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#ISS
"These spaces cannot exist solely under corporate control . . . We’re two decades into the digital era but we have never, as democracies, taken stock of the meaning of these technologies."
Shoshana Zuboff on FT.
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Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Privacy has been extinguished. It is now a zombie’
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publicationHenry Mance (Financial Times)
Do you #MealPrep? What'd be on the menu if you were going to space?
We selected finalists in Phase 2 of our Deep Space Food Challenge. Beyond making safe, healthy, tasty food for astronauts, winning technologies may help address food insecurity on Earth: go.nasa.gov/3DuZjIz
#NASA
NASA Announces Finalists in Challenge to Design Future Astronaut Food
NASA has selected 11 finalists in Phase 2 of the Deep Space Food Challenge, a public competition to extend the limits of humans in space – through food.Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad research is being done, but food insecurity is caused purely by capitalist greed.
We already have way, way more food on Earth than we need to feed every human being, but corporations owning that food will rather it go to waste than feed someone for free.
@ChandraXRay helps reveal a massive knot-like collision of galaxy clusters ~780 million light-years from Earth. With black holes and other phenomena at work, galaxy clusters are the largest particle accelerators in the universe! go.nasa.gov/3JpWqfQ
#NASAExoplanets
Untangling a Knot of Galaxy Clusters
Astronomers have captured a chaotic scene of mergers and collisions between at least three galaxy clusters.Lee Mohon (NASA)
#NASA
Former NASA Astronauts to Receive Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Vice President Kamala Harris will award former NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 4:15 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 31.Roxana Bardan (NASA)
Matsumoto Hoji 松本奉時
Also, Mood.
#ISS
NASA to Air Live Coverage of Spacewalk for Power System Upgrades
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk Thursday, Feb. 2, to continue the installation of hardware for future power system upgrades. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m.Roxana Bardan (NASA)
One of the original Mercury 7 selected in 1959 but sidelined due to a heart condition, Deke Slayton was named for the primary crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project along with Tom Stafford, and Vance Brand #50YearsAgo today.
More: go.nasa.gov/3HjMge7
#NASAhistory
50 Years Ago: NASA Names U.S. Crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
On Jan. 30, 1973, NASA formally announced the American crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the first joint human spaceflight between the United States and the Soviet Union, planned for July 1975.Kelli Mars (NASA)
GRIFFY - INMDS (Official Music Video)
Subscribe to the music channel if you want :) thank you for watching !https://youtube.com/@griffyxmusichttps://instagram.com/griffytunes?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=h...YouTube
The cosmic ocean 🌊
This #HubbleClassic image shows a sea of glowing hydrogen gas, along with small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur.
Known as M17 (or the Swan or Omega Nebula), this starforming region resides 5,500 light-years away: go.nasa.gov/3ReWzVr
#Hubble
The Philosopher Who Was Too Popular
In the early twentieth century, Henri Bergson had a problem. His philosophy lectures were too popular: On average, 700 people wkottke.org
#Wikipedia y desinformación. Si cualquier persona puede editar un artículo ¿cómo se evita que haya información falsa o errónea?
En esta nota Carmen Alcázar, de Wikimedia México, cuenta las diferentes estrategias de verificabilidad que tiene la enciclopedia libre más grande del mundo👇
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Wikipedia en español: cómo combate la desinformación
Entrevista con Carmen Alcázar, presidenta de Wikimedia México, sobre la administración de Wikipedia en español y el combate a la desinformaciónJosé Luis Leguízamo (WIRED)
#NASA
Untangling a Knot of Galaxy Clusters
Astronomers have captured a chaotic scene of mergers and collisions between at least three galaxy clusters.Lee Mohon (NASA)
One of Chile’s most active volcanoes, Villarrica, is having a minor eruption. 🌋
Plumes of steam and volcanic gases (magnified in the inset image) can be seen in this @Space_Station photo from Jan. 17, 2023. go.nasa.gov/3HI8Leb
#NASAEarth
Chile’s Villarrica Sputters
An astronaut on the International Space Station captured this photograph of minor explosions from one of Chile’s most active volcanoes.go.nasa.gov
Low-level Strombolian activity – small, short eruptions – is common at Villarrica. As of Jan. 27, the alert level was still elevated at yellow (the second on a four-color scale).
Read the full story ⬇️ go.nasa.gov/3HI8Leb
#NASAEarth
Chile’s Villarrica Sputters
An astronaut on the International Space Station captured this photograph of minor explosions from one of Chile’s most active volcanoes.go.nasa.gov
Walking the Basketball Dog
If you've watched a high-level basketball game in the last ten or so years (NBA, WNBA, NCAA), you've probably seen something a lkottke.org
one of the teams in my 12 year old daughter’s parochial league is doing this, and it’s weird as hell since: A) they are typically losing by a lot, so they are wasting their own time B) there is no shot clock, and most most important C) league rules prevent full court press until the final two minutes.
So, basically, there is no difference between doing this and just dribbling the ball up a bit slower than usual.
Be Wary Of Steam Deck Scalpers!
Here in Australia and many other regions you still cannot buy a SteamDeck directly from Valve or even an official 3rd party but there are local sellers listi...YouTube
'Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality & Society' published by Polity Books just arrived in post. Covers how the digital reconfigures time w/ respect to history/memory, politics/policy, governance, mobility/logistics, planning/dev, & work/labour. In my mind, 4th book in a set of Mapping Cyberspace, Code/Space, The Data Revolution, Digital Timescapes that plots spatial & temporal implications of digital infrastructure, software & data.
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#ISS
Crew Gets Ready for Thursday Spacewalk, Keeps Up Space Research
The Expedition 68 crew kicked off Monday preparing for a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power generation system on Thursday.blogs.nasa.gov
The Artist Whose Book Covers Distilled the Nineteen-Eighties
Dan Kois writes about the graphic artist Lorraine Louie, and her cover designs for the book publisher Random House’s Vintage Contemporaries series.Dan Kois (The New Yorker)
Cistercian Numerals
Cistercian numerals were invented by the Cistercian order of monks in the 13th century. Giuseppe Frisella explains how the notatkottke.org
A Mind Made Out of Silk
Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.Quanta Magazine
#MondayMotivation: Don't let anyone dim your light. SHINE✨go.nasa.gov/3kOmWW1
#NASAExoplanets
Stay in control of your data with Nextcloud:
✅ See what's shared with whom
🔗 Control permissions
📂 Restore older file versions
Storage Insiders covers how easy it is to share files with Nextcloud!
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Dateien mit Nextcloud in der privaten Cloud teilen und im Browser nutzen
Wenn in der Familie, im Verein oder im Unternehmen eine private Cloud mit Nextcloud eingerichtet ist, lassen sich Dateien von Anwendern sehr leicht mit anderen Benutzern der eigenen Nextcloud teilen. Wir zeigen, wie das geht.Thomas Joos (Storage-Insider)
A Table Read for The Muppet Show
In film and television, a table read is an early part of the rehearsal process where, as the name suggests, all the performers reakottke.org
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Check out the latest episode of Linux Saloon! 🍻😀🐧
Host @CubicleNate@twitter.com &
friends explored the distribution called
GeckoLinux! 🦎
#podcasts #Linux
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Linux Saloon | 28 Jan 2023 | GeckoLinux
Linux Saloon is a place to discuss tech, open source and where Linux is always on Tap.This week we explored the distribution called GeckoLinux. It is a set o...YouTube
Update on berg A-81🧊
This #Landsat image from Jan. 25 shows the A-81 berg on the left and the new front of the Brunt Ice Shelf on the right.
According to a @NASAGoddard glaciologist, satellite images show the front has retreated 20 km since 1973. go.nasa.gov/1333
#NASAEarth
Okay, I have to admit, Project Killswitch feels lovely on the Steam Deck.
And the charging wire from the JSAUX M.2 SSD Dock fits in just fine.
I see you avoided putting on the palm parts.
Those horribly wrinkle and I regret putting them on 🙁
A collaboration written in the stars. ✨
We’ve teamed up with @LibraryCongress’s Poet Laureate @AdaLimon to send a poem to space! Limon’s poem dedicated to @EuropaClipper will be engraved on the spacecraft, targeted to launch Oct. 2024. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/40gQQmf
#NASA
A Voice Among the Stars: Poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Will Ride to Europa on NASA Spacecraft
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, who is known for work that explores the human connection to the natural world, is crafting a new poem dedicated to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission.NASA's Europa Clipper
The poem set to fly in space aboard @EuropaClipper, and how you can participate, will be revealed in the coming months.
Learn more about the Library of Congress and Ada Limón’s work 🧵:
#NASA
I restarted my experiment after having learned lots of approaches that don't work -- specifically I've learned lots of ways to corrode metal, which is not what I want.
Anyway, I restarted a couple days ago. The negative electrode has developed a cloudy haze around it, which the positive electrode doesn't have. So what's in that haze? Bacteria! Check out this incredible picture. It's so perfect it looks like it came from a textbook!
I'm using 1V DC in a jar of fresh water with 304 stainless steel mesh electrodes, a small pinch of salt, and a small pinch of yeast extract. No aeration.
@danwchan if anything at all manages to keep growing after reducing the amount of food to zero, then I think of that as success. It means the microbes had to get carbon from somewhere, and I think that's likely to be from co2.
Eventually I'll have to be much more controlled, eg sealed lids to prevent dust from falling in. But I'm not yet at the point where that matters, because so far I haven't gotten anything to grow without carbohydrates or light.
Wadjet Eye: Adventure
We’ve teamed up with Wadjet Eye Games for our newest bundle. Get graphic adventure games like Unavowed, Strangeland, and the Blackwell series. Plus, pay what you want & support charity!Humble Bundle
Marvel's Midnight Suns gets an update to help Steam Deck
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#Marvel #MidnightSuns #SteamDeck #Gaming #Linux
Marvel's Midnight Suns gets an update to help Steam Deck
Marvel's Midnight Suns is a great strategy game from the developer of XCOM, and now it should actually much better on Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •WildCat (Archived. Moving)
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Can we have a list of "good first" issues?
I want to contribute but there's no good starting point at all.
Mastodon has a label called "fit for beginners" but it is stale. All these issues are before 2018: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
I asked the same question in your IRC but there's no good answer.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I'm a Patreon member so that's how I help!!
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#patreon #everythinghelps
Mastodon | Creating Mastodon | Patreon
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •It is not very smart to ask for name and email BEFORE seeing the choices. This unnecessarily discourages people who want to participate. Normally, your own data comes at the end.
Here is a screenshot so you can see what you can choose: