Indigenous Communities: Key to Nature Conservation
Research finds indigenous communities provide the best long-term conservation outcomes. Support their environmental stewardship and complete autonomy!Palm Oil Detectives
Mountain gorillas are back from the brink. But what happens if they run out of room?
Humans have helped save the great apes from extinction, but are now the biggest threat to their survival as they compete for land in east Africa’s Virunga mountainsPatrick Greenfield (The Guardian)
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Terrassa: Catalonian town bans black cat adoptions during Halloween
In an effort to ward off potentially sinister rituals, the Catalonian town of Terrassa hopes to keep its black cats safe during the occult-themed holiday.Yang Tian (BBC News)
Blonde Capuchin Sapajus flavius
Only rediscovered in 2006, Blonde Capuchins are highly intelligent critically endangered primates of Brazil threatened by palm oil and meat deforestationPalm Oil Detectives
Tired of the default? Explore 14 themes that make your Ghostty terminal both beautiful and functional.
14 Themes for Beautifying Your Ghostty Terminal
Learn to customize the famed Ghostty terminal with new themes. Learn about using the in-built ones as well as the external ones.Sreenath (It's FOSS)
Terrifying Tale of Halloween: Palm Oil Ecocide in Your Treats!
This #Halloween, as you revel in terrifying tales and creepy costumes, remember that the most terrifying tale of all isn’t enjoyable folklore—it’s the horrifying truth about palm oil. T…Palm Oil Detectives
I was kind of wanting to hold the "NO KINGS since 1776" poster, but I gave away all my posters from the last NO KINGS event, and everything for this one except the latte poster. That's all right, I'm the only one who understood the latte poster.
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Thinking of upgrading your storage? Here’s why speed isn’t the whole story:
Speed Isn't Everything When Buying SSDs - Here's What Really Matters!
Remember this for the next time you're shopping for an SSD.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdomAllison Parshall (Scientific American)
News from PBS about No KINGS 2.0
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Let's get our signs and costumes ready and head out.
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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!! ❌👑 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 — the #Spitzenkörper.
It’s not just a blob at the fungal tip — it’s the traffic controller, architect, and GPS of fungal growth. 🍄
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 Hamilton’s 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 today’s “No Kings” rally near you, here is the site that shows them all.
Please boost this so everyone can show up.
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 — 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 …Sophie McBain (The Guardian)
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Assassin's Creed Shadows, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/prot…
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.
So a thread…
Deforestation Raises Temperatures Up To 4.5℃
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 #defores…Palm 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 — and all the material qualities and technological, political, and socioeconomic histories that made that act of creation possible — 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."
— 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! 🥰
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 Mining’s 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 sugg…Palm 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 …Simon Willison’s 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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in reply to Muse • • •@Muse - Am I seeing that statute right, does it not have a head?
I've been kinda wondering whether El Cheeto will be invited to join the Charles I and Louis XVI club?
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in reply to Muse • • •the head has become a bit of an icon, turning up in all sorts of places including Kneecap's concert
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it's part of an ongoing series of statue beheadings (Capt Cook and Queen Vic are also targets) as protest against the theft and colonisation of Aboriginal land. No-one minds the Irish lads using it for much the same purpose regarding their land.
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in reply to Muse • • •Wow! I was going to say that around here there are many who do not like the Franciscian who established the California missions, Junipero Serra - who, by the way, is now an official saint of the Catholic church.
Anyway, I was going to suggest that no one would complain if the giant, weird statue of him on Interstate 280 were to be beheaded.
Apparently they did one better - they took the entire statute.
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