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Wait I'm Just Stupid #shorts #Gaming #CultoftheLamb youtube.com/shorts/xiin0AWqxT4

Wait I'm Just Stupid #shorts

How did I miss that#gaming #cultofthelamb #linuxgaming #steamdeck #gamingonlinuxTwitch: https://brodierobertson.xyz/twitchDlive: https://brodierobertson.xyz/...
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The full set, in one view! Check out my new panorama, featuring all 🔟 of the sample tubes I recently set down as a backup for #MarsSampleReturn.

Trouble spotting them all? Improve your odds with this interactive viewer, and zoom in on the full image: go.nasa.gov/3K4kjtJ
#PerseveranceRover

NASA's Perseverance Rover Shows Off Collection of Mars Samples

The Red Planet rover snapped a portrait of the sample depot it has assembled with 10 backup sample tubes that could be returned to Earth by a future mission.
NASA Mars Exploration
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Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥
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I can "feel" the oddly near horizon. I feel like I can smell the iron fines from the airlock where I suited up. The radiation exposure starts adding up immediately, but it would still be amazing to see.

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In our newest citizen science project, you can @DoNASAScience by helping to train AI algorithms to search for potential signs of life beyond Earth: go.nasa.gov/3InYiEY
#NASA

Are we alone in the universe? You’re not alone if you want to find out! | Science Mission Directorate

Help search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations! (Credit: UCLA SETI and Yuri Beletsky) This Valentine's Day, fall in love with science! Join the new NASA project called “Are we alone in the universe?” and help scientists find signs …
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Tuning Into Brainwave Rhythms Dramatically Accelerates Learning in Adults. "Participants who received a simple 1.5-second visual cue at their personal brainwave frequency were at least three times faster..." scitechdaily.com/tuning-into-b…

Tuning Into Brainwave Rhythms Dramatically Accelerates Learning in Adults

First study to show that delivering information at the natural tempo of our neural pulses accelerates our ability to learn. Participants who received a simple 1.
Mike O'Neill (SciTechDaily)

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Romston
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🫶🤔😅😂 "It's the intention that matters" 💖

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The Helmdude 🟥🟨
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Hi there NASA, could you please confirm if the moon is in fact haunted.

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That’s home. That’s us. 🌎

This image dubbed the “pale blue dot” was taken by @NASAVoyager today in 1990. As the spacecraft sped toward interstellar space, it captured Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion km) away. Find out 10 fast facts: go.nasa.gov/3E7eW9m
#NASA

10 Things You Might Not Know About Voyager's Famous 'Pale Blue Dot' Photo

The Voyager imaging team asked for the photo to show Earth’s vulnerability — to illustrate how small, fragile and irreplaceable it is on a cosmic scale.
NASA Solar System Exploration
#NASA

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The Art of the Logo Refresh. Designer Jessica Hische talks about how she smartens up the logos of companies who aren't looking for a complete rebrand. kottke.org/23/02/the-art-of-th…

The Art of the Logo Refresh

This is a nice little interview with designer Jessica Hische on how she steps in to help companies refresh their logos. There
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David Friedman
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Reminds me of the story of the DEC “digital” logo. It was a hand-drawn logo designed in 1957, but it closely resembled Helvetica. So people at DEC who didn’t have the asset handy just simulated it by typing it in Helvetica and scaling it. But one employee knew that was wrong and tacky. So in 1987, he painstakingly recreated the original logo in postscript to create a standardized asset. nedbatchelder.com/blog/200712/…
The DEC “digital” logo
Text that tells more of the story in first person from the person who made the digital file. It says: The logo was designed in 1957 by Elliot Hendrickson, who was then working as an independent designer. He was contracted by DEC to do a brochure, and DEC wanted a logo to accompany it. The logo up to then had been the letters DEC in blocks the shape of the plug-in cards that DEC had been producing. Elliot re-worked the logo, incorporating letters which were hand-drawn for the purpose by Arthur Hover(?). The logo has been maintained since then in conventional technology, i.e. film masters. There was at least one reworking of the logo at some point. The masters I received had a number of interesting features. The boxes were not all the same width, and there seemed to be no logic to which boxes were wider. The ‘g’ was the narrowest, and the ‘i’ and ‘l’ were second widest. Also, the two ‘i’s were not exactly the same shape. On ten-inch masters, (one box to an 8”×11” sheet), the boxes were not rectangles, but were very slightly tapered in weird ways. I assume that the tapering is the result of too many reproductions, but the difference in widths may have been deliberate at some time. Elliot reports that when he drew it, all boxes were the same width. I have made all of the boxes the same width, since that seems to have been the original intent, since the differences were almost negligible anyway, and since there was no logic to the differences.

Ancient history: the Digital logo

My first corporate job was with Digital Equipment Corporation. I worked in the printer group, on PostScript technologies.
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Colin Devroe
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@jessicahische is obviously an amazing talent. Her works seems simple and that is the art and the work.
@Jessica Hische

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Star-crossed lovers❤️‍🔥
5,300 light-years away, two stars are locked in a fiery dance. They come together every 8 years with such force that stellar material is blown away. Each meeting forms a new ring. @NASAWebb captured a century+ of this dance. go.nasa.gov/3RYZlwG
#NASAExoplanets

Star Duo Forms ‘Fingerprint’ in Space, NASA’s Webb Finds

A new image shows at least 17 dust rings created by a rare type of star and its companion locked in a celestial dance.
Tony Greicius (NASA)
#NASAExoplanets

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Review of a gasoline car from the alt-universe where EVs are standard. "Imagine if a steam locomotive had a baby with a machine gun. That's the sort of noise that comes out of a gas car." geoff.greer.fm/2023/02/08/gaso…

Gasoline Car Review

I recently purchased a Mazda Miata. This car is interesting because instead of running on electricity, it is powered by a combustible liquid called gasoline. The vehicle has an engine that mixes the…
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Anthony Sorace
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Wait, either I’m losing my mind or I’ve read something remarkably similar to this years ago. Like, in my memory they’re the same. Is this a repost?

(Also: ew that two posts earlier he’s defending RMS. 🤮)

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The only really glaring weakness there is the bit about the engine size -- I mean, yeah, but my electrics eat a lot more than that with the battery. Well, that and I think they'd find the whole concept of a "reverse" gear crazypants.

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Bypass Paywalls Vanishes From Firefox Addon Store #Linux #Firefox #Mozilla #YouTube youtu.be/aedMVkINsIo

Bypass Paywalls Vanishes From Firefox Addon Store

You're a thief so you probably hate paying for things, and one of those things are probably articles. Well until recently doing that was pretty easy if you'r...
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#linux #YouTube #Firefox #Mozilla
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mrscientific
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Instead of paying your developers to implement stuff properly, you go after open source projects that make it easy to circumvent your paywall. This is frankly a bit dumb to me. I understand wanting to put your stuff behind a paywall, but this is just ignoring the problem, not solving it.

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Here’s the latest post from my substack blog. open.substack.com/pub/revoluti…

Expanding Our Imaginations

Solidarity Bioeconomy: Part 1
Leon Elcock (Revolutionary Synthetic Biology)
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Danny (he/they)
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post-reading thoughts

I was reminded of the imagination sundial.

robhopkins.net/2020/06/30/intr…

It's kinda catch-all but nonetheless a nice inspiration. I'm interested where the concept of struggle might fit in. I see imagination here feeding into creation but no mention of it feeding the creative duality of destruction...

Which in turn reminds me of this video which I will send out to the Ministers of the Future email list when it goes live on YT:

nebula.tv/videos/occ-why-clima…

@leonelcock3

Rainbow sunflower. Radially divided into 24 segments under 4 quadrants of similar colours (red, yellow, green, blue). Text in each segment is as follows with some removed for character limits: SPACE: mental and emotional space that expands our capacity to imagine Connecting ... Opening: ... Slowing: slowing down and making time to create a sense of space and stillness within our otherwise busy lives Permission: suspending our inner voice of judgement and cynicism and having permission to get things "wrong" Safe: ... Welcome ... PLACE: gathering places that provide platforms for collective imagining Street: ... Local: a multitude of neighborhood places to meet, make, grow, eat, play, reflect, and share Civic: ... Natural: ... Work: ... Virtual: ... PACTS: pacts of collaboration that catalyse imagination into action Residents: a community of residents with diverse lived experiences, culture, and worldviews Civil society: ... Business: ... Authorities: Public authorities of appropriate scale and jurisdictional authority Institutions: ... Catalysts: ... PRACTICES: practices that connect us and change our frame of possibility Yes and what if: using the words "yes, and" and "what if" to open conversations to possiblity Celebrating: ... Playing: ... Making: engaging our hands and minds in the process of making and the art of transformation Limits: ... Inspiration: ... Imagination Sundial by Rob Shorter, CC-BY-SA 4.0

Introducing the Imagination Sundial

We know it’s only part of the picture, as one could never hope to capture the full unknowing wonder that is the imagination.
Rob Hopkins
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post-reading thoughts
@danwchan I like the imagination sundial. I think things like that are necessary for a vast repertoire of tools to achieve change. Struggle fits because the status quo won't be replaced peacefully. The status quo is violent from the jump. In biotech you see the behavior with patent trolling. Even though no one org can serve the world, knives are drawn the second there's competition. I believe these social relations will be an obstacle we will struggle against.
@Danny (he/they)

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10 years ago Steam released for Linux gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/10-y… #Steam #Linux #SteamDeck
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10 years ago Steam released for Linux

I'm starting to feel old. I remember a time before Steam for Linux, back in the dark days even before the first set of Humble Indie Bundles, it's truly crazy how far Linux has come overall as a platform for gaming.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #Steam #SteamDeck
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hehehe, I remember installing either the Linux version and the Windows version on Crossover and taking a screenshot with both running, just because I could!

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Tidally locked or forever alone? Tight with your squad and/or dreaming of a hot Jupiter? Happy #ValentinesDay! Check out our love stories from alien worlds: go.nasa.gov/40TXZce
#NASAExoplanets

Happy Valentine's Day

Send your love from outer space! Share or download six out-of-this-world valentines to send to your space-ial someone.
Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
#valentinesday #NASAExoplanets

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Jackson Bird signs off on the last ever episode of the Cool Stuff Ride Home. kottke[dot]org was proudly affiliated with this podcast for awhile – I'm sad to see it go! art19.com/shows/coronavirus-da…

Fri. 02/10 - Spoiler: This Is Our Last Episode

We all love a good ending, but has the culture around spoiler warnings gone too far? Plus, a roundup of interesting links and stories from my drafts. And the story of the Cool Stuff Ride Home. Sponsors:Indeed, Indeed.com/goodnewsZocDoc, zocdoc.
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Anthony Sorace
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Oh, I was *just* telling someone about this podcast over the weekend!

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KDE Plasma 5.27 released with multi-monitor & Wayland upgrades, Steam Deck updater gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/kde-… #Linux #KDE #SteamDeck
KDE Plasma 5.27 showing some open windows

KDE Plasma 5.27 released with multi-monitor & Wayland upgrades, Steam Deck updater

KDE Plasma 5.27 sounds like a really great update to this desktop environment, the same one used on the desktop mode for the Steam Deck and my personal choice for my PC too.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #KDE #SteamDeck
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is there any basis for expecting it in the next major release? For example the most recent major release 3.4 was announced to include changes from upstream packages. But I don’t recall anything like that for 3.3 or 3.2.

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What makes Nextcloud stand out? ✨

"First of all privacy. The ability to host your own data and to know where your data is." Listen to this customer interview with Nassim Shahin, Information Technology Services Manager at Erzbistum Köln.

go.nextcloud.com/r/cvS


How Erzbistum Köln uses Nextcloud

Register now for Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2022! https://nextcloud.com/enterprise-day/
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Fanatical have another Play On The Go bundle for Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/fana… #SteamDeck #Gaming #Linux
Fanatical - Steam Deck Verified game bundle

Fanatical have another Play On The Go bundle for Steam Deck

Need more games for your Steam Deck or Linux Desktop? Fanatical have launched another Play On The Go bundle.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #gaming #SteamDeck
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Tau
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When clicking the link for the bundle uBlock Origin triggered 3 times

#SteamDeck #gaming #linux

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
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@tau it’s an affiliate link there’s a notice above every article
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I know and uBlock Origin does not using trigger when using affiliate links usually. It does when the link is tracking information.

I told you this out of worry because it may arise concerns of privacy

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KravenNL
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any recommendations? Don’t recognize any of them which might be enough of a hint in itself.

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Fears about nuclear energy, and nuclear waste in particular, have been overstated. "We should celebrate what humankind can achieve with clean energy: a high quality of life for everybody, without the negative impacts of burning fossil fuels." zionlights.substack.com/p/ever…

Everything I believed about nuclear waste was wrong

I’ve feared it. I’ve protested it. Now I’m hugging it
Zion Lights
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Jeff Dillon
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I'm less concerned with the ideal use of nuclear power than I am with the institutions that run it. Our aging local nuclear plant failed to prevent and then adequately respond to unexpected degradation in new steam tubes, which leaked radiation. Maybe it shouldn't have killed the plant, but "Whoopsie! Didn't expect that," isn't a very reassuring message.

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Grateful for all of you this Valentine’s Day. We think you’re out of this world.

Happy Valentine’s Day from NASA’s Planetary Science Division!

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#NASASolarSystem

Space Valentines: From NASA With Love | NASA Solar System Exploration

Shareable space-themed Valentines collected from around our solar system.
NASA Solar System Exploration
#NASASolarSystem

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Why Everything You Buy Is Worse Now. "Sweaters are more likely to tear. Smart toasters and TVs burn out and die after only a few years. It might seem like consumer products just aren't built to last anymore. What's going on?" kottke.org/23/02/why-everythin…

Why Everything You Buy Is Worse Now

Riffing on a recent piece by Izzie Ramirez, Vo'x Kim Mas educates us on why the quality of consumer goods has dropped over the p
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Jeff Dillon
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My house has a 30-year-old built-in microwave that still works, if clunkily. Replacing it will cost about $800 for a similar unit and the custom mounting/venting equipment -- but that all-microwaves-are-the-same story you linked to the other week points out there's no guarantee a new unit will last more than 2-3 years. Heavy sigh.

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The European Parliament has "formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035". reuters.com/business/autos-tra…

EU lawmakers approve effective 2035 ban on new fossil fuel cars

The European Parliament on Tuesday formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles and combat climate change.
Reuters
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Tonio Loewald
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I would prefer it if the rules specified fuel efficiency / CO2 emission per km or whatever vs mandating or banning specific technologies. Right now it seems like some hybrid cars are every bit as efficient as electric, and hybrid biodiesel is a real option.

That said, e-bikes plus public transport seem better yet.

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Johnathan Lyman
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the used gas-powered vehicle market is going to be insane in 2035 at this rate.

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The Heart and Soul Nebulas apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230214.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2023 February 14 – The Heart and Soul Nebulas

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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This is a lovely, lovely beetle.

This species of spider beetle is considered a cosmopolitan pest of natural history collections.

It's a amazing creature, none the less.

#Insect #Beetle #NaturalHistoryCollections
#Taxonomy
#Macrophotography

This is a close-up of a point-mounted spider beetle (family Ptinidae). The elytra are black and come together to form a large globular shape over the abdomen. The head, legs, pronotum and antennae are covered with dense, golden setae (or hairs), most of which are flattened into scale-like structures.
#macrophotography #taxonomy #NaturalHistoryCollections #beetle #insect

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1923 was a seminal year for the movies. avclub.com/1923-2023-film-indu…

How 1923 Hollywood shaped 2023 Hollywood

With key works from Chaplin and Keaton, debuts by Disney and Dietrich, and big strides in technology, 1923 was a seminal year for film
Cindy White (The A.V. Club)

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Love you to the Moon and back!

On Valentine's Day 2023, 19:00 GMT, this is 464421.5 miles

The Moon is roughly 30 times the diameter of Earth away, but because its orbit isn't perfectly circular, its distance varies from about 28-32 Earth diameters throughout a month.
#NASAMoon

#nasamoon

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Happy #ValentinesDay from Venus – the planet named for the goddess of love! 💖

Hubble captured this image in ultraviolet light back in 1995. Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, with surface temperatures at about 900 degrees Fahrenheit! More: go.nasa.gov/3E7r36j
#Hubble

Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble | NASA Solar System Exploration

Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of Venus.
NASA Solar System Exploration
#valentinesday #hubble

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Hey, you've got us starry-eyed. Be our Valentine? 🤩 #ValentinesDay
#JamesWebb
#valentinesday #jameswebb

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Download space-themed #NASAValentines here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13556
#JamesWebb

GMS: Astrophysics Valentines

Download our astrophysics-themed valentines!<…
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
#jameswebb #NASAValentines

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LOX lift us up where we belong 💖 🚀

Find a bae that boosts you #ValentinesDay
#NASAhistory

#valentinesday #NASAhistory

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How Vinyl Records Are Made. Take a trip to the Third Man Records pressing plant to see how vinyl records are made. kottke.org/23/02/how-vinyl-rec…

How Vinyl Records Are Made

So, here's how they make vinyl records at Third Man Records in Detroit. As you might expect, the process is a bit less automated
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Happy #Valentines Day on behalf of #Artemis.

We would love to keep you in our orbit. There is no love crater than ours.
#NASAArtemis #Artemis

#artemis #nasaartemis #valentines

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Artists & Consent!
You know how you can wear clothes that "confuse" AI systems? This is like that, but to disguise art you share online so AI can't learn from it.
paper: arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222
Thanks for the reporting
@kashhill !
nytimes.com/2023/02/13/technol…

GLAZE: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models

Recent text-to-image diffusion models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion threaten to displace many in the professional artist community.
arXiv.org
@kashhill

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Invitation to Alife workshop next week

By the way, next week I'm hosting / chairing a workshop on Artificial Life for the Japanese society of Alife.

Online participation is possible, so if you are interested in the topics in the program, drop by!

alife-japan.org/archives/event…

#alife #artificiallife

第6回人工生命研究会 - 人工生命研究会

第6回人工生命研究会の紹介。日程：2月21日。発表登録〆切2月03日・登録〆切2月20日。
人工生命研究会
#ArtificialLife #alife

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Teaser trailer for season three of Ted Lasso. "In this third season of Ted Lasso, the newly-promoted AFC Richmond faces ridicule as media predictions widely peg them as last in the Premier League..." youtube.com/watch?v=5m14CQFtNi…

Ted Lasso — Season 3 Official Teaser | Apple TV+

Richmond Till We Die. Ted Lasso Season 3 premieres March 15 on Apple TV+ https://apple.co/TedLassoIn this third season of Ted Lasso, the newly-promoted AFC R...
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BobbymeetsReno
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thanks, is it already announced when this is going to start?

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Timing of integration into the chromosome is critical for the fitness of an integrative and conjugative element and its bacterial host

@PLOSGenetics from @Grossman_Lab

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Timing of integration into the chromosome is critical for the fitness of an integrative and conjugative element and its bacterial host

Author summary Horizontal gene transfer contributes significantly to microbial evolution, enabling bacteria to rapidly acquire new genes and traits.
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