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parismarx, to tech
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African AI workers, mostly from Kenya, released an open letter to Joe Biden this week asking him stop US tech companies from “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers” and to end the “modern day slavery” they’re subjected to.

https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/

llewelly, to random
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google 15 years ago: "We're using machine learning to fight the spam industry"

google today: "We're using machine learning to be the spam industry"

evangreer, to random
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Alright, it's official. The dangerous & misguided Kids Online Safety Act () will go to a "mark up" vote in the House Energy & Commerce Committee this morning, Thursday, May 23. THIS IS JUST A SUBCOMMITTEE VOTE. WE CAN STILL STOP OR FIX THIS BILL! https://www.stopkosa.com

whatthetrans, to random
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If I was organising a pride event for June. I'd start looking at setting up stalls to get people registered to vote.

Any pride event that doesn't do this would be shooting themselves in the foot.

MesozoicMind, to random
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Saw a Milksnake today on my walk, on absndomed rails near my home. It was defensive, but I tried not to disturb it any further.

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MesozoicMind,
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Also, I saw a plover not too far from it.

futurebird, to random
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Do you like parasites? Or dislike them but can't stop learning about them? The worst ones are in the sea. Makes all of the parasitoid wasp stuff seem tame! There are worse fates than being paralyzed and fed to a hungry larvae who eats your organs selectively so you live longer.

Here is a great video. It is very gross. But it's cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qZQ2wcQY3o

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john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Hesperornis regalis" — 2015

Hepserornis regalis, the Late Cretaceous toothy marine bird, takes to the sea.

https://johnconway.art/hesperornis-regalis

futurebird, to random
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Every day is Leg Day with Dirhinus! This is a parasitoid wasp. They lay their eggs in the pupae of flies, often flies that are found on corpses (including human corpses, making them forensically significant.)

Wasps are distant cousins of ants, and you can see something of the ant her... and something of the alien. Why is her head like that?

Her big back legs have a retractable tarsus so they can be used as prongs when injecting an egg into a fly pupae.

Showing how the tarus of the back leg can retract into the big shiny club like "thighs" This is a Dirhinus found in East Africa. They are found all over the world.
Front view. A very alien face. Big bug eyes. chubby antennae. small dainty mandibles. The taco grove can also be seen from this angle.
Thomas Shahan photo of the dorsal view. Showing the grove in the front of the head like a taco shell. The antenae can be tucked away into this grove.

KanaMauna, to Bloomscrolling
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Purple flowers
White and purple geraniums
Purple hydrangeas

llewelly, to random
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actually, neurotypicals only want to talk about the weather until you start talking about all the myriad ways weather is being altered by fossil-fuel driven global warming.

gay_ornithischians, to random
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friends do you think "animals" in the tetrapod size range that had hydaulic driven limbs would be too heavy to evolve flapping flight of the type seen in birds, bats and pterosaurs?

llewelly,
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@gay_ornithischians
I'm not a biomechanicist, but I don't see any reason the limits for hydraulic driven limbs would be greatly different than those for typical vertebrate muscles.

futurebird, to random
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A benefit of giving my Camponotus nicobarensis colony a room with dirt to play in has been finding out that they will quickly bury large food items. I gave them a huge dubia this morning... which normally would keep them busy for about two days, in an hour it disappeared it into the ground.

I'm glad I can feed them in a space with a hard surface too... since if they bury food it will be hard to know when they have eaten it all. (which can make the tank too dirty)

Still I'm amazed!

futurebird,
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They dug a pit under it, then it sunk down... then they tugged it off into a side tunnel.

I want my funeral to work like that. It was awesome.

In a few days I'll try to get a time-lapse of them doing this... if I can just keep them from sticking dirt on the the front glass... this is why I didn't want to give them dirt. They are very creative and have made all sorts of abstract mud sculptures and curvilinear forms tufted with moss. Who knows what lurks in the ant mind!

futurebird, to random
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I just got my fixie out of the shop and was able to ride it again. I forgot how much I loved this bike. When I went to pick it up the bike shop guy was like "um did you know one of your tires is off of a wheel chair?"

... I did not... but I guess it was strange that it was gray. I used to get my bike fixed by a guy in the park who worked out of his van BEST prices in the city. ... but yeah, IDK where he got his parts... LMAO

I almost wish I could be a messenger again. It was a life.

jayrockin, to random
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This week on Runaway to the Stars. The sapient computer tells Talita to quit her job; the bug ferrets drive a human forklift and violate space OSHA regulations.

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin

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punkpaleo, to random
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A loose study of Soldat und Tod by Hans Larwin, featuring a younger, alive version of Tobias, my undead gunslinger. During his time in the military, he went on his fair share of missions, none of them with goals he believed in.

BobNicholls, to art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some extinct things that liked to be wet, for the University of Glasgow, back in 2007.

BobNicholls, to JurassicPark
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Just a reminder that Triceratops is amazing...

#Fossils #Dinosaurs #Triceratops #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

sinequalis, to random Korean
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Pteranodon sternbergi

futurebird, to random
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From: https://www.instagram.com/matrondesign/?hl=en

Thing is, centipedes are famously fastidious. They wash every single leg multiple times a day and seem rather like a very leggy cat while doing it.

Perhaps it's because they are predators. Predators seem to tend to be into washing up more.

(I know it's a millipede in the cartoon, but that just makes it funnier since the centipede would roll their eyes at the complaining. )

futurebird,
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If you want to watch a centipede cleaning up well here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyfivql1V-A&t=25s

futurebird,
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@qurlyjoe

If you want a good video on this Deep Look did one of the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2RtbP1d7Kg

futurebird, to random
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I filmed this two years ago, and the short video has become pretty popular. People are surprised that ants do this. Though to me it seems a general extension of their endless fussing over pupae... cleaning them and even biting them if they start developing into queens when queens are not wanted.

https://www.tumblr.com/futurebird/687533053186326528/harvester-ants-render-first-aid-for-their-pupating

AdamStuartSmith, to random
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Our T. rex looks odd on stilts...

But we'll soon be installing a new base below the T. rex, plus a whole new gallery surrounding the skeleton.

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