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llewelly

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I tried to write an introduction and it was so empty it collapsed inward on itself

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futurebird, (edited ) to random
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The MLP ants crossover you have been waiting for.

Fluttershy is a goofy awkward spider ant.

(this is what you asked for ... right?)

https://www.tumblr.com/thepixelatedcactus/749590219375968256?source=share

llewelly,
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@futurebird which one is Tulip?

llewelly,
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@futurebird
ok, I don't watch tv, so I guess I shouldn't have asked ...

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Tulip, the ant says hi!

llewelly,
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@futurebird the other ant: "who are you talking to??"

llewelly,
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@futurebird for most of my childhood, stories about someone who finds their way to another universe, and then must deal with both good and bad consequences, were my favorite kind of fiction.

futurebird, to random
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Are the legal battles in our courts a kind of ritual conflict resolution?

Like the giant forest ants when they stand on four stiff legs to look as big as possible and hit each other with their front legs and antennae? They don't bite, but the mandibles are wide to show how well they could bite...

Instead we hit each other with paper, like subpoenas...

llewelly,
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@futurebird I've never heard of a reason why not.

futurebird, to random
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Homo naledi is the most interesting new human like primate. They are from South Africa, little people. walked upright, but primates walking upright goes way back.

They had hands just like modern humans but longish arms and powerful shoulders ... so they could probably zip up a tree.

They have small brains half modern size. This has made people astonished that they may have had fire.

I'm glad I'll never meet one, a smart little firebug with powerful arms sounds terrifying. 1/

llewelly,
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@futurebird there are 3 species of birds, the black kite (Milvus migrans), whistling kite (Haliastur sphenurus), and the brown falcon (Falco berigora), which are known to deliberately pick up burning branches, fly some distance, and spread them about to start new fires:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wildfires-birds-animals-australia

futurebird, to random
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It's the weekend and I get to catch up with my colonies and see what they've been up to all week. It's spring so they are very busy and VERY hungry. I need to order more feeders... why can't we have cicadas in NYC? That would be so helpful... I have thousands of hungry mandibles to feed a little gasters to fill and they are not patient.

I don't know why everyone doesn't have an ant colony. There's always something new going on in there.

llewelly,
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@futurebird
I can barely take care of an aging cat with a bad hip. If I had an ant colony, I'm sure they would escape and take over the world.

futurebird, to random
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"I should start writing my year end student reports." I think to myself... and so braced and alarmed by the earliness of this thought I decide to take the weekend off in celebration of daring to even think about planning so early.

(From the chronicle of common teacher mishaps.)

llewelly,
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@futurebird
there was a time in my life when I made todo lists on odd days. On even days, I would do the things on the todo list I'd made on the previous day, because doiing anything on the same day as a todo list was too exhausting.

these days, I wish I had that kind of energy.

ai6yr, to random

G4 now being observed. Wonder if there has been any terrestrial impacts yet. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

llewelly,
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@ai6yr
welp, since I need to stay properly informed by visiting their webpage, I guess I need to leave all my devices plugged in (no, I don't have any with useful battery power ) for now. Wish me luck. : )

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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No guess that fossil this week.
I went to the museum in today and am too tired to sort it out
Sorry.
Plus side, here's some holotype images for you :D

Ferrodraco skull
Ferrodraco neck and wing
Diamantinasaurus feet, legs, ribs

llewelly,
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@TheDinosaurDave @gay_ornithischians
funny, I was just thinking about how the humeri of Diamantinasaurus (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamantinasaurus#/media/File:Diamantinasaurus_humeri.png ) look almost as squat as the humerus of Opisthocoelicaudia (see https://svpow.com/2013/02/24/opisthocoelicaudia-is-just-plain-wrong/ ), at least to my uneducated eye.

ai6yr, to random

Ooooh, Ahhh.... 3664
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/sunspot-regions.html

llewelly,
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@ai6yr if you've a good pair of solar eclipse glasses that cluster is actually visible!

llewelly, to snails
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a snail that lives with ants??

" Allopeas myrmekophilos was regularly found in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda. The gastropods always remained inside the bivouacs of their hosts, where they were able to move around undisturbed by the ants. During emigrations A. myrmekophilos was always carried by workers in a manner identical to brood or prey items."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/PL00012646

unfortunately springer wants $40 for it!


futurebird, to random
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I keep this on the tutoring table in the math office so the kids know I’m not playing around. (it’s actually very useful when doing geometric constructions)

llewelly,
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@futurebird
clearly the best eraser when you need to take some math off paper.

(I imagine it would work for taking math off ice as well, but I've much less experience of relevance.)

futurebird, to random
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Everyone running around excited a non-human primate "used medicine to treat wounds"

I'm just over here looking at ants who have been doing this since before you were an inkling on the evolutionary tree and wondering what the big deal is.

Whatever it is ants did it first.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ants-can-diagnose-and-treat-their-comrades-infected-wounds-180983526/

llewelly,
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@futurebird
I've decided the next step in human evolution should be to just give up and trick ants into taking care of us, like that large blue butterfly or that snail I just posted about. Who needs x-men type powers when you can sit back and have ants bring you food and protect you?

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my thoughts on Reiner, A. 2023

(painting by Dylan Bajda, it has been cropped and vandalized for this post)

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians I don't even understand it. (Possibly it has something to do with movies, which I don't watch.)

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
Finally I'm trying to read the paper.

Figure 1a , "... a tree depicting the phylogeny of the cerebral cortex in placental mammals," seems to have been copied verbatim from a 2013 text which I can't read, but - why does it have a branch labeled "insectivores"? By 2013 it was known that insectivores were not a clade. Also, humans are great apes, and shouldn't be labeled as a separate branch.

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@gay_ornithischians
Maybe these are minor issues not germane to the course of the paper's arguments, but it makes me feel like reading the rest of the paper isn't worth it.

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
Latency affects how much time it takes for a correct solution to be found, but it doesn't affect what kinds of problems can be solved or the correctness of the answers. (Ironically, this is among the first things taught in indroductory computer sciences courses on algorithms, but nonetheless the computer industry has a fetish for speed, or at least the appearance thereof. )

futurebird, to random
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I've never been curious about the sex lives of famous people... or well anyone really who isn't... me. UH but if I were curious the people we seem to get to find out about ARE NOT the ones I'd pick. I'm just sayin.

llewelly,
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@futurebird
I wish the sex lives of famous people were never in the news. (Yes, I've heard all the pseudo-anthropological just-so stories about "why" they are news. )

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This one particular ant is driving me crazy!

llewelly,
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@futurebird
wasn't there a 1980s song about this ant? Released a few years after that Gibson novel you just re-read, if I recall correctly.

futurebird, to random
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For a long time I've wanted to make a GPS gardening game (for health!) plant virtual plants in real locations & walk back later to harvest them. Basically "farmeville Go"

The big stumbling block? Farming games need a ton of little plant icons and I'm a slow and not very good graphic designer.

Could procedurally generated sprites be the answer to my laziness?

Maybe?

I like this, but I also think part of the fun of a farming game is the graphics...seeing what grows ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZfgKd5QeGc

llewelly,
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@futurebird there's a whole genre of games which are "manage government policies to combat fossil-fuel-driven global warming". I've never played any of them; the genre developed after my love for games was killed. But the same principles could be applied to a game about managing a garden, or a game about replanting a wildlife conservation area.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Math puzzle.

θ an angle in radians
b is a length associated with θ
there is a circle

What area is A=[θbb]/[8sin(θ/2)sin(θ/2)] ?

llewelly,
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@futurebird
the numerator is clearly the area of a portion of pizza. The denominator is a trap to keep the unwary confused and befuddled while ants steal the pizza.

ai6yr, to Software

😅BBC: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs😭
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

llewelly,
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@ai6yr
The mad characters of software have escaped to the world of flesh, where they wreak havoc without bound!

futurebird, to random
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I wish the meter long beetles were real. Why can't I live in the world where they are?

:(

llewelly,
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@futurebird I want Arthropleura, the 2 meter millipede, back.

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The disturbing thing about ant technology is it's all ants.

The fridge? It's an ant.
Your tank? It's an ant.
Your boat? It's you, and other ants.
Your house? The walls are ants.
Your weed control for your garden? Tiny ants?
Your glue gun? It's an ant (a baby ant!)

So advanced high tech ants would have ant guns, and ant spaceships. Advanced ants would have ant computers for ants, made of ants. Advanced ants would have ants for storing data.

And ant bombs.

Wait! Those already exist!

llewelly,
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@futurebird when I was a child, one of my favorite novels where the Harry Harrison series that begins with West of Eden. In that novel, the Yilane do everyhing with genetically modified organisms; ocean craft are genetically modified ichthyosaurs, conversations are recorded by genetically modified frogs, cities are housed in giant genetically modified trees, and so on. It would be wonderful to re-envision this with ants.

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