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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
signal report: 5 over 9
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Religious zombies have wrecked Oklahoma…and many other parts of the country.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/29/weep-for-oklahoma/
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galacticstone ("Galactic Stone 🇺🇦") wrote:
This is the face of a stone cold assassin. #Caturday
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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:
In the Big Bang, about 1/4 of the matter in the Universe fused into helium. Unfortunately, very little turned into heavier elements. As far as I can tell, it took about 10 billion years for pathetic little stars to crank out enough carbon, oxygen and other good stuff to support life. By the time we showed up, the party was almost over: the peak of star formation was long past, and the accelerating expansion of the Universe had begun. In another 10 billion years, the portion of the Universe we can still reach by moving slower than light will shrink by 80%. If so-called intelligent life wants to spread across the Universe, it had better get its ass in gear.
What's the problem here? Why did the Big Bang produce so little of heavier elements?
One problem is that the steps after helium are tough. Lithium, beryllium and boron are not very easy to make, for reasons of nuclear physics, so the next one after that - carbon! - first got made by an awkward process where two heliums crash into each other and make an *unstable* form of beryllium, which decays quickly unless a *third* helium hits it first, making carbon.
Once there's a bunch of carbon around, other processes come into play. But that happened much later.
Another problem is the "deuterium bottleneck".
(1/2)
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MoiraEve@mastodon.world wrote:
Robert Hubbell:
If you work in a safe job, have medical insurance, have a retirement plan invested in the stock market, own a car or a home, have a college degree, and have access to clean water and safe food, then you owe it all to the existence of well-regulated “administrative state” that keeps the complex US economy humming along in a way that is the envy of the world.
// That’s now been subsumed by the Roberts Court. #Chevron
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Savvyhomestead ("Truth Or Consequences ✅") wrote:
Who knew that people, even in rural red America, don't like the orange asshole after all?
https://www.newsweek.com/latino-voters-donald-trump-joe-biden-debate-election-1918795
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
This new album from Eric Hilton, "Out of the Blur", has been my Saturday morning soundtrack:
https://erichilton.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-blur
It has been a pleasant companion to the slowly brightening dawn and bird song outside my window.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Beautiful little babies.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/29/teeny-tiny-little-friend/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Look, I know as well as anyone there are plenty of very good and valid reasons to criticize Democrats in general and Biden in particular.
But I really don't think just wholesale embracing Trump's own framing is helping anyone but Trump.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If you don't see the journalistic double standard yet, go look for the New York Times editorial board op-ed saying Trump should drop out.
(It doesn't exist. Everything Trump's done wasn't enough to prompt that. But one bad debate was all it took to get them to write it for Biden.)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Really though: y'all know whose narrative this is, right?
You realize whose framing you're embracing here?
You do actually understand who this is helping, don't you?
Literal fascism is on America's doorstep. Who do you think is happy we're talking about the current president instead of *that*?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If only the media would hold Trump half as accountable for being an openly fascist narcissistic violent insurrectionist racist rapist dictator who lies so prolifically it's impossible to judge his actual grasp on reality as they do Biden for having one bad job interview.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Noooooo wiiiiiiiine
Sips like Gascón
Goes with dips like Gascón
Makes you drink to the very last drip like Gascón
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sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:
I didn't find any sponsorship for FOSSY this year, but I had a talk accepted and am still considering going despite being even broker than last year (it really was a great time last year). Any chance I know anyone in Portland, OR with a couch I could crash on if I do manage to find a way to make it work?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ouch
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
This is a banger
Pluralistic: The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"But who watches the watchdog?" he thinks to himself while pondering the precarious pile of tech he threw together to avoid the onerous commute.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Probably need a webcam too, now that I'm thinking about it... :thonking:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I won't describe my WFH setup, but I will say that I am right now researching network controlled power and possibly a solenoid.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Good God, people, he had one subpar 90-minute showing in fucking JUNE. A little perspective, please.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Not Good: “Supreme Court Pares Back Federal Regulatory Power” - The Wall Street Journal
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Only in America can an openly fascist convicted felon wannabe dictator spend all evening spouting blatantly obvious lies, only for the media to focus all attention on the *other* candidate's shortcomings.
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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭✨") wrote:
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g7izu@universeodon.com ("Andy Smith") wrote:
Space Weather
Aurora Alert: A strong G3 Geomagnetic storm is now in progress. Mid-latitude radio aurora is now reported down to approx 55°N over Europe, and ~47°N over N America.
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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
I need such a suit
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Kierkegaanks@beige.party ("Kierkegaanks, regretfully") wrote:
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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
3rd day jetlag is the worst jetlag.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Things a good browser should block:
- scroll-based "signup" dialogs (e.g., for newsletters)
- more than 500KB of JS w/o a user interaction
- any JS served w/o compression or content-length headers
- images that are likely more than 3x the viewport size
- cookie consent dialogs
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Don't throw tarantulas, hand them over gently to me.
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theruran@hackers.town ("theruran 🌐🏴") wrote:
by the way, you can go to the https://sebokwiki.org and learn the systems engineering basics for free, complete with references. no one can stop you!
the latest INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook hardcopy can be obtained for US$90 (from Wiley) and the softcopy is free for INCOSE members, which you can just join if you want to. The Handbook is synchronized with the ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2023 International Standard - Systems and software engineering--System life cycle processes and you can even get certified by studying it and taking an affordable MOOC.
of course, there's the SWEBOK but it's not been updated since 2013 and I have not met a single software engineer that even mentioned it. :cereal_killer: