Powerful eruption occurring now at Ruang volcano in Indonesia's North Sulawesi Province. Hundreds evacuated so far.
Photos show the lava flow, huge ash cloud, and volcanic lightning.
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific… #volcano #science #nature
Space memory: Voyager gift for Pres. George H.W. Bush
Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone and other mission team members gave a framed copy of an iconic Voyager 1 solar system image that includes Earth as a "Pale Blue Dot" to President George H.W. Bush on June 7, 1990.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s TESS Returns to Science Operations
NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has returned to work after science observations were suspended on April 8, when the spacecraft entered into safe mode.science.nasa.gov
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I try to keep this in mind whenever I read about events in another country. We always see such a tiny slice of the situation.
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ZINGER! Yes, thank you!
Clap or AI Gets It
"Like the threat behind crypto’s “have fun staying poor” slogan, AI needs the rest of us to believe in its unstoppable ascendancy because that belief is basically all it has. AI products aren’t about whether anyone wants or needs AI products. They’re about how people could want or need those products, eventually, if everyone stays the course and also keeps pumping money into AI companies."
Clap Or AI Gets It - Aftermath
Drama over YouTuber Marques Brownlee's review of the Humane AI pin shows how much AI is propped up by hype.aftermath.site
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NASA Announces Winners of Power to Explore Challenge - NASA
NASA announced the winners on Wednesday of the third annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition designed to teach K-12 students aboutNASA
CCTV Footage Cross-Stitch
Oh man, I don’t think this could be any more in my wheelhouse: cross-stitch embroideries of CCTV camera images by Francikottke.org
NASA’s Near Space Network Enables PACE Climate Mission to ‘Phone Home’ - NASA
The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers, a feat made possible in part byKatherine Schauer (NASA)
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NASA’s Near Space Network Enables PACE Climate Mission to ‘Phone Home’ - NASA
The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers, a feat made possible in part byKatherine Schauer (NASA)
NASA Photographer Honored for Thrilling Inverted In-Flight Image - NASA
Riding in the back seat of a car can be boring. Riding in the back of a NASA aircraft is exhilarating, especially for photographers capturing NASA’s story.Dede Dinius (NASA)
NASA to Hoist Its Sail: Solar Sail Mission Gets Ready for Launch - NASA
A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power ofNASA
University of Oslo chose Nextcloud to set up an on-premises research platform, allowing users to share and collaborate on data and text files securely!
Now, researchers can work with files without their data going to commercial cloud providers.
Here's how they did it:
University of Oslo at Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2023
Interview with Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay and Anne S. Bergsaker from the University of Oslo during Nextcloud's Enterprise Day in 2023.The University of ...YouTube
NASA Announces Winners of Power to Explore Challenge - NASA
NASA announced the winners on Wednesday of the third annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition designed to teach K-12 students aboutNASA
Adventure Mode Beta out now for Dwarf Fortress gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/adve…
#DwarfFortress #Linux #SteamDeck
Adventure Mode Beta out now for Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress on Steam from Bay 12 Games and Kitfox Games has a fresh Beta now available containing the new Adventure Mode.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Governable Spaces: Book Launch Seminar (Nathan Schneider) : Metagovernance Seminar : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Why does governance in our everyday online spaces matter? In this launch event, Nathan Schneider introduces his new book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design...Internet Archive
Astronauts To Patch Up NASA’s NICER Telescope
NASA is planning to repair NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, during a spacewalk later this year. It will be the fourth science observatory in orbit serviced by astronauts.science.nasa.gov
Join us for our inaugural lighting talks bringing together hacker-folk from the various independent community-run hackerspaces in the #NYC. This edition will see stories from an Open Source Space Suit, Tales of Hacker-Folk, The GameTank neo-Console, Ancient Egyptian Labor Unions, Constellation Compilation, and more.
Hack Manhattan
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1PM; free
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NASA Invites Media for Climate Update, New Earth Missions - NASA
In anticipation of Earth Day, NASA invites media to a briefing at the agency’s headquarters on Friday, April 19, at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will share updatesNASA
Tech Today: Taking Earth’s Pulse with NASA Satellites - NASA
Natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, floods, and tornados can dramatically change the surface of Earth to the point where alterations are visible inAndrew Wagner (NASA)
Its an offer. A suggestion. Its a gift. Its not required to be on linux. You may need the OS for a proprietary app, you might fear disobedience and registry corruption, you may love the Joy of Tidying Up that defragging for 8 hours brings. Its ok, cool people use windows, some of them because they want to. You are not judged for using windows.
When people offer linux its a damp towel for hair on fire, not finger pointing.
The spread of MS Malware was coerced, no blame.
Ghost of Tsushima PC specs revealed - should work on Steam Deck, and the first Sony title to use the new PlayStation overlay on PC gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ghos…
Ghost of Tsushima PC specs revealed - should work on Steam Deck
Sony has released the specifications needed for the upcoming PC release of Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT, and it seems like it scales quite well so it should run on the Steam Deck (and Desktop Linux will no doubt be fine).Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Comet Geyser: Perseverance’s 24th Rock Core
After investigating the high-standing bedrock at the Bunsen Peak workspace deep within the Margin Unit, the unique nature and composition of this rock was deemed worthy for collection of Perseverance’s 24th rock core sample, Comet Geyser! Bunsen Peak…science.nasa.gov
The Mess Of OBS, Wayland And Global Shortcuts
OBS on Wayland is a bit of a nightmare and whilst things are getting better with a lot of additional things, global shortcuts are still in a really weird mes...YouTube
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Eyes’ Pass First Vision Test - NASA
Engineers at L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, have combined all 10 mirrors for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Preliminary tests showAshley Balzer (NASA)
Going Through Changes: Total Eclipse Over NASA Hangar
A stunning view of the phases of the total solar eclipse, seen over the Flight Research Building at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on April 8, 2024.Ellen Bausback (NASA)
Climate Change Is Already Forcing People From Their Homes
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.ProPublica
Buckshot Roulette hit a million sales, multiplayer mode in development gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/buck…
#Godot #GodotEngine #IndieGame
Buckshot Roulette hit a million sales, multiplayer mode in development
It just goes to show, that as challenging as it is for indie devs right now, there's still a whole lot of success stories. Buckshot Roulette is the latest to hit over a million sales.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Benchmarking #bioinformatic #virus identification tools using real-world #metagenomic data across biomes
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Benchmarking bioinformatic virus identification tools using real-world metagenomic data across biomes - Genome Biology
Background As most viruses remain uncultivated, metagenomics is currently the main method for virus discovery. Detecting viruses in metagenomic data is not trivial.BioMed Central
NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed
NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science instrume…science.nasa.gov
Most members of my lab are international, and I'm often surprised at the expansive bureaucracy they have to work with just to attend some meetings or visit home.
"Citizenship privilege harms science"
"Researchers from the global south face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that most from the global north do not"
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Citizenship privilege harms science
Researchers from the global south face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that most from the global north do not. Six steps can begin to counteract this inequity.Joseph, Tiffany
World of Goo 2 delayed until August 2nd gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/worl…
#IndieGame #Linux #WorldofGoo2
World of Goo 2 delayed until August 2nd
The goo has gotten a bit stuck, and so the May release date previously announced for World of Goo 2 has been pushed back to August 2nd.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
This only proves what I always suspected.
World Of Goo is actually a AAA game that just masquerades as an indie game. It's no wonder that the game is so good! 😄
So uh, I recently re-made a Reddit account, purely because I wanted to follow a few specific things.
A post from /r/steamdeck showed up, complaining about how bad the sub is full of nonsense posts.
I commented...and got permanently banned. Lmao. Don't ever dare to comment about the state of the sub.
Stardust Demon looks fantastic for retro metroidvania adventure fans gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/star…
#IndieGame #Metroidvania #Linux
Stardust Demon looks fantastic for retro metroidvania adventure fans
Planned to release sometime this year, Stardust Demon is a retro-style metroidvania adventure game inspired by Cave Story, Zelda, and many more. Featuring cute chibi characters wrapped in some dark and spooky undertones.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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in reply to Muse • • •My "contrarian nature" was compelling me go with a somewhat "sarcastic response"...
May you be strong enough to keep doing and being all those things regardless. May you realize that on the other side of those disparaging actions is a person much like you.
But then it hit me that we're all both of these people one time or another, sometimes even to ourselves. And the poem is "wide" enough to encompass "all of us", from the pathological aggressor to the pathological victim and all the shades in between. Well done Mr. Ibrahim!
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in reply to Muse • • •We are all always people. Even our worst enemies are people. Even the those committing genocide are people. This does not make cruel and destructive behaviour acceptable. The responsibility it places upon us is to find ways to rehabilitate and redeem them.
This may only be possible within a culture that is willing to provide safety nets for their most vulnerable, and provide equal justice regardless of a person's social status.
And even with all that help, a few may still slip through who are genuinely irredeemable, either through the severity of their trauma or biological issues that are affecting their brain. We may have to remove such people from the social sphere, but with as much compassion as possible. Norway has a good system for this.
In psychology there is a saying, "Hurt people hurt people." Children from abusive families often grow up to be abusive, and it gets passed from generation to generation. Be the one who stops the chain of trauma.
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in reply to Muse • • •Jay Bryant
in reply to Muse • • •That's one reason I didn't have children. The curse dies with me.
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