More on the exceptionally stupid closing of the #Duke herbarium:
“Duke will never be a leader in #biodiversity like it was before” - Kathleen Pryer
dukechronicle.com/article/2024…
‘To kill a program’: Duke to close herbarium after over 100 years of operation
The Duke Herbarium is the second-largest private university herbarium in the U.S. and is home to more than 825,000 plant specimens, including some specimens almost 200 years old.The Chronicle
I'm wondering where this will go.
The Guardian: Alexei Navalny's Death
Alexei Navalny death: dozens reportedly arrested in Russia protests as Biden blames Putin ‘and his thugs’ – live
US president joins world leaders in outrage at Putin critic’s death in Russian prison as EU says he was ‘slowly murdered’ by regimeNicola Slawson (The Guardian)
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This blog about The Firehouse Five Plus Two and a missing Disney Cinderella song is AMAZING!
Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise
Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise
My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, I accidentally di…cabel.com
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Today we have @TheEvilSkeleton back on the show so that means it's time to talk about the cool things going on in GNOME land #Linux
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#207 Let's Be Positive About GNOME | TheEvilSkeleton
Today we have The Evil Skeleton back on once again to talk about flatpaks, the future of the Linux desktop and some other random topics as tends to happen on...YouTube
Rockaway Beach, Pacifica, California (2016)
Bronica S2, Fuji Acros film
I've always liked the tonality of the rocks in this image. Acros does such a wonderful job in that regard. You can also clearly see each row of waves as they approach the shore in all of their frothy inevitability. I can almost hear them.
#believeinfilm #blackandwhite #fujifilm #darkroom #beach #california #fediphoto
🔄 Updates on Roundcube + Nextcloud!
Anna shares updates on Roundcube development and maintenance from @fosdem: current status, future ideas, challenges, a new dedicated employee, and new approaches to security.
The developer of the Graysky client for Bluesky has written up how to embed replies from Bluesky as comments on your blog.
Like I said for Mastodon comments, not going to enable this on my site.
#Bluesky #comments graysky.app/blog/2024-02-05-ad…
The Age of Realistic AI-Generated Video Is Here
OpenAI unveiled their prototype video generator called Sora. It does text-to-video and a ton more. Just check out the videos herekottke.org
Democracy On, Not Just Around, the Internet
Schneider, Nathan. 2024. “Democracy On, Not Just Around, the Internet”.ash.harvard.edu
TikTok, radiografía de la adicción que daña la salud mental de los menores
Un informe de Amnistía Internacional desvela que la aplicación, adictiva por diseño, muestra vídeos que pueden ser perjudiciales...
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TikTok, radiografía de la adicción que daña la salud mental de los menores
Un informe de Amnistía Internacional desvela que la aplicación, adictiva por diseño, muestra vídeos que pueden ser perjudiciales para niños y niñas con tal de que sigan deslizándose por la aplicación.Eva Ibáñez (Público)
Metro Exodus hits 10 million sales - and there's more to come gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/metr…
Metro Exodus hits 10 million sales - and there's more to come
4A Games announced that Metro Exodus has now crossed over 10 million sales, and the good news is they have plans for more games to come.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
More details on the Manjaro Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/more…
#Linux #HandheldGaming #Manjaro #SteamDeck
More details on the Manjaro Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld
Announced earlier this month, the Orange Pi Neo is a gaming handheld coming out a bit like the Steam Deck but it will be running Manjaro Linux. Recently the Manjaro team gave out a bit more info.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
There's currently an incident involving some kind of Japanese skids who call themselves the "Kuroneko" organization.
They seem to be attempting to commit DDoS attacks on Misskey servers, constantly creating new accounts on compromised instances and spamming advertisements for their hacking services.
Admins who are federating with these compromised servers, while they might not get compromised themselves, may be affected by the sheer amount of traffic volume from their spam.
Admins are advised to #fediblock or temporarily stop sending requests to affected servers for now, if they don't want to get secondhand DoS'd
IMO I never expected them to be Japanese out of all things, kinda funny. They also host VOICEROID and VOICEVOX TTS bots on their Discord apparently. Kinda a weird flex I guess.
But yeah, probably just a bunch of skids.
#fediblock#fediadmin#fedadmins#mastodadmin#misskeyadmin
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets performance improvements, HDR-bloom, bug fixes and their script compiler is now open source gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/neve…
#RPG #Gaming #OpenSource #Linux
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets performance improvements, HDR-bloom, bug fixes
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is still amazingly being updated, although not directly by Beamdog with the community now helping out for fun.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
woooo!
Man, maybe we will get a Linux version of the script compiler and not have to do it through wine all the damn time!
nature.com/articles/d41586-024… #Looking Up #public #trust #scientists #PoliticalOrientation #researchers #policymaking
Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is high
Study of more than 70,000 people suggests that trust levels vary among countries and are linked to political orientation.Wong, Carissa
if they ever remaster the simpsons hit & run, they should make the time limits on set to kill and alien auto-topsy part 3 even less forgiving
and change nothing else
Alien "Auto"topsy Part III
Alien "Auto"topsy Part III is the final mission of Level 7, as well as the 49th and final mission of the game.Contributors to The Simpsons Hit And Run Wiki (Fandom, Inc.)
Wowzers, that Mastodon CVE recently was quite something:
• You can inject a post that is attributed to any remote user
• You can overwrite the server's copy of any remote user
• You can rekey the server's copy of any remote user, by just listing another key
The full technical write up is worth a read: arcanican.is/excerpts/cve-2024…
Great article! I hated PE as a kid. Other activities I have always enjoyed doing, I suppose because they didn't strike me as exercise--just fun. I like dancing, singing, long walks in nature (be sure to check these links!). Years later and I'm still recovering from having my back fractured. I am good at keeping at my exercises, because I keep turning them into dance-steps and do them to my favourite music. Walking involves saying "hi" to many of the neighbours, patting all the dogs being taken for a walk, and ends with a lovely cup of tea at my favourite cafe. So, things are getting better. And I feel emotionally better when I do them.
Running or yoga can help beat depression, research shows – even if exercise is the last thing you feel like
Let’s dance! How dance classes can lift your mood and help boost your social life
Dancing in a group – in a class, in a club, at a wedding – is social. So it could be just the thing for 2023, if the gym isn’t for you.The Conversation
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As the new kid the other students would often gang up on me during dodgeball in order for them all to throw their balls at me at the same time. I'd come home bruised every time.
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absolutely disgusting. you can't watch sports with your kids without being drowned in celebrity endorsed ads, teenagers are being encouraged to do "harmless" quick bets on the melbourne cup by their peers, keno is in every pub, and the albo government's response is "well, we made them put a single sentence at the end of the ads"
the labor government took around $13 million in lobbying money from the gambling industry in 2020, by the way
How the gambling industry is pouring millions in political donations into party coffers
One party comes out well in front, according to the first investigation to analyse gambling-related political payments across all seven state and territory databases.Inga Ting (ABC News)
GUADEC 2023 - Day 1, track 2
Welcome to GUADEC 2023!GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusia...YouTube
"Life Comes from Space: The Decisive Evidence" (2022) by Milton Wainwright and Chandra Wickramasinghe.
Worth a read 📖 🤔, grab a copy here: worldscientific.com/worldscibo…
The Linux Cast Is Running Hyprland!?!
The Linux Cast made a big deal out of not running Wayland but recently he's been trying out Hyprland so le't ssee what he thinks about itFull Episode: https:...YouTube
Holy cow, this is bad - check out the nonsensical figures in this review: completely generated in Midjourney (!!), not even re-labeling the gibberish text labels (!!!).
This was published by Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, where the editorial office should have caught this and nuked it from orbit. Wow.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
Edit: It's been retracted 3 days after publication and 1 day after it blew up. That was quick.
Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway
This manuscript comprehensively reviews the interrelationship between spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) and the JAK/STAT signaling pathway.Frontiers
The Most Sane Wayland Hater
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6CuQDDBjt4Distrotube Rap 1: https://youtu.be/bYtdqwkZNPsDistrotube Rap 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IODmcCWVw...YouTube
【Neptunia】Conquest ending is real boys!!!
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Crowdsourced Time Lapses That Help Monitor the Environment
This is a cool thing I had not seen before: Chronolog. Since 2017, they’ve been helping organizations document environmentskottke.org
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