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Leonid Meteor Storm 12-13th of November 1833. One of many wonderful illustrations in: "Atlante Astronomico," by Giovanni Celoria.

Edmund Weiß, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.



Horrible Histories can be so much fun!
youtu.be/9CyDIfAansM


Ted Gioia on ChatGPT as a confidence game: "The con artist always gives people exactly what they want. And in a post-truth society, nobody does this better than AI." tedgioia.substack.com/p/introd…


Jamelle Bouie: "I think it's worth saying, again, that the institution of American policing lies outside any meaningful democratic control." nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion…
in reply to kottke.org

- I sincerely believe that there is no sector of the population that escalates situations into violent interactions more than the police.


More amazing comet tails can be seen in the Wunderzeichenbuch: "The Book of Miracles."

See this link for high resolution photos: dayfaber.com/exhibition/47520

Look for Folios 28, 52, 65, 70, 95, 105, 109, and 114.

Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 65, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.



In full support of ID verification for API access, I know some people will take issue with it but if you want to deal with a bot problem that'll certainly do it. Charging $100 a month for API access though kills off all but corporate usage.
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RT @elonmusk
@BillyM2k @ericnakagawa Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to …
twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16…
in reply to Brodie Robertson

The issue is for trans people and anyone who needs privacy. Many of us trans peeps have deadnames on our IDs, and we much rather Twitter not displaying that name anywhere. Secondly, I would not trust Twitter to hold on to personal information about me. I think limits should be fair with enough space for researchers and small communities, but needing an ID for anything remotely large and commercial
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I think API access should be obvious to prevent scammers or bots, requiring that accounts be marked with a bot tag to use the API, which currently is not in place


You can do it, little dudes!
youtu.be/rGvUYItP8rs


Band album cover.
Tidnish Mountain
Tidnish Mountain by Rob Macinnis 1st Place 2022 Nature Budapest International Foto Awards





Starting Ozempic chriscoyier.net/2023/02/02/sta…


I shaved my head and became angry bald man #GodofWar youtube.com/watch?v=_di5v5ogvO…


Some plants can monitor #environmental #conditions around them and release #seeds at times #optimal for #dispersal.

#Dandelion seeds close up a bit in #wet #weather and don't travel as far as in their more open, #dry weather form. New #research (Seale et al. 2022) shows that dandelions hold on to seeds in wet weather and release them more in dry weather.

Do #plants exhibit #behavior? I would argue, yes.

Paper: elifesciences.org/articles/819…

Explainer: elifesciences.org/articles/819…



Is polar ice melting?

Unfortunately, yes. And it’s the number one contributor to sea level rise. @NASAClimate scientist Dr. Brooke Medley tells us how NASA studies the relationship between ice sheets and sea level to better understand our changing planet. climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/i…
#NASA

#NASA


“In academia the Soviet Jew has long been seen as an ideological suitcase ripe for stuffing.” Gary Shteyngart reviews a new book about the national ethnic group that’s usually been marked more by what it’s not than what it is: nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/0…


Palestine under attack, AGAIN! Fucking Zionists, man.

aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/26/i…



Hi everyone! I'm a community ecologist interested in metacommunity theory, dormant seed banks, and microbes in aquatic ecosystems.

I work on questions at the intersection of these topics using theoretical and empirical approaches.

Currently exploring the cool freshwater ecosystems of the southeast!



The true origins of Lorem Ipsum probably don't lie in Renaissance humanists lovingly typesetting Cicero, but in 1960s advertisements for Letraset and 1980s defaults for Pagemaker. kottke.org/23/02/the-true-orig…
in reply to kottke.org

we had a Letraset catalogue in the “arts and crafts” room at my “high school”. I loved browsing it.


This Should Have Been In The Anime #shorts #Gaming youtube.com/shorts/fWP4tJ7Bkn0


What’s the most successful Hollywood movie of all time? By gross = Avatar. By inflation-adjusted gross… still Avatar. But if you start to look at other metrics, like return on investment, the data gets a little more surprising… informationisbeautiful.net/vis…


These GIMP Effect Plugins Should Ship With It!! #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/MsF3D_y7dBY


Astronauts @AstroDuke and @Astro_Wakata completed their spacewalk today at 2:26pm ET after installing hardware readying the station for its next roll-out solar array. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
#ISS
#iss


The Academy loves the gritty, gory new German adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, rewarding it with nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Who hates it? German critics. slate.com/culture/2023/02/all-…


When do longer reads matter? A benchmark of long read de novo assembly tools for eukaryotic genomes biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/…


We Don't Need To Go To Mars kottke.org/23/02/we-dont-need-…
in reply to kottke.org

That really has some of the funniest lines, and I am in awe of his delivery of them.


If you're in the St. Augustine/Jacksonville area, come stop by and get your signed copy of Hubris!


Looking for a solution to get off of Google or Apple's walled ecosystem and take back control of your data?

This episode of the Opt-Out podcast features Jos Poortvliet to chat about Nextcloud and the many solutions it has to offer!

go.nextcloud.com/r/3x5



This comet is difficult to see without dark skies and a pair of binoculars, but did you know we've seen comets up close? This view of Comet 103P/Hartley came from NASA's EPOXI mission. All about comets: go.nasa.gov/321sPE1
#NASASolarSystem


Look up! Today the "Green Comet" makes its closest approach to Earth for the 1st time in 50,000 years! After your viewing party, why not curl up with A History of Near-Earth Objects Research to learn about how we've come to understand comets and asteroids! go.nasa.gov/3XNt3bW
#NASAhistory


Excellent story on Wired about Telegram's problems with supposedly being "private" and secure, and how Russia is exploiting it wired.com/story/the-kremlin-ha…

IMO Telegram should be treated like Facebook: if you're registered there, don't leave any details, configure all chats to self-delete (especially non-private ones), and FFS do not use it for group chats, whether they're open or closed, as they're not encrypted at all.

#Telegram #Privacy #Security #UkraineRussiaWar #InfoSec #Encryption #Messenger



As my team knows, success is often about facing tough challenges and sticking through it. That’s why they love to highlight and chat with students who show true perseverance. Know a kid who fits the bill? Nominate by March 1:
go.nasa.gov/gotperseverance
#PerseveranceRover


Happy #GroundhogDay!

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning... and from up in space, Hubble can see shadows too!

This image shows three of Jupiter’s dozens of moons – and two of their shadows – moving across the planet in 2015: go.nasa.gov/3HTQJWg
#Hubble



theguardian.com/us-news/2023/f… This is the #mainstreaming hierarchical #processgeek version of the grassroots horizontal #OGB project. Were we know the #OGB has worked fine for a hundred years, it's good to have diversity to experiment with untested approaches like citizens assemblies.


Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok is a Norse inspired horde survival rogue-lite

gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/nord…

#Gaming #IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck



As we continue moving forward with our #Artemis missions to establish a human presence on the Moon, @nasa and @ILSpaceAgency will collaborate on the Beresheet-2, Israel’s upcoming lunar mission.
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


Sports management / visual novel mash-up Roller Drama is out now

gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/spor…

#Gaming #IndieGame #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck



Hey Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)! 👋💚 Heard you're passing through the neighborhood. 🌎
#NASAEarth
in reply to NASA

Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl
A solar system Miss from a future world

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