Deb Haaland's life reads like it shouldn't have led to Washington, DC.

She struggled with alcoholism and got sober in 1988. She was a single mom who relied on food stamps and started a salsa company to get by. She went to college at 28, law school at 40.

Then she became one of the first two Native American women in Congress. Then the first Native American Cabinet secretary in US history, leading the Interior Department. She launched the first federal investigation into Indian boarding schools, protected millions of acres of public land, and brought tribes to the decision-making table.

Now she's running for governor of New Mexico. If elected, she'd be the first Native American woman governor in US history.

A 35th-generation New Mexican and member of the Pueblo of Laguna, she just published her memoir 'A Voice Like Mine.'

Representation isn't symbolic. It changes who gets a seat at the table.

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

#Indigenous #NewMexico #representation

'New York City principals have been ordered to pause purchases of any new education technology software as the nation’s largest school system continues to wrestle with an AI policy amid a growing backlash'

#edTech #technology #pedagogy #ai #genAI

https://gothamist.com/news/all-education-tech-purchases-on-pause-as-nyc-schools-wrestle-with-ai

Which of the following video game abilities do you MOST wish you had in real life?

(No extra lives, sorry 😛 )

#poll #gaming #videoGames

@akamran @gwendolenau

Bittorrent is a protocol for sharing large fixed files that takes advantage of the upload bandwidth of those who are trying to download a copy of the file.

To take a simple and safe example, libreoffice is a relatively large application so they have torrent links on their download page.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/

if you have a torrent application installed for example
https://transmissionbt.com/

after you download the torrent file it should load into the torrent downloader application which will connect to a "tracker" server to see what other computers that have parts of the file you're interested in to download from.

But your computer will also announce to the tracker what parts you have and someone might download them from you.

For things like free software downloads or archives of big things like wikipedia this is all totally fine.

peertube internally uses bittorrents to help share the load of distributing the video file, so if one video became popular others watching the video can share parts so the primary host doesn't get crushed needing to serve more data than what the cheap server can support.

However people often want to share commercial movie, music, and tv files and because the default behavior of bittorrent shares your IP address, a motivated company can force your ISP to turn over your account information over to the law suit happy media companies.

This is your reminder that the heart of the Fedi isn't one person. It's all the people who BOOST the posts they think are important.

There's no algorithm here to tell you which posts you should be paying attention to. That's YOUR JOB. So BOOST the things you love. BOOST the things you think are important. And BOOST the posts that make your heart laugh.

The Fediverse needs YOU to BOOST.

You meet a man on Oregon Trail. He tells you his name is Terry. You laugh & say its a girls name. He shoots you. You have died of dissin Terry.

Yes, it is a fitted sheet, but they were not specific about what it was fitted *for*.
#Caturday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Theo escaped this afternoon.

Well.. he walked through the door I accidentally left open.

He came running from under my car when I shook some food however wouldn’t let me grab him.

Tried to corner him in the garage (a garage with a broken door) but he snuck out from there.

There is essentially only farm land and forested area around me so I was pretty sure he wouldn’t be found unless he returned on his own.

Me and Pen did a lap around the garage to hunt for him and by the time we had gone around Theo was there meowing to be let in.

Maybe 10-15 minutes did he survive before he wanted his home comforts.

He’s now very content and sleeping in his spot on the couch (as pictured).

#caturday

non-experts going, "here is an EASY SOLUTION, why isn't it implemented everywhere?" about my former field (solar) is never not going to make me go all Ben Affleck smoking meme.

I was offhandedly telling my therapist that I was trying to give my cats bodily autonomy ie not hugging them when they don’t want it etc. But then she pointed out they don’t allow me bodily autonomy as they climb all over me all the time, or just plop down nose to nose on my chest. This made perfect sense to me. Now it’s unrestrained hugs constantly and all the time.

Where are my cat dads? 😻

And give your kitty a hug for me today! ❤️😸

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#Cat #Art #DigitalArt #CatArt #OrangeCat #GingerCat #CatDad #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

I'm not sure what this wee flower bud has seen, but I'm going to try and imagine it while I head off to bed. It must be good.
Sleep well all, when night reaches you :bagpussYawn: 💤

#sillyScribbles

Definitely blocking your AI ed tech company.

Some of the conversations I have on this topic are students and other early career researchers asking how they can "keep up" if everyone around them is using LLMs to "speed up" their science.

To that, I want to urge folks to rethink which race they want to compete in. I know it's not that simple, because there are incentive structures that are drastically misaligned with doing deep work in most fields (and anything CS adjacent more than others, I'd guess).

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Just watched this film which I think will appeal to those interested in the intersection of tech, art history, and a madcap project to prove a theory. Strongly recommended for those that like to nerd out

#ArtHistory #Vermeer #film #documentary #OldMasters

https://youtu.be/NQabG6_hJLQ?is=SAivbha53AWVkBZn

Little is known about Olivia Newton-John's younger sibling Fig

You have to learn to love yourself before you can start to tolerate other people

power is out for the whole block but i’ve got 36% in the phone and a gas stove. basically a prepper.

If you’re ever lost in the wilderness, just build a cycle path because someone is bound to pull up in their car and park in it.

Well, it appears someone tried to phish the entire Penn State Libraries directory (or a chunk of it) with a bogus PaLA invitation-ish. I assume if someone had replied to confirm, they'd have gotten sent to a spoofed payment site.

Feel free to boost or cross-post to other social media since it's likely they're targeting other Pennsylvania libraries.