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Certifying palm oil as sustainable is no panacea - University of Michigan research
@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
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Giuseppe Zolli
You're welcome, my friend. Ready to share the article too😉👍


Devs of Superior: Vengeance detail their Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/devs… #SteamDeck #Gaming #PCGaming


Heroic Games Launcher 2.9 out now with Amazon Games support gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/hero… #Linux #SteamDeck #PrimeGaming
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

These new features look promising!

Unfortunately, Heroic is having some problems launching games via Wine right now... github.com/Heroic-Games-Launch… — Hopefully they can fix it soon.

(Basically replying here in case anyone else is having problems and looks into the thread. I've linked the issue @ GitHub above.)



NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.34 out now gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/nvid… #NVIDIA #Vulkan #Linux


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The Eagle Nebula with X-ray Hot Stars apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230725.ht… #APOD
#APOD


The Eagle Nebula with X-ray Hot Stars

Image Credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Visible: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image Processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, N. Wolk, and K. Arcand

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230725.ht… #APOD

#APOD
in reply to (moving) APOD

would there be any way to see what this would look like in light visible to the human eye? This looks incredible! I wonder if it would look just as incredible if we were there to see it. 🤔


This is bad. Mastodon instances need tooling to automatically detect and ban abuse (or flag for manual review), and to automatically defederate from instances that don’t ban abuse washingtonpost.com/politics/20…


A new PLoS Bio paper I'm on is out:

Policy recommendations to ensure that research software is openly accessible and reusable

It argues:

Research data is optimized when it can be freely accessed and reused. To maximize research equity, transparency, and reproducibility, policymakers should take concrete steps to ensure that research software is openly accessible and reusable.

doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3…



The Observatory built in 1870 by Friedrich Gustav von Bülow in Bothkamp.

Die Gartenlaube (1871), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.





"C/2014 Q2, H+Chi, Cassiopeia, M31."

Jannis, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/r646PA

#comet



Musk failed to get the necessary permits to change Twitter’s building signage to X, and the police shut it down just in time for “er” to remain. #twitter #tech #elonmusk #x #twittermigration #twitterlogo #elon #musk

in reply to AlmaLinux

URL is 404?

Ah, yeah, there's some garbage at the end of the hyperlink for me for some reason

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"Saratov Meteorite Thin Section."

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

#meteorite



Are you finding Mastodon to be less vibrant/active?

I’m worried that we are not getting as much engagement on our Ukraine war reporting as we used to.

We’re trying to decide which social media platforms to continue posting on, given how much effort it takes to replicate across all of them.

If you want to send a signal to us that we should keep posting here, will you sign up for our newsletter? Counteroffensive.substack.com

I’m only asking Mastodon users today so we can gauge impact.

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Plants and vegetation are abundant along Baugh Creek in Idaho, thanks to the ponded water from beaver dams! 🦫

A @nasa-supported effort is using @nasa satellite data to predict which streams can support beavers and monitor changes once they return. go.nasa.gov/3Y5eRf8
#NASAEarth



✨ Innovation at every angle

It takes a brave passion for us to admit our old logo wasn't enough

Introducing PI𝕏ELFED



What a fascinating time, when we can not only explore our own solar system, but glimpse the workings of other planetary systems – across both time and space – with @NASAWebb and @NASAExoplanets
#NASASolarSystem

in reply to NASA

All the images are showing as "Not available." If you know about it, that's fine. But if unintentional, please fix ☺️ .


Now, Landsat Next is on the horizon 🌅

With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light and thermal energy,
@nasa/@USGS #Landsat Next will provide finer resolution and more frequent data to monitor Earth’s changing surface. go.nasa.gov/3va23GU

[Video embedded in original tweet]
#NASAEarth



Together, OLI and TIRS study all parts of Earth’s surface every 16 days.

From land to ice to sea, the open data provided by the #Landsat program has contributed to a deeper understanding of our changing planet. #OpenScience
#NASAEarth



I've seen this problem firsthand. Perfectly capable hardware being sent to landfills due to artificial limitations and unnecessary hurdles placed by Google.

This is a problem that desktop Linux can help solve. More freedom & less e-waste.

mercurynews.com/2023/07/24/bui…



The @NASAKennedy launch team recently completed the first of many mission simulations for #Artemis II, the first crewed Artemis mission.

Simulations help ensure that both team members and their software are prepared and up-to-date for a safe launch: go.nasa.gov/3Q8PQxK
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



.@NASAWebb detected water vapor around a distant star in a region where rocky planets could be forming. This steamy environment raises the question: Where did the water come from? Pore over the details:
go.nasa.gov/3KaVlbo
#NASA
#NASA
in reply to NASA

It's also possible that water vapour may have evaporated from a planet that once resembled earth but has dried to a rocky desert, like Mars.
We may be witnessing the aftermath of catastrophic climate change in that region.


#Landsat 8 and 9 also measure land surface temperature with Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) and TIRS-2. These data are crucial for water management and ice detection.

#DYK that TIRS almost didn’t exist? Now it’s been imaging Earth for over a decade! go.nasa.gov/3OSCDbH
#NASAEarth



Both Landsat 8 and 9 have optical sensors that collect beautiful images of Earth. 😍 🌏

Called the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2, these sensors take measurements in the visible, near infrared, and shortwave infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
#NASAEarth



51 years of eyes on Earth 👀🛰

Since 1972, the #Landsat program has been studying Earth’s land, water, ice and more.

There are currently three active @nasa @usgs Landsat satellites orbiting Earth — Landsat 7, 8, and 9 — with Landsat Next on the horizon. go.nasa.gov/3Nxxl4w
#NASAEarth




A brief review of the emerging field of spatial biology, which is already driving medical discovery. "You can think of it as generating the Google Map for the entire healthy adult human body at the single-cell level." erictopol.substack.com/p/spati…


In what is hopefully my last child safety report for a while: a report on how our previous reports on CSAM issues intersect with the Fediverse.

cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news…

in reply to David Thiel

The Japanese server problem is often thought to mean "lolicon" or CG-CSAM, but it appears that servers that allow computer-generated imagery of kids also attracts users posting and trading "IRL" materials (their words, clear from post and match metadata), as well as grooming and swapping of CSAM chat group identifiers. This is not altogether surprising, but it is another knock against the excuses of lolicon apologists.
in reply to David Thiel

Traditionally the solution here has been to defederate from freezepeach servers and...well, all of Japan. This is commonly framed as a feature and not a bug, but it's a blunt instrument and it allows the damage to continue. With the right tooling, it might be possible to get the large Japanese servers to at least crack down on material that's illegal there (which non-generated/illustrated CSAM is).


I don't want to talk about Aldean's "Small town" lyrics or video.

I do want to point out (again) that the homicide rate in GOP "small town" counties, is higher than that in Dem "big town" counties. 🤡

cjcj.org/reports-publications/…

A white person in a red county has about as much chance of being shot as a Black person in a blue county.🤡

(I don't know how much you know about crime in the USA, but if you have as much risk of being a victim of anything as Black people? That's not good).

in reply to mekka okereke

That's fair!
Point 3 is becoming questionable these days, but #4 is surprising. 🤔

@CptSuperlative

in reply to birdpoof

"Detroit is the most segregated city in the U.S., according to the report, followed by Hialeah, Fla., in Miami-Dade County, and then Newark, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Cleveland."

time.com/6074243/segregation-a…

There's only 1 Southern city in the top 5 most segregated. Boston is famously segregated. San Francisco has almost no Black people left.

Most of the Sundown towns were in the North, not the South. Oregon and Washington didn't even allow Black settlers for a long time



The Exp 69 crew kicks off a busy start to the week with space biology, human health research, robotics work and station maintenance. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
#ISS
#iss



Under construction 🚧
When @NASAWebb looked at a developing planetary system, it detected water vapor in the building materials, in the region where rocky planets like Earth may be forming: go.nasa.gov/3O5LR2j
#NASAExoplanets


Webb detected water in the inner disk of PDS 70, within 100 million miles of the star. Though we’ve seen water in similar disks, Webb’s discovery is the first detection of water in the “rocky planet zone” of a system known to have 2 or more developing planets.
#JamesWebb
in reply to NASA

So all we have to do is wait a few billion years, and we can hope for extraterrestrial life?


On our world, water is life. But how did it get here? Are there similar environments around other stars?

Webb has us one step closer to answers. In a still-developing “solar system,” Webb detected water in the zone where rocky planets like Earth may form: go.nasa.gov/3O5LR2j
#JamesWebb



Join us in celebrating @NASAInterns! Ahead of #NationalInternDay, July 27, hear from current and former interns, and discover the work they do.

Interested in interning with us, or know someone who might? Spring internship applications are due Aug. 31: go.nasa.gov/44WNcPJ
#NASA



#Tecnoafecciones Pensamos las tecnologías como dispositivos relacionales que median nuestra relación con el mundo, que nos afectan y que afectan los territorios que habitamos.

👉 Eso nos permite otras formas de imaginar sobre las relaciones y los usos que tenemos con ellas.

in reply to Sursiendo

Muchas veces, ese afectar suele entenderse de manera negativa.

📍 Aquí queremos recuperar la idea de que afectar es inevitable si nos pensamos de manera relacional y no necesariamente debe asociarse a la pérdida o el daño si nos asumimos co-responsables de ese afecto.

Afectar puede ser asumida como una acción política para transformarnos, ser conscientes y responsables de nuestro impacto en lo otro y en les otres.

Acciones para (re)conectar y transformar las tecnologías 🌿🤳

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