SoftwareTheron

@SoftwareTheron@mas.to

"Woke", IIUC. Brit. Born at 318ppm; now well into the Oops phase.
Aging gracelessly.

#WearAMask #birds #climate #bass
#TwitterMigrant

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lilithsaintcrow, to random
@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com avatar

Well, THE HIGHLANDS WAR has broken 100k words. Only 50-60k left to go.

various sobbing noises

SoftwareTheron,

@lilithsaintcrow
It's at least as scared of you as you are of it.

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

OK this might be the right idea. You fill it with books, they don't get dusty... they go in the closet or deep in some storage nook.

Then in 15 years you can look at them and maybe part with a few... I can do this!

SoftwareTheron,

@futurebird
Excellent idea! From where, please?

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

SoftwareTheron,

@RickiTarr
Just to make this a more practical argument, could you clarify which country this data is for, please?

SoftwareTheron,

@rrb @RickiTarr
Indeed I didn't, and I do not know what the answer is. I can -guess-, but that isn't always a help. I'll work it out.

rysiek, to random
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

"S" in "LLM" stands for "Secure"

SoftwareTheron,

@rysiek
And the "H" stands for "Accurate".

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

It still tickles me that the TERFS and Transphobes tried to claim Terry Pratchett as their own, and everyone who actually knew him, including his daughter, and co-author Neil Gaiman, was like WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, you couldn't be further from the truth.

SoftwareTheron,

@RickiTarr
"Tickles" isn't the word I'd use. That much arrogance... "offends and frightens" covers it, I think.

SoftwareTheron, to random

Solar panels question:
How resilient are they in the face of a Carrington Event?

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

#WhoopingCough: five babies in England die after diagnosis, say officials - https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/09/whooping-cough-five-babies-england-die I imagine these are likely to be as a result of #antivaxxer nutters refusing to vaccinate their children...

SoftwareTheron,

@glynmoody
... or their contacts with other babies whose parents have assumed it's not needed or fallen through the cracks.

SoftwareTheron, to random
eclectech, to movies
@eclectech@things.uk avatar

Wondering about how JAWS would have been presented, if it was a large knitted chicken instead of a deadly shark.

SoftwareTheron,

@eclectech
bok bok bok bok bok bok bok bok
BOK BOK BOK BOK BOK BOK BOK BOK
BOKBOKBOKBOKBOKBOKBOKBOK ...

mxtthxw, to music
@mxtthxw@mxtthxw.art avatar

Even though this sounds ragedy as fuck, I'm happy how it's turned up, I don't really want to mess with it for risk of making it suck and miss the point completely. Too much delay, too much distortion. Cool.

I'd describe as dark, brooding, psychedelia melting down over militant drum machines. If that's your bag, feel free to load up.

https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/2yL3w37g2PDjxkQWK8WYAD

SoftwareTheron,

@mxtthxw

"An error occurred during a connection to video.mxtthxw.art. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

Error code: PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem."

?

GrittyLipids, to random
@GrittyLipids@c.im avatar

Off the top of my head I don’t remember how much the book of talks about the Harkonnen use of gladiatorial combat, but the movie draws a relatively subtle link between their idea of it and bullfighting - the guys in the wide black hats are like picadors, who stab the bull with lances to weaken it. I’ll avoid spoilers on a 60-year-old book or the new movie, but it’s a fun subtle thing.


-fi

SoftwareTheron,

@GrittyLipids
The impression I have is that it's not just the Harkonnen; it appears to be normal in Imperial high society to challenge. Count Fenring is (tacitly) the emperor's champion and (an?) ambassador and has an appallingly lethal reputation; if he challenges you it's effectively an Imperial death sentence.

SoftwareTheron,

@GrittyLipids
Ah OK, thank you. Pretty sure the bullfighting is offstage in the book, if it's there at all; maybe mentioned in passing. No idea about the films.

SoftwareTheron,

@GrittyLipids @bookstodon
Damn, I think that's right. The Shadout Mapes wants to clean the blood off the horns of the bull's head. I'd entirely forgotten. Cheers!
(FWIW, I re-read Children and Chapterhouse recently. Not worth while, IMO; very much less interesting than I remembered. No bullfighting in either.)

SoftwareTheron,

@GrittyLipids @bookstodon
I suppose there is a little nod at bullfighting in the way Herbert describes using hooks on a worm to force it to stay on the surface, as well. I'd missed that.

YusufToropov, to random
@YusufToropov@toot.community avatar

So @GottaLaff just coined for and I think we all have a civic duty to make that hashtag trend. So I humbly ask you to boost this message and use that hashtag as often as possible.

SoftwareTheron,

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @YusufToropov @GottaLaff
And his unpronounceable contributions to American English.

FantasticalEconomics, to random
@FantasticalEconomics@geekdom.social avatar

Anyone who says we cannot afford to stop climate change is lying to you.

A new study estimates that a 20% reduction in CO2 will cost a whopping 2% of GDP.

Shuuttering companies that have the highest CO2 per economic impact (rather than merely focusing on most CO2) helps lead to these large restrictions at incredibly reasonable costs.

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-emissions-economic-loss.html

1/2

SoftwareTheron,

@FantasticalEconomics
anyone who says that has entirely failed to notice that having the entire economy collapse is expensive.

NickEast, to books
@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar

Old sci-fi authors out there just having high hopes for a living... 😂

@scifi @speculativefictioncomedy @writers @humour @bookstodon



SoftwareTheron,

@khleedril @NickEast @scifi @speculativefictioncomedy @writers @humour @bookstodon

I remember that. When I was about 20 I thought about it, and observed that I'd be 38 in 2000. Which at the time was so far out of my headspace, I saw absolutely no way to understand it - much less influence it or decide what I wanted it to look like.

Rasta, to music
@Rasta@mstdn.ca avatar

Young Johnnie Jones he had a cute little boat.
And all the girlies he would take for a float.
He had girlies on the shore, sweet little peaches by the score. ♪
But Johnnie was a Weisenheimer you know,
His steady girl was Flo and ev’ry Sunday afternoon
She’d jump in his boat and they would spoon.
and then he'd ♫ Row Row Row ♫

Patti Page (1940)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cz92GzEt2I
(orig 1914)

I knew most of TInPanAlley songs when I was 10. Ragtime, War Ditties

SoftwareTheron,

@Rasta @ddmgmgh
In the UK, the British Legion. And there are independent ex-servicemen's clubs here and there - about which I know nothing except that they exist.

AnarchoCatgirlism, to Astronomy

Don’t fuck with moon dust. No seriously, do not fuck with moon dust.

Absent any moisture or atmosphere, millennia of asteroid impacts have turned lunar regolith (soil) into a fine powder of razor sharp, glass-like particles. What’s more, the solar wind imparts an electric charge on the dust, causing it to cling to any and every surface it touches through static electricity. On earth, sand tends to get smoother over time as wind and water tumble the grains about, eroding their sharpness. Not so on the moon – lunar dust is sharp and deadly. This is Not A Good Time if you’re an explorer looking to visit our celestial neighbor.

During Apollo, the astronauts faced a plethora of unexpected issues caused by dust. It clung to spacesuits and darkened them enough that exposure to sunlight overheated the life support systems. Dust got in suit joints and on suit visors, damaging them. It ate away layers of boot lining. It covered cameras. Upon returning to the cabin, astronauts attempting to brush it off damaged their suit fabric and sent the dust airborne, where it remained suspended in the air due to low gravity.

Inhaling moon dust causes mucus membranes to swell; every Apollo astronaut who stepped foot on the moon reported symptoms of “Lunar Hay Fever.” Sneezing, congestion, and a “smell of burnt gunpowder” took days to subside. Later Apollo missions even sent a special dust brush with the team to help clean each other and equipment. We don’t know exactly how dangerous the stuff is, but lunar regolith simulants suggest it might destroy lung and brain cells with long-term exposure. 1

In fact the dust is so nasty that it destroyed the vacuum seals of sample return containers. We no longer have any accurate samples of lunar dust, “Every sample brought back from the moon has been contaminated by Earth’s air and humidity […] The chemical and electrostatic properties of the soil no longer match what future astronauts will encounter on the moon.” 2

Whats worse, the solar-charged dust gets thrown up off the moon’s surface via electrostatic forces. The moon doesn’t technically have an atmosphere, but it does have a thin cloud of sharp dust itching to cling to anything it can find.

And it probably isn’t just the moon. “A 2005 NASA study listed 20 risks that required further study before humans should commit to a human Mars expedition, and ranked "dust" as the number one challenge.” 3

The coolest solution I’ve heard about in next-gen spacesuit design is a mesh of woven wires layered into the suit. When activated, the wire mesh would form an anti-static electric field that repels dust. Quite literally a force field. 4
#astronomy #apollo #moon #lunardust

SoftwareTheron,

@hosford42 @linglingo @isomeme @inthehands @AnarchoCatgirlism
Bad assumptions tend to get bad results.

SoftwareTheron,

@hosford42 @linglingo @isomeme @inthehands @AnarchoCatgirlism
It's the assumption of agency I have a problem with. That's implicit in the phrasing.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs@kolektiva.social avatar

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    SoftwareTheron,

    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs

    Oh. Ooh.

    <lightbulb>

    I'd not seen it as a move explicitly intended for GOP internal politics before. Thank you!

    SoftwareTheron,

    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs
    That's the obvious reason, and I have no doubt it's the reason it passed. But I wonder who was behind it, and why it appeared now.

    SoftwareTheron,

    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs
    Okay, thank you. I still think it's a useful attack meme, but your understanding is better than mine.

    tokensane, to random
    @tokensane@mastodon.me.uk avatar

    Souls are indivisible, and only death separates soul from body, right?

    So if an acquires a at the instant of conception, what about identical twins, formed when an embryo splits in two? Do they share a soul, or is one of them a soulless monster? OTOH, what about chimeras, formed when two embryos fuse, so that the resulting baby is a patchwork of cells from both? Two souls in one individual? Or what happens to the other soul?

    And then there are siamese twins...

    SoftwareTheron,

    @tokensane
    There is also the related question of sex and gender. Does a soul have a sex? Presumably not, since it's not part of the body.

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