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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We saw a few spiders at the ecostation.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘There is a debate inside the administration over whether the goal of the operation is primarily aimed at disrupting the military, or at civilian life more broadly in the event of a conflict. But officials say that the initial searches for the code have focused first on areas with a high concentration of American military bases.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/us/politics/china-malware-us-military-bases-taiwan.html
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I am now also on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nadim.computer
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
The reason student debt exists today but didn’t for Boomers is that one of Ronald Reagan’s advisors believed having an overabundance of college educated and unemployed people is what led to fascism in Germany.
So Reagan attacked state funding of universities and the rest is history. Many structural problems in modern America can be traced to Ronald Reagan’s policies and a tinge of racism. https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
OK, why on Earth is anyone doing optimistic rollups if we have ZK rollups
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io@merveilles.town ("isaac io schankler") wrote:
Wow I agonize about how to best teach audio synthesis with convoluted lesson plans and Stephin Merritt just lays it all out in three short verses
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- ’81: How to Play the Synthesizer Song by The Magnetic Fields Take a single oscillator Producing a drone Send it to the wave shaper Altering the tone This can be a triangle Sawtooth or a square Modulate the pulse width Nobody will care This is how to play the synthesizer This is how to play the synthesizer Now go to the filter bank Low, high, band or notch Fiddle with the cutoff point Pour yourself a Scotch Modern filters oscillate All by themselves It sounds like you're torturing Little metal elves This is how to play the synthesizer This is how to play the synthesizer Nextly, shape the envelope AKA ADSR Attack, delay, sustain, release Which means how loud you are One millisecond to the next Whether you pluck or lurch Or ooze like an organist In a Venusian church (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coachgowron@tenforward.social ("Coach Gowron") wrote:
I call this "Drinks Are On the House."
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dirk_lotze@det.social ("Dirk Lotze") wrote:
Die schöne Brücke an der Schwesterstraße in #wuppertal ,
weltbekannt als "Die Legobrücke" von Künstler MEGX.Ich freu' mich jedes Mal, wenn ich da vorbei komme. #streetart
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abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:
I've been on #17m #ft8 building up contacts for whatever awards and cards I get. It's been *super* fun for several reasons.
I know why ft8 works so well. I know a lot about #LDPC codes and #digital comms. It's a joy to use this mode. It's literally the best FEC outside of #Polar codes. We rock!
It seems to tick off the local very old white male DX club to no end that "lazy people are getting dxcc for nothing!" rawr grumble fulminate etc
Mastodon FeedIf you manage to get it through the door, the PS5 is actually a nice device.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yes! tassles
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lukito@tech.lgbt ("Luke") wrote:
Another weekend, another location at which to smooch :blobfoxeyes:
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burger_jaap ("Jaap Burger") wrote:
Great social media campaign by WWF Germany over on the dark site:
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- [Twitter bird disappearing
Text: "Schützt unsere Tierarten, bevor es zu spät ist."][6]
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helenczerski@fediscience.org ("Helen Czerski") wrote:
Whenever I need cheering up about the climate, things like this really help:
"During the 2010s the levelised cost (that is the average lifetime cost of equipment, per megawatt hour of electricity generated) of solar, offshore wind and onshore wind fell by 87%, 62% and 56%, respectively"
And that dramatic fall in costs isn't stopping.
Even the most short-term thinkers must be convinced by that!
(Quote from this paywalled Economist article: https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/05/23/the-worlds-energy-system-must-be-transformed-completely )
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Cool summer weather for a day. Time to go visit an EcoStation.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/29/its-ecostation-day/
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Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:
Tada
Wordle 770 3/6*
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
polarity@social.bitwig.community ("polarity :wig:") wrote:
Why people leave #Mastodon by @kissane
> The most common—but usually not the only—response, cited as a primary or secondary reason in about 75 replies—had to do with feeling unwelcome, being scolded, and getting lectured. Some people mentioned that they tried Mastodon during a rush of people out of Twitter and got what they perceived as a hostile response.
👉 https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
The agency opposes an amendment that prevents it from using data brokers.
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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:
GOP megadonor pours millions into effort to hinder Ohio abortion amendment
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Dolly Parton has put over 200,000,000 FREE BOOKS in the hands of children in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland.
200 MILLION BOOKS!
She didn't build a penis space rocket or dive in sub to see the titanic. She invested her money in the next generations to come.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ... that's a beautiful thing.
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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:
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acousticmirror@post.lurk.org ("(((o))) Acoustic Mirror") wrote:
Some great news from The Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer.
The "A Year of Deep Listening" project in homage to Pauline Oliveros they ran up until the end of May this year will eventually be collected in a book, to be published in Fall 2024 on Terra Nova Press.
Honoured and chuffed to have been part of this, and to see the whole project finally collected.
Watch this space. 🐚 📚
https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/ayodl/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheWarOnCars ("The War on Cars") wrote:
"Instead of giving the biggest incentives to the biggest batteries, government policy should focus on electrifying the vast majority of daily trips, which start and end at home and could easily be handled by vehicles with 100 miles of range or less.... That means incentivizing e-bikes, plug-in hybrids, and other small battery electric vehicles, not holding fleet electrification hostage to the 5 percent use cases."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:") wrote:
When God closes a door, He opens a window. Our electric bill is outrageous, and a family of raccoons got in last night. Please, God. This has to stop.
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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:
Here’s the BFP taking a midnight stroll at Bunjaree Cottages. #possum
There’a a brief video in Birdland at https://twitter.com/stilgherrian/status/1685091192315482112.
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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Fantastic accomplishment!♥️👍🏿
https://19thnews.org/2023/07/chanda-prescod-weinstein-physicist-tenure-rare-feat/
And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen.
So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. 😢
Which is why we'll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:
Let's ponder for a moment that the computing resources on the Voyager spacecraft are from the 1960s, with clock speeds measured in KHz and RAM in kbytes, running hand-crafted software, crammed into 4K of 18-bit wide plated-wire memory (similar to but better than core mem).
The custom-designed hardware and (upgraded) software are still functioning after 46 years in space.
https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html
https://www.technikum29.de/en/devices/plated-wire-storage.php
#Voyager #Space #Science #Computers
4/n
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:
The tl;dr (because TL! it's TL) is that, for this group:
- people feel stressed and anxious when they get yelled at for breaking rules and norms they didn't know about
- it's hard to find people and conversations, and specifically hard to follow people across instances
- people want better organic and algorithmic ways to connect with each other
- instance-picking stresses people out, and a lot of the sign-up and settling-in processes are confusing and/or too much work for unknown returns
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this was why I left again right after I joined in 2016…
“The most common—but usually not the only—response, cited as a primary or secondary reason in about 75 replies—had to do with feeling unwelcome, being scolded, and getting lectured. Some people mentioned that they tried Mastodon during a rush of people out of Twitter and got what they perceived as a hostile response.”
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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:
Watch out, there's a tiger on the beach!
Incredible work by Beach4Art, who created this tiger using stones on a beach in Devon! 💕 More by Beach4Art!: https://streetartutopia.com/2022/01/23/just-a-seahorse-made-of-stone/
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- ALT: Smooth, wet, flat beach sand, bordered by smooth wet, round rocks at the top of the image. In the flat sand, the artist has arranged small brown, black, gray, red, and white smooth, oblong pebbles to create a portrait of a complete tiger striding toward the viewer. Grass has been arranged for the white whiskers. The tiger is vaguely striped but completely recognizable in this almost pointillist rock painting. (remote)
