josh

josh, 6 months ago to Birds

I spent the evening with about 8000 sandhill cranes in the Kankakee Marsh. Here’s a few of them (sound up!) #birds #birdsofmastodon #birding

https://youtu.be/adkF6Ohk0Kg?si=tFRkNfdsxhdqMvgp

josh, 6 months ago to random

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/adtech-surveillance-and-government-surveillance-are-often-same-surveillance

josh, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Late night at the office on Halloween. All work and something something

josh, 6 months ago to random

“Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI). The order includes many principles that the Center for American Progress has been calling for since April, including an all-of-government approach to AI that encompasses the framework of the 2022 AI Bill of Rights. Alondra Nelson, senior fellow at CAP who previously played a leading role in developing the AI Bill of Rights, issued the following statement:”

https://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement-caps-alondra-nelson-praises-executive-order-on-artificial-intelligence/

josh, 6 months ago to random

Well this was a surprise transition from the credits of Pride and Prejudice

josh, 6 months ago to random

A function of legal cannabis in every surrounding state is planes towing weed adverts

Out on the edge of darkness
There rides the weed plane
Weed plane take this country
Come take me home again
Weed plane sounding louder
Glide on the weed plane
Ooh-ah ee-ah ooh-ah
Come on now weed plane
Yes weed plane holy roller
Everyone jump upon the weed plane
Ooh-ah ee-ah ooh-ah
Come on now weed plane
Get your bags together
Go bring your good friends too
Because it's getting nearer
It soon will be with you

DSAArchaeology, 7 months ago to random

All the dirt!

josh, 7 months ago to random

Just saw this #QGIS plugin for ChatGPT control of the GUI interface. I don't have time to mess with this right now. Has anybody tried this yet? #GIS #GISChat #Geospatial

https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgpt_agent_release/

https://github.com/momaabna/QGPTAgent

ryanschultz, 7 months ago to random

Okay, I just came across this on Reddit and I need to find a place to use it as soon as possible!

So let's start a thread: What deserves tens across the board??

video/mp4

josh, 7 months ago to random

Chimichurri steak night.

A plate with a sliced steak with chimichurri sauce on top, a small dab of aioli to the side, and some romaine lettuce with tomatoes and cucumbers in the background.

design_law, 7 months ago to movies

Request for recommendations: What are three #movies that would be fun to watch together? It doesn't have to be a formal trilogy (though I'd be interested in suggestions for trilogies from outside the U.S.). Could be variations on a theme, best works of a favorite director/actor, etc. Thanks in advance!

museumphile, 7 months ago to random

Why Do We Listen to Sad Songs?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/science/behavior-music-sadness.html

bkeegan, 7 months ago to random Spanish

I spent more on a breakfast burrito last weekend than Visa did on Twitter ads over the past 12 weeks. https://boingboing.net/2023/10/06/twitter-ad-numbers-plummet-visa-bought-just-10-in-ads-in-last-12-weeks-according-to-report.html/amp

josh, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Diagram of STSNW Subspace Rhapsody:

1. Epic tragedy as Kirk’s nascent romance with La’an Noonien-Singh is dampened by his relationship with Carol Marcus who is pregnant with Kirk’s son David who will be murdered 30 years later by Klingons as a result of events precipitated by LNS’s distant ancestor Khan.

2. Glad to see the Heisenberg compensators getting some screen time.

3. Uhura! Uhura!!!

danhon, 7 months ago to random

Sufficiently large text-based social networks with feeds are basically mst3k for stuff that's happening?

josh, 7 months ago to Archaeology

220(!) authors work together to LIDAR the Amazonian rain forest and develop a predictive model for presence of earthworks. Astounding.

#archaeology #anthropology

Peripato et al., "More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia." Science382,103-109(2023).

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.ade2541

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josh, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Archaeology

Multiple lines of new evidence support continue to support conclusion of humans in Pleistocene New Mexico ~22,000 years ago

Pigati et al., "Independent age estimates resolve the controversy of ancient human footprints at White Sands." Science382,73-75(2023).

#archaeology #anthropology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh5007

josh, 7 months ago to random

Some interesting results and commentary here at the halfway mark in this completely nonscientific convenience survey. Reported use of mobile Mastodon is highly dissected. IceCubes, FediLab, and Elk seem to dominate the "other" category about equally.

https://fediscience.org/@josh/111180036850854830

josh, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

I find my best mobile Mastodon experience is in a mobile browser (usually Firefox). I find it just as easy to navigate as any app and I also have access to all my lists and settings. I just reloaded the apps this evening to see if I felt improvement (I did not).

What’s your preferred mode of mobile Mastodon? Feel free to add details in the replies.

josh, 7 months ago to random

Enjoyable evening watching #STSNW … this crossover episode with Lower Decks is comic genius

josh, 7 months ago to random

This is an incredibly damning piece about administrative failures in academia and the persistent brilliance of Nobel Prize winner Katalin Kariko. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

KimTallBear, 7 months ago to random

today my mastodon feed feels like the kind of feed i want. lots of interesting news on Indigenous issues, environment, and science. i think i'm gonna stick with this one. One month off twitter, and no regrets.

i have yet to have a troll here, but when i do, i retain my twitter skills for that.