Georgia senators vote to bar COVID-19 vaccine requirements
The Senate voted 31-21 in favor of the bill, which would make permanent what had been a one-year ban enacted in 2022.Associated Press (FOX 5 Atlanta)
AI Asmongold Answers A Very Personal Question
You can check out Esfand and Athene for more: https://www.twitch.tv/esfandtv https://www.twitch.tv/atheneliveOn this Asmongold Youtube Channel You will never...YouTube
SF’s Market Street Subway Is Running on Reagan-Era Technology
Floppy disks: Do you find public transit in this city frustrating? It might be SFMTA’s use of a storage format that can’t even hold a JPEG.Peter-Astrid Kane (The San Francisco Standard)
Apollo 14 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean #OTD in 1971 after a successful 9-day mission! It was the last of the Apollo missions to quarantine the astronauts upon their return. More on the completion of the mission: go.nasa.gov/3XayznR
📷 Astronaut Ed Mitchell disembarks
#NASAhistory
Check out the demo of Full Void, a dystopian cinematic puzzle-platformer
Getting some Beneath a Steel Sky vibes off of this one. With a demo available on Steam now (with Native Linux support), Full Void looks worth a look.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
A dried-out Lake Hamun means more dust storms.
The seasonal lake in the Sistan Basin of eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan has been shrinking, reducing vegetation cover and exposing silt and dust. This makes the area a major source of dust storms. go.nasa.gov/3RJ79UZ
#NASAEarth
A Dry Lake Hamun Means More Dust Storms
When the seasonal lake and wetlands in the Sistan Basin dry out, dust often fills the sky.go.nasa.gov
This is just one dust storm, but the cumulative effect of Earth's dust storms can have significant effects on the atmosphere.
A UCLA research team found airborne dust has likely increased by 55% on a global scale since pre-industrial times. go.nasa.gov/3RJ79UZ
#NASAEarth
A Dry Lake Hamun Means More Dust Storms
When the seasonal lake and wetlands in the Sistan Basin dry out, dust often fills the sky.go.nasa.gov
The series of maps below show dust spreading toward the south over Pakistan, India, and the Arabian Sea during six-hour intervals on January 12.
The data came from NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) modeling system.
#NASAEarth
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How do you think power should flow on a platform like this?
The Groundwork Fellowship is an invitation from @metagov_project to bring a broader diversity of hands and voices into making the future of online governance.
Apply: metagov.org/open-call-groundwo…
Open Call: Groundwork Fellowship
The way the internet is structured shapes the way communities gather, organize, and share resources, both on and offline.Metagov
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ScummVM 2.7.0 is ready for testing more retro games
ScummVM, the all-in-one solution for many different retro games and upgraded game engines for classics has a new version 2.7.0 ready for testing.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
APOD: 2023 February 9 - Nacreous Clouds over Lapland
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Thief-like stealth game The Dark Mod v2.11 is out now
Love the old first-person stealth game Thief? The Dark Mod was inspired by it and there's a new release out.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ted Chiang: “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”
This is a fantastic piece by writer Ted Chiang about large-language models like ChatGPT. He likens them to lossy compression algorkottke.org
Stable Diffusion Based Image Compression - Towards AI
Stable Diffusion is currently inspiring the open source machine learning community as well as upsetting artists world wide. I was curious to see what else this impactful technology release could be…Matthias Bühlmann (Towards AI)
not a surprise that Ted Chiang wrote the best thing I read today
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-t…
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
The noted speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang on OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, which, he says, does little more than paraphrase what’s already on the Internet.Ted Chiang (The New Yorker)
The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump
Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the exodus from Elon Musk’s Twitter, suggesting the decentralized social platform is not a direct replacement.Amanda Hoover (WIRED)
It’s spokes season!
On Saturn, mysterious “spokes” appear on its rings near the planet’s seasonal equinoxes.
Scientists suspect they are caused by Saturn’s magnetic field interacting with solar wind from the Sun, but this hypothesis is unconfirmed: go.nasa.gov/3RN8SZd
#Hubble
Hubble Captures the Start of a New Spoke Season at Saturn
New images of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope herald the start of the planet's "spoke season" surrounding its equinox, when enigmatic features appear across its rings.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
#childrensbooks #kidlit #reading #science #ecology #Evolution
Hey @evan
this is huge publicmediaalliance.org/public…
#eu #ca #activitypub #fediverse
Public broadcasters create "Public Spaces Incubator" - Public Media Alliance
Four public broadcasters are partnering to develop solutions to address increasingly toxic, polarized and unsafe online discourse.Harry Lock (Public Media Alliance)
Paper alert 🚨
Polyketide compounds and their analogues cause shellfish poisoning, and dinoflagellates may utilize a combination of Type I multi-domain and single-domain PKS proteins to synthesize them.
'Transcriptomic analysis of polyketide synthesis in dinoflagellate, Prorocentrum lima'
#protists #MicrobialEukaryotes
doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2023.102…
"Here, we identified an endogenous cGAS-like enzyme in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that generates 3′,3′-cGAMP during phage infection, signals to a phospholipase effector, and limits phage replication."
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8…
Bacteriophages inhibit and evade cGAS-like immune function in bacteria
Bacteriophages antagonize cGAS-like bacterial immunity by sequestering immune signaling molecules and acquiring capsid gene mutations.Cell
Remember that the backend "Mastodon" and your front-end "Metatext" are separate. This is surely a client issue.
You're seeing the notifications so what else are you expecting?
humblebundle.com/games/love-is… (partner)
Love is in the Air
Pay what you want for a bundle of dating sims, romantic adventures, visual novels, and more narrative-driven romantic PC games—the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for gamers!Humble Bundle
NVIDIA 525.89.02 rolled out as stable with one noted fix for Linux:
Fixed a bug that could cause banding or flickering of color gradients on DisplayPort monitors.
Not worth a whole article but there you go: nvidia.com/Download/driverResu…
Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver | 525.89.02 | Linux 64-bit | NVIDIA
Download the English (US) Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver for Linux 64-bit systems. Released 2023.2.8www.nvidia.com
The new System Shock remake demo runs surprisingly well on Steam Deck
After going through development hell and being long delayed, Nightdive Studios have put up a fresh demo of their System Shock remake that includes controller support and a new intro.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Remember #GameDev you should program games in C++ (the language of Sony and Microsoft) and not Linux 🤣💀
reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/c…
The reboot of the indymedia project
We are a wide affinity group working to reboot the global indymedia network using modern federated protocols such as #activitypub. This reboot will be based on the OMN project code. What is the OMN (Open Media Network): The project is to shift p...visionOntv
NextcloudHub integrates the four key Nextcloud products Files, Talk, Groupware and Office into a single platform, optimizing the flow of collaboration.
A powerful collaboration in ONE integrated solution! 😍
With the #mainstreaming flooding in, we need to tell our own stories or be swamped by their bad narrative. The subject of the cats and the Eurocrats socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…
We have a good, convoluted #4opens process on the search link in the draft that needs putting into short words.
Then how to communicate the value in this "cat melowling" ;)
let's try and keep the "signal" in the current "noise"
EU outreach - If we dont tell our story am not sure who will
Draft story about our #EU outreach, please edit and add links, thanks. #ActivityPub is a protocol for decentralized social networking that is based on #openweb standards.SocialHub
#ISS
Progress Cargo Craft Lifts Off to Resupply Crew
The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 83 is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following launch at 1:15 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 9 (11:15 a.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.go.nasa.gov
Panorama view of Lonar Crater Lake impact site from the temple at the water's edge.
"... previously estimated to be 52,000 ± 6,000 years, newer studies suggest an age of 576,000 ± 47,000 years." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonar_La…
DraconianRain via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Lonar crater lake- water's edge
Panorama from the temple at the waters edge. The water is alkaline.Flickr
Nacreous Clouds over Lapland
Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230209.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2023 February 9 - Nacreous Clouds over Lapland
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
#ISS
NASA TV Broadcasts Launch of Station Resupply Mission
NASA Television, the agency’s website and the NASA app now are providing live coverage of the launch of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.blogs.nasa.gov
like this
When at the cabin, we can't just toss the pups out into a fenced yard to do their business in the morning on their own like we do back home, so we have to actually get dressed and take them out to do their business.
Sometimes, if you time things just right, having to put on pants is worth it!
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage
There’s been this weird series of articles lately, trying to frame the rapid growth of the fediverse (mainly Mastodon), as somehow now failing. It started last month, with the Guardian’…Techdirt
Organizing a growing Social.Coop: an idea for a proposal
As Rene Magritte wrote, "this is not a proposal." This is a draft for discussion that may lead to a formal proposal for a new organizational body for Social.Coop.Loomio
Linking Dot
in reply to nedhamson • • •hamish campbell
in reply to Linking Dot • • •Bob Mottram ✅
in reply to hamish campbell • • •I tend to despise all politicians regardless of stripe, or another way of putting it is that my disposition towards them is the same as they have for me.
Death cult is a bad metaphor for liberalism, because there is no single leader of liberalism and no controlling mind. To simplify that way misleads in the direction of inadequate fixes (i.e. that the problem is just about removing or voting in the correct liberal candidate). Really liberalism is just another faulty ideology with all sorts of snags and toxic effects and clownish decrees.
vagabond
in reply to Bob Mottram ✅ • • •Our politics are all very bad, but we are political animals, so we need something "like" politics. The scum rises to the tops is a good thing to bear in mind on this subject, so horizontal is better than vertical.
#deathcult is a metaphor for the last 40 years of neoliberalism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliber…
And it's about the theory that shapes the people, good to keep this in mind.
Yes, it's a mess, good to have ways to describe this.
hamish campbell
in reply to vagabond • • •‘The Oil Machine’: How grand eco-narratives obstruct change (a review) – The Meta-Blog, no.25.
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