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UP8

@UP8@mastodon.social

Software developer at a major research university. I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY.

Experienced in e-commerce, e-publishing, search, A.I. and other data-rich systems. Current side projects involve modelling financial messages in OWL, a smart RSS reader with a transformer-based classifier and workflow engine, and a system of three-sided cards.

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UP8, to food
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🧑‍🌾 Bangladeshi farmers find zucchini’s high yields & low costs palatable

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/bangladeshi-farmers-find-zucchinis-high-yields-low-costs-palatable/

#food #agriculture #zucchini #Bangladesh

UP8, to skateboarding
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🛹Skateboarding’s Latest Trick: Reviving Cities

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/cities-skateboarding-public-spaces/

UP8, to Japan
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🗡️ How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/09/japan/history/nara-ancient-tomb/

UP8, to IT
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🫥 Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

UP8, to animals
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🐬 We’ll Get You Out of Here—Just Follow the Sound of My Voice

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/well-get-you-out-of-here-just-follow-the-sound-of-my-voice/

#whales #animals #ocean #conservation #alaska #goodnews

UP8, to Japan
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🦋 Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/02/harajuku-change/

UP8, to Electronics
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🚧 How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-billion-semiconductor

#semiconductors #electronics #business #investment #construction #technology

UP8, to NFL
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🏈 NFL draft pool shrinks as NIL money entices more players to stay in school

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024/04/25/more-sports/nfl-draft-nil-money/

#nfl #sports #football #americanfootball #nfldraft

UP8, to ocean
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🐟 Alaska has a plan to save its salmon but some Native leaders are wary

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/28/alaska-salmon-conservation-native-indigenous

UP8, to Futurology
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🐀 Scientists regenerate neural pathways in mice with cells from rats

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-regenerate-neural-pathways-mice.html

UP8, to Mexico
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🫐 Mexico’s Floating Gardens Are an Ancient Wonder of Sustainable Farming

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/mexico-chinampas-floating-gardens-sustainable-farming/

UP8, to politics
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🍺 Class Dealignment Is the Defining Political Challenge of Our Time

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/class-dealignment-democrats-trump-biden/

#politics #socialism #left #class #inequality #publicopinion #politicalscience

UP8, to Futurology
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🦠 The GMO tooth microbe that is supposed to prevent cavities

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2018793

UP8, to Football
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🏈 Japanese NFL hopeful gets dream chance on football field in U.K.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024/04/17/more-sports/nfl-academy-ryoma-shimoseki/

vicgrinberg, to Astro
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I just love this image - it highlights why we need all the different telescopes: each of them looks at the same object in different ways. And only when working together a complete image emerges.

Here, 's wide field is combined with 's zoom-in and sharpest IR image we ever obtained, allowing us to study how radiation interacts with interstellar matter.

More here and in the linked articles: ▶️ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/04/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail

UP8,
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@vicgrinberg that last shot is particularly lovely to me in that I can make out so many galaxies in the background

UP8, to linux
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🛸 Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2019282

UP8, to television
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📺 Into the Tubi-Verse

(... it's like as cable died and went to heaven: multiple MTV branded channels really play new and old music videos)

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2024/4/17/24132371/tubi-streaming-service-explained

UP8, to climate
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🧮 Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2018002

UP8, to space
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🛸 NASA technology helps guard against lunar dust

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-nasa-technology-lunar.html

UP8, to Netflix
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💰 Password crackdown leads to more income for Netflix

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2018618

UP8, to literature
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🖊️ Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

https://lithub.com/cutting-class-on-the-myth-of-the-middle-class-writer/

#literature #writing #class #inequality

UP8, to nyc
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🔋 FDNY Makes First Ever Criminal Arrest of E-Bike Shop Owner for Allegedly Selling Illegal Batteries

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/04/12/ebike-fire-department-arrest-battery-first/

UP8, to Sports
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Daniel Cohen Pitcher No 25 from Yale plays Cornell on April 21, 2024 at Cornell's (brand new) Booth Field

... it was a cold day so I left early which was a bit of a mistake because I missed some action in the last few innings.

UP8, to Sports
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🏃‍♀️ Is this the dawn of a new era in women’s sports?

https://theconversation.com/is-this-the-dawn-of-a-new-era-in-womens-sports-227216

UP8, to nyc
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🚌 New York City greenlights congestion pricing – here’s how this toll plan is expected to improve traffic, air quality and public transit

https://theconversation.com/new-york-city-greenlights-congestion-pricing-heres-how-this-toll-plan-is-expected-to-improve-traffic-air-quality-and-public-transit-227103

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