This is a phenomenal essay for helping us understand
- Polarization and lack of working-class politics
- Why membership organizations are critical to healthy civics
- The power of politicized service associations (insurance, etc.)
"The Advocacy Implosion? Popular Membership in Civic Life" by Jonny Gordon-Farleigh at @stirtoaction stirtoaction.com/articles/advo…
#NASAExoplanets
NASA’s NuSTAR Telescope Reveals Hidden Light Shows on the Sun
Some of the hottest spots in the Sun’s atmosphere appear in the telescope’s X-ray view.Naomi Hartono (NASA)
#NASA
Curious Universe Season 5 Ep 1: “Defending the Planet from Asteroids”
Our solar system contains millions of asteroids, orbiting our sun and rocketing through the night sky! Join scientists Kelly Fast, Tom Statler, and Davide Farnocchia as we discover what we can learn from these building blocks of the universe, and ho…Gary Daines (NASA)
Fedora Linux Unveils New 5 Year Roadmap
Fedora Linux whilst making weird decisionfs from time to time actually has the ability to make decisions in the long term and recently unveiled there plan fo...YouTube
Charles Henderson of IBM makes a good point.
Security should be baked into social media by default.
With Twitter and Meta now charging extra for security, this is becoming an exercise of, "We wouldn't want something terrible to happen to your account, would we?"
Twitter Blue and Meta Verified are protection rackets.
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
Paid security features at Twitter and Meta spark cybersecurity concerns
Cyber pros have questions about the companies' recent announcements.Tim Starks (The Washington Post)
I kinda think TRUST should be built into social media - security is only a tiny part of this and often a unthinking #geekproblem BLOCK on this building of social "trust". Good to think about this.
#ISS
Muscle Research, BEAM Work Ahead of Crew Ship Launches
The Expedition 68 crew members began the week exploring what microgravity is doing to their bodies and ways to offset those effects.blogs.nasa.gov
Anyway, you can check out the stuff from last year's Summer School (The Fediverse's academic conference) here:
summerschool.scholar.social/20…
It's all super cool and I'm very proud of the work that everyone put into it
Academics have been on Fedi doing cool stuff for a while!
Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History
Now showing on American Experience on PBS: Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History. For generations, Monopoly has been America's fakottke.org
Tidbyt - See What Matters
Tidbyt keeps you updated on transit, weather and more. Leave your phone in your pocket.Tidbyt
Eliminate the confusing hodgepodge of different SaaS tools and the compliance, security, cost, and productivity issues that come with it.
Choose Netcloud Hub, a single platform that boosts productivity and improves security!
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A new generation of online collaboration that puts you in control without the compliance and security risks.Nextcloud
Inspiration is all around us.
Hamid Oloso, a computational scientist at @NASAGoddard, was inspired by different people along his journey from growing up in Ibadan, Nigeria to working at NASA on Earth system models.
Learn more about his story: go.nasa.gov/41ixpJY
#BHM
#NASAEarth
I am in the process of benchmarking our NCBI Taxonomy package in #JuliaLang (github.com/PoisotLab/NCBITaxon…), and so it's a good time to tell everyone that I dislike benchmarks.
Not because we don't compare well (our worst speedup so far is 5x, our best is of the order of 10⁵x).
But because benchmarks assume that we all want the same thing, and this thing is speed. This is not true.
GitHub - PoisotLab/NCBITaxonomy.jl: Wrapper around the NCBI taxonomy files
Wrapper around the NCBI taxonomy files. Contribute to PoisotLab/NCBITaxonomy.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
And I know it's just, like, my opinion, man, but it's an opinion I have refined by handling software papers as a subject editor for various journals over the last 8 years, and training and mentoring and building and and and...
Benchmarks are not that informative, and the type of pissing context we shouldn't encourage.
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We need this shirt:
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NASA has learned a lot about asteroids in the last few years, and more information is on the way!
Tune in to this week to @nasa’s Curious Universe podcast for an episode all about asteroids: go.nasa.gov/3Ip6XWy
#NASASolarSystem
Curious Universe Season 5 Ep 1: “Defending the Planet from Asteroids”
Our solar system contains millions of asteroids, orbiting our sun and rocketing through the night sky! Join scientists Kelly Fast, Tom Statler, and Davide Farnocchia as we discover what we can learn from these building blocks of the universe, and ho…Gary Daines (NASA)
New Synthetic Antibiotic “Cures Superbugs Without Bacterial Resistance”
Well, this is potentially a huge deal: In a potential game changer for the treatment of superbugs, a new class of antibiotics waskottke.org
The Juvinas Meteorite fell near Ardèche, France on June 15th, 1821.
La météorite de Juvinas. BUFFET Gaelle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media
Current approaches to content moderation generally assume the continued dominance of “walled gardens”: social media platforms that control who can use their serpapers.ssrn.com
O don’t know about anyone else, but the conflict-of-laws issues obviously presented make *my* head spin.
I’m tooting from Minnesota, USA, on a server moderated out of Scotland, which is under UK law (at present), but one of my toots, distributed worldwide from a server which is situated ??? might run afoul of laws in ???
Unraveling Everything I Thought About Finance
This clip offers a short history of my finance work with Sustainable Economies Law Center and The Next Egg, which led to me abandoning many efforts I previou...YouTube
Yeah I am loving her recent talks!
I know she says she can't give us any answers... but as someone trying to figure out how we can raise capital for our housing coop, I am left wanting a little bit more guidance on what path to go down!
Ford Motor Company’s “Utopian Turtletop”
In 1955, the Ford Motor Company hired poet Marianne Moore to come up with some names for their revolutionary new car. Moore enkottke.org
Happy Mardi Gras! 💜💛💚
During Mardi Gras season in 2012, the Mississippi River broke through its eastern bank and created a new channel to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mardi Gras Pass. #Landsat 8 recently captured this image of the pass.
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/41km8t0
#NASAEarth
Mardi Gras Pass
This free-flowing distributary reconnects the mighty Mississippi to the wetlands of Louisiana.go.nasa.gov
A novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota is widespread in marine and terrestrial environments
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
A novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota is widespread in marine and terrestrial environments
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are among the most ubiquitous and abundant groups of Archaea on Earth, widely distributed in marine, terrestrial, and geothermal ecosystems.bioRxiv
Shifts in composition and function of bacterial communities reveal the effect of small barriers on nitrous oxide and methane accumulation in fragmented rivers
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
Shifts in composition and function of bacterial communities reveal the effect of small barriers on nitrous oxide and methane accumulation in fragmented rivers
Rivers are often blocked by barriers to form different habitats, but it is not clear whether this change will affect the accumulation of N2O and CH4 in rivers. Here, low barriers (less than 2 m, LB) increased N2O concentration by 1.Frontiers
Say hello to Weather Machine
An all new universal API adapter for the world’s best forecasts.Hello Weather
Hubble is known for its spectacular images of our universe. But how exactly are those images processed from the data the telescope collects?
Find out in this video! ⬇️
#Hubble
1980s mystery adventure Unusual Findings added Linux support
Here's one from late last year that I missed, 1980s mystery adventure Unusual Findings gained a Native Linux version.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER new trailer and release window announced
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER, a cyberpunk point and click adventure from developer MidBoss, LLC. has a new trailer and it's releasing this Summer.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Morioka Experience — Roden newsletter issue 077
I went to Morioka and all I got was this life-affirming metaphysical hugcraigmod.com
Steam Mystery Fest live until February 27th
Another good chance to discover some new games is the Steam Mystery Fest, live now until February 27th with lots of discounts.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Has the government misleadingly tucked a public order provision into the #OnlineSafetyBill to leverage powers in containing protesters being pursued under the #PublicOrderBill? We're facing a dangerous attack on our rights that shrinks democratic debate. Find out more in our blog. #protest #humanrights
openrightsgroup.org/blog/onlin…
Online Safety Bill: Will the upload filter ban images of protest?
Recently, we saw how police threatened and in a couple of cases, arrested, anti-monarchy protesters, following the death of the late queen Elizabeth II, The images were widely circulated on social media and the police eventually were forced to acknow…Open Rights Group
Nature has just put out correspondence that calls for scholarly institutes to join the #fediverse, and start their own #mastodon instances.
Together with that, the writers put out a longer article, 'Mastodon over Mammon', that explains the argument in greater detail, and is worth reading.
Great work by @brembs et al, which points to the core issue: the private ownership of public commons.
Full version:
zenodo.org/record/7652771
Nature Correspondence:
nature.com/articles/d41586-023…
Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge
Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Masto…Zenodo
In Order to Keep Our Editorial Page Completely Balanced, We Are Hiring More Dipshits
Here at the New York Times, we believe that all sides of the story should be tolerated and explored, from white supremacists being actually kinda c...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Environmental strategy game Terra Nil releases March 28th
A game idea I absolutely love and the early demos were impressive, the environmental strategy game Terra Nil releases on March 28th.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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"There is now a golden opportunity for every scholarly society to implement a Mastodon instance for anyone interested in their field. If the academic community can create a public resource protected from private interests, it could become a model for bringing the remaining scholarly record — encompassing text, data and code — into the Fediverse."
Paper:
zenodo.org/record/7652771#.Y_S…
Article:
www-nature-com.ezproxy.gc.cuny…
h/t @fediversereport
Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge
Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Masto…Zenodo
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Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:
science.org/content/article/mu…
Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:
nature.com/articles/d41586-023…
and
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817
There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
What are we waiting for?
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