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"'Galaxy' of Radiolarians."

youtube.com/shorts/Fcbe-HkQQvA



"Perseid Meteor Shower at Mojave National Preserve."

Jim Vajda from Oxford, Ohio, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#meteor







Lesser known: Before NASA and the Apollo program, Margaret Hamilton worked with mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz.

From 1959-1961 she programmed weather simulations on his LGP-30 computer. Those projects were the precursors to his famous 1963 paper that marked the birth of chaos theory.

quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-โ€ฆ
mastodon.social/@mcnees/110907โ€ฆ



U.S. friends, today is a great day to check if you are registered to vote.

I just did it, and it took less than two minutes. Super easy!

vote.org/


in reply to Frank Aylward

do the strands start shifting and orienting to the light? that's what my oscillatoria did. within a few hours/days? (back in college) they would build sheets facing the light.


Weekend #Plankton #Factoid ๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿฆ

#Copepod #zooplankton are the most numerous metazoans on the planet, and some have evolved into fantastical forms. Take Calocalanus pavo, the beautiful "peacock copepod", which has amazingly plumed antenna and caudal rami. It is small, ~1mm long, and uses the plumes to slow its sinking for feeding in the upper #ocean. It is famous for being very prominent in Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904) plate 54 #watercolour paintings of copepoda.
#science #art





On collective action: @pluralistic: "The MIT story shows how to break a collective action problem โ€“ through collective action! Individual scholarly boycotts did little to hurt Elsevier. Large-scale organized boycotts raised awareness, but Elsevier trundled on." pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/theโ€ฆ


A day for books and cats. This is Marie, resting from her aspirations to do part-time work at a bookstore. #Caturday #catsofmastodon #books




Last spring, Washington State passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming.

Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciencโ€ฆ

in reply to Carl T. Bergstrom

Octopuses cannot be farmed humanely.

They are highly intelligent, extremely curious creatures that fare poorly in monotonous environment without natural stimulation. They are naturally solitary and experience intense stress in crowded environments.

Farming conditions are horrible for them.

(It's also highly inefficient, ecologically, to farm carnivores.)

Here's the full PDF: carlbergstrom.com/publicationsโ€ฆ



ashermaxperlman.com/#cartoons


Good morning everyone @Friendica Support

I would like to try to understand why from Friendica I can't connect to the Wordpress blog of @.mau. :friendfeed: already federated with @Matthias Pfefferle plugin, which is instead displayed correctly by Mastodon.
The blog is xmau.com/ while the user who publishes is @Notiziole di .mau.

If I paste the address of this post xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2024/08/โ€ฆ

in the Friendica toolbar, I get an error, while if I paste it on mastodon, I can view the post (here is an example: mastodon.social/@

Furthermore, if I try to search on Friendica for the user @Notiziole di .mau. I can see it, but if I try to follow it, I still get an error.

NB: I also have federation problems with Lemmy and not just with Friendica

Have any of you figured out what the problem might be that prevents Friendica and Lemmy from federating with that blog (but not Mastodon)?




Hunt: Showdown 1896 broke on Linux / Steam Deck, article updated to note Valve's new fix gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/huntโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #HuntShowdown

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Liam have you tried forming a party? Idk if it's the servers being wonky or EAC related but we couldn't play as a team last night, either me inviting or being invited immediately dropped everyone from the team. Solo ot matchmade parties work fine



Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out in PLOS Biology about how the ubiquitous incentive structures that motivate hard work also discourage scientists from taking on high-risk, high-return research projects.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/โ€ฆ


in reply to Muse

Austin has four seasons: Spring, Summer, HOT, and Summer Again. ๐Ÿ™‚
in reply to Muse

We're heading into Second Summer, and I think Autumn lasts about two weeks.


MIT dropped its contract with Elsevier, the huge scientific journal company. Their library instead arranged alternate access to journals and tools for researchers to get them. Theyโ€™re saving $2 million/year:

sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deaโ€ฆ

#academicpublishing #OpenAccess #science #scientificpublishing



Cat version of One Piece!

in reply to Muse

I like this meme! I like even more the fact that the image was created by Louis Wain. I remember seeing some of his work when I was a child. It had some how made it's way from Britain to small town USA. Netflix has in its collection a movie about Wain's life: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

youtu.be/xzDr_tbL-es?si=UPIAJNโ€ฆ


in reply to Muse

Heh. I have my kid navigate with their phone.
in reply to Muse

Better with flip-flop phones.



Draupnir is now being supported with a grant from NLnet NGI Zero. I've written up a post with some context, and to describe the goals for the project marewolf.me/posts/draupnir/24-โ€ฆ

If you do have feedback or questions you can reach out to me here or in our matrix room matrix.to/#/#draupnir:matrix.oโ€ฆ (which is preferred).

#Matrix

in reply to Gnuxie ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ

github.com/the-draupnir-projecโ€ฆ

>The second is to protect your community by applying policies from community curated policy lists, for example the community moderation effort, to your rooms around the clock. This means that communities can warn and protect each other of known threats

Sounds like fediblock with all the bad that entails. What online moderation really needs is a mechanism for due process. Cc: @ntnsndr



79% of Americans express concern about the way businesses use their personal data. ๐Ÿ‘€

Clearly we're in need of change: Nextcloud is the most privacy-respecting digital collaboration platform available for your business.

Try Nextcloud Enterprise today!

nextcloud.com/enterprise/



shapez 2 is an absurdly great and accessible factory-building game out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/shapโ€ฆ

#Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming



Acecho en internet, ยกhablemos de esto!

#stalking #CuidadosDigitales

el acecho en lรญnea fue mencionado como una forma de vigilancia que facilita la implementaciรณn de otras formas de violencia, como el feminicidio

dominemoslatecnologia.net/es/bโ€ฆ




Vampire Survivors gets free content in The Darkasso update, online co-op still in development gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/vampโ€ฆ

#VampireSurvivors #Linux #SteamDeck



I am surprised that I have never seen Silicon Valley types reference HG Wells' _Discovery of the Future_, which is pretty much a straight-up transcription of their view of the world from 1913: gutenberg.org/ebooks/44867


Get ready to paint the world in tracks with Super Loco World from the Farlanders creator, a fresh train management and automation sim gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/get-โ€ฆ

#Linux #PCGaming



These new Factorio enemies coming in Factorio: Space Age look horrifying gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/thesโ€ฆ

#Factorio #IndieGame #PCGaming



A cool video about fever and the immune system, what it is and how it works. Fun fact, rhinovirus only infects your respiratory tract because it is a much cooler 33C than your regular 37C body and can't survive in a hotter environment even without fever ( youtube.com/watch?v=cRZOUcpiOxโ€ฆ ).

"Fever is doing more than just making you miserable โ€“ it's fighting to save your life. But what exactly is it?"

in reply to Jeff Gilchrist

Why haven't viruses adapted to fever through evolution over the past hundreds of millions of years? Adapted viruses that survive the heat now find new healthy humans are too cold for them so harder to infect new hosts ( youtube.com/watch?v=cRZOUcpiOxโ€ฆ ). 2/


Chilled castle doodling game Tiny Glade releases September 23 and the demo is back gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/chilโ€ฆ

#Linux #IndieGame #CasualGaming

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