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One of the creepiest photos Iโ€™ve taken in #NYC. A thick black fog covered the Hudson River on my home the other night โ€” many of us stopped to look and discussed a possible alien invasion. ๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿ›ธ
Night scene looking east over Hudson River, there is a thick dark layer of fog hovering over the river only.
#NYC
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Michael
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Michael
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My reaction to meeting aliens would most likely be: โ€œOh, thank goddess youโ€™re finally here! Now save me and all my friends from all these assholes!โ€ Who knew that one day weโ€™d wake up in the original version of โ€œInvasion of the Body-Snatchersโ€?
What a world! Iโ€™m melting! etc.

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Great summary & graph that explains the levels of scientific evidence.
newslit.org/educators/resourceโ€ฆ #education #science
@sociology @psychology @openscience

Levels of scientific evidence โ€” News Literacy Project

We worked with Dr. Katrine Wallace โ€” an epidemiologist, educator and science literacy influencer โ€” to produce a trio of resources focused on differentiating between different levels of scientific evidence.
News Literacy Project
#science #Education @Open Science โœ… @u/sociology @u/psychology

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Whoa, remember the early iOS game Flight Control? One of the first viral games on the platform โ€“ for a few months there, it seemed like everyone w/ an iPhone was playing it. tapsmart.com/games/classics-flโ€ฆ

The classic game: Flight Control - TapSmart

Itโ€™s โ€˜planeโ€™ to see this relentless arcade balancing act was one of the App Storeโ€™s best Many games merely make up the numbers.
Craig Grannell (TapSmart)
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bubbajet
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somehow Iโ€™ve still got Labarynth - from 2008 - still on my phone.
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Michiel
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Michiel
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What also makes me really sad is that these games and other great software can actually disappear. Iโ€™m still playing great pc and console classics with DOSbox and emulators. But this, itโ€™s just goneโ€ฆ Iโ€™m pretty happy with the AppStore ecosystem but this is a great missโ€ฆ

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The exciting sport of NBA basketball. But sure, soccer is boring. twitter.com/WorldWideWob/statuโ€ฆ
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DunaBlue2
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Excuse me but did you say soccer is boring? Were you being ironic or just enjoy watching commercials?

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Did you miss our round-up of #ecology & #evolution content published in our journals this year? Browse the collection and consider submitting your work today!

embopress.org/page/collectionsโ€ฆ

@embojournal @emboreports @MolSystBiol @EmboMolMed Illustration ยฉ SciStories LLC

Shelf of laboratory beakers with progressive dates and evolving organisms.
#ecology #Evolution @EMBO Reports @Mol Syst Biol @The EMBO Journal @EmboMolMed

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Watch the latest episode of Game Sphere with @MattTDN@twitter.com!
#SteamDeck โค๏ธ!
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Steam Deck Vs Aya Neo 2 vs GPD Win 4 Vs One X Player. Why the Steam Deck Continues to be Better

Steam Deck Vs Aya Neo 2 vs GPD Win 4 Vs One X Player is the big debate right now! This is why the Steam Deck will continue to be better, but why its current ...
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#SteamDeck

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In Perfect Unison, a mesmerizing video montage of moments from movies and TV where characters "do or say the same thing at the same time". kottke.org/23/01/in-perfect-unโ€ฆ

In Perfect Unison

Jon Lefkovitz has created a video montage of moments from movies and TV where characters "do or say the same thing at the s
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A tour of the various doors at Antarctica's McMurdo Station. "This is not a master-planned community. Rather, it is a series of organic responses to evolving operational needs." (via @onefoottsunami) brr.fyi/posts/doors-of-mcmurdo

Doors of McMurdo

Doors, in a variety of shapes and styles.
brr (brr.fyi)

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50 years ago today, @nasa closed its Plum Brook Reactor Facility in Sandusky, OH. Beginning operation in 1961, the reactor was NASA's primary facility for space-related nuclear energy R&D.

Read about the Apollo 17 crew's visit to the facility #OTD in 1973 go.nasa.gov/3X6Ckep
#NASAhistory

#otd #NASAhistory @NASA

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getrevue.co/profile/getferdi/iโ€ฆ

Obituary

Amine Mouafik, the maintainer of Ferdi, has passed away.Born in 1966 in Meknes, Morocco, Amine was a gifted programmer and systems administrator.
www.getrevue.co

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#1 babyyyy!
#1

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TIL: the director of Tรกr also co-invented Big League Chew. (via @ironicsans) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Leagโ€ฆ

chewing gum brand

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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2022 ended with a shiver, but the start of 2023 broke a sweat. ๐Ÿฅถ๐Ÿฅต

This weather whiplash may have been caused by changes in the polar vortex, the band of strong westerly winds over the Arctic. Details: go.nasa.gov/3XaD4iK
#NASAEarth

Weather Whiplash

The configuration of the polar vortex may have played a role in unleashing bitter cold followed by record warmth in North America.
go.nasa.gov
#nasaearth
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Go Sports & Music!
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Fascinating visual of the cold air hovering over the North American and Eastern European land masses, then running from the oceans.

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Beyond All Reason - a truly INCREDIBLE free RTS (Linux / Steam Deck / Windows)

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Beyond All Reason - a truly INCREDIBLE free RTS (Linux / Steam Deck / Windows)

This is a great FREE and open source #RTS available for #Linux, #SteamDeck and even #Windows too. Beyond All Reason is going to destroy all my free time and ...
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Hey there. I am a PhD student exploring how galaxies are connected with the large-scale structure of the universe and what that reveals about dark energy. I enjoy figuring out how to condense information- whether it be for galaxy statics, outreach, or decorating science bakes

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Imagine a piece of tissue paper.

Coat it with cyanotype chemicals.

Fold it into an origami crane.

Let it be a crane for a while, in any place with a bit of light. Ignore it, play with it, whatever.

After a while, unfold it. Develop.

You'll get an image.

The image is the memory of it's experience as an origami crane.

Repeat. Every crane's experience - and hence every image - will be unique.

Here's 4 out of the >750 I've made so far.

#blueprint #origami #orizuru #metamorphogram #memory

Square image in shades of blue and white, showing a geometric pattern equivalent to the shapes produced in a square of paper after being folded into an origami crane and then opened. The folds define triangles, diamonds and other shapes. Some areas are dark blue, some white, some tones of blue. In each one, the shapes are the same, but the blue and white is different.
Square image in shades of blue and white, showing a geometric pattern equivalent to the shapes produced in a square of paper after being folded into an origami crane and then opened. The folds define triangles, diamonds and other shapes. Some areas are dark blue, some white, some tones of blue. In each one, the shapes are the same, but the blue and white is different.
Square image in shades of blue and white, showing a geometric pattern equivalent to the shapes produced in a square of paper after being folded into an origami crane and then opened. The folds define triangles, diamonds and other shapes. Some areas are dark blue, some white, some tones of blue. In each one, the shapes are the same, but the blue and white is different.
Square image in shades of blue and white, showing a geometric pattern equivalent to the shapes produced in a square of paper after being folded into an origami crane and then opened. The folds define triangles, diamonds and other shapes. Some areas are dark blue, some white, some tones of blue. In each one, the shapes are the same, but the blue and white is different.
#origami #memory #blueprint #orizuru #metamorphogram

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I like that the app has built in #AltText. I'll do my best to use it every time.

#StarTrek
#Spock

Spock from Star Trek wears an uncharacteristic smile, revealing a rare emotional moment
#StarTrek #alttext #spock

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I am completely charmed by Alphaputt, a beautiful mini golf iOS game where the courses are shaped like letters of the alphabet. kottke.org/23/01/a-beautiful-tโ€ฆ

A Beautiful Typographic Mini Golf Game

As a former mini-golf champion, I am completely charmed by Alphaputt, an mini golf iOS game where the courses are shaped like lett
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Typographica
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Thanks for reminding me of this! Played a ton a few years ago. Looks like it hasnโ€™t been updated since 2020, but still puttinโ€™.
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Tom Hannen
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did you notice the A level plays โ€œMusic for Aiprortsโ€ by Brian Eno? (Please donโ€™t sue them)

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Todayโ€™s card is the Ten of Wands, and itโ€™s possible youโ€™ve taken on too much. Youโ€™re spending all your time and energy holding things together, until you can barely see whatโ€™s coming up. Take a moment to re-balance and get some help before you burn out and collapse
Ten of Wands from the Modern Witch Tarot: a white woman with blonde hair, a yellow dotted top, and a red skirt stumbles toward a desert town, bent over with the effort of holding the loose bundle of tall staffs she holds vertically in front of her

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Upcoming meeting notice: Fri Jan 6th 3-4 PM UTC

Our next meeting is at 3-4 PM UTC / 10-11 AM US Eastern, at this Jitsi link
meet.jit.si/UsedMakesBuildBrieโ€ฆ

The draft meeting agenda and minutes from past meetings are available DM for the link. We will mostly be discussing the state of Translate Science infrastructure and potential application to the Open Life Sciences program

Jitsi Meet

Join a WebRTC video conference powered by the Jitsi Videobridge
meet.jit.si

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Nice press release on an study that came out earlier this year-

"Israeli-led study claims to uncover 100,000 previously unknown viruses"

timesofisrael.com/israeli-led-โ€ฆ

and the original study: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8โ€ฆ

Congrats again @Neri !

#viruses #virology


Israeli-led study claims to uncover 100,000 previously unknown viruses

Researchers hope groundbreaking findings into RNA pathogens could help develop new kinds of antimicrobial drugs and protect against agriculturally harmful fungi and parasites
www.timesofisrael.com
#viruses #virology @Uri Neri
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Uri Neri
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Thanks Frank ๐Ÿ˜€
The uni's PR dept has worked overtime apparently

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I have some ecosystem questions, aimed toward trying to see how I can help contribute.

Maybe boost this to help us all learn?

* What gatherings or online spaces are connecting fediverse devs and admins? What is needed?

* Where can one find people developing products and business models to support the ecosystem? Any pitch opportunities out there?

* How can we help to make the economies of the fediverse more explicit, rather than waiting for VCs to swoop in and commercialize for us?

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Industriebotaniker
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@christina
It is often said FOSS alternatives would lack accessible UX and aesthetics. There might be potential for a platform coop of developers and admins dedicated to further develop features that would fill this gap.
@christina b
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Nathan Schneider
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@Paul030 @christina Sounds fun! I guess the issue in my view is that the problem with FOSS and UX is that FOSS projects can't afford to pay for good UX work. I'm not sure a co-op would fix that, since the workers would still want to be paid.
@christina b @Industriebotaniker
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Shou
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@Paul030 @christina I guess it could solve the issue of having zero access to UX designers? If a platform cooperative provides shared access to a single (or a few) UX designers who receive monetary support via coop membership fees, that could be useful -- in that they could look at each project, and address common problems over time by e.g. producing monthly reports.
@christina b @Industriebotaniker
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thereโ€™s growing overlap with web3 / dao builder community ir seems (eg kernel, farcaster, lens, gitcoin).

i think weโ€™ll see an explosion of new decentralized / โ€œcozy webโ€ social tools soon when the crypto is abstracted away. business models are tbd but likely token-based. i think ethereum community is closest to answers for community-based public goods funding.

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Two Scott Stallings, a UPS mixup, and a misdirected Masters invite. "Thatโ€™s how a 60-year-old with no professional golf experience found himself with an invitation to play in the Masters." (via @davidgagne) theathletic.com/4055473/2023/0โ€ฆ

The curious case of two Scott Stallings and one Masters invitation

The 37-year-old journeyman golfer was expecting the formal invitation to Augusta National. Only, it went to a 60-year-old realtor instead.
Brendan Quinn (The Athletic)

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#NVIDIA driver v525.78.01 out fixing bugs and supports RTX 4070 Ti gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/nvidโ€ฆ #Linux
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NVIDIA driver v525.78.01 out fixing bugs and supports RTX 4070 Ti

NVIDIA has today released driver version 525.78.01 for Linux which includes support for the new RTX 4070 Ti, along with a few select bug fixes.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #Nvidia

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Now, wish me luck.

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Pop-Up Magazine has come to an end. "Live audiences were starting to return. A profitable, self-sustaining future was in sight. But we don't have enough money in the bank to make it." popupmagazine.com/thankyou/

Pop-Up Magazine / Thank you

Pop-Up Magazine Productions creates multimedia storytelling spectacles performed live for tens of thousands of people a year at grand historic venues across North America.
www.popupmagazine.com
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John Battelle
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I loved what they did, and the team they had. I was a minor investor and a big believer. I've seen exactly this movie so many times - it's sad, but they gave us a decade of wonderful experiences.

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The FAIR-IMPACT Open calls
fair-impact.eu/fair-impact-opeโ€ฆ has now been announced. This is a good opportunity to get some seed funding to make your tool/repository FAIR-enabled!
For instance, perhaps you would like to try to build support for FAIR Signposting or RO-Crate?

FAIR-IMPACT Open calls for support

To help take some of the guesswork out of implementing FAIR, and to realise an EOSC of FAIR data and services, FAIR-IMPACT provides a set of clearly defined support actions offered over the life of the project.
fair-impact.eu

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Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230105.htโ€ฆ #APOD

APOD: 2023 January 5 - Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
apod.nasa.gov
#APOD

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Kandria, my first big commercial title, releases in exactly one week from now!

It's a mashup of open world action RPG and platformer.

Make sure to wishlist it on Steam so you don't miss the launch: kandria.com/steam

#indiedev #gamedev #swissgames #wishlistwednesday

Kandria on Steam

Explore a ruined open world of caverns and settlements. Hack and slash your way through missions: patrol, repair, scavenge - choose your quests and dialogue.
kandria.com
#gamedev #indiedev #swissgames #wishlistwednesday

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Cuphead - what a MAGNIFICENT game (Steam Deck)

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Cuphead - what a MAGNIFICENT game (Steam Deck)

Todayโ€™s highlight on #SteamDeck is a game called #Cuphead. This was originally released back in 2017 and it is currently Steam Deck Verified. Don't sleep on ...
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Irfan
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Irfan
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hi, i watched ur videos A LOT when i didnt have a steam deck. now i have one, im kinda lost at what i shd do to it for "optimal" experience. do u have video(s) u can point to?

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#PlayStation3 #emulator RPCS3 hits a big milestone with all games now bootable gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/playโ€ฆ
An old PlayStation 3

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 hits a big milestone with all games now bootable

RPCS3 is a free and open source PlayStation 3 emulator, and they hit a huge milestone for compatibility recently.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#playstation3 #emulator

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๐Ÿ†• blog! โ€œBook Review: Rising Tide (Lauren Fraser mysteries Book 2) - Jennifer Palgraveโ€
โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†

Nat Spiller, an admired climate change activist, has accidentally drowned. Thatโ€™s the police verdict. But was it an accident? His partner Ellie thinks otherwise. Pam, Ellieโ€™s aunt, draws a reluctant Lauren Fraser into the mystery. It's a bit weirdโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ‘€ Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/book-โ€ฆ
โธป
#BookReview #newzealand

Crashing waves on the shore make up this book cover.

Book Review: Rising Tide (Lauren Fraser mysteries Book 2) - Jennifer Palgrave

Nat Spiller, an admired climate change activist, has accidentally drowned. Thatโ€™s the police verdict. But was it an accident? His partner Ellie thinks otherwise. Pam, Ellieโ€™s aunt, draws a reluctanโ€ฆ
Terence Edenโ€™s Blog
#BookReview #newzealand
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Terence Eden
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@Gargron I guess a few things:
1. Let users discover posts by metadata - for example ISBN, star rating, etc.
2. Format the post in a specific way to people can see the data.
3. Let robots or other apps read the metadata to do something with it.

I'm not quite sure *what*. This isn't a serious Pull Request (yet) ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

@Eugen Rochko

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I just found my read of the day:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20โ€ฆ

It makes so much sense to me that differentiation pathways in T cells(and biological processes i general) are much more flexible than currently depicted in literature! Why would a cell be fully stuck in one state with no way to return? HIgh time for studies like this to correct our current view on #immunology #memory #T cell #differentiation #gene regulation. So i look forward to read it!


Flexible and scalable control of T cell memory by a reversible epigenetic switch

The immune system encodes information about the severity of a pathogenic threat in the quantity and type of memory cell populations formed in response.
bioRxiv
#gene #immunology #memory #t #differentiation

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In the same context of #gene regulation #epigenetics my second read of today:
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/โ€ฆ

Towards a unification of the 2 meanings of โ€œepigeneticsโ€

The notion of epigenetic โ€œmarksโ€ used by molecular biologists is conceptually disconnected from the idea of Waddingtonโ€™s epigenetic โ€œlandscapeโ€ that is used by systems biologists and biophysicists.
journals.plos.org
#gene #epigenetics

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We found novel #papillomaviruses, that are prevalent, diverse, and with complete genomes, in the critically endangered Malayan and Chinese pangolins #paleovirology

royalsocietypublishing.org/doiโ€ฆ

#paleovirology #papillomaviruses

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Happy to announce this #preprint , the culmination of last 10 years. ๐Ÿฅณ

We find that #antimicrobialpeptides are evolved to control specific #microbiome #bacteria. This example is a textbook case of host #immune #evolution being shaped by the microbiome ๐Ÿฆ  which depends on host #ecology.

Thanks for comments! Bit of an experiment: we are posting pre-submit to get feedback ๐Ÿ™‚.

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20โ€ฆ
#immunity #Drosophila #EvolutionaryBiology #inflammation #NFkB

Single innate immune effectors control ecological microbiome bacteria across evolutionary timescales

Antimicrobial peptides are host-encoded antibiotics that combat invading microbes and help shape the microbiome in plants and animals.
bioRxiv
#ecology #Evolution #bacteria #preprint #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #immune #immunity #drosophila #evolutionarybiology #inflammation #nfkb
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Dwarf Fortress hit nearly half a million sales in December 2022 gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/dwarโ€ฆ #IndieGame #Gaming #PCGamer
Dwarf Fortress showing a busy colony

Dwarf Fortress hit nearly half a million sales in December 2022

Dwarf Fortress from developer Bay 12 Games and publisher Kitfox Games finally had the Steam release in December 2022, and it seems like it went very well.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #indiegame #pcgamer
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Eric Bower
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Eric Bower
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looks a lot like rimworld
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Edvin Malinovskis
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Edvin Malinovskis
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@erock before RimWorld it was main inspiration for survival game mode in Minecraft too: web.archive.org/web/2012012616โ€ฆ

Credits due : The Word of Notch

Credits due Infiniminer is the main inspiration for the blocky design and the terrain deforming. Dwarf Fortress is the main inspiration for the survival game mode, and this is where I want to take the...
web.archive.org
@Eric Bower

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Space and atmospheric flight simulator Flight Of Nova gets a #Linux version gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/spacโ€ฆ #Gaming #FlightSim #SciFi
A screenshot of Flight Of Nova, showing a big spaceship above a planet

Space and atmospheric flight simulator Flight Of Nova gets a Linux version

Flight Of Nova is a solo-developed space and atmospheric flight sim currently in Early Access, it looks quite impressive and it now has a Native Linux version.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #gaming #scifi #flightsim

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#AMD reveal #Ryzen 7000 X3D processors, desktop 65W CPUs and new mobile chips gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/amd-โ€ฆ #PCGaming
AMD Ryzen press image

AMD reveal Ryzen 7000 X3D processors, desktop 65W CPUs and new mobile chips

AMD came out with a bang at CES with a whole bunch of new products, including some impressive looking X3D processors added to the Ryzen 7000 lineup.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#AMD #pcgaming #ryzen
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skoot
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it'll be interesting to see how the 7900/7950x3d performs since only one of the ccx has the additional cache.
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Mikhail Burakov
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Mikhail Burakov
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So if I got this right, they dropped ~40W from desktop cpus by removing a โ€œsuboptimalโ€ embedded gpu that no one uses anyway, and no one ever asked in desktop segment. Nice move amdโ€ฆ

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oooh, I want to host this
github.com/easychen/not-only-fโ€ฆ

GitHub - easychen/not-only-fans: an open source, self-hosted digital content subscription platform like `onlyfans.com` with cryptocurrency payment

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