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Northwest Africa (NWA) 12577 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2i2CEK5

#meteorite




"Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas โ€ข New Visitor!"

youtube.com/watch?v=Z359_lNZFQโ€ฆ

#comet




Thin Section of the Clarendon (c) Meteorite in Visible Light.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2iKGVpe

#meteorite



Clarendon (c) Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hZoYdE

#meteorite



I simply adore this photo of James Earl Jones & Big Bird.

Yes, he played a lot of memorable dads from Darth Vader to Mufasa to King Jaffe Joffer + countless other incredible roles on & offscreen.

And Mr. Jones also happened to be the very first celebrity guest on Sesame Street. #history #media #art

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

what roles was he famous for when he made his appearance? Darth Vader? He looks quite young, I'm not sure kids would know him as anyone else.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Imagine standing next to him in a very warm and big yellow suit and your arm in the skyโ€ฆ


in reply to Muse

None of my 32 different personalities have ever listened to a Taylor Swift song. But a few of us have read that she is a good, kind, highly intelligent and generous person. She also supports U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota.





Elevators are magical rooms for Capricorn. We go inside, the doors closeโ€ฆ reopenโ€ฆ & suddenly weโ€™re in a totally different place! โœจ
#DogsofMastodon
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I have often wondered how dogs parse elevators---if they understand they're going up and down or if they really just think these are doors that "swap out" the scenery.

There's a dog at a retirement home near here, and he knows how to go floor to floor. He'll stand in front of the elevator and wait for people he knows usually go to the floor he wants to be on, then follows them in.



Universities are not just businesses, but an investment in future generations

I would go a step further and argue that universities should nit be treated like businesses at all

nature.com/articles/d41586-024โ€ฆ

#academicchatter #academia



TWIL 279 is being livestreamed in about 2 hours! Normally we stream on Fridays but yesterdays stream didn't go well so let's do Part Deux!
thisweekinlinux.com/live I hope to see you there!


Jurassic World Evolution 1 & 2 plus loads of DLC in this Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/juraโ€ฆ

#PCGaming #SteamDeck #LinuxGaming



Happy #caturday everyone. This is Rigbyโ€™s bartering service where he trades puffballs for treats. He will pick one out, often his favorite blue one, and proceed to announce his decision loudly as he carries it through the house to the office. The crying continues until he drops the puffball at which time he will tap my arm to alert me to the gift he has brought me. My role is to heap tons of praise on Rigby and reward him with a treat (or two).

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #catstodon


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Game changer:

LSFG [ Lossless Scaling Frame Generation ] o AFMF (AMD Fluid Motion Frames ] : github.com/ValveSoftware/Steamโ€ฆ

...implementing on STEAM.OS
"MOD DLSS ENABLER" (ready for LINUX ) nexusmods.com/site/mods/757?taโ€ฆ

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Microphoto of a thin section of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 960 Meteorite.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2eqyHDj

#meteorite


in reply to Muse

@Andrew Pam Thank you so much, Andrew. They say tears are good..they release toxic chemical from your body.
- CRYING HELPS DETOX THE BODY
"Reflex tears clean out debris from your eyes, such as smoke and dust, helping protect them. Continuous tears protect your eyes from infection by keeping them moist. Emotional tears contain stress hormones and other toxins that they flush from your body."


Northwest Africa (NWA) 960 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hZ1Shc

#meteorite



Playing the piano with a typewriter!

youtu.be/hzQU0Wz-azY?si=Q2aXCvโ€ฆ



Study: Cats in little crocheted hats shed light on feline chronic pain


Our feline overlords aren't particularly known for obeying commands from mere humans, which can make it difficult to study their behaviors in controlled laboratory settings. So a certain degree of ingenuity is required to get usable resultsโ€”like crocheting adorable little hats for kitties taking part in electroencephalogram (EEG) experiments. That's what researchers at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, did to learn more about assessing chronic pain in catsโ€”and they succeeded. According to their recent paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods, it's the first time scientists have recorded the electrical activity in the brains of conscious cats.



Lovely animation!

youtu.be/5DNqESedFMk?si=KCNYKTโ€ฆ

in reply to Muse

Do you think they did a multi-color wood cut for each frame?
in reply to Muse

@Karl Auerbach Someone has used a computer to create a number of animation styles that look like watercolours, pastel crayons, chalk, pen and ink, etc. They have also clearly used rotoscoping. Very clever, and still a lot of work. (I ran an animation society for 17 years)


I don't know if this works for anyone else but this feels like a nice picture to me.

๐Ÿ“ท Pentax KX
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
๐Ÿ”ญ Pentax M 50mm/1.7
โš—๏ธ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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"Northwest Africa (NWA) 7171 Meteorite Thin Section."

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2m3krZf

#meteorite

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La lucha del Archivo de Internet por salvarse

#CulturaLibre

The Internet Archiveโ€™s Fight to Save Itself

The webโ€™s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.

wired.com/story/internet-archiโ€ฆ



Want to say goodnight to #Eggbug and then be them for a while? This free game is for you:

sumac420.itch.io/goodnight-eggโ€ฆ

#cohost #IndieGame



...................
........
....So Valve just updated the Steam Subscriber Agreement and

they removed the binding arbitration clause and the class action waiver???????

in reply to Will ๐Ÿ’œ

They straight up inverted itโ€”the previous wording about exclusive jurisdiction for court proceedings was amended (diff) to remove the reference to the (now-deleted) binding arbitration section, and to make the statement apply retroactively (I highlighted the new text in bold):

You and Valve agree that all disputes and claims between you and Valve (including any dispute or claim that arose before the existence of this or any prior agreement) shall be commenced and maintained exclusively in any state or federal court located in King County, Washington, having subject matter jurisdiction.


IANAL, idk if the new text actually adds something that wasn't already in the agreement, etc.

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in reply to Will ๐Ÿ’œ

Well, turns out Valve probably ditched the arbitration provision because... some folks trying to start a class action against them went to arbitration, and got the arbitrators to rule that said provision was unenforceable: 404media.co/steam-removes-forcโ€ฆ


Build your apps for Nextcloud: reach our big audience of users, enjoy free promotion and even offer enterprise support ๐Ÿš€

Create new applications, extend Nextcloud's functionality, or integrate completely new software in Nextcloud โ€” Getting started is easier than you think!

nextcloud.com/developer/



Is corru.observer a widely known browser game? I played it last Thanksgiving week while I was meeting my grandfather for only the second time in my long-ass life and my grandmother for the first time in ~25 years. It was a weird trip that was perfect for late nights of playing a trippy game.

I think about it just about weekly, despite not having played it since. With #cohost dying, I'm sad I won't get my occasional dose of news and fanart there. Will I resurrect a tumblr account for following fanart? Quite possibly. ๐Ÿ˜ฃ

Anyway, if you can handle the intensity of the visuals, it's a great game: corru.observer/

(Maybe it is well known. RPS did a piece on it: rockpapershotgun.com/this-amazโ€ฆ)

#CorruObserver #BrowserGame #IndieGame #WebGame

in reply to Melissa Avery-Weir

...Gosh, @melissa , I keep forgetting about that article. Weird to me, seeing a (comparatively, I think) big name news article covering Corru.Observer, this little in-browser game project...

People need to talk about this game more. I am always spreading the word.

in reply to Holly

@WatchingfromHollyTrees ๐Ÿ˜ I'm impressed they played it, because it's much harder to get folks to notice browser games! It's a meaty game, though, and so creative and well-crafted.

...Well, now I know what I'm doing with my next free evening (catching up from where I left off). ๐Ÿ˜‹




๐ŸŽ™๏ธ A perfect Nextcloud Podcast episode for your weekend!

Mass surveillance, Snowden, and the future of digital politics with Constanze Kurz

"We are in the age of mass surveillance. The problem is most of the public doesn't discuss it anymore."

Constanze Kurz shares her insights on the impact of Edward Snowden's disclosures 11 years ago and the critical conversation we've lost since then.

#masssurveillance #hacktivism #Snowden @CCC

nextcloud.com/blog/constanze-kโ€ฆ



Dome Keeper hits 1 million players - multiplayer and modding support to come gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/domeโ€ฆ

#IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck #Godot



Stellaris: Grand Archive set for launch October 29th as Paradox teams up with Abrakam gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/stelโ€ฆ

#Stellaris #PCGaming



Stop what youโ€™re doing and start the electric #zine maker. alienmelon.itch.io/electric-ziโ€ฆ

Seriously. This designs our guide for the infrastructure walk during the upcoming annual conference of the CRC Virtual Lifeworlds. virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/

#sts #academicchatter alienmelon.itch.io/electric-ziโ€ฆ



Voidwrought looks like another great one for Hollow Knight fans gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/voidโ€ฆ

#IndieGames #PCGaming #SteamDeck



Warside looks great for turn-based tactics Advance Wars fans, set for launch in January 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/warsโ€ฆ

#Warside #Godot #IndieGames



Streets of Rogue 2 gets a new Classes Overview Trailer gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/streโ€ฆ

#StreetsofRogue2 #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck



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