A Landscape with Apollo and the Muses by Circle of Jan Brueghel 1st and Circle of Hendrick van Balen 1st.
Outbound Comet ZTF
Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri
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APOD: 2023 March 24 - Outbound Comet ZTF
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
"18 inch (46cm) Newtonian reflector telescope erected by British astronomer Andrew Ainslie Common in his garden shed around 1876 at his house in Ealing, near London, England" (~1880).
Museums Victoria, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
"Newton's Discovery of the Refraction of Light," by Pelagio Palagi (1827).
Pelagio Palagi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
inv.vern.cc/watch?v=ySp_45K8TZ…
@BrodieOnLinux makes some great points here. i feel like dt like all of us has memories and nostalgia for old things and at the rate linux is moving now things are going to change.
some points dt made are true when your talking about certain projects like gnome, but there are so many gnome forks it's ridiculous.
Linux Hasn't Become Complicated & Limiting | Distrotube Reply
Recently Distrotube put out a video on how Linux had become too complicated and limiting but this video seemed off, it wasn't at all about the Linux desktop it was just about Gnome, and we know what GNOME is like.Brodie Robertson | Invidious
Fragment of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite that fell on February 15, 2013 in Russia.
Pavel Maltsev, pavelmaltsev.ru, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
"An Allegory of Intelligence" by Cesare Dandini (1656).
Cesare Dandini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
"Comet" by Unknown (~1700s).
Rijksmuseum, Public Domain via hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.CO…
Color and cropping edits.
"The Fall of Phaeton" by Joseph Heintz the Elder (1596).
Joseph Heintz the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
Sirius A, the brightest star in our night sky, revolves with its faint, tiny stellar companion Sirius B. Both are in the Canis Major (Big Dog) constellation. Sirius B may look tiny, but it's also massive, the remains of an exploded star. #NationalPuppyDay
#NASAExoplanets
Okay, now I want to read the original Bambi.
Gunned Down and Burned by the Hitlerists: The Shocking True Story of Bambi
like this
Bambi by Felix Salten
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
the shooting and the treatment of the animals are an allegory of the situation Jews found themselves in at that time.” While the moral of the Disney film might be that hunting animals is wrong, Salten’s message seems to be more that hunting humans is wrong.
Very different stories. Disney not only plagiarizes pre-existing tales, they corrupt them as well - to make more money, of course.
"Landscape with Apollo and the Muses," by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (1652).
Claude Lorrain, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
"A Vintage Lightning Storm at Kitt Peak" on June 4, 1972.
Gary Ladd/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
"The Microscope" by Robert Walter Weir (1849).
Robert Walter Weir, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
I feel awful that I only just learned about this. One of my physiotherapists is part of the Naarm team of Performance Medicine. I caught this when I was calling them to change an appointment. What is "Naarm"? It is the Boonwurrung name for the area that is called Melbourne by the colonial settlers. Just like "it's Istanbul not Constantinople", it's Naarm and not Melbourne.
Why is Melbourne also Called Naarm?
I will be looking further into this.
Why is Melbourne also Called Naarm? [Here’s What I Found]
Before I start this piece I want to acknowledge the Yalukit-Willam people who are the traditional custodians of the land I live on and on which I am writing this article today.Ben Reeve (The Sabbatical Guide)
like this
The Saint-Sauveur Meteorite fell on July 10, 1914 in France.
Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Meanwhile, in battery news...
Researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have developed an oxygen-ion battery with a storage capacity that doesn't decrease over time, leading to an extremely long lifespan compared to other batteries.
This battery can be produced without rare metals and could be used for in large energy storage systems, e.g., to store electrical energy from renewable sources.
techxplore.com/news/2023-03-ox…
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#energy #batteries #sustainability #technology
Researchers develop an oxygen-ion battery
Lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous today, but that does not mean that they are the best solution for all areas of application. TU Wien has now succeeded in developing an oxygen-ion battery that has some important advantages.Science X (Tech Xplore)
Good news in #FOSS anyone?
Our application platform is now open! 🚀
We welcome subsmissions from projects that seek support for Open Source Infrastructure in the public interest.
Would you like to see support for a specific library, developer tool or any other critical open source component? Please let us know!
@sl007 we have been working at the core of this area for the last 5 years. Can't quite understand from the text if these two #OMN projects are applicable or not: "governance" unite.openworlds.info/Open-Med… and "news" visionon.tv/w/jqTdss1qrdk4yEZi…
Can you clarify the text please.
openwebgovernancebody
(OGB) This is a space for working through Governance of horizontal projects - using #KISS online tools.Open Media Network
@Hamishcampbell
Did ask directly cause this was also discussed in the W3C mailing list and a lot of people asked in the official forum and fedi already (probably in fediforum and socialhub too), in particular due to 1 sentence.
But I think it would be strange if my gov. asked some years ago and now it would turn out those projects are not applicable.
This would then be the same like prototype fund who even did not support all the ActivityPub applications …
@krakenbuerger
Could you answer public about this?
Maybe also about “bundling projects”?
Thank you so much.
@Hamishcampbell
/me thinking privately 😀
if those projects would not be applicable, the whole fund would fail and my gov. would just repeat the same fail like with Putins gas again.
A while ago it really seemed superclear to me that they _did_ understood that we have to prevent the next monopoly (also here) and it seemed clear to me that the gov. understood that we need an ActivityPub Client Ecosystem which is as _diverse_ as possible …
This _would_ without a doubt include such prosocial projects of all kinds. Currently we seem to be on a tipping point.
Re. ActivityPub funding I think that @darius and @bobwyman made valid points in the Social CG mailing list.
ping @mariha @cpmoser
@iconet
@maxlath
too
My personal believe is that nearly all active projects _need_ some of _the same_ milestones, we could talk about teaming up on Wednesday, see
[in case you had not subscribed]
lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/p…
Maybe @krakenbuerger can confirm if this impression is fine.
Any updates on this? If they are going down the same #NGIzero path then they are the problem rather than the solution, the value is in #openweb culture more than the hard tech which at best if a manifestation of this value.
Let's hope this is not a fuckup, please? Send me info when you get it, as we need to talk about this stuff at the #fediforum event.
@Hamishcampbell @darius @bobwyman @mariha @cpmoser @iconet @maxlath
@krakenbuerger
Really many people did ask.
My personal believe is that nearly all active projects _need_ some of _the same_ milestones
(the projects are maybe “user-facing” but these milestones are infrastructure for sure).
Although I would ask myself what a huge power line means if there are no users cause power sockets for users are forbidden.
Can you confirm if this would be the right path then?
--> lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/p…
@Hamishcampbell I deeply believe the value is in both, culture of openness and decentralized infrastructure which works as a scaffold to support the people who participate in that culture. Without it it's too easy to fallback to the old power structures, even for the best intented people. Have experienced it both sides.
@sl007 I'll be happy to join the discussion, maybe it will help me rebuild some of the lost believes in this world.
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"Portrait of the Marquise du Châtelet" by Nicolas de Largillière (~1700s).
Nicolas de Largillière, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
#ISS
Crew Talk Space With Students, Investigate Fire Control, and Continue Heart Health and Cargo Return Activities
On Thursday, NASA Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg conducted an ISS Ham Radio (ARISS) session with Lana’i High and Elementary School, in Lana’i City, Hawaii.go.nasa.gov
"Silver 'Universal Double Microscope' with ornate decoration by George Adams the Elder, Fleet Street, London, c. 1763."
Science Museum Group, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 via Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.. 1949-116 Science Museum Group Collection Online. collection.sciencemuseumgroup.…
Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761. | Science Museum Group Collection
Silver ‘Universal Double Microscope’ with ornate decoration by George Adams the Elder, Fleet Street, London, c. 1763.collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk
How markets coopted free software's most powerful weapon (LibrePlanet '18 Keynote) — Benj. Mako Hill
[To skip introduction full of thanking people and stuff, start at 3:19.] Description: In my closing keynote address for LibrePlanet 2018, I suggest that a growing number of companies have learned from digital commons like free software, Wikipedia, …makosharkattack | Invidious
"AMD Announces Zen 4 EPYC Embedded 9004 Series"
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#NASA
Sketch of the 15-inch Great Refractor telescope at Harvard College Observatory.
A. Sonrel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Is That Supposed To Happen? #shorts
Where did the weather go#shorts #godofwar #gaming #godofwarragnarok Twitch: https://brodierobertson.xyz/twitchDlive: https://brodierobertson.xyz/dlivePatreon...YouTube
The Everlasting Storm in the “Most Electric Place on Earth”
Almost 300 days out of every year, there are thunderstorms over Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. Called Catatumbo lightning -- "kottke.org
A Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Incarceration
For decades, the federal government used its grant-making power to spur states to incarcerate more people and to impose longer sentences. It should now use that power to reverse course.Brennan Center for Justice
If you're at #Mozfest this week, come say hi to some of our volunteers.
We'll be in the Garden of Movement Building (top left corner of Emergent Encounters > The Gardens, Spacial Chat) Friday at 10:00 EDT to meet folks and run through a small activity surfacing some considerations the #translation of #science
Feel free to add questions or suggestions to the document below and hope to see some folks: etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Trans…
Brodie Robertson
in reply to karson🌙 • • •karson🌙
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •from what i understand that's probably just how dt's thought process was in making the
love the guy and makes good content but sometimes he says things that aren't always the case or heavily biased toward his opinion