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

augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

The CDC is taking the week off, so our data is partial, but right now, the US hot spot for #COVID19 is Florida, which has several sewersheds nearing some of the highest levels in two years (see chart). There are other areas with high levels:

- Hawaii's surge seems to have peaked
- Much of the Bay Area is at high levels
- Montpelier, VT has exploded 8x in 2 weeks
- Warren, MI is up 3x in one week
- Most of TX is moderate, but Woodlands is very high

Local data is spotty: https://data.wastewaterscan.org/

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• Current wastewaterscan.org chart of COVID in Florida sewersheds, showing many rising to the 2nd or 3rd highest in two years--and still rising.

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

RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social ("Rusty Bertrand") wrote:

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• What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand? Dr. Holly Witteman That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do sò. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:

Borrowed a thermal camera from the local library last week. Turns out all libraries in our council area offer them for free. Handy!

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• Photograph of thermal camera scanning a corner (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Anyway. Riveting plot.

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• Yorgos Tsiantoulas laying on his side on a rocky nude beach, facing away from the camera.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

tolmasky ("Francisco Tolmasky") wrote:

I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Now that I know Dekkoo sells downloads I'll have to check in every once in a while.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Good news, everyone: The Summer with Carmen is now available on dekkoo for 10 USD. 1080p download, hardsubs https://www.dekkoo.com/products/the-summer-with-carmen

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

As for #darktable specifically… The photograph has a nasty white patch on the right heel, which only appeared due to particular lighting from the sky, you don't see it when holding the figurine in your hands. I tried unsuccessfully to choose different angles, but then juts went ahead and fixed it with CLUT and some retouching. Real world sucks without some work applied to it :-)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Blossom. Daughter's latest artwork. It reminded me of Mexican motifs, and after a short search I found this self-portrait by Frida Kahlo https://mungfali.com/post/26591028822D4ED7042B64DC45713A338EB4B368/Frida+Kahlo+Paintings+Images. Of whom we talked just this morning completely incidentally.

#darktable

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• Figurine of a sitting dragon pup painted in the yelllow-teal flowered style reminiscent of Frida Kahlo.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

Cats cannot be beaten ... 🐈

#Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A video of a cat refusing to be beaten by smaller and smaller openings into the next too (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

fonts@sfba.social ("Robin Rendle") wrote:

Creativity is the byproduct of work https://robinrendle.com/notes/creativity-is-the-byproduct-of-work/

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

wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"The failure of the media to confront Trump the way that they are confronting Biden now is dangerous malpractice of the highest order. ...

So I ask: When will there be a real interview of Trump?"

~ Steven Beschloss

#Biden #Trump #age #MediaFail
/9

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/when-will-there-be-a-real-interview/comments

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

good Q

https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112740368197879422

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

Glastomichelle@c.im wrote:

Stormy sunset tonight here in Glastonbury.

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• 039bc8b32a59b0dc.jpg (remote)

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

viabaltica@mstdn.social ("Via Baltica") wrote:

Language #technology company Tilde of #Latvia has received EU funding to develop a large language model (#LLM) for smaller European #languages. The new model will be #opensource, freely available to both researchers and developers of commercial solutions.

https://viabaltica.fi/latvia-tilde-to-develop-llm-for-small-european-languages/

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

linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

Shuffle and deal four hands of five cards with #Python #HK

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
deck=['🂡', '🂢', '🂣', '🂤', '🂥', '🂦', '🂧', '🂨', '🂩', '🂪', '🂫', '🂭', '🂮', '🂱', '🂲', '🂳', '🂴', '🂵', '🂶', '🂷', '🂸', '🂹', '🂺', '🂻', '🂽', '🂾', '🃁', '🃂', '🃃', '🃄', '🃅', '🃆', '🃇', '🃈', '🃉', '🃊', '🃋', '🃍', '🃎', '🃑', '🃒', '🃓', '🃔', '🃕', '🃖', '🃗', '🃘', '🃙', '🃚', '🃛', '🃝', '🃞']
import random
random.shuffle(deck)
deal=''.join(deck)
print (" ".join(deal[1:6]))
print (" ".join(deal[6:11]))
print (" ".join(deal[11:16]))
print (" ".join(deal[16:21]))

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• 8f34d205fd7eacb1.png (remote)

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

“… a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

- Terry Pratchett

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

The thread goes on.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/06/infinite-thread-xxxii/

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• tree, darkness (remote)

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

My mother has died.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/06/the-light-flickers/

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• Darlene Myers, age 16 (remote)

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

darkedinburgh@mastodon.scot ("Dark Edinburgh") wrote:

"There's things going on at a circus all the time."
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

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• A daytime black and white view of Circus Lane (remote)

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

Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

- Frogs do not allow you to gradually boil them.

- Lemmings do not commit mass suicide.

- Ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand.

- Newts do not confuse weather and climate.

- Moose do not get their news from Facebook.

- Naked mole rats do not kid themselves that they live in the greatest democracy in the world when in fact they live in a two-party oligarchy with every representative dependent on huge donations from the superrich.

- Cassowaries are not particularly impressed by AI.

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

divya@sfba.social wrote:

WOW what??

"Interestingly, several antihistamine drugs, including clemastine, astemizole, azelastine, brompheniramine, and ebastine, which have been approved for treating allergy symptoms without side effects for decades, have been found to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection or replication via protein-protein interaction analysis or drug library profiling (30–35). Another study revealed that the use of azelastine was associated with a reduced incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection based on an analysis of over 219,000 electronic health records"

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01088-24?s=09

/via @hugo

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

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

Firestorm Iris

#BloomScrolling

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• efe155b1f2badad3.jpeg

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

KrissyKat@hoosier.social ("KrissyKat 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Overseas voting info for US Citizens living abroad.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/while-abroad/voting.html

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

xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:

You enter a small, dark yellow room. There is a RECLINER by the wall. You see a LOAF OF BREAD here, near the window. There is a SYSADMIN here, standing around.

Exits: NORTHEAST EAST
#bot

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

oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphant") wrote:

When you're watching early election returns, pay attention to Nevada and Arizona.

If the Republicans take those, and they also take Pennsylvania, they don't even need Georgia, assuming they also get NC (which is mostly assumed at this point)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

ladyteruki wrote:

You know what I think about a lot ?

That this is violence. This is a type of violence that does not start with fascism, but I promise you, it's a type of violence that is BOOMING under fascim.
Your neighbor, your colleague, your ex, your abusive ex-parents, will report something about you. You will not have done anything but displease them ; it will just be a way to exert revenge by proxy. But you will suffer. And you will be demonized. And you will have to prove the unprovable.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

dougs@nd2.uk ("Douglas Spencer") wrote:

@mwl the hippo can run faster than you can; the hippo can swim faster than you can. Your only chance to outpace the hippo is during the bicycle stage of the triathlon.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

thebluewizard@hackers.town ("The Blue Wizard") wrote:

"Artist Christine Sun Kim Rewrites Closed Captions | Pop-Up Magazine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfe479qL8hg

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

AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

If you are going through hell, keep going. ~ Sir Winston Churchill