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Goliath Frog Conraua goliath
Goliath #Frogs are the largest frog in the world and can grow as large as a domestic cat. These muscle-bound #amphibians lift heavy rocks to build nests and protect their young. They face extinctio…Palm Oil Detectives
I believe I found some Haematococcus pluvialis in my birdbath, which apparently is where they commonly occur due to the high sunlight. The red astaxanthin pigments are UV protective. It looked like the rotifers were preferentially eating them.
First look at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 61 | Natural History Museum
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is back, celebrating the most extraordinary life with which we share this planet while spotlighting the many threats they face.www.nhm.ac.uk
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Nice article about the rehabilitation of Macquarie Island!
Macquarie Island’s Ecological Upheaval
Macquarie Island, a windswept outpost in the south-western Pacific Ocean between Tasmania and Antarctica, is a place of staggering natural w...Kaushik Patowary (Blogger)
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Plank Reloaded doesn't disappoint! 🤌
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Plank Reloaded is a Fresh Take on the Classic Dock Experience
Plank Reloaded aims to refine what the classic Plank dock offered by staying simple but with a modern take on it.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Amazon Clarion Call: Pandemics Emerging in the Rainforest
The Amazon’s diverse ecosystem is under threat from rampant deforestation, degradation, a biodiversity crisis, and the climate crisis – jeopardising its ability to act as a carbon sink. This degrad…Palm Oil Detectives
Here’s how I made Kitty Terminal faster, cleaner, and way more fun to use:
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I Made Kitty Terminal Even More Awesome by Using These 15 Customization Tips and Tweaks
Kitty is an excellent terminal and offers you a variety of customization options though its config file. Here are the config changes I prefer.Sreenath (It's FOSS)
BEWARE! Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration
Much Bigger & Wider Spread Problem With SSDs
#Windows11 #UpdateDisasters #SSDs #DontUpdate #ControllerFailure #SSDFailure #Microsoft
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Authors & Publishers Were Lied To... They Will Get Pennies and Consumers Will Own NOTHING They Pay For
Audible About To Hurt Publishers and Authors and Voice Readers with their new AI Scheme
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But you have to HAVE the audio books to put them on a drive. And that does nothing to help the authors and publishers from getting screwed and paid royalties.
Audible is owned by, surprise, Amazon. And the software in the end to run them will be proprietary and in the end just like the Kindle... backups often self destruct (which an external is considered).
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The Pima County Board of Supervisors will talk about Project Blue behind closed doors, vote on a policy on NDAs and another on environmentally sensitive economic development projects; Oro Valley goes for middle mile connectivity, and more from government meetings around Tucson.
#Tucson #Arizona
This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
#internet #technology #tech #journalism #disinformation #socialmedia #oligarchy
the last panel is unfortunately a wet dream. Abandoning tech as we know it would mean a return to the dark ages (we already, forever lost an immense amount of our pre-internet capabilities and knowledge, and our tech made our lives easier and cheaper in multiple non-negligible ways), and keeping it can only lead to a dystopian autocracy with "telescreens".
Corporations are legally persons since 2010, and can donate to politicians. Just wait until they can directly run for office.
Blonde #capuchins 🐒🐵 are #endangered due to #palmoil 🌴 sugarcane and meat 🥩 #deforestation in #Brazil 🇧🇷. Supremely intelligent, they use tools and mourn dead in their troop. Take action! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife
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Blonde Capuchin Sapajus flavius
The blonde #capuchin (Sapajus flavius) is an enigmatic and critically endangered #primate found in the northeastern forests of Brazil. With their striking golden-yellow fur and intelligent, express…Palm Oil Detectives
Is it possible, or even desirable, to actively participate in collective governance across many arenas of our lives?
I'm excited to share a preprint of a long-in-the-works paper with team Metagov, exploring the intersection of online governance and attention economies. I hope it's useful! doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/cdrmp_…
I was headed out early this morning and as I approached our village I saw what I thought was a flock of sheep loose in the road. Turned out to be a herd of goats. After much messing about they jumped over a hedge bank into a sheep field. I saw a lady walking her dog further on so let her know.
‘Oh they’re so-and-so’s. It’s the fourth time this week they’ve got out. They’re having the time of their lives!’.
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When a gang of brawny clowns went to the same brothel as the toughest firefighters in Toronto, and managed to beat them up, that was just the beginning.
Something your history teacher never told you about: the Clown Riots of 1855.
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(Thanks to @mconley)
Forgotten Toronto: Inside the great ‘clown riots’ of 1855 — and the coverup that changed the city’s policing forever
How a normal circus visit turned into a vicious battle between clowns, firefighters and the powers that ran Toronto.The Toronto Star
Organised Crime: A Top Driver of Global Deforestation
Every year the world loses an estimated 25 million acres (10 million hectares) of forest, an area larger than the state of Indiana. Nearly all of it is in the tropics. Tropical #forests store enorm…Palm Oil Detectives
I have two questions here:
1) Does Finland have this as well?
2) If not, how many seconds from now will they? hehehe!
How Sweden’s ‘secondhand only’ shopping mall is changing retail
I sometimes use Etsy to seconhand shop from other nations. The results are still less expensive than buying new. My favourites have been a dress from Finland, a dress from France, and the most awesome, something Dr Who would wear vest from Italy.
How Sweden’s ‘secondhand only’ shopping mall is changing retail
Circular retail is not just about what we buy, but how and where we buy it.The Conversation
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In a lonely world, widespread AI chatbots and ‘companions’ pose unique psychological risks
"Nearly all AI models were built without expert mental health consultation or pre-release clinical testing. There’s no systematic and impartial monitoring of harms to users.
"While systematic evidence is still emerging, there’s no shortage of examples where AI companions and chatbots such as ChatGPT appear to have caused harm."
In a lonely world, widespread AI chatbots and ‘companions’ pose unique psychological risks
It’s no surprise these lifelike AI companions are attractive to lonely people. But for some, these relationships are harmful and even dangerous.The Conversation
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all the lonely people
I believe that all the lonely people should get together and end loneliness in our lifetime I believe in making Peace The issue I believe we are all part of a plan of our own forming I believe people want to get along up to the point when they want t…Laurie Corzett (Laurie’s Substack)
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Cover Photo Add-On for Friendica
Cover Photo Add-On Version 1.0 · Random Penguin / coverphoto · GitLab
This is the initial public release of the Cover Photo Add-on for Friendica 2024.12 and 2025.07-rc. It adds a user interface to the website/webapp version of...GitLab
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Thank you very much for this add-on. It's love at first sight 😀
A note: if a remote profile is called up, the banner sticks directly to the first post. I created a little space with this code in line 68.
$html = $cover_photo = '<span class="coverphoto" style="display:block;width:100%;margin:0 auto;margin-bottom:10px;"><img src="'.$profile['header'].'" style="width:100%;max-width:100%;"/></span>' . $edit_button . $html;Perhaps this will be of interest to you.
Steam UK users will now need a credit card to access mature content due to the Online Safety Act
Valve recently put up a new support page, detailing the steps they've taken to comply with the UK Online Safety Act.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Exclusive: Inside the hellhole train station the short-fingered vulgarian wants to get his tiny hands on
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Explore user-friendly GUI task managers for Linux that make system monitoring a breeze. 👇
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7 Best GUI-based Task Managers for Linux Desktop
Want a task manager for Linux but don't want to go the terminal way? Here are the GUI ones I explored recently.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
Want to automate #Visualization and create sleek reports for any #Data you are working with? We have an app for that!
🧠Analytics🧠 connects data from #Nextcloud Files, Activity, Notifications, Flow, Dashboard, and more — all in one place!
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