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Jon Foreman's land sculptures are crazy beautiful!



I was waiting for this: Tressie McMillan Cottom on Beyoncé’s genre-busting Cowboy Carter. “The only honest answer is that country music is everything she sings about minus the Black woman singing it.” nytimes.com/2024/04/04/opinion…



What does it mean to federate your Flipboard profile? In the simplest terms, it means that whatever you curate (aka share) on Flipboard will be "syndicated" out to the fediverse with no extra effort. @miaq tests it out and breaks it down.

flipboard.medium.com/what-does…

#Federation #Fediverse #FediCurious #Curation #Flipboard #Mastodon #SpreadMastodon #Creators



At the end of the last God Of War Stream we started up God Of War 3 so lets just keep going with that youtube.com/watch?v=A1Z2Lw06Rw…


Flathub's Unverified Badge Feels Pointless #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/P2PMx_Az-iQ
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Tone, linguistics, semantics. These are a few of my favourite things. Failures to communicate? One of my least favourite things, which happens way too often in the open source space.

I agree about the "Possibly unsafe" messaging. Both Apple and Google just inform you that the app uses certain permissions to gain access to certain features. #flathub should inform the user just that.

In regards to verification, anything not #opensource should get a yellow badge. Outdated Flatpaks should be red.

in reply to Brodie Robertson

While I think Flathub could have used a milder tone, I think the message is still important. There are quite a few questionably packaged packages on FlatHub and I definitely think the user should be aware that it's unofficial when they encounter them.

This also might push developers to make those packages verified. Or maybe the maintainers of flatpaks can work with project devs to improve the quality of the package to make it official.



NASA Employee Grateful for Opportunities at NASA Stennis nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-em… #NASA #StennisSpaceCenter


My new op Ed in @techpolicypress

AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades, writes Princeton University sociologist Janet Vertesi:

techpolicy.press/dont-be-foole…





Advances in Understanding COPV Structural Life nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #NASAEngineeringAndSafetyCenter


need help - i am donating a print to an art auction and can't decide which shot of this film swap is best. The audience is folks who might be buying art for their home and is for First Exposures, which is a terrific program that provides youth mentoring through photography. Here's more about the program but if folks can provide feedback on which image they like best I'd appreciate it! #BelieveInFilm #photography


Crypt of the NecroDancer just got a Hatsune Miku DLC gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/cryp…

#IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck



The single best photo I have ever taken of Shadow, when I was trying to get a reference photo of cradling a cat for a drawing. Why does he look like bad taxidermy. Buddy what’s going on. Help doctor, my large son, he’s very sick


What the AI revolution means for Open Source, Open Tech and Open Societies?

From @socallinuxexpo , Jos explores the challenges and opportunities of AI from the perspective of our open source projects and communities.

Can AI be ethical? Private? Sovereign?
... Yes!

Here's how:

socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/p…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

, the energy consumption in itself makes running these LLMs unethical. I won't be running that garbage on any of my machines. Glad Nextcloud assured me these things would only show up as plugins, otherwise I'd have to hunt down a new cloud storage platform as a solution for my data storage needs.
in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Just because the AI runs locally and the models are open source, it is still not clear where all the images and texts come from. I am sure that none of the authors, artists and publishers were asked. This hype is a reflection of our society. We have completely lost sight of reality and what is important and what is not.


Mysterious thriller adventure The Heirloom launches in October - looks quite special gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/myst…

#IndieGame #Linux #PCGaming




Max Fisher: “Silicon Valley quiere que creamos que no se puede tener lo bueno de las redes sin sufrir lo malo, pero no es cierto”

#GAFAM

El periodista del New York Times detalla en 'Las redes del caos' todos los problemas alrededor de estas plataformas y cómo “distorsionan nuestra percepción de la realidad”

eldiario.es/tecnologia/max-fis…



More security issues in X.Org and Xwayland revealed and new releases live gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/more…

#Linux #OpenSource




Hello sugar people of the <img class=" title=":fediverse:"/> . My former collegue Bernard Henrissat now in 🇩🇰 is looking for a #PhD student in a Marie Sklodowska-Curie 🇪🇺 training network to work with him at the Technical University of Denmark. More info:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/201…
The deadline for application is May 31st, 2024 and the job will start in November.

Skills desired: #bioinformatics, general biology (++ #carbohydrates) and fluency in 🇬🇧.
Eligibility: the candidate should not have worked in 🇩🇰 before.



Musical logic puzzler Beat 'N' Path has a demo live now gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/musi…

#IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck



Interested in evolutionary genomics/population genomics and plant genetics? Want to do your PhD in beautiful Stockholm?

We have two 4-year PhD student positions available in my group at Stockholm University. More info, see tanjaslottelab.se
Please repost.

#evolution #genomics #popgen #distyly #CropWildRelatives #PlantGenetics #ecrchat #phd 1/4



New AI twist on old scam—a law firm is emailing outlets, saying they’ve used images without permission. To fix the issue, the outlet needs to add a link to a specific gadget review site. But law firm doesn’t seem real, uses AI generated photos of lawyers 404media.co/a-law-firm-of-ai-g…


NASA Wallops to Launch Three Sounding Rockets During Solar Eclipse nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #WallopsFlightFacility #HeliophysicsDivision #SoundingRockets #SoundingRocketsProgram


Advances in Understanding COPV Structural Life nasa.gov/general/advances-in-u… #NASA #General


Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI science.nasa.gov/solar-system/… #NASA #2024SolarEclipse #CitizenScience #Eclipses #Skywatching #SolarEclipses


Watch an expert book restorer deconstruct & restore a century-old first edition of Frank L. Baum’s The Lost Princess of Oz, using a repair knife she designed herself. “It does sometimes feel like book surgery.” kottke.org/24/04/this-woman-de…




Our latest commentary about a cool recent paper on virophage-mediated defense against giant #viruses!

March of the proviruses

pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.…

#virology #microbiology



NASA Achieves Milestone for Engines to Power Future Artemis Missions nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #StennisSpaceCenter #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #SpaceLaunchSystemSLS


NASA Receives 13 Nominations for the 28th Annual Webby Awards nasa.gov/general/nasa-receives… #NASA #General #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter


Eclipses Near and Far nasa.gov/history/eclipses-near… #NASA #NASAHistory


NASA Partnerships Bring 2024 Total Solar Eclipse to Everyone nasa.gov/general/nasa-partners… #NASA #General


Comet Pons-Brooks at Night apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240404.ht… #APOD
#APOD


Spice & Wolf is back after 15 years, how can anything else compete
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Cute wolfgirl munching and you got me sold on this one, She seems like a based wholesome character.

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