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futurebird, to random
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I didn't understand those acrylic keyboard covers. But through the power of advertising I think I get it now.

llewelly,
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@spacehobo @futurebird @dell
the cat
sat on the control board
for the warp core
slid sliders with their feet
and the board warped away
taking kitty
far away
on an odyssey

coreyspowell, to space
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Sometimes the best way to understand the universe is to listen to it. A new project called HARP invites volunteers to listen to sonified data to decode the complex interaction between the Sun & Earth's magnetic field.
https://eos.org/articles/eavesdropping-on-the-vibrations-of-earths-magnetic-bubble

Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) is a NASA-funded pilot study to engage Citizen Scientists in space science research. HARP will develop a web-based interface to facilitate analysis of spacecraft data converted into sound (audification). It expands upon the MUSICS project (Magnetospheric Undulations Sonified Incorporating Citizen Scientists) led by Dr. Martin Archer, where similar work by high school students in the UK led to the discovery of a new type of plasma wave pattern, published in the journal Space Weather.

llewelly,
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@coreyspowell
...

why did they name it HARP?

are they trolling all the people who have bizarre and false beliefs about HAARP, the University of Alaska Fairbanks ionosphere research?

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    llewelly,
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    @Teri_Kanefield
    this:
    "Activity Pub has been modified to allow regular WordPress websites, to join the fediverse."
    needs a small fix:

    ActivityPub didn't need any modification to support wordpress. Instead, wordpress is developing a plugin that supports ActivityPub.

    That's the point of a standardized protocol like ActivityPub; it's somewhat like a language; you don't change ActivityPub to suit a specific thing like wordpress, just like you don't change English to suit a single person. 1/2

    llewelly,
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    @Teri_Kanefield
    That's definitely better. Although, I think it's still in beta, meaning it's incomplete (and people with typical wordpress accounts either can't or won't use it yet).

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

    lists it as beta.

    futurebird, to random
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    A particularly annoying weird conservative professor in the philosophy department at the college I went to was very proud of this marshmallow he kept on a shelf in his office. He was obsessed with research related to how well kids do on “the marshmallow test” as a predictor of monetary success in life. (the correlation is real; what it means? a whole other story.) I think about how stale that marshmallow must be after all those years- I wonder if he ever ate it? Did it turn to dust in his mouth?

    llewelly,
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    @futurebird
    as a child I ate enough stale candy to learn that stale marshmallows are just dry ... and nicely crunchy but not too hard. Delicious, actually, far superior to fresh. But you don't need to wait 20 years for them to get that way; just buy some smol fun-size marshmallows, and put them in a food dryer for a few.

    futurebird, to random
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    I’m super proud of my any foraging automaton code! it’s nothing new or earth shattering BUT I was able to recreate the program described in “Swarm Intelligence” (Bonabeau Dorigo Theraulaz) and get the ants to mark stable trails and expose the emergent strategies induced by different patterns of food dispersal!

    Now I just need to:
    -make it in java too not just python
    -get the graphics hooked up with tkinter

    llewelly,
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    @futurebird
    I was going to say, "actually, more than half a century old" because Conway's game of life was made in 1970, but then I looked it up on wikipedia, and the basics of cellular automata are older and probably go back to the 1940s at least, involving Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann.

    dtauvdiodr, to random

    Those terrifying 45 seconds waiting to see if my speed-eater kitty decides to immediately puke up her dinner.

    llewelly,
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    @dtauvdiodr
    my cat will occasionally eat too fast and puke up her dinner. So I portion it out 1/8 cup (about 30 cubic centimeters) at a time, and that usually suffices to prevent the problem.

    futurebird, to random
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    I make fun of Pica for desperately begging every day to go out on the roof garden to… IDK sniff plants? I don’t know what her 3min of puttering around accomplishes. (?) But, am i any better? “checking on my garden” feel like a serious farmer! I could feed our family for … hours!

    Today? excitement! a grackle spotted Pica & DID NOT like her. bird starts throwing a fit! cawing, dancing with a grub in its mouth! Were I a bird I don’t think I’d like Pica either.

    llewelly,
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    @futurebird birb think pica steal snack

    Sheril, to science
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    What's the world's deadliest animal?

    The answer may surprise you. https://www.gatesnotes.com/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquito-Week

    llewelly,
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    @Sheril
    "snake" lumps together huge numbers of species, many of them not closely related.

    "mosquito", likewise, lumps together huge numbers of species, many of them not closely related.

    by contrast, "dog" is only one species, as is "human".

    TheDinosaurDave, (edited ) to random
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    You are starting your own Jurassic Park, on your own private island.
    You can snap your fingers and get 5 prehistoric life forms from any time period to be the first exhibits.
    What animals do you choose?
    Reply and let me know. Maybe some of those will become dinosaurs of the week... maybe :D

    llewelly,
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    @TheDinosaurDave
    Charnia, from the Ediacaran
    Opabinia, from the Cambrian
    Tanystropheus, from the Triassic
    Brachiosaurus, from the Jurassic
    Ludodactylus, from the Cretaceous

    rodhilton, to random
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    revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.

    1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.

    2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.

    Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?

    Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.

    llewelly,
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    @rodhilton
    not only that, it's lossy steganography.

    mrundkvist, to random Swedish
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    May Pieces Of My Mind #1

    https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2023/05/10/may-pieces-of-my-mind-1-10/

    llewelly,
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    @mrundkvist
    Arthur C. Clarke also imagined typists in communication satellites in geostationary orbits. Similarly, the first three volumes of Asimov's foundation series do not contain any mention of computers, except as humans doing calculations.

    TheDinosaurDave, (edited ) to random
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    REPLY TO - https://sauropods.win/@TheDinosaurDave/110340745934241222
    (FACEDESK) When will they get this right? It seems like they are stuck on 65 and Hollywood cant get it through its head that non avian dinosaurs went extinct 66mya
    5/X

    llewelly,
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    @TheDinosaurDave finally, the REAL cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs is revealed!

    the MEG ate them all, every single dinosaur, no exceptions!

    TheDinosaurDave, to random
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    Welcome to .Where we watch an episode of an old Documentary, TV show, trailer or movie with in it.
    This weeks is the new trailer for "The Meg 2: The Trench Trailer #1"
    You cant watch it yourself here.
    And yes, for some reason there is dinosaurs in this trailer... well dinosaur haha
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkXLYE7Ht2E
    1/X

    llewelly,
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    @TheDinosaurDave
    Spinosaurus, not satiated after eating T. rex, is now after O. megalodon!

    (yeah, I didn't watch the trailer. : )

    futurebird, to random
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    Naturally I'm basically against ant-lions. But they are so cute... (and ugly... cugly) and you don't have to feed them ants...

    Maybe I'll get a new pet...

    llewelly,
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    @futurebird ahhh, the ant-lion* ... a fine way to spice up an otherwise boring walk through a sandy region in your favorite tabletop role playing game ...

    *suitably enlarged, of course

    futurebird, to random
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    Recursion is black magic.

    llewelly,
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    @futurebird
    recursion: it's like honey, until you realize you've miscoded your exit clause.

    Pooh eating recursion comic by Safely Endangered. Made of four panels arranged in a square. First panel, in the top left, is Pooh reaching into his honey jar. Second panel, in the top right, is Tig shouting "Sweet Jesus, Pooh! That's not honey" Third panel, in the lower left, is Tig crying "You're eating recursion!" Fourth panel, in the lower right, is a nested smaller copy of all four panels, with the fourth panel in the lower right containing yet another nested smaller copy of all four panels, and so on. Then the lower right square expands toward the top left, and the nested panels in the lower right also expand, giving the impression of infinitely zooming inward and inward forever on the infinitely nested copies of the comic.

    futurebird, to random
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    The real worker ants of the Upper East Side!

    Fancy UES ants
    https://youtube.com/shorts/vbi4VR7qn7I?feature=share

    llewelly,
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    @futurebird I hear it sucks to be an aphid

    mcnees, to random
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    This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.

    llewelly,
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    @mcnees
    as a former kid who did that in the age of incandescent bulbs and low-capacity NiCads I have to say there was a time when keeping enough batteries charged was so, so much harder.

    coreyspowell, to space
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    I was a NASA intern in the '80s when I heard that astronomers had discovered a mysterious disk around the nearby star Fomalhaut.
    Now JWST has revealed exactly what they are: three enormous, dusty asteroid belts around another star!
    https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-109

    JWST observations of the Fomalhaut system at 25.5 μm. The image shows the observations deprojected by the best fitting inclination angle.

    llewelly,
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    @coreyspowell
    "...protoplanetary disks in this program are very bright and relatively close to Earth, making them excellent targets..."

    Wouldn't preselecting for bright systems naturally bias the method to large systems?

    (I guess dim systems would be too difficult; scientists must work with the data they have, a bit like the "Why are so many exoplanets huge and close to their primary?" issue, but a bias is bias. )

    bastianallgeier, to random
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    A while ago, I read about the psycholgical effect that kicks in when someone tries to fight for a good cause, but then makes a tiny mistake.

    We are very hard on hypocrisy because our brains like when things add up.

    I.e. a climate activist with a plastic cup triggers much harder than Elon taking a 5 minute flight in his private jet every other day.

    The first feels wrong, while the second just meets our expectations.

    I can't stop seeng this everywhere ever since.

    llewelly,
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    @bastianallgeier
    the fossil fuel industry has understood for a long time that perceived impurities like a climate activist with a plastic cup, or a climate scientist with a plane ticket are powerful tools for alienating people from climate activism, and that's why, decades ago, they began creating deeply misleading ideas like the "personal carbon footprint". The result has been horribly corrosive to climate activism.

    futurebird, to random
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    During the lockdown days one of my happy discoveries were old natural history books filled with nonsense. Sometimes well-meaning factual errors, at other times sensationalism. ("The army ants of South America can clean the bones of a living calf to a polish in but a few hours!")

    I ran in to this book plate being sold on etsy and it has the feeling of "old natural history book nonsense."

    But it could also be a displaced colony, perhaps by flood waters, with the callow workers in the center?

    llewelly,
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    @futurebird
    I keep thinking I've encountered a slightly different form of this factoid: "... clean the bones of a stillborn calf ..." with "stillborn", rather than "living". Which is totally plausible, but very different.

    futurebird, to random
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    If we wanted term limits on the Supreme Court would that require a constitutional convention?

    What about a maximum age limit? Mandatory retirement at 70?

    llewelly,
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    @futurebird to me it seems the constitution is vague; "... shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour ..." doesn't obviously indicate whether either is constitutional; from Washington to Hoover it seemed nearly everyone thought the President not running for a 3rd term was "good behaviour".

    1/2

    futurebird, to random
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    ... I thought the fluon was ineffective against carpenter ants since I'd still find them on the lid from time to time... so I stopped applying it.

    BIG MISTAKE

    I think about 30 of them escaped just now. They were very sneaky! They had a little outpost on the lid near where it opens waiting for when I'd remove it next. As soon as one got through-- the peleton unleashed itself dashing for the unknown!

    They have no idea what's out there but they are going to find out!

    llewelly,
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    @futurebird @GreenSkyOverMe this second outworld is what they have been saving all that silk wallpaper for. Next they'll find a way to see that outworld filled with appropriate building materials.

    ref: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/110271046627368846

    atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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    Well, this is an unexpected curveball.

    Jack Dorsey hopes that Bluesky will be “temporary”.

    How likely is Bluesky to actually be “temporary”?

    @fediversenews

    llewelly,
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    @atomicpoet @maegul @ActiveCultures it seems to me you think decentralization is to social media today what smartphones were to computing in about 2001 ?

    (Personally I think the future of decentralizated social media is uncertain.)

    gregeganSF, to random
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    They’re keeping awfully quiet about who the contenders are who’ll be challenging for the British throne tomorrow in the pre-coronation MMA fights.

    llewelly,
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    @gregeganSF I'm tellin' you it's a rigged game. charley horse will win.

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