a start to the fact he's just a year older than me.
"The #NHS has been systematically underinvested in for 14 years, you generate a system that becomes unsafe, and those cracks in the system are so apparent."
Salford Royal patient's 'nightmare' after he was left lying in urine - BBC News

Salford Royal patient's 'nightmare' after he was left lying in urine
A 73-year-old man says he was denied pain relief and was left lying in a bed soaked with urine.

Former Cowboys TE discusses team focus amid culture criticisms https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_cowboys_te_discusses_team_focus_amid_culture_criticisms/s1_13132_40070016

Former Cowboys TE discusses team focus amid culture criticisms
Houston Texans tight end Dalton Schultz was featured on the Dallas Cowboys from 2018 to 2022 and compared the clubs during a Wednesday appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show."  "That was one of the first things that kind of stuck out to me, is like, it feels like much more — I don’t want to say college because it’s not — but the focus is just football, you know what I mean?" Schultz explained about joining Houston in 2023, per Ryan Morik of Fox News Digital. "Going back and telling some pe…

Thanks, Lukas VF Novak @…, for the cool cetacean science post. And thank you, M. I. Verras (author) @…, for reposting a cool post for me to find!
#Cetaceans

Lukas VF Novak (@animalculum@scholar.social)
Attached: 1 image Ancient giant dolphin discovered in the Amazon https://phys.org/news/2024-03-ancient-giant-dolphin-amazon.html The largest freshwater #odontocete: A South Asian river #dolphin relative from the proto-Amazonia https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk6320 "#RiverDolphins are among the rarest modern #cetaceans, with most extant species critically endangered. Despite their similar appearance, however, these animals are not directly related, but represent the late survivor…

Someone asked me today about the future of sports media. The future is corporate.
“(Fox and AEG’s) College Basketball Crown will rely on 16 teams drawn largely from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East conferences, with the possibility of other participants … All the games will air on Fox and Fox Sports 1.”

Fox, AEG Launch New College Basketball Tourney to Compete With March Madness
Fox and AEG plan to launch a new post-season college basketball tournament, the College Basketball Crown, in 2025.

What a cowardly move. If you are truly about Pride then you won’t cater to bigotry.
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/target-pride-2024/89-7aba6887-d934-4468-971c-81c45e820e0f

Scientists found the two disjunct [!] neuron switches in mice that control inflammation status and communication concerning immune responses in the body!
This is currently shared by many accounts here and yes, it deserves ALL of the attention. I fully agree with this quote from the linked summary below [which is very good!]:
"But overall, this discovery should blow us away."

Scientists Just Made A Stunning Biological Discovery
Sometimes something happens that takes your breath away, in a good way. Those who read my stuff know I’m not someone who gets carried away by optimism, to say the least. But a new paper by scientists at Columbia has blown me away. Researchers have made a discovery, which, if it holds up, has the potential to transform treatments for autoimmune diseases and post-viral illness like long covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis.

Alexey Navanly's message to the world "if they decide to kill me," and what his wife wants people to do now (Tucker Reals/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexey-navanly-message-if-they-decide-to-kill-me-and-wife-yulia-message-now/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240216/p30#a240216p30

We better have her back
All of us have a lot to lose if people like her throw in the towel
From: @…
https://journa.host/@Julia/112134464649780809

⛳ @… #Golf #TheMasters
Via Mark Nagi @MarkNagi
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4h
Never forget that Verne is “Mr. Steal your Girl.”
The story of how Verne met his third (and cu…

First measures in Dublin city traffic plan set for August https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0408/1442452-traffic-plan/
<< long overdue especially given the inevitable "I am all for helping reduce polllution but wait this affects me so I must block it" lawsuits are yet to happen.

1) This is great news; it's the first office building in #LdnOnt to be converted to residential.
2) I can only imagine the glee on so many people's faces that it's being done in the literal back yard of the city's most notorious owner of vacant buildings.

I read the first book in the series and something felt off...no idea it was the author.
"Arrest me!": J.K. #Rowling posts anti-#trans rant, responding to Scottish hate crime law | Salon.com

"Arrest me!": J.K. Rowling posts anti-trans rant, responding to Scottish hate crime law | Salon.com
Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, science, food and entertainment.

If you legitimately think a 20 year old picture of me is evidence that I slept with someone for a promotion feel free to send it to bellingcat https://discord.com/invite/bellingcat If you are right it is a huge news story, since it happened at Uber. If I am right you and my shitty ex can rot in jail for revenge porn

To be honest, I had been (perhaps inexplicably) naturally inclined to believe the move to a municipal police force would be a bad thing for combating things like diversity and harassment. In other words, I thought the RCMP would have been better than a Surrey Police Force.
This story may disabuse me of any notion that the RCMP is not rotten to its core. The "good eggs" are wholly outnumbered.

“Lincoln’s words… echo with me as a journalist who’s going to keep reporting on political and policy debates that affect people — no matter what their religious orientation happens to be.”
Heidi Przbyla, quoting Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural and standing up strong to attacks.

I’m Maxwell Alejandro Frost – and damn proud to be.
As an organizer, I don’t usually talk about myself when there’s work to discuss. But I wanted to reintroduce myself and share my story.
You may have heard about me on the news as the first member of Gen Z elected to Congress, representing FL-10.
But before that, I drove Uber to pay the bills while I ran to represent my people.
Before that, I was organizing with March for Our Lives, because kids can’t keep dying fro…

Chip in to support Maxwell Frost!
Join our fight for a better future >>

Are you one of the 20% of the UK population waiting for hospital care? Or do you know someone who is?
If so, you know which way to vote this year!
BBC News - One in five waiting for hospital care in England, survey suggests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68684979

YA THINK?!!!
ECF 'doesn't prepare all new teachers for workload' | Tes
https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/early-career-framework-1-5-new-teachers-not-ready-workload-ecf

GB News co-owner Paul Marshall steps down from the board of GB News after three year, amid reports he is considering a new rival bid to buy the Telegraph (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-…

Ex-Treasury minister to replace Sir Paul Marshall on GB News board
GB News co-lead investor Sir Paul Marshall has been replaced on the board of the broadcaster's owner by Theodore Agnew.

St Thomas Philadelphia has so many scandals that it's hard to keep track, but somehow this "exorcise the gay away" one had passed me by https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-67716140

Conversion therapy: Gay man speaks of traumatic church experience
Sylvester Harrison Moran says the "spirit of homosexuality was commanded to come out of me".

Bad news for the Wendy’s that I usually go to: there’s a 5 Guys in the same mall area and it’s worth me driving the extra 2minutes, and they’ll greet me by joyfully shouting my name like Norm from “Cheers” (I may have gone to this 5 Guys too many times and tipped too well 😂)
(Added context: https://www.

Wendy's Is Introducing Uber-Style 'Surge Pricing'
Kirk Tanner, the new CEO and president of Wendy’s, shared with analysts his various plans to increase company profits, including investing in digital menu boards that will have the capacity to display dynamic pricing that fluctuates throughout the day by 2025. Here's what customers need to know.

💪 Advancing towards sustainability: Turning carbon dioxide and water into acetylene
(... YOShInOn showed me many papers on electrochemical reduction of CO2 today, I like this one because you can make a lot of chemicals from acetylene)
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-adva…

Advancing towards sustainability: Turning carbon dioxide and water into acetylene
Reaching sustainability is one of humanity's most pressing challenges today—and also one of the hardest. To minimize our impact on the environment and start reverting the damage humanity has already caused, striving to achieve carbon neutrality in as many economic activities as possible is paramount. Unfortunately, the synthesis of many important chemicals still causes high carbon emissions.

Just seeing the news about EA layoffs from last week. Are there anyone in my circles here on social media that knows if this is affecting the Galway offices?
If it is, feel free to connect with Game Workers Unite Ireland at @GWU_Ireland or DM me.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ea-cutting-5

EA cutting 5% of workforce
Electronic Arts today announced that it is laying off approximately 5% of its employees as it leans in on the parts of …

Thanks, Lukas VF Novak @…, for the cool cetacean science post. And thank you, M. I. Verras (author) @…, for reposting a cool post for me to find!
#Cetaceans

Lukas VF Novak (@animalculum@scholar.social)
Attached: 1 image Ancient giant dolphin discovered in the Amazon https://phys.org/news/2024-03-ancient-giant-dolphin-amazon.html The largest freshwater #odontocete: A South Asian river #dolphin relative from the proto-Amazonia https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk6320 "#RiverDolphins are among the rarest modern #cetaceans, with most extant species critically endangered. Despite their similar appearance, however, these animals are not directly related, but represent the late survivor…

For better or worse, the past weeks has mastodon becoming a proper source of breaking news for me. This happened for me w/ twitter during the boston marathon bombing. It's often not direct sources using mastodon, but people reposting direct sources (originally from twitter, or IG, or others).
So I'm glad that we have an open protocol that can bypass traditional news media to show what's actually happening in real time, but I'll also miss scrolling through mostly cats an…

Well, there’s a bit of good news. Our union just got us a 7.75% hourly raise increase, retroactive back to October 1st, 2023.
Unfortunately, I’m only part time so I won’t get a whole lot but some folks at work will get a check for *several* thousand dollars.
Even *better* news - I just got called in to work for tomorrow at the reasonable hour of 1:45pm. And because Monday is a Statutory company holiday, I get DOUBLE time *and* the new wage! 😃
BEERS ON ME! :)

McCarthy claims Gaetz ousted when he refused to ‘do something illegal’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kevin-mccarthy-matt-gaetz-speaker-ousted-ethics-…

McCarthy claims Gaetz ousted when he refused to ‘do something illegal’
‘It was purely Matt coming to me trying ... [to get] me to do something illegal to stop the Ethics Committee from moving forward in an investigation that was started long before I became speaker’

New Dolphins pass rusher Shaq Barrett aims to make Buccaneers 'mad they let me go' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-dolphins-pass-rusher-shaq-barrett-aims-to-make-buccaneers-mad-they-let-me-go

New Dolphins pass rusher Shaq Barrett aims to make Buccaneers 'mad they let me go' 
Having stayed in Florida by signing with the Miami Dolphins, linebacker Shaq Barrett is now set to prove he’s got a full tank left, along with making the Tampa Bay Buccaneers regret releasing him.

Am frequently accused of hating capitalism because I don't work hard enough for it to benefit me. My company, The RealReal, just announced positive EBIDTA for the first time and my stock value doubled https://investor.therealreal.com/news-releases/news-release-details/realreal-announces-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2023-results

'No one told me to leave': Hochul defends decision to attend slain NYPD officer's wake (Jason Beeferman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/30/hochul-wake-nypd-diller-00149839
http://www.memeorandum.com/240330/p37#a240330p37

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OpenAI accuses New York Times of hacking AI models in copyright lawsuit
https://cointelegraph.com/news/openai-new-york-times-hacking-ai-models

What better way to drown out trans people than by being upset at trans day of visibility being on Easter? Drowning out all the news of support of trans people with faux outrage.
#trans

Am frequently accused of hating capitalism because I don't work hard enough for it to benefit me. My company, The RealReal, just announced positive EBIDTA for the first time and my stock value doubled https://investor.therealreal.com/news-releases/news-release-details/realreal-announces-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2023-results

For those of you like me who *despise* Apple News links, here’s a better one.
https://archive.ph/ENdtz https://mas.to/@bethpdx/1…

Memo: The Wall Street Journal names Elena Cherney as senior editor, leading the Standards and Ethics team and championing press freedom and free speech (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/cherney-to-lead-wsj-sta…

Cherney to lead WSJ standards and ethics team - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Thursday: Dear all, I am delighted to announce that Elena Cherney is now Senior Editor of the Wall Street Journal and will lead our Standards and Ethics team. In this role, as a vital part of the Journal’s senior leadership, Elena will advise me […]

kʷiisaḥiʔis is FREE! She swam out of the lagoon at high tide last night on her own! ❤️❤️
Yay. This brings me actual joy.
(Her name is pronounced “Kwii-sa-heat-eess” it means ‘Brave Little Hunter’)
""With this part of the challenge solved by kʷiisaḥiʔis herself, every opportunity needs to be afforded to have her back with her family with as little human interaction as possible," he said.”
I hope she finds her family soon!

Don't get me wrong about the linked news bulletin on public sector wages. I am very very very happy and grateful (especially to my Union!) to be getting a 3% raise as of April 1st. This is one of the biggest single-year raises I’ve had in 23.5 years working at VIU.
But the cost of a loaf of bread has increased by 100%, and no I am not exaggerating, in the past year alone so....
#AffordabilityCrisis

Honestly I’m good with a delay. This mod is a huge undertaking and it’s worth the wait.
https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/112319930382798138

Don’t ever mess with the tech before a stream or service.
Today, above my pay-grade, someone decided to change the tech before service. We almost didn’t have screens. Wasn’t my decision, but I had to deliver the bad news.