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Leaving The Nest By Sasha Jumanca




"It compiles out" they said.
"You don't need to worry about it" they said.
"Just npm install" they said.
"You're gonna have a build step anyways" they said.

philipwalton.com/articles/the-…

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When dogs recall toys, and horses plan ahead, are animals so different from us?


"If animals are more like us, it’s worth knowing – especially for those campaigning in their favour. When naturalists trying to protect elephant herds from hunters shifted from raw statistics and aerial photographs to creating elephant “celebrities” – with biographies and photographed in high-fashion style portraits – support flooded in. Kindness to animals, it seems, is often conditional on recognising that they are similar to us."

And tech bros are so fast to ascribe sapience to their AI creations, yet are unwilling to extend empathy to living biological beings. Thomas Huxley has a lot to answer for when he described animals as unfeeling machines. However, all of colonialism, industrialisation, and social hierarchy have a lot to answer for. All of them ascribe true humanity only to powerful white men. Everyone else are things to own and to use.

in reply to Muse

The way I look at the question is that "We" all came from a very long evolutionary process.
The basic mechanisms are similar with a 'tree'. It seems that if there is a brain, then there is 'personality' at some level. How that personality manifests itself to humans determines how humans interact with that thing.
And of course, there are lots of human 'personalities' too.
in reply to Muse

Last time I checked a biology book, we were identified as mammals, so I guess that maybe, you know, perhaps, we are animals too.


NASA JPL Scientists, Engineers Collaborate With Artists for Exhibition nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #JetPropulsionLaboratory


in reply to Muse

It's a train wreck that is creating umpteen problems.
in reply to Muse

"... in high-risk situations."

Codswallop. AI doesn't have hands, so if you want it to perform physical labor, you have to build manipulators, etc.



NASA, Boeing Welcome Starliner Spacecraft to Earth, Close Mission nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-boe… #NASA #CommercialCrew #InternationalSpaceStationISS #ISSResearch #KennedySpaceCenter


Journal: Manual ’till it hurts

Try writing your HTML in HTML, your CSS in CSS, and your JavaScript in JavaScript.

🔗adactio.com/journal/21397




NASA Ames Fire Department to Conduct Live Aircraft Fire Training nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #AmesResearchCenter #General


🌱 My Neighbor Mastodon (and Fediverse)

I'm grateful for reaching 30K followers who appreciate my art here. Thank you, thank you, and thank you for your support!

#krita #ArtWithOpensource

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The save Team Fortress 2 petition lands at Valve HQ with over 340,000 names gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/the-…

#TF2 #Steam #Valve

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I love that they went to the effort of binding this so nicely. Clever, not only does it legitimize it in Valve's eyes, but also makes a nice image for any media who are sharing the story

Someone over there knows what they're doing, and I love it so much!!!



Simona Levi: “Almacenamos toda nuestra vida íntima y profesional en servidores que nos cierran la puerta en la cara”

“Era un espacio libre, como las antiguas tierras comunales, y poco a poco ha sido sustituido por grandes latifundios, por grandes poderes que se han apropiado de grandes pedazos, y hoy cuatro o cinco ocupan una tierra que en realidad nació libre”

@X_net

lavanguardia.com/cultura/20240…

@Xnet


The dome-shaped Brandburg Massif near the Atlantic coast of central Namibia nasa.gov/image-article/the-dom… #NASA
#NASA


Public Affairs Manager Gary Jordan nasa.gov/image-article/public-… #NASA
#NASA


The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOS gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/the-…

#Lutris #OpenSource #Playtron #Linux




Moon Watch is a time-stopping horde survival deck-builder from the devs of Backpack Hero gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/moon…

#MoonWatch #Linux #PCGaming #IndieGames



Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night at NASA Goddard nasa.gov/news-release/celebrat… #NASA #EarthSMoon #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #LunarReconnaissanceOrbiterLRO


Segunda Jornada de reflexión y debate "Comunicar más allá de la muralla"


Se viene nuestra Segunda Jornada "Comunicar más allá de la muralla"!!!!

El segundo Encuentro lleva como título «La Comunicación plural ante las murallas censoras de las plataformas corporativas.» y tendrá lugar este Miércoles 11/9 (9 am Centroamérica/Mx; 10 am Per/Ecu/Col/Cu/Pa; 11 am Bo/RD/Ve/Chi/Py; 12 h Ar/Br/Uy).

En este encuentro comenzaremos a buscar respuestas a la necesidad de ir más allá de las murallas que plantean las plataformas digitales corporativas para garantizar el pleno derecho a comunicar.

Para participar, apúntate en cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s…

Más información en al.internetsocialforum.net/202…

Saludos!!">

#comunciacionplural
#Democratizarespaciodigital
#NoALaCensura #noalacensuradigital
#chaualgoritmos




EmuDeck 2.3 Beta brings a new unified UI and multi language support gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/emud…

#SteamDeck #Emulation #EmuDeck #Linux

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I stopped using Emudeck a while ago because I couldn't find a way to turn off the touch pad radial menu that I kept hitting on accident. I ended up setting up the emulators and Steam ROM Manager manually. While it's not for everyone, it was the only way I could get things just the way I wanted them. Besides, tinkering is the best part of setting up any device IMO




NASA Science for Your Classroom: Opportunities for Educators science.nasa.gov/learning-reso… #NASA #LearningResources #ScienceActivation


Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240909.ht… #APOD
#APOD


NASA Invites Media to Discuss Europa Clipper Mission nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-inv… #NASA #EuropaClipper #Jupiter #LaunchServicesProgram #ScienceMissionDirectorate


NonSteamLaunchers v3.9.4 gets save backups using Ludusavi gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/nons…

#SteamDeck #Linux #OpenSource



@UQ_News research published in @TheLancetPlanet finds that #pandemics are linked to #ecosystem and #biodiversity declines, with viruses jumping from animals to humans. Urgent #publichealth and #conservation policies needed #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
wp.me/pcFhgU-77u


DOOM + DOOM II enhanced versions get Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/doom…

#SteamDeck #DOOM #DOOMII



KDE Slimbook VI announced with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/kde-…

#KDE #Linux #Slimbook

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

if I had been out for a laptop, I would go for one with USB4, at least #TUXEDO has a few models right now.

Something I would really like to see is a comparison between the different brands of Linux laptops, what is good and what ain't on them, like the touchpad.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

This is a really sexy looking laptop, as long as it's cooled properly that chip should be pretty darn powerful too.


Oxenfree is being completely removed from itch.io in October gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/oxen…

#Oxenfree #itchio

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Just a heads up:

If you got the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, it still shows up for download. You have to go to your purchases, bundles, that bundle, then you can search for it and download it.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Well, god damn, that's gross. Sounds like Netflix is on its way to further ruin the video game market. It sucks when companies shift their model to video games just because of the money. We have enough greedy companies as it is.


Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos

Image Credit: ESA, DLR, FU Berlin, Mars Express; Processing & CC BY 2.0 License: Andrea Luck; h/t: Phil Plait

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240909.ht… #APOD

#APOD
in reply to (moving) APOD

Not seeing the moon's name (Phobos) right away (I see it now in the second, annotated image) encouraged me to take the jump, and find out about its (geologically) imminent doom. In the July 3, 2022 APOD:

"Phobos orbits so close to Mars - about 5,800 kilometers above the surface compared to 400,000 kilometers for our Moon - that gravitational tidal forces are dragging it down. In perhaps 50 million years, Phobos is expected to disintegrate into a ring of debris."

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220703.ht…



Hah, today I learnt that the wireframe 'CGI' in Escape from New York, used for Snake Plissken to make a stealthy glider entry into the lawless prison island by air, was actually 'faked' by building a model of Manhattan covered in reflective tape. In 1981 this was the cheaper solution for a movie with limited budget


"It's important to remember that governance is always happening *somewhere* and if you're not doing it, someone else is doing it."

@ntnsndr speaking with @gleemie about Governable Spaces

archive.org/details/governable…

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IT'S STAR TREK DAY!!!

youtu.be/-QmXEe27JzA?si=V-JeMJ…



Oooh! A cat purr generator!
Thank you, Anna.

purrli.com/

in reply to Muse

#Sylverstone is wondering what's going on...
I bookmarked it and will try tomorrow...
Thanks!


M31: The Andromeda Galaxy apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240908.ht… #APOD
#APOD


Artist Chelo depicts what we see - and what we don't see - on social media. I like the full-circle nature of this comic.

Source: instagram.com/monero_chelo/rel… #art #socialmedia

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Another comic by Chelo caught my eye. How we present ourselves to others on social media vs offline. #art /2
#art

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