Mastodawn

Doc Irongall Dec 5

Steve Crawford Dec 4

Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.

The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!

https://science.nasa.gov/multimedia/science-e-books/

#nasa

Science e-Books

From the planets to black holes in distant galaxies, explore NASA science, imagery, and missions through our library of free, downloadable e-books.

NASA Science

Doc Irongall Dec 3

Widdershins Smith 🐘Dec 2

Remember to sometimes participate in normal human activities or they'll get suspicious

Doc Irongall Dec 2

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD Dec 2

However the war crime of killing shipwrecked survivors plays out, Trump and Hegseth have already achieved one goal: to demonstrate to the American people and the world that at least some members of the military will, in fact, execute illegal orders.

Doc Irongall Dec 2

Lauren Weinstein Dec 2

More on #Google and Fascism

I'll add something here to my previous note about Google and SMS/RCS message retention, etc. In an "ordinary" world, these changes could at least be reasonably analyzed in terms of conventional business practices, absent the total lack of trust that Google has now earned with CEO Sundar's embrace of Trump's fascism, even donating to his fascist causes.

All the excuses in the world won't change the fact that ANY feature capable of being abused by Google is now potentially subject to this abuse with one email or phone call from a Trump minion. This is (in my opinion) pretty much ALL on Sundar. It's a trap (an understandable one) to think these things through in terms of a normal world, not the U.S. with an authoritarian federal government and willing billionaire CEOs.

The world is different now.

Doc Irongall Dec 2

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Cat Hicks Dec 2

This is a harsh take, but one I have put many years of thought into: I believe psychology as a field has failed technologists in a lot of ways by not better integrating this massively important part of the world into our research, and "technical assessment" is a HUGE way this shows up

Doc Irongall Dec 2

Mr Takes 🧄Dec 2

Do not, under any circumstances, boost this toot

Doc Irongall Dec 2

David Gerard Dec 2

anecdotal reports are that this makes Firefox noticeably faster

that list of settings to disable:

browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.menu
browser.ml.chat.page
browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

Doc Irongall Dec 2

HT @violetblue CyberSecurity newsletter: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsofts-head-of-ai-doesnt-understand-why-people-dont-like-ai-and-i-dont-understand-why-he-doesnt-understand-because-its-pretty-obvious/

Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious

Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?

PC Gamer

Doc Irongall Nov 27

alcinnz Nov 4

Anyone want to help me write a book?

I want to teach the complexities that go into an (inclusive) operating system, into allowing us to interact with our computers!

Talking with local educators, I think there could be demand. The sanded off corners of modern computers leave many curious souls (including kids) curious what's behind them! And spreading the knowledge could reduce annoying hype.

I've done *extensive* research, but I'd need help writing & publishing this. Offers?

@baldur ?

Doc Irongall Nov 27

MostlyHarmless Nov 8

Not my circus, not my monkeys. But I definitely know a few of the clowns.

NRAO ALMA	https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/alma/
pronouns	He/Him