potato shoe! @potatoshoe@mastodon.social

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Just so you know, that's a MAMMOTH, not a MASTODON. Separated by about 30 million years of evolution, different dentition & diet. Distant proboscidean cousins, at best.

The Bell Museum. July. Be there.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/28/hey-the-bell-museum-is-reopening-in-july/

Juneteenth celebrates the announcement of the end of slavery in the confederacy (june 19, 1865: 2 years after the emancipation proclamation).

about 6 months later, the 13th amendment is ratified, which abolished slavery-- except as a form of punishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

Trans Pride Seattle could use a little help, they lost a bunch of money unexpectedly from sponsors backing out and gov't funding disappearing.

https://www.gofundme.com/TransPrideSeattle2018

The "rich people reinventing basic public services" genre gets less funny when you realize they mean privately-run versions that can exclude undesirables.

We're just as closely related to Aplysia as we are to Homarus, which isn't very.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/04/flattered-then-humbled/

getting nerds to give a shit about people who aren't neurotypical & able-bodied middle+ class white tech boys is the hardest problem in computer science

Country closest to #Bitcoin in terms of electricity consumption: Czech Republic

Electricity consumed per transaction (KWh): 981

Number of U.S. households that could be powered by Bitcoin: 6,398,945

Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption: 0.31%

Carbon footprint per transaction (kg of CO2): 480.57

Source: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Bitcoin will soon surpass Chile, Austria and the Philippines. Holy fucking shit. We have to stop this.

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The FBI massively inflated the numbers of how many "unhackable" phones it encountered in 2017.
Frankly, we’re not surprised.
https://www.wired.com/story/significant-fbi-error-reignites-data-encryption-debate/ source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/999803986248167425

You know the fascist incel types scream about survival of the fittest until they get sexually selected against for being unfit partners 🤷‍♀️

rich people don’t care about you. not even a little. even if they have an outward persona of philanthropy and trying to better the world

they don’t accurately see the world and its problems and they certainly aren’t helping

Congress attempting to functionally extinguish copyright term limits, extend copyright protection to 140+ years; the 11th such extension in the past 40 years.

https://www.wired.com/story/congress-latest-move-to-extend-copyright-protection-is-misguided/