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What do all these Hubble images have in common?

They show the aftermath of stars that died in a bright, powerful explosion known as a supernova.

In a supernova, a starโ€™s contents fling out into space at speeds of up to 25,000 miles (15,000 to 40,000 km) per second!
#Hubble



These supernova remnants are made of material from the exploded star and any interstellar material it sweeps up in its path. Read more about supernova remnants and other types of nebulae: go.nasa.gov/3EILHKu

Check out @NASAUniverse for more supernova content all week!
#Hubble



One off the bucket list: together with Federica Carugati, I've just published an article in the wonderful journal Daedalus.

Governance Archaeology: Research as Ancestry
amacad.org/publication/governaโ€ฆ



The MPAA ratings of the 10 top-grossing films from each year from 1980-2022. PG-13 films dominate the domestic box office now. fxrant.blogspot.com/2023/02/boโ€ฆ


5272!
22 exoplanets join the known worlds, bringing the confirmed total to 5,272. All 22 were discovered using microlensing, where light from a distant star is bent and focused by gravity as a planet passes between the star and Earth. go.nasa.gov/3kAwOmD
#NASAExoplanets


30 years after Nancy Hopkinsโ€™ finding of lab space inequity at MIT, this Oceanographic institute finds the same. Times need to be changing faster โ˜น๏ธ

Could every institution please do an analysis proactively?

@academicchatter @scitwitter
#sexism

science.org/content/article/woโ€ฆ



A simply designed Live Word Clock that you can stream on your TV, second monitor, or art wall thingie. youtube.com/watch?v=0M6q_K30BOโ€ฆ


"Self-Hosting Is the Ultimate Privacy Power Move"

When you use a third-party service for your needs, whatever those needs may be, youโ€™re always taking on a certain degree of privacy risk.

howtogeek.com/846979/heres-whyโ€ฆ

in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

sorry, no. Many self hosting softwares phone home as much as anything else, but you also have to configure them/your network and maintain opsec or else you'll just get pwned.

Self-hosting potentially can be great for privacy, but it isn't a silver bullet



The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) Interoperability SIG "has been working on achieving interoperability within the CD ecosystem and one of the outcomes of their work is the CDEvents project โ€” a project to Standardize events to be used in a CI/CD process. Additionally, the CDF Interoperability Special Interest Group (SIG) created a document to collect the basic terms used by CI/CD tools and technologies." See more on these topics in their article at the link below.
cd.foundation/blog/community/2โ€ฆ


One of the most unique meteorites: "Black Beauty" (NWA 7034) Martian Basaltic Breccia.

Although I could never find thin sections of this particular one, I was able to acquire related ones: NWA 11220 and NWA 8171.

NWA 8171 Visible: flic.kr/p/2kWRKaw

NWA 8171 XPL: flic.kr/p/NYpHYW

NWA 11220: flic.kr/p/2m1Lspi

NWA 11220 XPL: flic.kr/p/ZQJrh9

Mars Meteorite - NWA 7034, NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

#meteorite #mars

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American Cars Are Getting Too Big For Parking Spaces. The American car has gotten bigger in the past few decades but parking spot size has not kept pace. kottke.org/23/02/american-carsโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

Perhaps more importantly than parking spaces is the climate emergency we're now just at the beginning of. Parking spaces are the least of our worries.

Sadly it would seem though that the American mind and culture isn't yet grasping that full size vehicles as we've come to know them are not a part of a survivable future. Even electric cars. We have to end them in favor of much smaller vehicles: micromobility, cycling, public transit.

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice




๐Ÿ“ฃ Last call to educators & community leaders!

Know a 6-12 grader who, like @NASAPersevere, overcame challenges to meet their goals? Nominate them by March 1 for our #GotPerseverance opportunityโ€”a chance to chat with the team and get a message from Mars: go.nasa.gov/gotperseverance
#NASA



NASA and @SpaceX teams are targeting Thursday, March 2, at 12:34am ET (0534 UTC) for the next launch attempt of the #Crew6 mission. Follow @Commercial_Crew and our blog for updates: blogs.nasa.gov/crew-6
#NASA


The Case For Shunning. "People like Scott Adams claim they're being silenced. But what they actually seem to object to is being understood." armoxon.substack.com/p/the-casโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

@jkottke โ€œThe thing that seems to make Adams skeptical is credible evidence. Wherever credible evidence exists, heโ€™s skeptical of it; where it is absent, he is a believer.โ€

Wow. It's plain-as-day obvious but somehow that just crystalized so much for me.

in reply to kottke.org

isnโ€™t it more the case that they want to say whatever the choose without consequences?


Strong earthquakes in Tรผrkiye on Feb. 6 left many areas without electric power.

These maps show light around Antakya before (left) and after the earthquakes (right). Maps are from the Black Marble HD product, using @nasa @noaa Suomi-NPP satellite data. go.nasa.gov/3xTvQVw
#NASAEarth



The second pair of maps (below) show that some nighttime lights returned between February 8 and 9, but widespread outages persisted in much of the region surrounding Antakya in Tรผrkiye.
#NASAEarth


See photos of @nasa management monitoring the countdown in Firing Room 4 during this morning's launch attempt. NASA and @SpaceX teams are targeting March 2 at 12:34am ET for the next attempt. More ๐Ÿ“ท: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAt42F
#NASAhqphoto


So, I'd really love to connect with more entomologists on this platform. Please feel free to follow if you love insects (or are insect-adjacent).
#Entomology #Hymenoptera #Taxonomy #Insect #CanYouIdentifyThisFamily


"Types of Meteorites" from "Das Weltgebรคude" by Max Wilhelm Meyer (1898).

#meteorite



The creepy-men-staring scene with Aubrey Plaza in The White Lotus season 2 is a nearly perfect shot-for-shot homage to a scene in Antonioni's 1960 film L'Avventura starring, yep, Monica Vitti. youtube.com/watch?v=GmTbKmQdLXโ€ฆ


PACT, the parallel architecture/compiler conference, has a deadline coming right up on April 1. sigarch.org/call-contributionsโ€ฆ


Maria Konnikova, who wrote a whole book about con artists, on What Psychology Can Teach Us About George Santos. "Telling lies about yourself can actually make you feel more confident." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/โ€ฆ


NASA Research Pilot Bill Dana flew the HL-10 lifting body to an altitude of 90,030 ft (more than 27 km), setting the altitude record for the lifting body program #OTD in 1970.

About the HL-10: go.nasa.gov/3xM3YCy

๐Ÿ“ท Dana after his 4th free flight in the HL-10 in Sept. 1969
#NASAhistory



A visual showcase of the Best Cinematography Oscar winners from 1967 to 2021, including Barry Lyndon, Schindler's List, Titanic, Master and Commander, There Will Be Blood, Inception; Blade Runner 2049; and Dune. kottke.org/23/02/the-last-55-yโ€ฆ

in reply to Aral Balkan

Basic social United we stand, divided we fall. Think about our selves and society as groups, not get lost in the #stupidindividualism sold to us, we have wasted years pushing over each other
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociolโ€ฆ Let's build our tech with this in mind #OMN #OGB #indymediaback
in reply to Admin

An issue central to the #openweb Social value is always from groups of people, and yes it's tempting to play semantic games by saying groups are made of individuals, but that would be pointless #blocking so let's not.


It's a new pub day! My colleagues in the Sustainable Subseas Network project and I tackle a big question in this one: what is the carbon footprint of ICT? And what if we ultimately can't know the answer to that question? :OpenAccess:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11โ€ฆ

Here's a little thread with some highlights, 'cause gosh I'm proud of this thing! โฌ‡๏ธ



In a new Dutch reality TV series called The New Vermeer, "two professional painters and dozens of amateur artists compete to reinvent the lost works of the 17th-century master [Johannes Vermeer]". nytimes.com/2023/02/23/arts/deโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

I watched the program yesterday and last week and I'm hooked. It's brilliant tv to watch. Not only to see the professional painters create their masterworks and see them struggle, but also all the amateurs that create their own Vermeer. I would not be surprised if this formula goes on for years with other painters. What about Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Goya, Monet, Kahlo, Dali...


Interested in accelerating your C++ code using OpenMP? CoffeeBeforeArch published on YouTube a series of videos describing just this!

You find below a video describing methods of synchronization, incl barriers, locks and critical.

youtube.com/watch?v=fiMRQSE-Akโ€ฆ

#HPC #OpenMP





@aral feudalism is the domain organizing the #geekproblem

A project to fix this needs outreaching unite.openworlds.info/Open-Medโ€ฆ because the "problem" is not going to support the needed fix...

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Kubuntu Focus announce the second-gen mini desktop Focus NX gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/kubuโ€ฆ #Linux


Viruses are known as notorious killers, but to some organisms, theyโ€™re a tasty snack. This virus-eating could have a meaningful effect on how nutrients and energy flow through ecosystems. quantamagazine.org/with-nothinโ€ฆ


Wayland driver for Wine is getting closer gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/waylโ€ฆ #Wine #FOSS #OpenSource #LinuxGaming


I'm delighted to present the 40th paper in my career.๐Ÿฅณ
We assessed the phylogenetic structure of the whole and active fractions of bacterial communities housed by Antarctic lichens using targeted gDNA and cDNA 16S rRNA gene amplicon #NGS sequencing.
academic.oup.com/femsec/advancโ€ฆ
#ngs
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Open source tabletop game simulator gets a second Beta release gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/openโ€ฆ #FOSS #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming


Zodiacal Ray with Venus and Jupiter apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230227.htโ€ฆ #APOD
#APOD

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