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NASA Leaders to Highlight 25th Anniversary of Space Station with Crew nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-lea… #NASA #HumansInSpace #InternationalSpaceStationISS



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Watching Simon's Important Videos on the @yogscast #JingleJam. Civ V afterwards.

twitch.tv/yogscast

#JingleJam2023 #Yogscast



Digging Deeper to Find Life on Ocean Worlds science.nasa.gov/science-resea… #NASA #PlanetaryScience #ScienceEnablingTechnology #TechnologyHighlights



🎵 I drink water and mind my business 🎵 kottke.org/23/12/i-drink-water…


Minetest 5.8.0 is out now with improved settings, Minetest Game no longer default gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/mine…

#Minetest #FOSS #Linux #Gaming #OpenSource


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I hate this. An achievement called 'First Fart' when the charactor is clearly burping.


Employees $200
Royalties $150
Servers $800
Joe Rogan $200,000,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my company is dying
arstechnica.com/culture/2023/1…


Energetic Particle Strikes the Earth apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231205.ht… #APOD
#APOD


This one aged pretty well. IMHO, it's more true now than ever.


Grand Theft Auto VI trailer is live but no mention of a PC release yet gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/gran…

Probably wouldn't work well on the current Steam Deck, but the eventual (?) PC release should work well on Desktop Linux with Proton.

#GrandTheftAutoVI #GTAVI #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck



look at this incredible thing that's living at the lab for the month of December! if you're near us, we really do suggest coming by to check it out...


Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.9 Preview 'Well Paced Edition' brings more fixes gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/stea…

#SteamDeck #SteamDeckOLED #SteamOS



A favourite and top Steam Deck game Brotato is expanding with new content gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/brot…

#Brotato #SteamDeck #Linux #PCGaming



Cyberpunk 2077 gets another big upgrade with a Metro System, new Accessibility options gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/cybe…

#Cyberpunk2077 #SteamDeck #Linux #PCGaming



#Phages are key drivers of #MicrobialEvolution, but many #phage genes are poorly understood. @denish_piya @AdamArkinLab @vivek_mutalik &co use arrayed genome-wide #CRISPRi to map gene the essentiality landscape in the iconic coliphages λ & P1. #PLOSBiology plos.io/3uLtzgU


@BrodieOnLinux You mentioned accessibiltiy features in the gnome video.

Which reminded me that Warpd allegedly has support for wayland

github.com/rvaiya/warpd


in reply to Brodie Robertson

Hmm. I would say that some random guy can't decide what a developer must and must not do. That's rude. And he ignores that not every piece of software needs to accommodate every disability, either...


A Harvard Professor Prepares to Teach a New Subject: Taylor Swift. Nearly 300 Harvard students have signed up for a new English class, “Taylor Swift and Her World.” nytimes.com/2023/11/30/style/t…
in reply to John Overholt

my students teach me a lot about the Taylor Swift Cinematic Universe, as one described it the other day. I would like to take *their* class.


Now the #Boulder Public Library, newly under a library district, is running its own cafe. I think this counts as the town's only community owned and governed coffee shop.

Via @boulderreportinglab boulderreportinglab.org/2023/1…

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The Serbian government deploys Nextcloud for compliant, on-premises collaboration

With the implementation from NETcom System d.o.o, the National Assembly can share & work on documents together seamlessly

Check out the case study! 🏛️

nextcloud.com/blog/the-republi…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Letztens die Erzdiözese Köln, jetzt die serbische Regierung... Leute, ihr müsst dringend eure Testimonials besser aussuchen.


The Joys Of A Local Mom & Pop ISP youtu.be/0U8AxGB5Ozs


Signal is a good reason (along with Wikipedia, Mastodon, and Firefox) that we need way more nonprofit tech.

sfgate.com/tech/article/signal…

in reply to Nathan Schneider

Adding surveillance absolutely balloons costs. See also Mastodon Vs twitter.
in reply to Alistair Davidson

@moh_kohn Trust also increases revenue! @LeoSammallahti calculated that Social.coop makes more revenue per user than Twitter does.


Did you catch the news? Last week, the Roundcube project joined Nextcloud!

Together, we’re stronger against centralizing Big Tech!

nextcloud.com/blog/open-source…



Trusty Tahr, the best of them all :blobcat: 💚 . Brightening up every winter blues. ✨ #art #mastoart #fediart


I love ballet and I hate it. I love dance. I think ballet should take a long hard look at itself, and grow up. Stop damaging young people's bodies. You can create beauty without crippling people with unnatural movements and body expectations.

In any case this is a fascinating article about the history of The Nutcracker Ballet.

in reply to Muse

@Andreas Geisler I knew some of that, but some details I did not. Fascinating article.
in reply to Muse

The Nutcracker is what inspired me to take ballet classes at five years-old. The position that woman in the photograph is holding is part of why I finally left.

My ballet school had a choreographer who insisted that a young woman in a pas de deux hold both her arms back for a similar dip. She told him she would slip out of her partner's arms, she wanted at least one arm forward, but he insisted. She slipped and her nose was broken. When she came back the choreographer told her that it wouldn't happen again and wanted the same position. Physics continued to work in the same way. Her nose was broken a second time. He showed no remorse.

It was the last straw for her and for me. I refused to be a part of such cruelty. We have a right to be treated with respect and not as play toys for people seeking social status.




Human actions have led to the deaths of more than 100,000 Bornean orangutans since 1999, mainly for crop protection, bushmeat or the illegal wildlife trade.

For the first time in 15 years, researchers surveyed residents of Kalimantan, the Indonesian section of Borneo, to find out why people kill the great apes and whether conservation projects help protect them.

by Madeline Reinsel
news.mongabay.com/2023/11/kill…

#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Orangutans #GreatApes #Animals



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mastodon - Link to source
Vegan Australia
@palmoildetectives Not a problem! Thank you for sharing this widely. 🙂


First Resources has consistently denied operating shadow companies. However, The Gecko Project gathered insider testimony and corporate documents linking the company and the Fangiono family to plantations clearing rainforest in Indonesian Borneo.

T G P calculates that companies controlled by the group have cleared more than 95,000 hectares (235,000 acres) of forest since First Resources announced its zero-deforestation pledge in 2015.

news.mongabay.com/2023/11/inve…

#PalmOil #Indonesia #Orangutans



Killings of Bornean orangutans could lead to their extinction #Borneo #wildlife #orangutans #extinction news.mongabay.com/2023/11/kill…


Energetic Particle Strikes the Earth

Illustration Credit: Osaka Metropolitan U./L-INSIGHT, Kyoto U./Ryuunosuke Takeshige

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231205.ht… #APOD

#APOD


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in reply to jonny (good kind)

Having ublock origin on your mobile browser is a game changer - and soon Firefox will be the only way to get it on your desktop browser too.

Remember Google's plan described in discovery documents from one of its antitrust lawsuits: in the name of privacy, block 3rd party ads and use the dominance of chrome to only allow google ads at the browser level. Your browser choice is not a neutral choice, google sees it as an integral part of their strategy to monopolize ads, and with that the entire web.

in reply to jonny (good kind)

FAQ for post repliers since this has escaped my usual circles
in reply to jonny (good kind)

is there an actual link to the document or to an article reporting on it (couldn't find one)?

People use to find me paranoid when I said it was the intent... (in a company that had all to lose with this)

in reply to Hubert Figuière

Yep - page 94, project NERA and the privacy sandbox
storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

"Google is trying to hide its true intentions behind a pretext of privacy.
Google does not actually put a stop to user profiling or targeted advertising—it puts Google’s Chrome browser at the center of tracking and targeting."




My mother, Leslie Joyce Silberman, died today. The past few years were very difficult as she struggled with dementia. But she whispered "I love you" to my sister yesterday, and mouthed those words to me two days ago, for which I'm deeply grateful. Thank you for everything Mom. I'll love you forever.


Born in 1848, Caroline Still Anderson completed high school at 15. When she enrolled at Oberlin College, she was the only Black student in her class.

Anderson went on to become a physician, driven to improve the social & political conditions of Black people. She also served as a prominent a social reformer in Philadelphian society.

stillfamily.library.temple.edu… #HistoryRemix #history #science

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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Correction: Linked article says it was her father William Still who was 2nd only to Tubman:

"William Still, described as being “second only to Harriet Tubman in underground railroad operations”, was an active and prominent abolitionist in Philadelphia who spent nearly all of his adult life as a businessman, author, and philanthropist in the service of African American liberation and advancement"

in reply to sadele2

@sadele2 You’re right. Although I first came across that detail on the AWIS site awis.org/historical-women/dr-c… I linked to Temple bc it has more detail. I will edit since this isn’t clear & Temple would likely be more accurate.



NASA Audio Specialist Named in Forbes 30 Under 30 List of Innovators nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #PeopleOfGoddard #PeopleOfNASA #Podcasts

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