You’ve likely never heard of the curious Red #Colobus, #WestAfrica’s rarest #primate 🐒🐵🙉 Researchers now know that protecting them and the #rainforest will protect all other rare #species. Fight for their survival! #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
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Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.
I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!
As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear:
1. I'd like Mastodon to be MORE inclusive and bring in more voices
2. Some people don't seem to want that
3. This is core problem to solve: How do we let more in, but not "pollute" your feed?
4. The solution is NOT "gatekeeping", revelling in the fact that AI journalists aren't welcome
5. This is the same reason we lost "Black Twitter" when it came over in 2022
Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "AI People" from joining Mastodon, any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.
@Gargron That is a personal choice and one which I totally respect. But I do think Mastodon should be big enough, and open enough, to allow an "AI community" to form, even thrive.
Too many people in my replies don't seem to agree with that.
@Gargron I just came back to my Mastodon account and one of the first things I see is people who have an interest in something being compared to puppy-killers by the "head" of Mastodon.
<turns it back off again>
@Gargron It already allows that. The culture simply isn’t permissive of it. But that has nothing to do with the technology.
Mastodon is a system which attracts certain audiences because of its values and choices. Those are different to other systems. That’s perfectly fine. That’s good.
We don’t need to seek an audience with the same make up as other services. We need to work on systems that have the values we care about. Nothing more.
@mattwilcox @Gargron But that is a slippery slope. I realize this might seem contentious but I believe it's is exactly the same mechanism that chased away black twitter in 2022. If we celebrate our culture, to the point that we are happy we are excluding others, it can cut both ways.
"Being inclusive" is like being "ethical" it only matters when things get hard.
@Gargron As a general observation, I think asking for "civility" is often the equivalent of a "code smell":
Sure, there are cases where it may be appropriate in the current context. However, I suspect that more often than not, it's a sign that one is brushing aside some oppression-related complaint (often from a position of relative power in the situation).
I think it's a good idea to always pause before writing about "civility", and let the matter bounce around in one's head for a while.
An #AnalogPhoto from my trip to #Japan in 2025.
Location: #Higashiosaka ward, #Osaka
The #film is expired #Kodak #Vision2 250D, camera: #NikonF65, lens: #Nikkor AF-S #35mm f/1.8G
#photo #photography #FilmPhotography
#autumn #city #outdoors
#street #StreetPhotography
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
Leopard Panthera pardus
Of all the great cats prowling the wild, few inspire as much awe and fascination as the leopard Panthera pardus. Sleek, powerful, and enigmatic, leopards are found across a staggering range—from su…Palm Oil Detectives
Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
Keel-billed Toucans have dazzling rainbow-coloured bills and are iconic to South America. Threats include hunting, palm oil and meat deforestation. Take action!Palm Oil Detectives
Floating cities of logs: can the ‘lungs of Africa’ survive its exploitation?
The Congo River basin is one of the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But it is also home to a growing population and relentless trade in timber and charcoalHugh Kinsella Cunningham (The Guardian)
Algae has a yum 'umami' flavour and a superb nutrient profile, especially for #vegans. It doesn't cause #deforestation either! Replacing #palmoil with #algae makes sense for rainforests #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #Together4Forests
Half Asleep Chris is my top favourite YouTube subscription! This "Cats vs Dominoes" episode is promotional of his new book. Just remember that it's a book for kids published by an educational publisher! But let me say, the sounds of everything falling in turn throughout the house is very ASMR!
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Arm64 port for Haiku
Hi there, I have start to work on an arm64 port for Haiku and the end goal is full RPI5 support. It will be interesting to see how far we can go.So far I got a minimal arm64 desktop image working in qemu: A screenshot from qemu.Haiku Community
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The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne is best known for its proud history of industry and invention, its famous football club, and its vibrant nightlife. Many people who walk the busy streets of the Toon, are unfamiliar with its dark side: real life witch trials, public execution and dissection, and of course, the vampire rabbit.
Unlike the former two very dark tales from Newcastle, the Vampire Rabbit is of a lighter order. More of an interesting conversation piece for those who seek it out or come across it by accident...
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne - The Haunted Palace Blog
Newcastle upon Tyne is best known for its proud history of industry, its football club, and its vibrant nightlife.Lenora (The Haunted Palace Blog)
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How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this t…Palm Oil Detectives
Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging
Researchers are weaving Native practices with western methods to revive ecosystems and reclaim food sovereigntyLela Nargi (The Guardian)
They’ve became one of the most important social safety nets in the world’s oldest nation.
Upworthy
How Japan’s Yakult Ladies support an aging population — Upworthy
How a fleet of women delivering tiny probiotic drinks became one of the most important social safety nets in the world’s oldest nation.Kat Hong (Upworthy)
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These are our Aussie animals seeing themselves in a mirror!
I wouldn't be surprised if the magpies did recognise that they were looking at themselves. The two that come up to the mirror near the end of the video are mother and adolescent child.
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So much energy, right over our homes, that can be harvested, used, stored.
Gale winds over the UK right now.
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earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.earth.nullschool.net
Like solar, wind is also broadly distributed. I'm still awaiting an effective home wind turbine. Even at 0.1 kWh production it would make a difference at home, in addition to reducing pressure on the grid and its associated infrastructure costs.
"My friend Malcolm told me a story about pronghorns recently, the North American creatures sometimes confused with antelopes. They can run at speeds of nearly sixty miles an hour, much, much faster than any of their existing predators. Some biologists think they're still outrunning the dangerous species that went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, specifically the cheetahs that existed on this continent. And then Malcolm asked what each of us is still outrunning and whether we can tell when our predator has been extinct for ten thousand years."
— Rebecca Solnit: The Faraway Nearby, pp. 231-231
For a while now I've been wanting a generic notation to explain various things on my wiki(tropical arithmetic, multisets, other programming languages, ternary logic, primes, etc..) and I found a PL design I really enjoy writing.
It lands in a weird place, I feel like it might be the only concatenative language without a stack? As far as I know anyways.
I took a day to implement it, and shoved it into a little interactive playground. I have yet to populate the examples.
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rejoice
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Oh yeah, that's interesting..
[] x/y^y
[x]
I guess that makes sense..? It's basically saying if there are zero instances of y, put a x. I.. I don't know what I think about this but I don't think it's wrong, it's just bizarre.
It acts as a kind of "remove all instances y, and put a x, regardless if there are y or not".
[z^x z^y]/[x^x y^y] (empty x and y into z). Interestingly though this doesn't seem to work properly if one reuses symbol (e.g. [x^y y^x]/[x^x y^y] does not swap the number of xs and ys)
@mia ah yes! that's a bug I noticed, the order of application I feel is not quite right.
The issue is that I modify in place, so application modifies that numerator, and then the numerator does another read, and the value has changed already at the point. It's why I've been trying to circling around fractions that modify a value in the numerator, and using that value as an exponent in the denumerator. Something I have to try and figure out today. This is all very experimental X)
This is all very experimental X)
that's exactly why Rejoice piqued my interest! it lights up my little mathematician brain
I notice you fixed this bug, nice! after a little play I found the following cute implementation for the nth Fibonacci number:
y n^10'[y^x x^y]/[x^x n]
(In particular, it's cute because one gets to see the fraction mindset in practice: one could view this as a reduction of the more natural fraction '[y^x y^y x^x]/[y^y x^x n])
looking forward to playing with this more!
@mia Devine shared this thread with us and it inspired the discovery of the "Harmony" combinator: eq/[x^y y^x]. Given the bag is matched using >=, the denominator implies bag[x] >= bag[y] && bag[y] >= bag[x]. This expression is only satisfied when bag[x] = bag[y].
So, now you can precisely match on things. And if you have a token that never exist, you can enforce a bag[x] = 0 match: [none-x]/[x^none none^x].
A very powerful expression. As the traditional Fractran model has no means of matching on empty. Before you'd need to do none-x [x]/[x none-x]. Basically "assume x does not exist until proven otherwise".
Brutalist #EasterBunny
Edit: Located in the Pupuhuhta ('Bunny Swidden') neighbourhood of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Thank you @splonk
for the identification.
Let's protect it.
Free Android softsynth, I ran out of spoons with this one and want to concentrate on making Resonance as good as it can be instead so: orllewin.uk/programs/android/r… Makes good weird noises, can be nice and tame, or filthy. It uses PureData for the audio engine, I'll upload the code somewhere soon.
amzn.to/4vaUXj7 #sportreporter24 Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen - USB Interface , #musicproduction, #
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Sun Bear Helarctos malayanus
Sun bears are playful and energetic small bear species from South East Asia who are increasingly becoming marginalised by deforestation and trade for their body parts. With their glistening golden …Palm Oil Detectives
Today I’m live on Product Hunt answering questions and evangelizing Activitypub and the social web among the founders and product builders there.
You can join in here:
Iconic #birds of #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Honduras 🇭🇳 Keel-billed #Toucans are rainbow flocks of rainforest joy! 🦜🐦🪽 Help them survive be #vegan and call out #poaching and the illegal pet trade #Boycottpalmoil 🌴❌ #Boycott4Wildlife
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Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
Keel-billed Toucans have dazzling rainbow-coloured bills and are iconic to South America. Threats include hunting, palm oil and meat deforestation. Take action!Palm Oil Detectives
“The amount of untaxed wealth hidden offshore by the richest 0.1 percent exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity (4.1 billion people), according to a new Oxfam analysis published on April 2, 2026, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Panama Papers.
The findings show that, a decade later, the super-rich continue to exploit offshore systems to evade taxes and conceal assets, highlighting the urgent need for coordinated international action to tax extreme wealth and end the use of tax havens.
An amount of $3.55 trillion in untaxed wealth was stashed offshore in tax havens and unreported accounts in 2024, according to Oxfam’s estimates. “This sum exceeds the GDP of France and is more than twice the combined GDP of the world’s 44 least developed countries,” a statement by Oxfam noted.“
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#TaxHavens #Offshores #TaxEvasion #Inequality
Untaxed wealth hidden offshore by richest 0.1% surpasses entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity: Oxfam
Oxfam’s new analysis reveals that untaxed offshore wealth held by the richest 0.1% now exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity, exposing how tax havens fuel extreme inequality and urging global action to tax the super-rich and end s…DTE Staff (Down To Earth)
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