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esoastronomy@astrodon.social ("ESO") wrote:

Using our telescopes, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a Super-Earth in the temperate zone of a nearby Sun-like star!

The star in question, known as HD 20794, is located just 20 light-years away. The planet is six times more massive than Earth, and it takes 647 days to complete an orbit around HD 20794 star, 40 days less than Mars around the Sun.

This feat was made possible thanks to over two decades of observations from the ESPRESSO and HARPS instruments, installed at our Very Large Telescope (VLT) and 3.6-metre telescope respectively, both in #Chile's Atacama Desert.

Learn more: https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-confirms-existence-super-earth-habitable-zone-sun-star

Illustration by Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC)

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

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• An artistic representation of a planetary systems with planets orbiting a central star. The orbits are depicted with thin white lines against a backdrop of stars and the Milky Way galaxy. The orbits of the most internal planets are surrounded by a green shaded region labeled “Habitable Zone”, with the orbit of one planet passing through it. (remote)

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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Facade. #grickledoodle #cats #hairless #facade #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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• A cartoon illustration of a man opening the bathroom and finding his surprised cat in the middle of shaving off all its fur. Caption reads "Evan was shocked to discover that Baxter wasn't a naturally hairless cat at all!" (remote)

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silviamaggi@mastodon.design ("Silvia Maggi") wrote:

Reach out to me for advice and guidance on digital accessibility.

With over twenty years of experience in design and development, I am dedicated to improving user experiences for a diverse audience, particularly for individuals with disabilities.

https://work.silviamaggidesign.com/

#Accessibility #WCAG #A11y #Inclusion

jwz wrote:

New Gmail war crime spotted in the wild.

Content-Type: text/vnd.google.email-reaction+json; charset="UTF-8"

{
"emoji": "=F0=9F=91=8D",
"version": 1
}

https://jwz.org/b/ykgz

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• Screenshot

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

log@mastodon.sdf.org ("Log 🪵") wrote:

@RikerGoogling
> COMPUTER, ARCH
The administrative redirect console hologram materializes.
> ENTER ARCH
You step inside the A.R.C.H.
> EXAMINE CONSOLE
The title screen of the program is displayed: "Panty Raiders of Orion". A button bar below offers LANGUAGE, ACCESSIBILITY, SETTINGS.
> PRESS SETTINGS
The console changes to display the holodeck settings screen. It displays MODE: TEXT, SAFETY: FULL
> PRESS MODE
An enum selector offers TEXT, PIXELART, CELSHADE, CINEMATIC, HOLO
> PRESS HOLO

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macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride_pan:") wrote:

Blog Question Challenge 2025 (answering @koehn's challenge)

https://macmanx.com/2025/01/28/blog-question-challenge-2025/

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generiyaki@genart.social wrote:

"Infinite Scroll."

Any manifesto worth its salt is tediously long, if not infinite or nearly so. Also, many of them are indecipherable.

So, here is my manifesto. This is a continuation from the Genuary 2023 prompt on asemic writing (using lines and symbols that look like writing, but do not have any meaning).

It is left as an exercise for the reader to interpret the text.

#GenArt #GenerativeArt #Processing #CreativeCoding #Genuary #Genuary28 #Genuary2025

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• "In the shadow of understanding, we gather. Not to illuminate, but to obscure; not to build, but to unmake. What lies behind the veil of language is ours to shape—a language of silence, a script of shadows. We write not for the eye to read but for the soul to tremble. Words shall crumble under the weight of their own meaning, their edges frayed into whispers. Order will dissolve, and the comfortable patterns you cling to will scatter like ash on an indifferent wind. This is not an invitation. This is a reckoning. The unwritten begins." Haha just kidding. That was some AI-generated gobbledygook right there. True caption: Meaningless red "text" scrolls infinitely on a black background. The "text" resembles sloppy handwriting but contains no discernible letters, much less words, or thoughts. Still, maybe it expresses something. (remote)

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ianb@well.com ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

@jwz @dave They test me, Jamie. They test me.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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• The ultimate universe version of Reed Richards is looking upward wide eyed. He asks, “Why do I need to SEE this?“ (remote)

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

“Deepseek could be an extinction-level event for some venture capital firms,"

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• Episode 2 Whatever GIF (remote)

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/neckdown-street-traffic-20054524.php

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• Calvin's dad in bicycle gear saying "YES... HA HA HA... YES!"
• screenshot of article, headline is "This new street design is meant to slow traffic. It’s angering S.F. drivers"

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Gotta fight the autocorrect pretty hard to type out an accurate description of American politics: democratic collapse through Democratic collapse

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This sort of internal institutional change is almost always invisible from the outside, until it isn't. This whole post gives me Big Feels about old Google:

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times

jwz wrote:

BRB, taking a sip of water and then checking in on how my Werewolf Stonks are doing today ****pfffffffffftttttttttt****

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Screening The Conversation for my surveillance class, as one does.

One of the relevant (but less often discussed) takeaways of the film is that Harry, despite his vigilant precautions, his considerable expertise, and his crushing paranoia, is completely helpless to defend his own privacy. But he refuses to accept that his skills can't make him invincible.

A similar hubris is all too common among members of my own field.

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

The US government is holding (hodling?) billions of dollars in seized cryptocurrency assets, and most of these funds just sit there forever. But imagine the impact and disruption to cybercrime organizations that could occur if the government was forced to spend just a tiny fraction of their seized currency to fund straight up security research? Or maybe just provide a stipend to people who spend half their lives maintaining important open-source code libraries, or tracking emerging threats in new and useful ways.

I've been thinking a lot about this because I keep talking to researchers who are doing amazing, important work but having to spend increasing amounts of their precious time trying to attract investors, or just keep the lights on. The irony of this is that invariably what happens when they do get investors is the investors say no you can't do that anymore because it makes our lawyers squeamish. So in many ways, I see a market failure here.

If we are serious about making a bigger dent in cybercrime overall and in going after bigger fish, we need to find ways to make sure that these people can focus on their work.

jwz wrote:

The WELL ACTUALLY is strong with this one!

I haven't seen so many fascinating anecdotes since the last time a thread devolved into people telling stories about how they saw a very rude bicyclist blow through a stop sign one time.

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darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

I have a very long, possibly book-length take on LLMs that has been brewing since May 2015 but basically: wow humans love to take something that works extremely well in a certain narrow domain and then bend over backwards to insist it will solve every problem in the universe. (That's a nearly banal observation but the book length part would be tracing the technological, financial, historical, and psychological incentives that make it happen.)

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dannycolin@floss.social ("Danny Colin") wrote:

I'll be hosting a WebExtensions session this coming weekend at @fosdem 2025. We'll discuss about APIs, toolings and more.

We'll also have developers from @mozillaofficial Firefox and Google Chrome.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5916-webextensions-bof/

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Gone back to a Styled Components project after months only on Tailwind and I want to scream in the darkness

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

huh, thinking of folks following the siren call of “the new right” as a rejection of the concept of “human improvement” and rejection of societal self-correcting mechanisms.

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igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

This weekend, several Igalians will be in Brussels for #FOSDEM 2025, which will take place on Feb 1st and 2nd. We will be giving talks covering different #OpenSource tech and topics and, as always, we are super excited to have hallway chats with everyone. 📜👇

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

if you think Facebook etc essentially throwing out trust & safety systems is ”no big deal”, then I would suggest you read about the (2016+) Rohingya massacres driven by Facebook disinformation & hate-speech postings.

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

I don't know much about tech or media, but if a tech oligarch was helping to systematically dismantle the federal government using his own sequestered private sector employees, I might not, personally, report on it by primarily posting to the social media platform that he himself owns.

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mihobu@social.lol ("Michael Brrrkhardt ❄️") wrote:

@keenan I'm going to start using this and referring to it as the Keenan Commons License

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mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

🖊️ I just posted a new article to krrd.ing!

Vincent Lammens - omg.lol Interview Series https://krrd.ing/posts/vincent-lammens-omglol-interview-3/

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kittylyst ("Ben Evans") wrote:

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• Image shows a Star Trek "Darmok" meme. The text reads: "ELON, HIS ARM RAISED FORWARD" in reference to Musk's Nazi salute.

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

This is what the US has become:

Picture 1: Mexican American actor Selena Gomez shares a video in tears on Instagram, because people with a Mexican background are now being deported in Trump's America.

Trump supporters then create a plethora of videos mocking her.

Picture 2-4: For example, Breitbart News contributor Benny Johnson gets 270,000 views on a YouTube show laughing at her, complete with racist AI graphics celebrating the Trump deportations.

Selena Gomez has now deleted her video.

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• Selena Gomez in tears in her video.
• AI generated picture of Trump as an airplane captain.
• AI generated picture of the inside of an airplane with racist depictions of Mexicans — all wearing sombrero straw hats as if that was normal headgear for anyone in January — crying as they are being deported.
• Benny Johnson laughing on his YouTube show.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I'm going to continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico, because it annoys a certain petty twit.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/28/it-will-always-be-the-gulf-of-mexico-to-me/

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• map of the gulf of Mexico from 1718 (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'll be at this year's #FOSDEM if anyone wants to come say hi. #Mastodon will have its own stand like last year and you'll be able to buy some merch as well.