KJS

KJS

@kjsingh.bsky.social

Software guy from DCU

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans
@astroroyalscot.bsky.social

Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

justgiving.comHelp raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving CrowdfundingIʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social

Went on a little pilgrimage today to Parton, the resting place of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland’s very own Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell. Quite the pause when I realised he was only one year older than me (48) when he died. ⚛️🔭

KJS
@kjsingh.bsky.social

In some ways the invasion of Data Centers also makes me think about the days of colonization of Indigenous lands. We watch as gigantic blotches take over our landscape, we hate them with, they take more than fair share of our water, disrupt our lifestyle and pollute our environment.

KJS
@kjsingh.bsky.social

If you feel stuck and powerless, reach out to your local indigenous leaders, work together, come up with a plan to resist!

KJS
@kjsingh.bsky.social

I don't understand demand and supply mechanics.. just because you have more demand, you can take more profit from your sales? Why can't we limit the profit margin on sales of goods? Why are there lower floors on worker salaries but virtually no ceilings on corporate profits?

KJS
@kjsingh.bsky.social

That's a wild scale of seeing hidden charges in real life

Jeff Nall@jeffmnall.bsky.social

$300 billion to Iran for war reparations. 30 billion would have funded helathcare subsidies here.

KJS
@kjsingh.bsky.social

Today I realized… the Skip Ad feature on YouTube is an engagement ploy. If ads cannot be skipped. You usually look away, then come back after the 1–2 minute gap. But with YouTube ads, you stick around, waiting for the Skip button to appear. Someone on their UX team must be a genius!

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

startribune.comDetained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

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Emily Lowan (she/her)
@emilylowan.bsky.social

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Moving workers who dedicated themselves to climate action into fossil fuel projects is unthinkably callous. This is yet another example of the BC NDP prioritizing the profits of foreign fossil fuel corporations over our public service workers.

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ChrisO_wiki
@chriso-wiki.bsky.social

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

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Brent Crude
@mrbrentcrude.bsky.social

Homelessness is a policy choice

Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

cbsnews.com100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
KJS
@kjsingh.bsky.social

Public service announcement - if you are launching missiles which end up killing innocent bystanders and kids, simply calling it collateral damage is not going to absolve you of your crimes against humanity

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You know the court can pass judgements only. Not fix the will of corrupt folks working in public service.

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tante
@tante.cc

This shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being taken and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.

github.comchardet 7.0: ground-up MIT-licensed rewrite by dan-blanchard · Pull Request #322 · chardet/chardet · GitHubSummary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...