The Humble At-Home Arcade Bundle is live and it has a couple of games you might want to add to your collection. Here's what compatibility to expect on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.
If you are worried about climate change and want to make a difference,
🎙️ start a conversation about why climate change matters and what people can do 🤲 join a climate action group and lend a hand 💰 consider where you keep your money (bank, credit card, retirement + more) 💡spark ideas for change at work & school 🗳️ hold politicians accountable 🏡 reduce your personal footprint AND make your actions contagious by talking about them
Here's a great list of how individuals can spark change, based on solid social science. Keep reading down the thread for more! dontlookup.count-us-in.com/
Don't Look Up is part of Count Us In, a movement building the world’s largest community of people and organizations taking effective action on climate change.
We live in such an individualized society that we often focus more on our personal carbon footprint (the emissions associated with what we eat, how we travel, where we live) than on our climate shadow: how we interact with and influence those around us.
Yet, how does any system change? It changes when people within that system advocate and call for change.
That's why long-time climate activist @billmckibben says, "the most important thing an individual can do right now is not be such an individual."
And that is why I'm convinced our voices are the most powerful tool we have in the fight against climate change! mic.com/impact/forget-your-car…
Michael said it well. I would add the following three points:
1) DNA viruses (and retroviruses) are much better studied than RNA viruses, simply because DNA is easily detectable, whereas RNA rapidly degrades in a matter of hours, and is therefore difficult to detect.
2) DNA viruses are well-appreciated to exist in a "latent" state, where they can last indefinitely out of the reach of the immune system.
3) However, there has been less appreciation of the fact that RNA viruses also can have "latent" states, where they can also last indefinitely out of the reach of the immune system. For example: mstdn.science/@pyrrhus/1095079…
Way back in 2018 my student David Severson and I developed a simple sampling-based algorithm to solve the "confidence in single-cell clusters" problem (doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03608-y) , but this is a much nicer approach: nature.com/articles/s41592-023… (thanks to @thomas_sandmann @foaylward for pointing me to this)
This study presents a significance analysis framework for evaluating single-cell clusters. Application of the method detects cases of over-clustering in reported single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis results.
Classical tests for a difference in means control the type I error rate when
the groups are defined a priori. However, when the groups are instead defined
via clustering, then applying a classical test yields an extremely inflated
type I error rate.
I remember where I was, where I was sitting, the first time I saw this photo. I also remember that my mouth was hanging open, without words, at the mind-boggling majesty of it.
We have an excellent and mind-expanding discussion with Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe about panspermia and the cosmic origins of life, and how evidence has been...
From saying that the Big Bang Theory is probably doomed in light of what the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered in terms of fully formed galaxies at t...
I find myself wanting to contextualize the impact of gender-affirming care bans in a thread. I'm not writing a proper post on a Friday afternoon, Bluesky has reached a crisis point over moderation, Twitter feels death-throes-y to me, so I'm just going to post it here.
For reference, a judge in Kentucky just reluctantly reversed himself, allowing Kentucky's ban on gender affirming care to go into effect after the 6th circuit recently allowed a Tennessee law to.
BREAKING: Kentucky ban on gender-affirming care for minors can be enforced during appeal, judge rules.
In fallout from last weekend’s ruling from the U.S.
The three pieces of context I want to bring together are:
1. This impacts a tiny percentage of young people in the US.
2. Despite that, the damange being done to these kids is very high, and could be life threatening for some.
3. The full threat is much larger. There's a potential for precedents that could fundamentally change the relationship Americans have with medical care and place governments run by Christian zealots in the middle of deciding what medical treatments are allowed.
I've been thinking about trans kids healthcare this week from a bit of a different angle. Sorry if this isn't very well-formed yet but I need to get it out of my brain somewhere...
Denying trans kids healthcare doesn't just make life hard for a few years while they wait it out. It doesn't just increase suicide risk temporarily. It creates depressed and suicidal adults.
When I look around the community lately I see so many trans folks struggling. So many trans girls, in particular, feeling like no amount of makeup in the world will ever wash off that man look. So many people of all genders suffering from decades of trauma related to being stuck in the wrong gender. So much pain and suffering all around.
Almost all of that (let's say 90%) could be alleviated if they had just been allowed to transition as kids. Some were denied healthcare, others were denied even the knowledge required to understand ourselves and come out. Sometimes by legislation or oppressive systems and sometimes by cultural pressure and bigotry. Whatever the reason, the result is the same. Milli
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I've been thinking about trans kids healthcare this week from a bit of a different angle. Sorry if this isn't very well-formed yet but I need to get it out of my brain somewhere...
Denying trans kids healthcare doesn't just make life hard for a few years while they wait it out. It doesn't just increase suicide risk temporarily. It creates depressed and suicidal adults.
When I look around the community lately I see so many trans folks struggling. So many trans girls, in particular, feeling like no amount of makeup in the world will ever wash off that man look. So many people of all genders suffering from decades of trauma related to being stuck in the wrong gender. So much pain and suffering all around.
Almost all of that (let's say 90%) could be alleviated if they had just been allowed to transition as kids. Some were denied healthcare, others were denied even the knowledge required to understand ourselves and come out. Sometimes by legislation or oppressive systems and sometimes by cultural pressure and bigotry. Whatever the reason, the result is the same. Millions of depressed adults who are struggling with just living life. You can think of it like any other treatable childhood disease that leaves people permanently disabled like polio. If we just let them transition, they would be happier adults who are able to better contribute and enrich our society, whatever your definition of that is.
Even if you look at it from a iron-cold economic point of view, it would be better to just give 'em the pills at 12 years old.
Preventing kids from transitioning is nothing but cruel. The whole point seems to be to prevent them from transitioning until the wrong hormones have done so much damage to their bodies that they give up on their dream. They may say "grow out of it" but we know that's not actually what happens. If your goal is a totally cis society, I guess that's one way to do it. 🙄 If, on the other hand, we want a happy and flourishing society, letting people live their best lives starting as kids is the only way to get there.
My team at NVIDIA is hiring a “Senior HPC Telemetry Engineer”, which is a fancy way of saying we want someone who can help understand what our supercomputers are doing!
Happy to answer questions or chat about the team. We’re doing some pretty cool work.
NVIDIA has been continually redefining computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s an outstanding legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people.
My team at NVIDIA is working on building some of the fastest #supercomputers in the world, but we always need help squeezing the best performance out of our systems.
We’re #hiring a Senior Performance Engineer to help get the best perf from our hardware, and work closely with app and framework teams to make it easier for everyone else to do it too.
After using software to simulate over 70,000 #ecosystem scenarios, the two professors and a postdoctoral researcher issued this warning in The Conversation: #Ecological doom-loops: why #ecosystemcollapse may occur much sooner than expected – new research theconversation.com/ecological…
Heat, dry lightning, and drought have fueled major fires in Canada.
Nearly 600 out-of-control fires burned throughout Canada on July 13, with about half in British Columbia or Alberta, according to the CIFFC. go.nasa.gov/44q4EfA
@aronow @kinsale42 not so much anymore. I think she did intially because she had an upper respiratory infection and couldn’t breathe through her nose 😅
Today we have the developer of a program you all likely know OpenRGB on the show, CalcProgrammer1 has been in this RGB reverse engineering space for a long t...
Interesting insight by Eric Hoffer. Do I agree with it? I don't know, but it's certainly a thought.
Hoffer argues that fanatical and extremist cultural movements, whether religious, social, or national, arise when large numbers of frustrated people, believing their own individual lives to be worthless or spoiled, join a movement demanding radical change. But the real attraction for this population is an escape from the self, not a realization of individual hopes: "A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation." From Wikipedia Eric Hoffer
I kind of think it has to do with disempowered people seeking empowerment through collective moral rage. The problem is that many types of rage can feel moral when you just want to vent.
but that’s the point — the end times For whatever psychotic reason there are a great many people who do not want to be here, on Earth. If their goal is an End to the Earth, they have no interest in making anything better.
There is a potent mythology that it is God’s will that the climate change become untenable, require Judgment Day at last, the end of our suffering here in this testing zone. For life on Earth is a test of our immortal souls. We are sent here by God to be tested. Those who pass get just reward in Heaven, unhindered by unbelievers or those lesser.
We sing Epiphany. All the holy, all the empty, all the sorrows filled with poetry, with charging beasts of challenge and slip ping back savagery. I hear the Angels sing of Earth as mud, as muck, as fuckin’ murder in the womb, as luck would have it, as black streaks redacting the jubilance of Heaven. I hear the demons laugh, dancing akimbo hunker down to limbo to lindy hop upon the prophet’s breath. Such noise.
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but that’s the point — the end times For whatever psychotic reason there are a great many people who do not want to be here, on Earth. If their goal is an End to the Earth, they have no interest in making anything better.
There is a potent mythology that it is God’s will that the climate change become untenable, require Judgment Day at last, the end of our suffering here in this testing zone. For life on Earth is a test of our immortal souls. We are sent here by God to be tested. Those who pass get just reward in Heaven, unhindered by unbelievers or those lesser.
We sing Epiphany. All the holy, all the empty, all the sorrows filled with poetry, with charging beasts of challenge and slip ping back savagery. I hear the Angels sing of Earth as mud, as muck, as fuckin’ murder in the womb, as luck would have it, as black streaks redacting the jubilance of Heaven. I hear the demons laugh, dancing akimbo hunker down to limbo to lindy hop upon the prophet’s breath. Such noise. Such annoying brays and cagey whispers. I would sleep, snore, evermore if they would but diminish, allow silence to enfold. Instead, the dream takes over, dissolves all sanity no morning (mourning)
On Judgment Day this Earth experiment ends in floods and flames. Who cashes out with greatest profit wins eternal praise. Rushing to the final contest — so little time, so much dickishness to express. Free to be mean, even vicious – what Fun!
On the hate wagon enjoy this wild horror ride to the end of Earth.
Promoters of the end times, in favor of welcoming Apocalypse, ending the travails of Earthly life, fulfillment of cutthroat meritocracy prophecies, gain ever more support. Let violence and despair ravage the Earth, that those who cynically twist evil and good may transport to their Heaven, miraculously escape the horror and destruction they have wrought. Annihilation for their own elevation.
Having built the fires of Hell to burn your perceived enemy, letting evil loose upon the Earth we were meant to share in peace and prosperity, proving only that the Word you claim your guide you ignorantly ill-define, expecting salvation through worshipping sin.
Final Days Basking in His glory All Earthly chores and woes ended like the planet we never wanted to be our home.
Perhaps we are in the hallway of a great reckoning. e e Mother Earth is old, tired, sick of slatternly bastard brats pulling her teats, calling rude names, fucking her over and over e Mad Earth gru…
Around 60% of US citizens claim to be Christian. Less than 50% attend. So that means less than 30% of US citizens are active Christians, and the people in that segment are from a wide variety of Christian sects: some leftwing and some rightwing. Try comparing Unitarian Universalism to the Mega-church sorts. edition.cnn.com/2023/04/08/us/…
Death cults certainly exist. Do they have the power and numbers to be significant? Maybe a little. I think our bigger worry is the outcomes of training the people in our culture to be utterly self-absorbed and in competition with each other. That's a nasty bubble to be trapped inside!
Hmmm, interesting thing from Hoffer...I could agree with the joining to be part of something or find people in common, particularly if somewhat less than self assured...but....
As part of NASA’s regular cadence of robotic lunar missions through Artemis, the agency has selected a new scientific payload to establish the age and composition of hilly terrain created by volcanic activity on the near side of the Moon.
Media: Join us and @SBAgov at 9:30am ET on Tuesday, July 18, for an unveiling of the annual scorecard highlighting how federal agencies—including NASA—rank on meeting their small business partnership goals. go.nasa.gov/3rsRZKn #NASA
Media are invited to join NASA and Small Business Administration leadership at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 18, at NASA Headquarters in Washington to highlight how federal agencies rank on meeting their small business goals.
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"Orbitolina texana foraminifera fossils in the Canyon Lake Gorge near Canyon Lake, Texas, United States. These are just a couple of millimeters in diameter."
Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
So, since JoinMastodon.org has decided to change the way servers are listed on their website — showing preference for large servers who do not have a manual review process to join —>
May I ask that you Boost this post so people can find us at mstdn.games ?
We’re an all-inclusive #gaming community and our Local feed is amazing — absolutely the go-to place for all things #Games. Our Mods are top tier.
We are a gaming-focused space on Mastodon. We welcome everyone who enjoys any type of gaming - it doesn't just need to be video games. Let's build a diverse and inclusive community together!
Friday includes a light-duty day for the Exp 69 crew. As the week wraps up, crew members continue maintenance on systems aboard the station and carry out in-flight surveys. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20… #ISS
#Tecnoafecciones Es muy importante que tomemos conciencia de la realidad “invisible” en la producción y consumo de las tecnologías digitales.
Desde nuestros lugares, podemos... 👇
✅ Promover los espacios de organización entre las comunidades afectadas en los territorios despojados y las personas trabajadoras de la industria tecnológica
✅ Compartir experiencias de resistencia y sumarnos a construir objetivos comunes
✅ Construir y participar en espacios de conocimiento con una mirada crítica sobre las tecnologías que incluyan todas las dimensiones e impactos ecosociales
✅ Exigir políticas para la producción y desarrollo de tecnologías digitales que pongan la vida de las personas y los entornos naturales en el centro.
Acciones para (re)conectar y transformar las tecnologías 🤳🌿
La campaña #tecnoafecciones, derivada del proyecto, se plantea como un recorrido por cada una de las dimensiones que hemos decidido abordar en el proceso de producción y consumo de tecnologías…
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