Kilpatrick Braes Yesterday Evening, lots of purple, thistles, thyme, bell heather, yarrow (mostly cream). Fauna: roe deer, kestrels, larks. Lots of parked cars but the Braes were quiet.
Facebook is "aiding and abetting the spread of climate misinformation,” said Robert Brulle, an environmental sociologist at Drexel University. “They have become the vehicle for climate misinformation, and thus should be held partially responsible for a lack of action on climate change.”
But now Facebook has reportedly decided to allow its staffers to overrule the climate scientists and make any climate disinformation ineligible for fact-checking by deeming it “opinion.”
Delighted to see a new version of Levelator. via TidBITS
In the Mac App Store
Older versions (& Windows & Linux) still at The Conversations Network
I’ve not used it for a while but have run 100s of episodes of Edutalk through it in the past.
Lost its rather individual UI.
hmm with a tinge of #ds106
I have been working for years. on a four-line poem. about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter
It is the subtle things that let you know it is a school holiday.
TikTok did not say whether the feature would be removed from Android devices, nor whether clipboard data was ever stored or moved from user devices
Given that the app is widely used by pupils and sometimes by educators this is interesting.
A God in Every Stone
Read: A God in Every Stone – Kamila Shamsie ★★★★☆ page turner, interesting history of WW1 & the Qissa Khwani massacre in Peshawar 📚
Ma’am Darling
Read: Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown ★★★☆☆ 📚 99 witty chapters. Some laugh out loud.
Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
Read: Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout ★★★★☆ lot of darkness with light at the end. 📚