"The RCW 38 cluster in infrared light."
ESO/VVVX survey, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
7 Ways to Get Better at Small Talk—And Why You Should
"Despite the benefits, many of us hate small talk. We often assume that the people around us aren’t interested in talking or won’t like us—but research indicates that we tend to underestimate how much our conversation partners enjoy our company, a phenomenon called “the liking gap.”
"'We all have this negative voice in our heads that tells us we’re not very good at this social stuff,” Sandstrom says. “But the data suggest that people actually like you more than you think they do.'"
7 Ways to Get Better at Small Talk—And Why You Should
Small talk can make us happier and healthier—but some people dread the awkward silences. Experts dispense tips on how to get better at it.Angela Haupt (Time)
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"NGC 3109 imaged by the Dark Energy Camera using the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)."
Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: R. Colombari & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
This tool simplifies custom kernel building for Debian-based distros.
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Nitrux Linux Brings CachyOS' Kernel Builder to Debian
CachyOS introduces a kernel builder tool designed for Debian-based distributions, simplifying the process of creating custom kernels.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
I love this @sean @hello essay on how what the fediverse needs to grow is creative people and communities, not just copycat tech.
That's the motivation behind our Open Social Incubator project at @medlab: colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/0…
Open Call: Join the Open Social Incubator
Applications are now closedDo the online communities and groups that you participate in use digital tools that truly serve your values? Do you want to breakMedia Economies Design Lab
📢 Sursiendo participa en la RightsCon25 en Taipei.
Se presentará de manera presencial la conferencia «Actions for environmental justice from autonomous and community-based technological infrastructures» (Acciones para la justicia ambiental desde infraestructuras tecnológicas autónomas y comunitarias) el martes 25 de febrero a las 9 horas.
sursiendo.org/2025/02/sursiend…
Sursiendo participa en la RightsCon 2025 | Sursiendo
De manera presencial y en inglés, Jes Ciacci de Sursiendo presentará la conferencia «Actions for environmental justice from autonomous and community-based…sursiendo (Sursiendo)
Laishin Vegetarian (Vegan)
Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.Laishin Vegetarian (Vegan)
Presentamos nuestro libro:
"En los últimos años el feminismo ha desarreglado todo tipo de espacios y se ha metido en nuestras vidas para cuestionarnos de raíz y movilizarnos como nunca. Construir genealogías dispersas e inspiraciones para transformar el mundo es el objetivo de esta compilación, para incitar prácticas de libre apropiación del feminismo, sobre todo como revoltura frente al orden...
¡NOS VEMOS EL VIERNES 28 EN LA MONTONERA! 💜💚💜💚 Ver menos
— con Silvia L Gil
Be Aware of This If You Shop In a CVS and Own A Cell Phone
CVS Wants To Trick & Trap You & Steal Your Privacy (You Tube Short Video)
#News #CorporatePrivacyCrimes #CVS #CaptiveAudience
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Going paperless? Take control over your digitalization with Paperless-ngx integration in Nextcloud! 🗃️
Streamline your document management processes: scan, store, and collaborate on documents with centralized file management and workflow automation! 🚀
#PaperlessNgx #Nextcloud #Productivity
apps.nextcloud.com/apps/integr…
Paperless - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud
The Nextcloud App Store - Upload your apps and install new apps onto your Nextcloudapps.nextcloud.com
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is now Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/marv…
#SteamDeck #SpiderMan #PCGaming
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is now Steam Deck Verified
Surprisingly, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been given the Steam Deck Verified checkmark by Valve, after the latest patch was released with more updates planned.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Fediverso, ¡qué nombre tan raro tienes!
El colectivo de cultura digital @clubmanhattan ofrece cuatro consejos para habitar un mejor Internet y entender qué es el #fediverso
lamarea.com/2025/02/20/fediver…
Fediverso, ¡qué nombre tan raro tienes! | lamarea.com
Club Manhattan nos ofrece cuatro sencillos consejos para entrar en Mastodon, una de las redes libres que componen el fediverso.Club Manhattan (La Marea)
A year later, Palworld hits 32m players while continuing to fight off Nintendo gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/a-ye…
A year later, Palworld hits 32m players while continuing to fight off Nintendo
It's been a little bit over a year now since Palworld arrived in Early Access, with developer Pocketpair announcing how well it's done along with another patch out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Still waiting for them to be Steam Deck Verified… The moment they are is the moment I buy a copy.
Right now, it’s too uncertain from update / upgrade to update / upgrade… Sometimes it works flawlessly, other times everything breaks.
House Flipper and Friends Humble Bundle has some fun looking sims gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/hous…
#Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck #LinuxGaming
House Flipper and Friends Humble Bundle has some fun looking sims
One for the creative types and people who love doing chores. The House Flipper and Friends Humble Bundle has an assortment of simulator treats available.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Phil Spencer of Microsoft Gaming thinks generative AI will help game preservation gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/phil…
Phil Spencer of Microsoft Gaming thinks generative AI will help game preservation
Microsoft recently announced Muse, "a generative AI model of a video game that can generate game visuals, controller actions, or both". And somehow, Phil Spencer of Microsoft Gaming thinks it will help game preservation.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The OBS versus Fedora drama seems to have calmed down - no more legal threats gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-…
#OBSStudio #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource
The OBS versus Fedora drama seems to have calmed down - no more legal threats
Recently I highlighted a fight that had broken out between the OBS Studio team and the Fedora Linux developers. The issue was centred around the Fedora Flatpak of OBS Studio but it seems to have calmed down now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Take a trip through an indie dev brain in Terry's Other Games from Terry Cavanagh gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/take…
Take a trip through an indie dev brain in Terry's Other Games from Terry Cavanagh
A name you might know from the likes of Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon and VVVVVV. This is not a single game but a collection of various experiments done by Terry Cavanagh over many years.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Monster Train 2 announced with a demo live gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/mons…
#MonsterTrain2 #MonsterTrain #Gaming #PCGaming
Monster Train 2 announced with a demo live
The huge hit deck-builder Monster Train is getting a sequel, with Monster Train 2 getting an announcement and demo in the same day so you can try it early.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
There's been a flood in the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/ther…
#Dota2 #Steam #Valve #PCGaming
There's been a flood in the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2
While Valve continue building up their next MOBA with Deadlock, their current Dota 2 is still as popular as ever and the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2 sounds pretty awesome.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
No study sections are happening right now. I wish someone had told me this before I stayed up until 4 AM to get my reviews done....
thetransmitter.org/funding/fed…
Federal Register hold makes 'end run' around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.Angie Voyles Askham (The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives)
Bernie tells it straight. Let's hope his videos gain traction.
Absolutely mind-boggling that the president of the United States has to be refuted and fact-checked in this way.
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Airport X-Ray Simulator gets a gamepad and Steam Deck Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/airp…
#SteamDeck #IndieGames #PCGaming
Airport X-Ray Simulator gets a gamepad and Steam Deck Beta
Airport X-Ray Simulator from developer Rainbow Lab has a fresh Beta available on Steam, which includes some overhauled controls for gamepads and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Not a bad hair day for Phage 7-7-1
Noteworthy — While the phages χ and PBS1 attach to the flagella of their hosts via the tail fibers, phage 7-7-1 of Agrobacterium sp. H13-3 has another trick up its sleeve – or better: on its head (capsid). Noteborn et al. Found that phage 7-7-1 sports a bunch of dreadlocks on its head, proteinaceous fibers with which it attaches to host flagella.
Read more > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaech…
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/399240… mastodonsweden.se/@fof/1140356…
Early Dietary Fiber Intake Reduces Celiac Disease Risk in Genetically Prone Children: Insights from the TEDDY study - PubMed
Early Dietary Fiber Intake Reduces Celiac Disease Risk in Genetically Prone Children: Insights from the TEDDY studyPubMed
Unlock AWK magic in Linux! 📹 🗔
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NGC 2040.
International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
IFTAS is In a Funding Crisis
Funding a non-profit organization is hard to begin with, but the challenges feel that much bigger in a niche space such as decentralized social networking. IFTAS, the Fediverse’s standout Trust &Sean Tilley (We Distribute)
GitHub - BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore - BurntSushi/ripgrepGitHub
Democratising workplace decision making
Introducing tech-enhanced deliberation to cooperative decision-making and governanceDemocracyNext
NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free to Retire After 30 Years Service - NASA
NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free announced Wednesday his retirement, effective Saturday, Feb. 22. As associate administrator, Free has been the seniorNASA
Assistant Teaching Professor of Media Studies
Assistant Teaching Professor of Media Studies at created 15-Jan-2025jobs.colorado.edu
The next Xbox is gonna be called something like stupid like "Xbox Series AI" isn't it.
microsoft.com/en-us/research/b…
Introducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation - Microsoft Research
Today Nature published Microsoft’s research detailing our WHAM, an AI model that generates video game visuals & controller actions.Alyssa Hughes (2ADAPTIVE LLC dba 2A Consulting) (Microsoft Research)
Our first #event is just over a week away. We hope this is the beginning of a great tradition of dancing in the dark to shake out the stresses of the month. No lights, no phones, no talking, just #dancing. Invite your #nyc #friends and come get a little #exercise while #grooving to #dance #tunes in #HellsKitchen
RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/no-lights-no-…
No Lights No Lycra NYC - Dance Session - THURS FEB 27 2025 - 7:00pm
NLNL is a dance session held in darkness with no teacher or steps to learn.Eventbrite
Mesa 25.0 open source graphics drivers released with Vulkan 1.4 and initial AMD RDNA4 support gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/mesa…
#Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming
Mesa 25.0 open source graphics drivers released with Vulkan 1.4 and initial AMD RDNA4 support
Developer Eric Engestrom announced today the release of Mesa 25.0, bringing lots of open source graphics driver updates and expanded hardware support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Proton Experimental adds fixes for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, The Finals and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/prot…
#Proton #Linux #SteamDeck #Steam #PCGaming
Proton Experimental adds fixes for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, The Finals and more
Valve released a fresh update for Proton Experimental today pulling in some more fixes for various Windows games to run on Linux / Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
In the Starlight: Portia Keyes Procures Mission-Critical Support - NASA
One semester as a NASA Pathways intern was enough to inspire Portia Keyes to sign up for a Russian language class at college. After interning in the JohnsonLinda E. Grimm (NASA)
Celebrating 2024 year-end campaign | Tor Project
Thank you to our community for ensuring people worldwide are able to exercise their right to speak, browse, and search with freedom and privacy. Today we celebrate our combined efforts of raising $816,141.70 this 2024 year-end fundraising campaign.blog.torproject.org
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