No Kings rally in Evanston, IL, looking N, W and S.
A good time, peaceful, neighborly. Democracy.
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Someone put up a video of the Melbourne Australia NO KINGS event!
I'm in my Hamtaro onesie...
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We have friends everywhere!! Melbourne, Australia says #NoKings!! โ๐ Find your local protest at NoKings.org #50501 #50501movement #FDT #Melbournewww.facebook.com
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Hidden inside every growing hypha lies a microscopic powerhouse โ the #Spitzenkรถrper.
Itโs not just a blob at the fungal tip โ itโs the traffic controller, architect, and GPS of fungal growth. ๐
This video will uncover how this mysterious vesicle cluster orchestrates the very architecture of life beneath our feet.
#fungi #mycology #Mushrooms #FungiFriday #Science #nature #NatGeo #academia #aspergillus
#hyphae #mycelium #phdone #conidia #youtube #Education #microbiology
Kin selection has sparked debate for decades.
Now, a landmark study offers a generalised version of Hamiltonโs rule, capturing the messy, nonlinear reality of evolution and cooperation.
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Air Pollution from Palm Oil: A Human Rights Issue
Forest-fire haze from Indonesian palm oil deforestation is a crisis! Learn how toxic air pollution is a human rights issue affecting all of Southeast AsiaPalm Oil Detectives
If you are in the US and have not yet found todayโs โNo Kingsโ rally near you, here is the site that shows them all.
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Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch
A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you โ no travel requiredSarah Perez (TechCrunch)
GenAI and what it does to the brain.
Truly excellent "long read" article about genAI and what it does to those who come to rely on it. Well researched, with insightful quotes from thoughtful people.
Good science/tech journalism used to be like that, but on AI topics this has become rare. So much easier for the salaried writer of a mainstream paper just to follow the hype.
The author, Sophie McBain, is listed as a "freelance writer" for Guardian, Times and New Statesman. I am glad she's kept her free mind.
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#brain #learning #noAI #StopTheAICorruption #SophieMcBain
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently โฆSophie McBain (The Guardian)
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Assassin's Creed Shadows, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/protโฆ
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Assassin's Creed Shadows, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and more
A fresh batch of fixes for Proton Experimental to run Windows games on Linux / SteamOS + Steam Deck arrived October 17th so here's all that's new.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Devouring the earth may decide our future
Every day, the food you eat and resources you use cost the planet at least 12 kilos of lost topsoil.johnmenadue.com
after far too much time, i have now seen the entire star wars trilogy. i watched the 4Kxx versions, so i cannot speak to mr. lucas's true vision with the CGI snootles and that guy who shot that other guy.
quick reviews:
episode IV: a classic, the start is a little slow, but great all the way through, compelling characters and great (if infrequent) action scenes, endlessly quotable. 8/10
episode V: felt kind of meandering to me, they made C-3P0 way more annoying, and then introduced an insufferable little green man in case C-3P0 wasn't annoying enough, VFX have greatly improved however. 6/10
episode VI: my favourite, only just beating out VI, pretty much full throttle the whole way through, even better VFX (the bit where they're speeding through the jungle blew my mind), yoda is considerably less annoying to the point where i feel kinda bad about finding him so irritating before, would be perfect if not for the ewoks, they maybe shouldn't have let [spoiler] off the hook so easy though. 9/10
I am fascinated by how viruses evolve - and not just since #SARSCoV2 has shown us at the global stage how consequential virus evolution can be for us.
In my new story in Science I got to explore how researchers are probing deeper into the past with old RNA virus genome.
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Deforestation Raises Temperatures Up To 4.5โ
Forests directly cool the planet, like natural evaporative air conditioners. So what happens when you cut them down? In tropical countries such as #Indonesia, #Brazil and the #Congo, rapid #deforesโฆPalm Oil Detectives
"A glass flask is as much about what it is as it is about what it is not; it is as much about the vessel blown into form by the glassmaker โ and all the material qualities and technological, political, and socioeconomic histories that made that act of creation possible โ as it is about the specific geometry of absence that it comes to delimit. Certain kinds of reactions can take place in that flask because of all the others that are excluded from it."
โ Eduardo Kohn: How Forests Think Toward An Anthropology Beyond The Human, pp. 35-35
This section on absence is interesting. I've never thought about technologies for what they exclude by being in the world, more what they create or change.
Introduced me to so many new and interesting things for me! ๐ฅฐ
I guess I would have not discovered #VivaldiBrowser without it, and I would have probably been an #avid #gamer or a guy who thought he knew much, when he actually doesn't.
Now, I at least know how much I don't, and I'm interested in more advanced things I would have not known about in #MSWindows!
How We End Gold Miningโs Ecocide For Good
Gold mining is unparalleled in its environmental destruction and human rights toll. Frustratingly, 93% of gold is used for non-essential purposes like jewellery and investments. A recent study suggโฆPalm Oil Detectives
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Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills โฆSimon Willisonโs Weblog
Totally agree with your buried lede: Claude Code is truly a general purpose agent. I started using it for coding but now use it for editing transcripts and other text based tasks, at which it is far better than the chat GUI.
Also thank you for llm, it is becoming a good pal. It'd be rad to have skills-like functionality for that.
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Chien Lee has been awarded first place in the Plants and Fungi category
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Encountering the Worldโs Most Endangered Kangaroo: The Wondiwoi Tree Kangaroo
Encounter the Wondiwoi tree-kangaroo. Rediscovered in 2018, these rare marsupials from West Papua are a symbol of hope amidst threats from palm oil, huntingPalm Oil Detectives
#18. Daniel Berrigan (ft. Fr. John Dear)
A lost prophet who worked to build "a solid wall of conscience" to "confront the death-makers"Elias Crim (The Lost Prophets Podcast)
โOperating as a nonprofit allows us to focus on building the most private tools we canโwithout ever having to compromise user privacy in order to generate profit for shareholders.โ
Read the full interview with @al
Thank you Common Good Cyber for helping build a stronger internet together.
commongoodcyber.org/news/tor-pโฆ
Tor Project: "Being able to safely and privately share information without fear is vital" - Common Good Cyber
Tor shares how its work protects users and why sustaining public-interest infrastructure is essential to the health of the Internet.Common Good Cyber
Nextcloud is looking for a Team Lead Content Marketing โ๏ธ
Ready to bring your strategic vision and experience to lead a diverse and creative team? Perhaps this is your chance!
Find out more about this job role: ๐nextcloud.com/jobs/#team-lead-โฆ
Nextcloud is looking for people who want to join our team
We are a modern, distributed, open source company whose mission is to provide our users and customers with the means for data storage, access and communication under their controlNextcloud
Why buy a Kindle when you can build your own? ๐ง๐
itsfoss.com/open-source-ebook-โฆ
Looking for Open Source Kindle Alternatives? Build it Yourself
There are no easy options. You have to take the matter in your hand, quite literally.Pulkit Chandak (It's FOSS)
I own 3 Kindles: the original Kindle Fire right after it was released, a Kindle Keyboard which was a disappointment, and a Kindle Fire 7 which I got to be a cheap tablet for travel (failed at that because I didn't realize it was wifi-only, so defeated the purpose of having it for when I could not go on wifi).
All my phones came with a Kindle app for reading, same for what is now my travel tablet. Why get another actual Kindle?
wp.me/pcFhgU-10X?utm_source=maโฆ
Okapi: African Unicorns
Deep in the heart of Africa, in the dense tropical rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), there lurks a very curious creature. With long legs and predominantly dark brown coat oโฆPalm Oil Detectives
I started a pol.is conversation on the topic "Fediverse acceleration(?) " โฌ๏ธ (You don't need an account)
pol.is is a FOSS web-app to help find consensus global & subgroup opinions within a set of participants ๐ค
I've heard a lot about it over the years, but have had no experience with it. It looks like you rate statements positively ๐ or negatively ๐ and can write your own โ๏ธ After 7 participants, report data should become available.
#polis #governance #foss #fediverse
Get ready for Halloween with the Capcom Horror Bundle from Fanatical gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/get-โฆ
#Capcom #HorrorGames #PCGaming #GameBundle
Get ready for Halloween with the Capcom Horror Bundle from Fanatical
Need some more spooky games? Want a side of zombies with that? The Fanatical Build your own Capcom Horror Bundle is live now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Kaiju Cleaner Simulator will get you and friends to clean up massive titans together gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/kaijโฆ
#KaijuCleanerSimulator #Gaming #PCGaming
Kaiju Cleaner Simulator will get you and friends to clean up massive titans together
There's another game coming out that will have you clean up the bodies of massive creatures, with Kaiju Cleaner Simulator seeing you and friends team up for it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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