My new #podcast Before the Future Came isn't going to be about #StarTrek until the SAG-AFTRA strike ends, so we've pivoted to non-ST utopian #scifi, starting with Nnedi Okorafor's novella Binti: beforethefuture.space/podcast/…
Binti is an amazing work. 🤩 We had a lot of fun digging into the themes (violence & empathy, magic in scifi, and ostracization) and geeking about genre-specific stuff we loved. 🐙
(The ep transcript is running a bit behind, but should be up within the next couple of days!)
S00E01. Binti
Content Warnings: blood and injury; frank discussions of racism and xenophobia. We're not yet a Star Trek podcast! Instead, we open with Binti, written by Nnedi Okorafor.Before the Future Came
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@sj I've used otter.ai for several years. It lets you keep custom vocab and name lists for its initial pass on recordings and does a good job matching speakers and handling Southern accents. My biggest nitpick is that it's a memory hog in the browser. If I have my usual 80+ tabs open, I can't have it and Mastodon both open while I'm cleaning up a transcript. 😂
I do pay for it on a yearly basis and am grandfathered in on an older plan, so the cost/value ratio might be different for a new user.
A nice random story I accidentally found on the internet while searching for something else entirely:
translunartravelerslounge.com/…
Mr. Lieber Comes to Hirta, by Priya Sridhar
Warm breath tickled his nose, a rumbling carpet pressed against his mouth, and Martin tasted stale fur and icicles.Translunar Travelers Lounge
Enchanted serenity
🎞️ Adox CHS 100 II
#BelieveInFilm
#FilmIsNotDead
#FilmPhotography
#BlackAndWhite
#landscape
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The Santa Fe Institute seeks applications for postdoctoral fellows. This is the best postdoc position in the world for interdisciplinary scientists!
More information and application link can be found at apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/com…
Application deadline: October 13, 2023.
Wayland Is Superior To Xorg: But It Doesn't Matter
Nowadays Wayland is just technically superior to X11 and Xorg but everybody already knows that the problem is it doesn't convince the stragglers because they...YouTube
Released the "Generation 2" of Usernetes: Rootless Kubernetes
github.com/rootless-containers…
Gen2 was rewritten from scratch for simplification. [1/2]
GitHub - rootless-containers/usernetes: Kubernetes without the root privileges
Kubernetes without the root privileges. Contribute to rootless-containers/usernetes development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
This is similar to rootless `kind` and minikube, but Usernetes Gen2 supports creating a cluster with multiple hosts using Flannel (VXLAN). [2/2]
The Voyager 1 space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral #OTD in 1977, a few weeks after Voyager 2.
Now it's the most distant human-made object – about 14.96 billion miles from Earth, racing away from us at 38,000 miles per hour with respect to the Sun.
Images: NASA/KSC/JPL
![The "pale blue dot" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history..."](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1136420 "The \"pale blue dot\" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads \"\"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history...\"")
So even though Voyager 1 has a long way to go, I wouldn't fault anyone for describing it as being at "the edge of the solar system."
It’s the fastest and most distant thing humans have ever made, it’s okay to sound a little dramatic.
When we receive data from Voyager 1, we’re picking up a signal sent about 22 hours and 19 minutes.
Of all the objects humans have hurled into space, Voyager 1 is the closest to being one full light-day away from us.
The speed of light is 3 x 10⁸ m/s, and Voyager 1 is traveling at about 38,000 mph with respect to the Sun. A few conversions turns that into about 0.5 light-hours per year. So we're a little over three years away from Voyager 1 being one full light-day away from us.
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor - Steam Deck, Patch 7 - 30FPS?! Playable?!
youtube.com/watch?v=aiRlVGZGmY…
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor - Steam Deck, Patch 7 - 30FPS?! Playable?!
#StarWars #JediSurvivor just had patch 7 released, and the developers noted it included some performance improvements, so I decided to take a look and see if...YouTube
Mesa 23.2 Brings OpenGL 3.1 & OpenGL ES 3.0 Support on Asahi, New RADV Features - 9to5Linux
Mesa 23.2 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 3.0 support on Asahi and many bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
daringfireball.net/linked/2023…
Should Apple Cease Advertising on Twitter?
Link to: https://technovia.co.uk/2023/09/04/its-long-past.htmlDaring Fireball
#Archaeology #SciComm #WomenInScience #Animals
I Am - Somebody
From 1971, here’s Jessie Jackson on Sesame Street doing a call-and-response with the children of the poem I Am - Somebody.kottke.org
URGENT need for 400 dollars for legal fees:
Help Mari, a trans woman raise money for her legal fees and flee florida's anti-trans legislation and find some security in a better place, away from her parents, likely in minnesota.:
Goal: 3553/5700
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Help a trans woman flee Florida, organized by Mari B
Hello Everyone I am Mari I am a Transgender Floridian who needs help to leave Florida due … Mari B needs your support for Help a trans woman flee Floridagofundme.com
Help Andy, a transmasc individual flee florida's anti-trans legislation. They need to be able to pay for their rent and other living expenses to be able to sustain a safe life away from violence by shipping their goods to WA and moving there :
Goal : 445/3500 dollars
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Help a transmasc escape from Florida, organized by Andy Luengo
Hello, I'm Andy, a queer person living on Florida. I moved from Venezuela a year ago… Andy Luengo needs your support for Help a transmasc escape from Floridagofundme.com
URGENT!
Help Mia, a NonBinary individual cover for their living expenses as they recently had to flee florida due to anti-trans legislation, it is a bit urgent so if we can reach the goal within a week, it would be swell!
Updated Goal: 185/300 dollars*
*REQUEST: good job yall! pls BOOST again/keep BOOSTING!
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Help Ex-Floridian Pay the Bills, organized by Mia K
Hi all, I'm Mia, a nonbinary person who recently moved out of Florida due to its hateful legisl… Mia K needs your support for Help Ex-Floridian Pay the Billsgofundme.com
Humble Choice has Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Patch Quest, Deceive Inc + more gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/humb…
Humble Choice has Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Patch Quest, Deceive Inc + more
Another pretty great sounding bundle of games, with the monthly Humble Choice live for September. Here's a run over the compatibility for Steam Deck and desktop Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Están apareciendo nuevas redes sociales que supuestamente no son tóxicas, donde es posible conectar con personas con intereses similares a los nuestros y fomentan el contacto en el mundo real.
👇 ¿Es posible?
eldiarioar.com/tecnologia/rede…
¿Es posible crear una red social no tóxica?
Las redes sociales llegaron con el cambio de siglo y sus creadores nos hicieron la promesa de que nos ayudarían a conectarnos entre nosotros. En principio, así fue.elDiarioAR.com
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars getting remastered, plus a whole new adventure gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/brok…
#Gaming #PCGaming #BrokenSword
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars getting remastered, plus a whole new adventure
Revolution Software recently announced two huge bits of news for adventure game fans! Not only will there be a whole new game with Broken Sword - Parzival's Stone but Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged is coming too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
OpenAIRE
European Open Science Infrastructure. Open scholarly communication infrastructure. Open Access. Open Data.www.openaire.eu
Excellent Some More News episode on the problems with billionaire philanthropy.
I wish folks in open source/science/.* would at least think about this for a hot minute before begging CZI, Gates et al. for some breadcrumbs…
youtube.com/watch?v=69AtkAHkKE…
Billionaire Philanthropy Is Kind Of A Scam - SOME MORE NEWS
Hi. In today's episode, we look at how billionaires often benefit from their supposed altruism and why we can't rely on their "generosity" to solve society's...YouTube
The quote from below article stopped me dead in my tracks. Reminds me of way too many bio education initiatives I've been naively involved in (if your long-term outreach/education program does not involve professional teachers, it's time to reassess) seattletimes.com/seattle-news/…
Gates Foundation takes up question of its own power
Does The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have too much power and influence? It's a question the foundation's CEO Mark Suzman raised in its annual letter released Tuesday.The Seattle Times
I'm featured in the Open Pedagogy Podcast today, discussing #DIYMethods, our conference-by-mail.
We chat about how academic zines are extremely nice, the uses and limitations of online/hybrid conferences, and the broader politics of green conviviality in thinking about how academics might organize to meet the challenges of climate change.
spreaker.com/user/voicedradio/…
Dr. Anne Pasek
Gettin' Air with Anne Pasek. Dr. Pasek runs the Experimental Methods and Media Lab which "provides resources and structure for interdisciplinary collaboration at Trent University".Spreaker
Our field experiment on code sharing behavior in the social sciences has been published in PLOS One 🥳 (co-authored by @laura_schaechtele and Andreas Schneck).
Read the full article open access journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…
(Main take-aways in the thread below)
#metaRep #openscience #opendata #opencode #replication
Care to share? Experimental evidence on code sharing behavior in the social sciences
Transparency and peer control are cornerstones of good scientific practice and entail the replication and reproduction of findings.journals.plos.org
Building Bridges With The GNOME Project
In the early days of Elementary OS, Cassidy and others had a fairly negative relationship with the GNOME project but eventually those bridges were rebuilt af...YouTube
Linux updates tease Valve 'Galileo' and 'Sephiroth' - Steam Deck refresh? Or new VR? gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linu…
Linux updates tease Valve 'Galileo' and 'Sephiroth' - Steam Deck refresh? Or new VR?
Here's something that could be exciting but also could be a whole lot of nothing. So keep expectations firmly in check, but work submitted for Linux kernel 6.6 show something interesting from Valve.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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This Labor Day is for Laborers
Union wins keep coming — let's keep the worker momentum surgingJoshua P. Hill (New Means)
Revisit the moment
photos.app.goo.gl/VehesSpnPjmW…
Half-Life Alyx NoVR mod to get a huge upgrade in October gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/half…
#HalfLifeAlyx #HalfLife #PCGaming
Half-Life Alyx NoVR mod to get a huge upgrade in October
The work going into the Half-Life Alyx NoVR mod is quite amazing, and while it was already very playable the next major update coming in October is going to really expand it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Zoom Platform adds Syberia and Syberia II powered by ScummVM gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/zoom…
Zoom Platform adds Syberia and Syberia II powered by ScummVM
It's now easier than ever to play the classic adventures Syberia and Syberia II from Microids, as the Zoom Platform has added them with cross-platform support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
State of the US-RSE
This keynote talk at the RSE Conference 2023 (RSECon23) discusses the state of the US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE), including a summary of the organization, discussion of a new award from the Alfred P.Zenodo
Game porter Ethan Lee offers services to maintain old games for developers gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/game…
Game porter Ethan Lee offers services to maintain old games for developers
Ethan Lee, otherwise known as flibitijibibo (really rolls off the tongue huh), who created FNA and has ported a ton of games to Linux, macOS and more has announced a new game maintenance service for developers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
MeowcaTheoRange :karkat:
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