SallyStrange

cstross, 6 hours ago to random

I'm still manually approving all my follow requests and every week or so I think "are they okay now?" and then nope, some kind of spam account shows up with an AI-generated garbage user profile, AI-generated user photo, and the only toots its made are attempts to get other Mastodon folks to solve CAPTCHAs for it …

SallyStrange, 6 hours ago to science

SCIENCE!

"[Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre] discovered that it was possible to build a warp drive through a clever manipulation of spacetime, arranging it so that space in front of a vessel gets scrunched up and the space behind the vessel stretched out. This generates motion without, strictly speaking, movement.

It sounds like a contradiction, but that’s just one of the many wonderful aspects of general relativity. Alcubierre’s warp drive avoids violations of the speed-of-light limit because it never moves through space; instead space itself is manipulated to, in essence, bring the spacecraft’s destination closer to it.

While tantalizing, Alcubierre’s design has a fatal flaw. To provide the necessary distortions of spacetime, the spacecraft must contain some form of exotic matter, typically regarded as matter with negative mass. Negative mass has some conceptual problems that seem to defy our understanding of physics, like the possibility that if you kick a ball that weighs negative 5 kilograms, it will go flying backwards, violating conservation of momentum."

A warp drive breakthrough? Maybe. A breakthrough in our understanding of gravity? Probably!

(Scientists don't understand gravity very well at all.)

#Science #WarpDrive #FTL #StarTrek #science #Physics

https://www.wired.com/story/warp-drive-breakthrough-physics-star-trek/

SallyStrange, 7 hours ago to random

I barely held myself back from petting this cow. It would be bad biosecurity

SallyStrange, 1 day ago to random

Does anyone think this person isn't lying? Like, to an empathetic person who genuinely opposes racism, it should be obvious that if you're talking about something that could be harassment, and it's being done to a Black person, then it's extremely reasonable to conclude that racism is at play.

So, to volunteer to reply to a Black person who's pointing out racist harassment to tell them that, in your opinion, it's harassment that's not "specifically anti-black" would be essentially to tell that Black person that there's nothing specific about them to you. Which is racist.

This doesn't seem complicated to me. Anyway, #BlockList and #Fediblock candidate

https://akko.wtf/objects/a237dee3-d617-495f-b2ab-9dc3cb0007e2

SallyStrange, 2 days ago to climate

Really irritated with this phrase:

"Scientists have not yet established a direct climate change link with this particular storm."

20 years ago, scientists predicted bigger, wetter, more extreme storms. Now we're getting bigger, wetter, more extreme storms. The only thing that benefits from this pusillanimous "journalism" is fossil fuel companies. And this is from "Inside Climate News"! It's not like it's CNN or something.

#Climate #ClimateDenialism

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21052024/todays-climate-brazil-flooding-disaster-rescue/

maker, 2 days ago to Creativity

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Adam_Cadmon1, 2 days ago to random

You tell people that our ancestors had bigger brains, on average, than we do and they generally don't believe it.

18+ Neko0001, 2 days ago to fediverse French

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

SallyStrange, 3 days ago to random

"Democrats need to--"

Bitch they WILL NOT. What do YOU need to do?

#USpol

SallyStrange, 3 days ago to random

Hot take: profit does not exist.

If you fully implement ecological accounting--that is, deducting from the balance sheet the cost of any environmental damage or degradation caused by production--then you come out even. That's the best we can hope for, because we live in a system that is, apart from the sun's daily energy input, closed.

In other words, all "profit" is exploitation.

dbsalk, 3 days ago to books

My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.

The cruelty is the point.

https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/

#Books #BookBans #Bookstodon #Libraries @bookstodon on@a.gup.pe

SallyStrange, 3 days ago to news

Remember Patrick Braxton? The absolute legend who got sick of his small Alabama town being run by a bunch of unelected racist anti-vaxxers? The guy who ran for mayor of Newbern, AL, and won, despite said unelected officials trying to give him the wrong information about running for office? The guy who was then subsequently locked out of the mayor's office by said racist anti-vaxxers and sued?

Well, he has had a minor setback: a federal judge refused to grant his and other plaintiffs' request for an immediate injunction forcing Haywood "Woody" Stokes III (the unelected, white mayor who inherited the mayoralty from a 60-year-long chain of unelected white men) to stop locking Braxton out of town hall and step down. She noted that the plaintiffs, by waiting over a year to file the suit, failed to show the urgency of the request. However, she also noted that his argument in the trial, set to begin this September, is likely to win out.

#USpol #ALpol #racism #WhiteSupremacy #DemocracyDocket #PatrickBraxton #News #breaking

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-in-alabama-denies-black-mayors-motion-to-force-white-town-leaders-to-allow-him-into-office/

SallyStrange, 4 days ago to random

Good morning. Good news, a meeting has been canceled! Please, go about your business.

lhgmk2, 6 days ago to random

Well the tapwater has to be boiled, and the milk is full of flu, this will be a good year for tea with lemon.

Anyone ruins the lemons, we open fire.