adamjcook

@adamjcook@mastodon.social

Engineer focused on #Robotics, #ControlSystems, #SystemsSafety, #Manufacturing and #Simulation. #ManufacturingOpen Contributor. #Purdue Engineering alum. Living in #Detroit. He/Him.
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davbatz, to random
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Good Morning! On this day, (Thursday) May 11 in 1906 Jaqueline Cochran was born. She was an American pilot and business executive. She pioneered women's aviation as one of the most prominent racing pilots of her generation. She set numerous records and broke the sound barrier.

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BPV500, to random

The opener has been revealed with the going to the on day one.

are immediately thrust into the limelight. Clearly the NFL schedule makers feel like is going to have a solid year this year and give a go.

blkgoddess, to random

Can everyone go vote this photo up of my best friends cat? We’re trying to win a cash prize to help us pay for the bed I need for my pressure sores https://www.photocrowd.com/photo-competitions/our-amazing-pets-pets-photo-contest-16352/entries/chillin-like-a-villain-8482541.81277d5a4/

anildash, to random
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Okay, everybody tell us what your favorite file type is.

kbroman, to random
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new sweatshirt, “rage against the machine learning”

rober, to random
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https://mastodon.lol has already shut down, but it didn't shut down cleanly (it didn't send a request to other servers to purge its content).

It seems that we the admins will need to manually purge its content from our servers, so not only remote media and posts are deleted, but also accounts and posts interacted with.

BruceMirken, to random
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Number of U.S. children killed by so far in 2023: 619

Number of U.S. children killed by so far in 2023: 0

This has been a public service announcement.

MarkOnArt, to animals

Happy from my little clowder!

The past several months have been leaner than usual. I set up a Ko-Fi account, etc. but it's difficult for me to share that. I'd rather people get prints but I understand too well the $$ issue there. That was what led me do something small specifically for mobile wallpaper - a win-win if you like this, you can get something and support what I do.

On Etsy Here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1476762133/white-cat-starry-night-art-for-mobile

Mockup of an iPhone sitting on a light colored wooden countertop. The phone is displaying art that depicts a fluffy white cat on a starry night sky background.

WideAperture, to random

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    rodhilton, to random
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    The constant-threats-to-defederate thing is going to kill this place, seriously.

    Defederating an instance is an extreme measure and it should only be taken in extreme circumstances.

    Finding out I might stop getting posts from people I explicitly follow because they happen to be on an instance being defederated by mine all because a bunch of admins I don't know got in a spat over a user I don't follow is just about the most annoying value proposition imaginable.

    https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110317006852580015

    breadandcircuses, to climate

    It can be argued that electric vehicles are an improvement when replacing ICE vehicles.

    But that misses a much bigger point — which is that the very best car is not an electric car. The very best car is no car at all!

    Building electric cars requires massive use of fossil fuels, including petrochemicals for the manufacture of plastics. In addition, mining of lithium for batteries as well as trawling for other minerals in the deep ocean is environmentally disastrous, killing biodiversity while polluting our water, soil, and air.

    LITHIUM EXTRACTION — https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-lithium-fields-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future

    DEEP-SEA MINING — https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/109814016209990908

    The kind of “Green Growth” championed by capitalists and politicians, which features more electric cars, a bit of solar, and a few wind farms — along with continued use of fossil fuels — is not a good answer. It does not solve any of our problems, and in fact only makes them worse.

    Say NO to more cars, of any kind. Push instead for active transportation and for improved public transit.

    Continued economic growth is unsustainable. Period. The only logical choice for us and for the biosphere is de-growth.

    breadandcircuses,

    I like this quote:

    “The problem is that electric cars are popular with politicians precisely because they provide an excuse to avoid doing harder things, like rebuilding our cities, or changing the habits of lifetimes. Persuading people to switch from their old gasoline car to a shiny Tesla is much easier than persuading them that they can live without a car. Hence governments are pushing electric cars, often with incentives that make no sense.” - Daniel Knowles, author of Carmageddon

    i0null, to random

    from 🐣 import 🐤

    ducklings jumping in a small frustum-shaped metallic water bucket

    kink, to random

    #TransRightsAreHumanRights

    ed_hawkins, to random
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    Three years ago there were 65,000 sheets of paper containing hand-written measurements of rainfall taken all across the UK & Ireland before 1960.

    Virtually all of the 5.28 million observations on these sheets were unavailable to climate scientists as they had never been digitised.

    ed_hawkins,
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    Thanks to the Met Office archives, these sheets were scanned & made openly available, but how could the observations be extracted?

    The answer? Ask for help: https://bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52040822

    16,000 volunteers stepped forward during the first UK COVID lockdown to transcribe every observation.

    ed_hawkins,
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    We have now released v2.0 of the resulting quality-controlled dataset, thanks to the continued efforts of a small team of volunteers.

    Now available: 4944258 monthly rainfall amounts from more than 15,000 locations across the UK!

    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7554242

    omi_geek, to photography Japanese
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    It was a snowy night in Kyoto, with countless footprints on the stairs. #写真

    olsonexi, to random

    log(😅) =💧log(😄)

    davidho, to random
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    What people think do at work.

    Man throwing a rugby ball and playing fetch with a beluga whale named Hvaldimir. No, seriously.

    aby, to random
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    Sometimes it's just about the hugs..

    RebeccaRHelm, to random

    EXTREMELY RARE footage of the elusive box jellyfish Chirodectes. Larger than a soccer ball, this jelly is a true ocean mystery, and this video is one of the only in existence, filmed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2021.
    📽️Scuba Ventures Kavieng bit.ly/3FE29tL

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    ADDiane, to random
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    Stop hating on lazy people. We didn't even do anything.

    anuckols, to random
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    "The bicycle as we know it today, with two similarly sized wheels and a chain drive system, was originally commercialized by John Starley and William Sutton in 1885. And since then, nothing better has been invented in terms of energy efficient travel."

    https://twitter.com/StatistaCharts/status/1590993438954389504

    shauna, to random
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    I'm going to make a thread to share links, videos, articles, etc.

    I'll start off with this short-ish (25 minute) video on Fast Fourier Transforms. It had a reasonably accessible explanation of the algorithm itself, but what I found really interesting was its political history, and how it impacted the nuclear arms race.

    https://youtu.be/nmgFG7PUHfo

    thepoliticalcat, to random
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    Newbies, Twitfugees, etc. Please, check the hashtag (should be in your right hand panel under Mastodon) regularly. Your sysadmin posts messages about functionality there. Most importantly, posts from the FediVerse that are gaining traction on your server show up there. Check it out!

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