Looking to do some stargazing? We’ve put together a handy guide with tips to help you find the best times and locations for enjoying the night sky: go.nasa.gov/3yQyoo2 #NASA
If you're hoping to do some skywatching, but you're not quite sure how to find a great spot, we have you covered. Here are some key things to know about how to find the best places for stargazing.
In this Review, Toyofuku, Schild, Kaparakis-Liaskos and Eberl discuss the different types of bacterial membrane vesicle, how they are formed, their structure and composition and their diverse functions.
According to Roman legend, Claudia Quinta was a Vestal Virgin. She and her companions tended the sacred fire brought by Aeneas from Troy to Rome and kept in a sanctuary in the Forum.
"After a whole year of development, our in-depth R programming course 📊 is now LIVE: more than 9 hours of video lessons and hundreds of coding challenges are waiting for you for free on YouTube 📢 Many thanks to the World Health Organization & University of Geneva for making this open course possible!" - GRAPH Network (Global Research and Analyses for Public Health) LinkedIn post
This course is for anyone interested in learning R for data analysis. Over 9 hours of instruction, you will: • Learn to import, clean, transform, and summari...
Piatto da parata in maiolica dipinta in arancio, giallo, nero, turchino, viola, con tesa obliquatale e breve parete nel cavetto con retro filettato in giallo tra tesa e parete e lungo l'orlo; senza listello Nel verso, scena della storia di Claudi
"You make it all worthwhile." Ruth Marinshaw, CTO for Research Computing at Stanford talks about her love for the many diverse aspects that make up #HPC in this #SC23 #iamhpc profile: buff.ly/40clGeE
When I was taking punch cards to the computing center and picking up greenbar results as an undergraduate and graduate student, I never thought that computing…
An astronaut aboard the @Space_Station took this photo of the lower Amazon River in Brazil, which carries a huge amount of sediment and occasionally delivers muddy water to nearby lakes.
In the final episode of Down To Earth featuring astronaut Victor Glover and his daughter, Corinne, they discuss the excitement of returning to Earth from an extended mission on the International Space Station. 🌎 #ISS
Deadline's chief film critic: "Not only have I never played the iconic '80s video game Tetris, I had never heard of it before encountering this new film Tetris..." How is this even possible?! deadline.com/2023/03/tetris-re…
I don’t think it is the flex they think it is. Its also untrue. Or, if true, a sign that they shouldn’t be a critic since they have no understanding of modern culture.
I thought this would be the case of someone being too young to have seen the game - a millennial who just missed out or maybe even a Gen-Z who already has a stellar film-reviewing career.
But he’s been reviewing movies since ‘93! I guess he could be too old to have paid attention at the time. My (boomer) parents were completely obsessed with a Tetris. It was the one game they’d definitely know about from back then.
@gruber “Not only have I been living under a rock for nearly 30 years, I have never played the iconic ‘80s video game, Tetris . . . so on and so forth.”
Solid Gen-X-er here. How has anyone alive in the 80s/90s never heard of Tetris? I have played Tetris. I have dreamed about Tetris. It is a life skill I have used packing a moving van. Also very excited about the movie!
For folks sayin' they might be a late millennial or Zoomer, let me remind you that in the past few years we've gotten multiple Tetris releases on every platform, including the HIGHLY louded Tetris 99 and Tetris Effect, plus stuff like Puyo Puyo Tetris, and that even beyond that it's been on virtually (if not literally) every game-playing electronic device in the last 40 years.
So, yes. The fact this person knows what a movie is, and can use a computer, but doesn't know Tetris is... odd.
“instead of acknowledging that being this culturally out of touch makes me a poor choice for critic of this film, I’m a white dude, so let’s DOUBLE DOWN!”
People who moan at me for this will get a swift mute or a block. Part of being a creator is promoting yourself on platforms people actually use. Don’t like it? Don’t follow.
Isn't accepting feedback also a part of being a creator? If you don't want feedback, why even bother with social media? A simple website will do just as well.
Just learned Serving Up Science - the quirky PBS series I write & host - has been recognized with two Broadcast Excellence Awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. We won Best Mini-Documentary or Series & Best Use of Multiplatform Media.
Awesome: I've subscribed to a couple of the Digital Studios channels. Eons was just the one I'd watched this morning.
Been a fan of PBS content since the 70s, but now don't watch much traditional TV. The Digital Studios content fills the gap left by not watching traditional TV.
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congratulations on your team’s awards. It’s great that the science message is getting out there. All of us who have science degrees should be taught how to communicate it, so that more people are exposed to how it works and what it does for society.
I agree & am encouraged at how interest in science communication has expanded since I was in grad school (the first time) 20 years ago. So many universities are now offering related interdisciplinary degrees & there are far more visible people in that space demonstrating it can be a rewarding career.
we discussed this below paper from @vscooper on our journal back in 2019 (here is the link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ab…), which was online just in time to motivate our setup, e.g. longer intervals of certain plant in the alternating environment, instead of alternating host each cycle --- RT @EvolvedBiofilm Story started by Chris Blake (MSc thesis) under the supervision of @MathildeNordga1, where we want… twitter.com/EvolvedBiofilm/sta…
Federating & commoning - notes & links cloud.owncube.com/s/2yogTKL3Z3… There are (will be) many commons. Relatively distinct. Materially focused on and grounded in distinct kinds of means of subsistence and wellbeing. So at the large scale (beyond p2p, over the horizon) - the scale of historical modes of production & trans-regional social organisation - ways of recognising, stewarding & mutually articulating *commons-of-commons* are going to be needed. Thus - federate! Federate what?Federate how? 1of3
we theoryise less and live and do more at the #OMN and by this I mean theory comes from on the ground practice, learn by doing, learn from doing, be the doing. The virtue of #DIY #Grassroots which academic "thinking" way to often misrepresents ;)
Thanks so much to everyone for the well-wishes on kottke[dot]org's 25th anniversary this week - all the comments and messages really put a hop in my step. kottke.org/23/03/kottke-25-wha…
been reading for years and love your stuff. If you ever see an old tattooed guy at Mad Taco with a Hypertext t-shirt say hi. I’ll buy you a kimchi taco.
the way to maintain an authoritative collection is to send out Add/Remove, not to have everyone send out Create and then expect everyone else to reconstruct the collection for themselves
yknow, actually *maintain* the collection. currently we just punt it off
i can't say i blame developers for taking the lazy route and doing the bare minimum to be compatible with what already exists, but that is so limiting and i'm not here for it
the bigger problem is that there's so many assumptions being made with zero basis or foundation in anything. we're just replicating stuff around and then every server assembles it however it *thinks* it should be put together.
we're getting to the point that the contradictions and shortcomings are starting to become more apparent...
- things like moderated conversations are impossible if you don't actually have a concept of a "conversation".
- there's so many different ways to do "groups" that it's a running joke at this point, because everyone has a different idea of what a "group" is. it's the "blind men feeling an elephant" problem.
- things like forums and subforums, chat rooms, etc are not easily possible rn.
the "trick" is that there isn't actually any difference between all these different presentations. if you understand "objects" and "collections" you can construct whatever you want: forums, walls, chat rooms, conversations, aggregators, whatever. it's all just objects in collections.
right now, no one understands 'collections". we just pass around objects with Create and Announce and leave it up to the consumer to figure out how they should be grouped.
a website that is still not supporting HTTPS? 🤔 As they have not managed to set up the most basic things, their meaning about ActivityPub maybe should not be trusted.
Best not to be a prat on this subject, ;) the blog #SSL is broken to illustrate the disaster we made with centralization of tech over the last 20 years. Just click through, it is a test to weed out people who are intolerant and likely a waste of space XXXX
To "weed out people" and people being "a waste of space" are things Adolf Hitler would have said, who claimed that some people are worth less than others. Right wing extremists may still believe that but we overcome that thinking and also following human rights every human being is valuable. So no human can be a waste of space and no human should be weeded out.
do you understand that this reply is the sought of script a right wing troll would read out to add to the current mess. Have a look at the background o this conversation and come back with something outside this thanks. #indymediaback #OMN #OGB might help as links.
I'm not a troll. Maybe as a German I'm more sensitive to people speaking about "weed out people". Do you seriously think that some people are a waste of space and should be killed? I don't really understand the rest you wanted to say. SSL isn't a centralised system. It's maybe not perfect, but it doesn't make sense to not use HTTPS. The video was a bit helpful but was explaining about a system I don't know and couldn't find.
OK in context weeding out people is nothing to do with genocide, this is obvuse just read in context, good faith is a start to overcome this. In the context, MOST people are a "waste of space" try thinking about the native tribes being exterminated by the incoming western culture - who here is wasters of the space?
The #SSL is about"unthinking" created by centralizing security - think what happens to the #openweb if Let's Encrypt goes down -an example of the recurring #geekproblem
Let's Encrypt itself is a huge collaboration project. It's likely that if they stop that collaboration some of them will create a similar new project. Also there are some other certificate authorities that provide free certificates. And it is always possible to build new certificate authorities. As I said, it's not perfect. But do you have a better system? Crypto parties are not a reliable solution for the whole internet.
what is the geekproblem? What is OMN? You seem to assume that I have the same view on the world as you have and understand what you are talking about, but that is not the case. Maybe try to explain it to a 5 year old. Someone that doesn't know the words and concepts you take for granted.
the are links in hashtags and search engines as a first step, let's carry on this conversation after you have done this basic step. Happy to talk about #OMN, but hard to do this to 5 years olds ;)
in the short term? i'd like to develop solid docs to "prove the theory". after that i guess we need to prove the concept. either someone else builds it according to my docs, or i might have to learn enough coding to put together something for myself ^_^;
this is a troubling view of theory and practice. All good horizontalists understand that they come from practice. At the basis of this is #DIY that is working through practice to build theory.
To start from theory go ground and round and round then try and put this into practice, ends in a dizzy mess. When this mess is imposed as a solution we obviously get more #techshit to compost or academic wank to clean up.
well, the "practice" is having used the web for many years, having used many services, drawing from the experience of just being around and trying to talk to people. using twitter for a decade and fedi for nearly another decade, i'm what some might call an "early adopter" or "power user". the theory i'm trying to develop is based on my experiences with many, many different services, what worked, what didn't. and at the core, what it means to communicate. how to do so effectively.
essentially the theory i have is based in this growing feeling that we were better off with forums and blogs being separate things, before "social media" merged the two use-cases and killed off both. no longer did people publish things or discuss things with others, but now they produce "content" and consume from their "feed". sure, we can have these back-and-forths via replies and comments, but it's not really conducive to larger discussions.
and i've been thinking a lot and researching the foundations of communication because i also am trying to develop a clearer, simpler understanding of what it is we're really doing, via analogy to face-to-face tangible interactions. maybe this is "academic wank" as you say, but i do plan on building something eventually, or at least making it possible for someone else to build
so far i've managed to identify the following separate types of communication
- publishing: you make a resource available to some audience. (WWW) - subscribing: you receive or browse resources from others. (RSS/Atom, mailing lists and newsletters, status and events updates) - discussing: you go to some forum where other people gather. (also WWW) - messaging: direct communication with a known audience. (mail, chat, DM/PM, and so on)
"our" #4opens #OMN project does the first 3 things in a non #mainstreaming #openweb native way and the last one can be done fine by current technology, the are meany #4opens chat, mail apps so little new there to think on.
So maybe you should cut short your "individualistic" wanderings and participate in projects that are already far along the path you want to start on #nothingnew is only half a joke ;)
so, if we were to build a "unified communications app", it should at least be able to do those four things, via whatever various protocols you wish to support. but from an everyday perspective, no one cares about protocols, you just want to talk to people or see what they have to say. for the people who do care, we want our protocols to be open so that we aren't being controlled by the commercial corporations. (i believe you call them the "dot cons"?)
Well I would say we need a unified communication network base on #4opens, and surprisingly we already have this, the #fediverse so #nothingnew comes to mind agen, I only half joke.
Yes, the #dotcons mad a mess over the last 20 years, and nobody who was in their right minds would not push the word together and add the hash ;)
and part of having those open protocols is having them be *good* protocols, useful and reflecting reality. not reflecting the business needs of those trying to monetize everything. hopefully a better understanding of "reality" can help develop better protocols that feel more "natural" and easier to understand and use. after that, well... that's the hard part in tearing down the walled gardens and building a proper commons.
well that's the problem actually -- the fediverse is too much like "social media" right now. the problem is that applications like mastodon are designed after twitter, and so they replicate some of twitter's core mistakes even if they avoid more of the surface ones
that's true, mastodon is feudalism and has its own robes and crown. The #Fediverse needs to pull it into the more democratic fold, this is done by doing better on our part, the king of mastodon is very unlike to move without a bit of carrot and stick on the rest of the codebase. This is exactly the problem we are solving with #OMN projects, have been dealing with this mess for a long time 😀
i think "doing better" will more likely than not involve breaking from the "mastodon" fediverse. but in return, it will be more compatible with the Web and with ActivityPub as intended, an actor model for web services. there may be another break when someone figures out a way to get around link rot and insolvent authority (like if your server goes down or your domain expires and you don't renew it)
we address all these issues at core #OMN project. Have been working to fix the current #techshit mess for the last 10 years. The #geekproblem which is a generally a metaphor for the more #mainstreaming #stupidindividualism after 40 years of worshipping the #deathcult is a hard crap behaver to step away from, ideas are not enough, action is needed, the is the history of grassroots direct action, you can drink from this history here visionon.tv good to take a sip.
visionOntv is a part of the #OMN a radical grassroots media project.
Our mission on the #openweb is to hold the bridge open between the fluffy/spiky debate please support us in the dialogue. Thanks #OMN
We need some input on how technical to do collections/groups for dataflows and database storage. This is both simple and very complex to think through 😀
#OMN the feeds are the pipes join the data cauldrons. Site/apps are ladles that scoop out data, we are the hands that hold the ladle. The coding basic iron work framing of these tools.
Cauldron - syncing database Pipe - #4opens standard flows of data Ladle - website/app that displays data
How to write this up from a technical prospective. Help please.
it's not even a new idea. Dennis Schubert raised a similar criticism of "replies" distribution back in 2018: overengineer.dev/blog/2018/02/…
> As per the ActivityStreams spec, all objects [can] have a replies property. So, a more sensible, reliable, and even more AcitivityStream’y way of handling replies would probably be adding the interaction to the replies collection
this is not always optimal of course -- it was proposed 5 years ago. but something similar could be done.
i think the key disagreement, misunderstanding, lack of shared reality, etc, is this:
are we just creating a bunch of "posts"? microblogging or regular blogging, we have our own websites or web profiles, and we only care about what we ourselves are sharing?
or are we trying to collaborate across domains? are we building a Web, a Social Web, a Linked Data Web, a Semantic Web? where our actions have side effects, and there exists some state that we care about?
basically we're not doing one or the other, we're kind of mishmashing them together. when you post on most fedi projects, you are publishing to your profile locally, *but* you are also sending out an activity to notify your followers. and typically, that has side-effects on remote servers. usually that side-effect is "keep a locally cached archive of that post and show it to followers."
i think we should be clearer about the separate use-cases and concerns.
yep, its currently a mess, though after ten years of wasted #techshit it's a nice mess to have.
Let's take this mess and shift it into a #KISS semantic web of data flows and stores. The keywords for the #OMN are simple and stupid, it's the only root that actually works #grassroots #DIY path.
We need shovels (#4opens) and compost (current #techshit) and seeds (of hope) to plant, let's grow the "commons"
A large-scale examination of differential RNA expression study datasets submitted to the NCBI GEO repository from 2008-2020 reveals widespread bias, as assessed by the distribution of p values and estimated proportions of true null hypotheses.
I need that. Is it real? … So you’re playing cross-platform games with the family and someone asks what button to use. No need to translate between letters and symbols now - problem solved.
I'm usually hesitant to share too much about my son, Ripley, or his situation but our situation changed a bit last week. Ripley is about 18 months old and we've known since he was born that he would need a #KidneyTransplant once he was big enough. Until last week, our plan was for him to get one of mine. Unfortunately, I was disqualified, so we're on the hunt for a kidney! If you or someone you know would have any interest in being screened, you can visit ripley.love (1/2)
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Català: Imatge d'un paisatge muntanyós amb el cel al fons on es pot observar el resultat de l'astrofotografia amb trípode.
Just to let you know, this stream includes many abstract artistic renderings that don't necessarily mean truth or reality.