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Healthcare data is critical - and valuable. Keeping it close and under the control of IT matters a lot.

Read how a Dutch hospital achieved this!

go.nextcloud.com/r/Rnt



Over 80% of the world’s population & 99% of Americans & Europeans live under "sky glow," where light pollution affects wildlife, human health & our ability to observe celestial objects.

As we lose the chance to look up & peer back in time at once vivid stars, we risk forgetting our place as a single species in the magnificent symphony of life. education.nationalgeographic.o… #space #science #nature #SharedPlanet

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On the other end of the spectrum, there's all these sincere, impassioned #Environmentalists who cannot understand why anyone in their right mind would not want to embrace #UrbanLiving - they know not the #TrueBeautyOfNature they believe they're trying to protect.
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My previous condo was on the 12th floor and I could read a newspaper by the light coming in from the street and a stadium over a kilometre away. It was unreal. It improved somewhat when the stadium was revamped and the street lights were changed to LEDs.



Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione

Image Credit & Copyright: Stefan Thrun

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230105.ht… #APOD

#APOD


A new video from Half Asleep Chris! My evening is taken care of.
youtu.be/KQqMUjMlKGo


Added some new Mastodon monitoring infrastructure for discuss.systems.

Sure, every good #MastoAdmin has a cool Grafana dashboard, but we're going a bit more old school here...



I keep saying journalists should leave Twitter and use Mastodon, which is better for them in every way. At TechDirt I've posted a somewhat lengthy why-and-how: techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journa…

#journalism #twitterexodus

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If you want to journal, but don't know what to write about, here are 5 ideas to get you started. psychcentral.com/blog/5-ways-t…


Stream died, now it's working youtube.com/watch?v=AvCYBI2I-Q…


Laying on the floor with kitten. Whatchu doin? Come cuddle! #CatsOfMastodon🐈


Out of Sight, a super charming and inventive animated short about a girl navigating her way through the world guided by her powerful senses of touch, hearing, and smell. Just lovely. kottke.org/23/01/out-of-sight



Last time we took out Flannery and now we're on our way back to the 5th gym, everything has been going too well so far

Hop on over and watch us suffer #Linux #Pokemon youtube.com/watch?v=tt4_qOdE9k…



🚨 The first video about #CPR🫀 that made me giggle!? 🤭 + 100% useful and important! tRuST me on this. This 50 second vid could save a life. Hint: #BeeGees. Bravo #AmericanHeartAssociation❤️

m.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ACYp75…

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Don't hum while you do it! #pleasestayalive
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@dchitt It’s the best song to use when teaching CPR for this exact reason. It’s funny, it’s catchy, and it keeps you on pace. 🙂


Wonderful Bio about former postdoc in the lab @giant_virus !

"Monir Moniruzzaman Studies the Secrets of Giant Viruses"

the-scientist.com/scientist-to…

#viruses #microbiology #marine



An hour-long lecture at MIT by Lupe Fiasco on Rap Theory & Practice. youtube.com/watch?v=zBHRsYhYb-…


Heads up! @NOAASatellites' GOES-18, launched in March 2022, is now #GOESWest. Miles above Earth, it’ll observe the Western Hemisphere, helping weather forecasters, emergency managers, and all who want to know more about our changing planet.

Take a look: go.nasa.gov/3Ggz2OS
#NASA

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This is awesome, of course. But, how does a satellite observe *only* one hemisphere? Whether North, East, South, or West, does not a satellite always observe them all, even if partially? Edit: OK, I acknowledge that a geostationary orbit will observe only one hemisphere, and if placed in a perfectly positioned location, will only ever observe one hemisphere. At 90°W, there we have it. Mea culpa


Just Let Me Clean The Mess #shorts #Gaming #CultOfTheLamb youtube.com/shorts/AQqQDMFE7iI


Hope your birthday is out of this world, @NASASpaceSci! 🚀

Check out their account to stay up to date on @nasa's biological and physical science research, including experiments here on station!
#ISS

#iss @NASA
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Because I have no context for this I just got to say... these pics are dope


Know what this is? It's a vacuum sealed plushy bunny. Imagine the nightmares your children will have by giving them this!


Are golf carts part of the future of urban transportation? "They provide accessibility for residents who aren't able to drive; they enable local shops to expand parking capacity..." kottke.org/23/01/are-golf-cart…
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Makes serious sense. That's how almost everyone gets around on Catalina Island. Nice for pedestrians, too--golf carts are less obnoxious than cars (plus, kinda silly!).
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I've spent extended times in a couple of golf-cart friendly vacation spots (Folly Beach SC and and Disney World's Fort Wilderness) and they made family travel fun. The kids loved getting behind the wheel. The camaraderie even amongst strangers was real. When they're ubiquitous car traffic naturally slows down, making biking and walking safer. A win all around.


I've been meaning to pass this on. Oni: Thunder God's Tale on Netflix is just a stunning series. Cute, dramatic, heartfelt, politically astute. And guess what? That character with the wings is voiced by none other than...George Takei.
Wikipedia article
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youtu.be/PgSYux7UcXU
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Cool! It's on my list.

Thank you for sharing this.



Discovery Alert! 📣
Just 16 light-years from Earth, two super-Earths orbit a small red star in a matter of days. They join 5,235 known worlds. go.nasa.gov/3vDSY9C
#NASAExoplanets
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can the distance from their sun be estimated? One solar orbit in 6 days seems would place a huge gravitational strain on the planet.


Dave Arnold and some folks from Harvard's Science of Cooking program tried to answer a very important question: Can You Stop Beans From Making You Fart? seriouseats.com/bean-science-h…


Linux Xorg Development Pace Falls To 20 Year Low #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/_ZLcbUtzvUc


Humans, tomatoes, and tiny satellites filled the @ISS_Research schedule on Wednesday while the @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft nears a Monday departure. More... go.nasa.gov/3vFg8fu
#ISS


Why is Venus called Earth’s evil twin? They actually have a lot in common, but somewhere along the way Venus and Earth took two very different paths. Dr. Lori Glaze, NASA's director of planetary science, explains how Venus became a hot and hellish planet. solarsystem.nasa.gov/venus
#NASA
#NASA
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My Asimov's Authors Blog entry regarding my Asimov's story, Venus Exegesis:
#space #NASA #venus #siblings #climatechange

fromearthtothestars.com/2022/0…

in reply to NASA

.@nasa Allow me to correct you. Venus is known as Earth's hot sister, not her evil twin.
@NASA


What's happened so far to the people who have cryogenically preserved themselves for later reanimation? "The first 'cryonauts' met gruesome fates. A few of them decomposed into a 'plug of fluids' and were scraped off the bottom of a capsule." bigthink.com/the-future/cryoni…


HEY! My fav 🏳️‍🌈 warrior is now on Mast: @normanbrannon ❤️💜

An actual #rockstar and total sweetheart. Might talk to you if you have dogs. 🐕🐶 #Rocker #Follow




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Sample Depot: 40% complete!

Another successful tube drop adds to my growing collection here at the “Three Forks” location. Four of the 10 tubes I’m leaving here as a backup set are down. More on my samples: mars.nasa.gov/mars-rock-sample…
#PerseveranceRover

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Q: If a rover craps in the desert, will there be a sound?

A: Depends on the thickness of the atmosphere



Is anyone doing #365papers this year?

I made a repository to track my reading log, and hopefully help keep me accountable!

Feel free to check it out here: codeberg.org/ashinonyx/365-pap…

in reply to Ashley Reynolds

I know @HeedLab was doing that last year. I try to toot to the @oneabstractaday[@]a.gup.pe from @MicrobioJC for the papers we read for the show as a sort of accountability/broadcast interest/archival purposes
in reply to Danny (he/they)

@danwchan
impressed some people do this for >1 yr and every single day. I tried every workday, and pulled through something like 80% of the time.
Posting on social media did help to hold myself accountable.
Yet, I found that serious reading of even 1 paper a workday is not possible given all the other tasks my job as a professor holds for me. This, btw, seems to be what many others find, too, based on the comments I've received.



Human research, space botany, and tiny satellites filled the @ISS_Research schedule on Wednesday while the @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft nears a Monday departure. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
#ISS

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@jeffrey maybe 😍🌈😍


This YouTube channel has been around for awhile but I just discovered it: You Suck at Cooking. Actual cooking tricks and techniques delivered with dry humor by someone who sounds a lot like the Binging with Babish guy. kottke.org/23/01/you-suck-at-c…
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ohmygoodness, totally in love by the first minute! water baking! tragic goodbyes! 😍


Indie game character filled platform-battler 'Fraymakers' arrives January 18th gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/indi… #IndieGame #SmashBros #PCGaming
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I love how this is a thing in indie games nowadays. Dead Cells added something like that last year in an update.


"Room tone" recordings help sound editors create seamless edits but are kind of funny/awkward to observe. Daniel Reis made a short film out of these silent moments from Criterion Collection interviews (w/ Spike Lee, Coens, etc.) criterion.com/current/posts/80…
in reply to kottke.org

I would watch that entire thing with the original room tone instead of the score. Something very fascinating about watching talented people in quiet human moment of thought


It's #TriviaDay!

Put your Hubble knowledge to the test with our short Q&A videos.

Ready? Let's go: go.nasa.gov/3Zc2v4W
#Hubble



Kent Hendricks' list of 52 things he learned in 2022, including "Swiss cheese tastes better when it listens to hip hop" and "people who grow up in cities with grids are [...] more likely to lose at video games". (via @tomwhitwell) kenthendricks.com/52-things-i-…

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