The Touch Bar is a great example of a feature that demoes well but isn’t actually useful in practice. It’s a characteristic of promotion driven development in big tech that companies foist flashy unusable software on users as part of department or senior leaders play to show their product team is innovative.
The Touch Bar primarily acted as the “fat finger bar” since I mostly hit it by accident. It could have been useful for entering emojis but that UX was too painful.
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Goodbye, Touch Bar, you held incredible promise
Apple is no longer making a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar. It would be a great loss, but the Touch Bar long struggled to find its place in the Apple computing ecosystem.Alex Cranz (The Verge)
#newt
Red berries. Cumbria.
Canon AE-1 Program
Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm
This week's comic: The things Mike Johnson has said are so over the top that I thought I might place him in the role of my flaming conservative character (hence the flames, in case anyone was wondering about that). It’s almost impossible to exaggerate this man’s theocratic worldview, so I tried to use actual quotes where I could.
#uspol #politics #cartoon #democracy #authoritarianism #republicans #theocracy #lgbtq
Yep, Johnson and his supporters in Congress are greasing this country's slide into theocracy.
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House Speaker Election Continues America’s Slide Into Theocracy
As my regular readers know, I am an independent voter and no fan of the Democratic Party. But I’m putting this one squarely on the Republicans. The new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson of…Pax Ahimsa Gethen (Medium)
Happy #Caturday! This is our goofball, demonstrating why we bought that vase from a fellow Oregon Pottery Assoc. artist. He loves sleeping on his head!
Not going to lie: leaning out of the window of a moving steam train, desperately clutching a Leica so I don't drop it, and hoping I've got the zone-focusing and exposure right to make this shot work was a whole lot of fun.
(#Leica Ic, Zeiss Sonnar 50/1.5, Rollei Retro 400S in LC29)
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #HeritageRailway
As autumn has firmly taken hold Captain Jack has made a start on his thicker, fluffier, coat ready for winter.
The sunshine streaming in from behind him is nicely highlighting his fur and fabulous whiskers.
#caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #tabby #TabbyCat
Today marks one year since I walked away from 360,000 followers on that other site and joined this incredible community here!
That was easily one of the most positive moves I've ever made, and I frankly haven't looked back. Thank you to @jerry and everyone else who keeps this place humming. Come to think of it, it's time to renew our annual support!
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Phylogenetic diversity and functional potential of large and cell-associated #viruses in the Bay of Bengal
Nice work from @scubalaina @giant_virus et al!
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EU outreach - If we dont tell our story am not sure who will
This needs links and examples adding, feel free to edit and change, thanks. The #openweb has become an integral part of our daily lives, with almost every aspect of our existence now touched by it.SocialHub
This is a positive story and a strong lesson to learn from the outcome:
social.network.europa.eu/about…
tube.network.europa.eu/about/i…
As you can see they soon dumped the grassroots crew who made it happen and employed #NGO "experts" on how to run them, this lead to ossification.
The morale of the story, keep the cats onboard, is as much an issue of the "libertarian cats" as it is of the #Eurocrats.
STRONG lesson to learn from this.
EU Voice
EU Voice is the official ActivityPub platform of the EU institutions. With EU Video, it is part of an alternative social media pilot proposed and provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor.Mastodon hosted on social.network.europa.eu
The FDA proposes banning a food additive that's been used for a century
This sounds like a good thing to Ban
#Food #FoodAdditives #ThroidToxicity #News #FDA #NPR #BVO
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@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
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200,000 Hectares of Oil Palm Plantations to Be Converted Into Forests, Indonesia’s Government Says
Indonesia, the top producer and exporter of palm oil globally, said 494,210 acres of palm oil plantations will be replaced with forests.Paige Bennett (EcoWatch)
@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
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Huon Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus matschiei - Papua New Guinea
Adorable creatures with a teddy-like face and simian looking tail, Huon Tree #Kangaroos live in #Papua #NewGuinea. They are classified as endangered due to o...YouTube
‼️‼️‼️ fake Ukraine "supporters"
PUTIN'S TROLLS: RU is increasingly turning to social media to sew disinformation and attack Ukraine's supporters. Cambridge University has put together a 5-minute game to show you the techniques trolls use disseminate fake news on any topic.
Play GO VIRAL! | Stop Covid-19 misinformation spreading
New online infodemic game shows how to spot coronavirus misinformation in 5 minutes. Based on Cambridge University pre-bunking research. Play Go Viral!Go viral!
Andromeda (Song)
An Interesting Artist I have just first encountered
#Music #WeyesBlood #Vocal
WEYES BLOOD --- ANDROMEDA (hd)
Music and Lyrics by Natalie Mering.Video by Adam Gerber.Lyrics: Andromeda’s a big wide open galaxyNothing in it for me‘Cept my heart that’s lazyRunnin’ from ...YouTube
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5,402 mile (4,694 NM) flight from BER to AUS
~ 4,880 gallons (18,471 liters).
~ 32,703 lbs (14,834 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $27,326 cost of fuel.
~ 52 tons of CO2 emissions.
An abandoned house. Cumbria.
Canon AE-1 Program
Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm
8 Approaches to Find Yourself
Learn how to stop reacting to life, making up for the shadows of yesterday, and toiling for your tomorrow. See how to know yourself now.Margarita Tartakovsky, MS (Psych Central)
¿Conoces #EDIA? Es una herramienta desarrollada por @fvialibre para identificar sesgos en tecnologías del lenguaje sin necesidad de recurrir a habilidades técnicas.
Más info aquí 👇
vialibre.org.ar/inteligencia-a…
Inteligencia Artificial, desafíos y oportunidades para su legislación
El día 28 de septiembre diputadas/os y distintas referencias del sector académico se juntaron a dialogar en el Salón Blanco de la Cámara baja, con el fin de analizar las oportunidades, riesgos y desafíos que abre la inteligencia artificial y que deb…ale (FUNDACIÓN VÍA LIBRE)
🎨 🧬 Take a look at the extraordinary watercolor paintings in the Molecular Landscapes Gallery by David S. Goodsell.
The watercolor paintings of David S. Goodsell integrate information from #StructuralBiology, #Microscopy and #Biophysics to simulate detailed views of the molecular structure of living cells. #Proteins, #NucleicAcids, and #LipidMembranes are shown; #SmallMolecules, ions, and water are omitted for clarity.
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Free for use under CC-BY-4.0 license.
Dinkinesh Moonrise
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard, SwRI, Johns Hopkins APL, NOIRLab
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APOD: 2023 November 4 - Dinkinesh Moonrise
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
APOD: 2023 November 4 - Dinkinesh Moonrise
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
My 1st cover story! For New Scientist about experiments that are close to telling us if spacetime is quantized. And a Q&A with a physicist who is simulating space-time from scratch!
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The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch
Monika Schleier-Smith is testing the idea that space-time emerges, like a hologram, from quantum interactions by attempting to make it in the labLyndie Chiou (New Scientist)
When I started DAIR, I read this book, The Revolution Will not be Funded. Precisely because I knew there would be a time we would have to stand up for the humanity of Palestinians, and because I knew the history of how anyone doing that has been treated. This book was created by an organization who's funding got pulled when they did that 20 years ago, with chapters contributed by a number of people.
biodiversitygenomics.net/1M_in…
One of the things I was able to do on the birdsite that there just isn't much opportunity to here is find out "current events" in carob by doing a search every week or so.
If you ever see a carob toot, please forward it to me, especially if it's not a tired carob hippie joke, but actual research or market or real life info re Ceratonia siliqua/#Carob
Please boost to get my request out there. Thanks so much! @plantscience
#Food #PlantScience #Botany
It’s nearly the end of 2023 and on @gamingonlinux I’m still somehow having to combat these types of comments…
Proton exists. Steam Deck exists. And GOL has covered industry news for a very long time now.
Today we have Nate Graham on the show who you may know from his blog Adventures in Linux and KDE so what would you expect him to be here to chat about #Linux #KDE #OpenSource #FOSS
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#192 KDE Plasma Lead Propagandist | Nate Graham
Today we have another big name in the KDE space, the only and only Nate Graham who you may recognise from his blog Adventures in Linux and KDE along his gene...YouTube
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