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"The Night Sky Came Alive."

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São Francisco’s Colorful Palette nasa.gov/image-article/sao-fra… #NASA #Earth #EarthObservatory


¿Hacia dónde estamos mirando?

Un camino posible para la repolitización de la tecnología

¿Dónde se cruzan las tecnologías digitales y lo político?, ¿dónde con nuestras vidas en colectividad?

#Tecnopolitica #CuidadosDigitales

sursiendo.org/2024/08/hacia-do…



NASA Selects 5 New Roman Technology Fellows in Astrophysics science.nasa.gov/science-resea… #NASA #Astrophysics #Exoplanets #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #TheUniverse


"There is an obvious alternative: universities, libraries, and academic funding agencies can cut out the intermediary and directly fund journals themselves, at a far lower cost. This would remove commercial pressures from the editorial process, preserve editorial integrity and make research accessible to all."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#Diamond #OpenAccess


Situación en los Altos de #Chiapas recuerda a los días previos a la masacre de #Acteal . La violencia a llevado a cientos de tsotsiles a huir de sus hogares.

👉 avispa.org/?p=117640 🐝

#AMLO #claudiasheibaun #Mexico #PueblosIndígenas #NarcoPresidenteAMLO #Latinoamérica #amlo #chiapas #zapatista #mexico #latinoamerica #pueblosindigenas



"Globular Cluster Messier 56."

Thedarksideobservatory, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#astrophotography



Stellaris Cosmic Storms expansion will launch September 10 gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/stel…

#Stellaris #PCGaming #LinuxGaming



NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour science.nasa.gov/get-involved/… #NASA #CitizenScience #JetPropulsionLaboratory #NEOWISE #Stars #Supernovae #TheUniverse #WISEWideFieldInfraredSurveyExplorer


The Summer Triangle’s Hidden Treasures science.nasa.gov/solar-system/… #NASA #NightSkyNetwork


Mental Well-Being in Space nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-… #NASA #ISSResearch #General


NonSteamLaunchers Decky Loader plugin for Steam Deck released - easier than ever to get more stores and launchers onto your Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/nons…

#SteamDeck #Gaming



@EvolutionGnome Do you know when 3.52.4 goes to Flathub? I'm kind of desperate for this patch: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evoluti… Thanks!
in reply to Nathan Schneider

Hi, sorry for the delay, holiday season. We'll try to get it through the pipeline by tomorrow.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

We don't have a specific donation spot, but if you'd like to support us, please consider donating to @gnome: gnome.org/donate/

We're part of the project and benefit greatly from the infrastructure and other software the project produces.

in reply to GNOME Evolution

@gnome Just made a donation. But it'd be nice to be able to flag a donation for a particular app, in the hopes that it would help encourage the organization to continue supporting it. I've done that for years with Thunderbird, and that has helped encourage Mozilla to step up investment in TB development.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

@gnome Thank you!
We'll see what the support for payments on Flathub will bring. It could be a more direct way for people to support Evolution.



Godot Engine 4.3 is out now with huge new features and a fancy release page gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/godo…

#Godot #OpenSource #GameDev



Hello Translators and Nextcloud users. We need your support for next major release v30 coming soon.
See help.nextcloud.com/t/hello-tra…

Want to join the nextcloud translation community?
Open app.transifex.com/nextcloud/ and start contributing

Developers: Please respect the string freeze 💗

@nextcloud Please retoot #nextcloud



Dwarf Fortress adds Dwarf Babies, an upgraded Adventure Mode and more but macOS cancelled gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dwar…

#DwarfFortress #Linux #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I feel sorry for mac users. Dwarf Fortress is ideal for laptops. It's a shame Mac book users are getting dumped 😔 guess they'll have to duel boot Asahi.


Absolutely incredible to see the clean-energy turnaround of Tri-State, the power generation co-op that only recently notorious for clinging to dirty sources. Thanks for the reporting, @coloradosun: coloradosun.com/2024/08/14/tri…

Any context to add @ZaneSelvans?

in reply to Zane Selvans

Dang nothing like a good tax credit to make co-ops finally act like co-ops
in reply to Nathan Schneider

customer-owned coops exist to provide their customers with cheap goods. So… afaict they were acting like a customer-owned coops the whole time?
in reply to Luis Villa

@luis_in_brief Ehhh, they had some pretty big "autonomy and independence" violations, locking their members into multi-decade contracts that prohibited them from doing more than 5% self (distributed) generation, to the point where members were suing to defect and do their own renewable development -- which was at that point lower cost. TSGT needed financing to get out from under their big past fossil capital investments.
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Zane Selvans

@luis_in_brief But the trick of securitizing existing assets with very low cost (state backed) debt to get them off the balance sheet doesn't work for co-ops, because they're already ~100% debt financed, sometimes with below market rates from the USDA, which means there's much less in the way of savings to be had from refinancing.
in reply to Zane Selvans

@luis_in_brief They also did this thing where the CO PUC was going to maybe let the member co-ops exit without paying the termination tariffs, so Tri-State begged FERC to be their regulator instead, and FERC agreed, and came to a different conclusion than the CO PUC:

tristate.coop/dc-circuit-court…

in reply to Zane Selvans

@luis_in_brief
In addition to the direct-pay tax-credits, the IRA provided a refinancing mechanism through the USDA that I think also played a big role in facilitating the early retirements:

rd.usda.gov/programs-services/…

in reply to Zane Selvans

@luis_in_brief It looks like they've applied for USDA New ERA funding in conjunction with their 2023 resource plan, but haven't heard back from the feds about it yet. They did get a $75M 0% interest loan from USDA though.

tristate.coop/tri-state-advanc…

in reply to Zane Selvans

Through all this I am grateful that member co-ops were putting TS's feet to the fire. Those were not easy moves.
in reply to Luis Villa

@luis_in_brief If the members decide they want the co-op to provide clean power, the leadership needs to work to make that happen. If the members want clean power generation and the leadership acts to subvert that desire, it is a failure of the cooperative structure, not it working as intended. Here's one example of co-op members taking (back) control of their electric co-op to rectify failures of this sort 👇

youtube.com/watch?v=KIJHRMCxbr…

in reply to Grassroots Economic Organizing

@GEO_Collective @luis_in_brief Absolutely. And the Tri-State story is very much one of member organizing, as well as inspired managerial leadership. I had the opportunity to report on part of this story—Delta Montrose, the first CO co-op to leave TS—in my book Everything for Everyone, and here: thenation.com/article/archive/…



Until Dawn remake arrives on PC October 4, requires PSN account gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/unti…

#UntilDawn #PCGaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck



Mesa 24.2.0 released with a new shader cache implementation gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/mesa…

#Linux #Mesa #OpenSource



Valve attempts to deal with jokes, memes and ASCII art reviews on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valv…

#Steam #Valve #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I wonder when Valve will take serius about XFS support on steam because with some games support of XFS is a mess !
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I wish they'd do something about the utterly hilarious "how to start game" guides. That's sarcasm btw. The first one was mildly amusing. The rest, not so much.


Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.10 Beta 'Tenth time's the charm' fixes some real nuisances gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/stea…

#SteamDeck #SteamOS



Late Night Vallentuna apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240815.ht… #APOD
#APOD


Late Night Vallentuna

Image Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240815.ht… #APOD

#APOD


On October 15-17, we are joining #SCCON24, the annual gathering of local governments, associations, and businesses. Join us at Hall 25, Booth 524!

📅 15 – 17 October, 2024
📍 Berlin, Germany

nextcloud.com/blog/event/nextc…




New Zealand political poster. You could put this in Australia as well. Same sense of humour!
in reply to Muse

The non-promise looks more reasonable with a giant tank of Downer (tm) in the background.


Aba Panu Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hmuP9y

#meteorite

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"Comet Pons-Brooks Last Night on Earth - Dedicated to Alyn Wallace."

Andrea Girones, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#comet #astrophotography



Milkyway at night.

TreeLab Oleg Kuchurivsky, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.



"Just hangin' with my buds!"
in reply to Muse

You can feel the tail trying to wag down there!


Northwest Africa (NWA) 5205 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hqDfRa

#meteorite

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"Perseid Meteor Shower 2024 Highlights - Real Time 4K"

youtube.com/watch?v=bAvQgPpsuu…

#meteor



"Milky Way setting over Lake Tyrrell, Vic."

patrickkavanagh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.



"Aurora and Perseids."

Stephan Sprinz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#meteor




Sols 4275-4276: A Familiar View science.nasa.gov/blogs/sols-42… #NASA #Blogs


Perseverance Pays Off for Student Challenge Winners science.nasa.gov/rps/persevera… #NASA #RadioisotopePowerSystemsRPS #STEMEngagementAtNASA


Sols 4273-4274: Prep Rally science.nasa.gov/blogs/sols-42… #NASA #Blogs

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