Robin Williams: Photographers Remember a Legendary Actor
Legendary actor and comedian Robin Williams was found dead in his home in Marin County, Calif. on Monday, Aug. 11. Police confirmed Williams' death asโฆKrystal Grow (Time)
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Finally! This meme has been gathered together some place where I can easily share it!
โBarbieโ one-star reviews from โfurious menโ become hilarious viral meme
'Barbie' one-star reviews from 'furious men' become hilarious viral meme
โA pink acid trip that feels like being slapped by lots of confusingly attractive people,โ one of the viral memes read.Adriana Diaz (New York Post)
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This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.
erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-eaโฆ
#meta
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isnโt - Erin Kissane's small internet website
After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea oferinkissane.com
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Thank you! I had to try three timesโmy first two instances blew up after I wandered off because it was so quiet.
Eugen is probably so sick of seeing my name come up at this point, but I tried to express my very real sympathy in this post.
Yeah, that's a bummer. I try to provide gentle, private feedback to the unsolicited-tip dogpiles.
My hope is that if, culturally, we got to this point where providing alt-text is part of the Mastodon identity (which is rad af), we should be able to do the same thing for the new user welcome and not dogpile folks for perceived CW transgressions, etc.
I really appreciate the work you do, and I have a little bit of insight into some of the pressure (and constant yelling and assumptions of bad faith) from my work elsewhere. I couldn't hack it for long, myself.
Thanks for reading!
"Diatom algae shells of the Danish Paleogene."
Anatoly Mikhaltsov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Anyone have advice on how to get the Spades genome assembler to use less memory?
GitHub - ablab/spades: SPAdes Genome Assembler
SPAdes Genome Assembler. Contribute to ablab/spades development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Laguna Verde sure looks blue from the @Space_Station!
@NASA_Astronauts Woody Hoburg took this photo of Laguna Verde, a high-altitude salt lake in the Andes mountains of Chile, on July 7, 2023.
See more ISS views: go.nasa.gov/454MjEK ๐งโ๐๐ท
#NASAEarth
Earth
Photographs of Earth taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.NASA Johnson (Flickr)
Actors take to the internet to show their residual checks, with some in the negative
Guess What Disney Is Writing Checks For
#News #WGA #WritersStrike #SAG #ActorsStrike #NPR
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NASA Awards Administrative & Technical Support Services Contract
NASA has selected PCI Productions (PCIP), LLC, of Huntsville, Alabama, to provide technical and administrative services in support of directorates, programs, and offices at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and NASA Ames RโฆClaire OโShea (NASA)
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Recreated in Wisconsin
In 2006, photographer Mark Preuschl recreated Georges Seuratโs famous impressionist painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte ikottke.org
Welcome to the #Artemis Accords, Argentina! ๐ฆ๐ท
By signing this document, Argentina has joined 27 other nations that have committed to the safe and peaceful exploration of space. Ad Luna! go.nasa.gov/3pZzddq
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
NASA Welcomes Argentina as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
During a ceremony at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires on Thursday, July 27, Argentina became the 28th country to sign the Artemis Accords.Roxana Bardan (NASA)
#Tecnoafecciones Resistir para existir en el territorio digital implica poner en el centro otros valores, intenciones, sueรฑos, esperanzas y tecnologรญas.
ยฟQuรฉ podemos hacer? ๐
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Habitar las tecnologรญas percibiendo nuestro tiempo interior y los tiempos de los entornos naturales.
โ Realizar acciones que promuevan un cambio en el estilo de vida, la disminuciรณn del consumo, el derecho a la reparaciรณn y la erradicaciรณn de la obsolescencia programada.
โ Utilizar tecnologรญas (un poco mรกs) sanas y cercanas. Recuerda que el #SoftwareLibre es un gran habilitante para ello.
Acciones para (re)conectar y transformar las tecnologรญas๐ฟ๐คณ
Te invitamos a conocer y compartir nuestra campaรฑa
โก๏ธ sursiendo.org/tecnoafecciones
Tecnoafecciones. Acciones para (re)conectar y transformar las tecnologรญas
La campaรฑa #tecnoafecciones, derivada del proyecto, se plantea como un recorrido por cada una de las dimensiones que hemos decidido abordar en el proceso de producciรณn y consumo de tecnologรญasโฆSursiendo
Time for a trip ๐๏ธ
A @Space_Station astronaut took this photo of Port Stephens Bay, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Sydney, Australia. Towns, beaches, bays, and forests are visible along this stretch of the southeast Australian coast. go.nasa.gov/3Dv8fNS
#NASAEarth
Been a busy past few days with work, travelling, and fighting off jet lag... but one thing that I am happy to announce is that an HPC community engineering team that I helped start is now officially a part of the Ubuntu project. If you are interested in using Ubuntu for HPC, or just interested in being involved with a community engineering team, you should totally check out this article below ๐
ubuntu.com/blog/introducing-ubโฆ
#ubuntu #HPC #openscience #Community
One of my favourite slides from the #Spack workshop at #Pearc2023. This slide provides a great explanation for why HPC clusters need special-purpose package managers rather than using traditional Linux package managers like apt and dnf.
Next time I have someone ask me why I do not just use apt for installing software, I will just send them this slide ๐
The Skylab 3 mission launched #50YearsAgo today with astronauts Alan Bean, Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott on board, ready for a record-breaking 59-day mission furthering science on the Skylab space station. #Skylab50
Revisit Skylab 3: go.nasa.gov/44xOaSR
#NASAhistory
Skylab 3: Return to Skylab
Orbiting unoccupied since its first crew departed, Skylab, Americanโs first space station, prepared to welcome its second set of occupants - Commander Alan L. Bean, a veteran of the Apollo 12 Moon landing mission, and space rookies Pilot Jack R.Melanie Whiting (NASA)
#NASAhistory
Buckle up because Nextcloud's docker deployment is now available. Say goodbye to complicated setups and hello to easy cloud deployment.
Check out our blog to learn more about Nextcloud AIO.
nextcloud.com/blog/how-to-instโฆ
How to Install the Nextcloud All-in-One on Linux - Nextcloud
Are you a Linux user looking to install the Nextcloud All-in-One, or AIO, Docker image? In this blog, we walk you through the steps!Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)
The Skylab 3 mission launched #50YearsAgo today with astronauts Alan Bean, Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott on board, ready for a record-breaking 59-day mission furthering science on the Skylab space station. #Skylab50
Revisit Skylab 3: go.nasa.gov/44xOaSR
#NASAhistory
Skylab 3: Return to Skylab
Orbiting unoccupied since its first crew departed, Skylab, Americanโs first space station, prepared to welcome its second set of occupants - Commander Alan L. Bean, a veteran of the Apollo 12 Moon landing mission, and space rookies Pilot Jack R.Melanie Whiting (NASA)
Improving Resiliency and Reliability for Letโs Encrypt with ARI
The Letโs Encrypt team is excited to announce that ACME Renewal Information (ARI) is live in production! ARI makes it possible for our subscribers to handle certificate revocation and renewal as easily and automatically as the process of getting a ceโฆletsencrypt.org
The Democracy Reforms Transforming Local Politics
A guest post from Jenna Spinelle on how participatory budgeting, citizen juries, and other programs are making local government more inclusive and creating new civic rituals.Micah L. Sifry (The Connector)
๐ The development of #GodotEngine 4.2 is picking up steam, as we're entering the second month of the dev cycle. Many exciting changes this week, with even more soon to come!
Read more:
godotengine.org/article/dev-snโฆ
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.2 dev 2
Closing the first month of development of Godot 4.2, the second development snapshot includes both smaller improvements and bigger features.Godot Engine
When you look at some fern spores under a microscope and the spores are just like ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
Watch Out, #Fediverse Users: The #FBI Can Seize a #Mastodon Server
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Watch Out, Fediverse Users: The FBI Can Seize a Mastodon Server
The FBI's seizure of a Mastodon server copy is a wakeup call to users of the decentralized social network, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Ubuntu Desktop Indaba - July 2023
In this new episode of the Ubuntu Desktop Indaba, we sat down with Liam Dawe, the creator and editor of @gamingonlinux We asked him all sorts of questions ab...YouTube
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#ISS
Payload Maintenance and Relocation, Robotics Session to End Week
Itโs a jam-packed Friday for the Expedition 69 crew aboard the International Space Station. Ahead of their off-duty weekend, the crew moved payloads and stowage and two astronauts completed a second robotics practice session in preparation for next wโฆblogs.nasa.gov
Kick off the weekend with a relaxing view of the tranquil galaxy UGC 12295.
Shining in this new #HubbleFriday image, UGC 12295 is 192 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces.
Discover more about this image: go.nasa.gov/3rN4nFd
#Hubble
Hubble Peers at a Tranquil Galaxy
The tranquil spiral galaxy UGC 12295 basks leisurely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler
About LPython is a Python compiler that can compile type-annotated Python code to optimized machine code. LPython offers several backends such as LLVM, C, C++, WASM, Julia and x86.[Ondลej ฤertรญk](https://ondrejcertik.com/), [Brian Beckman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbeckman), [Gagandeep Singh](https://github.com/czgdp1807), [Thirumalai Shaktivel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thirumalai-shaktivel/), [Smit Lunagariya](https://ww (https://lpython.org/)
#Heatwaves are sending people to #airconditioned indoor spaces, where Covid transmits more easily compared with outside. Summer travel alsos plays a role, as people crowd into #airports and bring germs along with them crisscrossing world. #Covid19 hospitalizations as of July 15 are up 10.3% from previous week, according to #CDC. Emergency department visits are up 7% and test positivity rose to 6.3% from 5.8%.
wsj.com/articles/covid-19-rateโฆ
An Unwelcome Visitor Returns This Summer. Hint: Itโs Covid.
Hearing about a smattering of Covid cases again? Thereโs a reasonSumathi Reddy (The Wall Street Journal)
Science is for everyone, but not everyone can see themselves there.
Thatโs one reason I love this beautifully illustrated, FREE to download comic book developed by Flint teachers, artists & plant biologists. Through classroom modules w real plants, high school students learn how traits evolve over time through natural selection w characters who look like more of them. And that matters toward building a more inclusive STEM future. hioh.education/monkeyflowers-gโฆ #science #art
This is so neat! Books, TV, and film play a huge role in inspiring young people to go into the STEM fields, and having more inclusive and accurate representation can only foster more ideas, more solutions, and more equity -- and hopefully a planet we can all cohabitate on peacefully.
My god. The New York Times Opinion section is giving space to full-on fascist Chris Rufo to push his agenda โ to push lies in service of, yes, the F word: fascism.
Look, I try to be measured. But this is a five-alarm fire for US democracy. This is like publishing Goebbels in 1934.
This is as bad as publishing Tom Cotton, and the Opinion editors should lose their jobs for it.
NYT has ten million subscribers, and approximately 9.99 million do not have time to read media criticism in depth. /1
NASA Invites Media to See Recovery Craft for Artemis Moon Mission
Media are invited to see the new test version of NASAโs Orion spacecraft and the hardware teams will use to recover the capsule and astronauts upon their return from space during the Artemis II mission. The event will take place at 11 a.m.Claire OโShea (NASA)
Does anyone have any research software engineering (#RSEng) or #SciComp related graphics that can be used as stickers or general promotional material? (not tied to any one organization, CC-BY or better)
#HPC #OpenScience #ComputationalScience
Attached are some drafts I did a while ago following the tools metaphor, but I'm definitely not good at this...
People in 1920s Berlin Nightclubs Flirted via Pneumatic Tubes
It was the Tinder of the early 20th century.Michael Waters (Atlas Obscura)
Found out this week that there was a pneumatic tube postal system operating in New York City from 1897 to 1953! Feels like hearing about an alternate reality!
#PerseveranceRover
For Honor from Ubisoft gets an anti-cheat update - now Playable on Steam Deck
Nice to see more bigger publisher jumping in to get their games working on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. Ubisoft has now upgraded For Honor to support Easy Anti-Cheat on Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
APOD: 2023 July 28 - Young Stars, Stellar Jets
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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