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mycotropic

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Now with less personal identification due to babka.social doxxing and less science due to the February 2024 triumph of #Enshitification embodied by #CDCSays

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mycotropic, to random
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The fate of the carnivores

Alice, to random
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As a token of honor and respect for our fallen heroes, I'll be going hard on some bottomless mimosas at Memorial Day brunch.

mycotropic,
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@Alice

I got to "bottomless" and thought "commando"? But then "mimosa" and it killed the buzz. That said, see the image!

RickiTarr, to random
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How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

mycotropic,
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@RickiTarr

I CAN sit around and do quiet stuff for days at a time but I feel guilty when I do. I science but I also have a large delta G for starting an analysis, writing and stuff like that so I keep lots of stuff on the burner but I tend to put stuff off for a long time. My lab needs to have hour and a half long meetings every week where we hose each other down with science so that's social, one breakfast meeting per week usually and beers with friends once per week but I feel like I should be sciencing when I'm social. I'm a dumb guy in almost every way but I have this nagging feeling that our work is really close to making an important contribution to public health. I feel like we have all of the pieces of this puzzle and I can put them together, I just haven't yet. It's a very weird feeling, I should just solve COPD and get on with other stuff in my life, right?

samhainnight, to random
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Reading up on electric fences to keep bears out of the yard, as you do. So far, I haven’t found anything that would keep bears out that wouldn’t hurt the dogs.

mycotropic,
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@samhainnight

Incorporate the bears into your family like Lou did?

mycotropic, to random
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All whiskers deployed for a sprinkler that's just out of range of her face.

mycotropic, to photography
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Today I tried working with f stop and a sprinkler. 3.2 is pretty as is 32 but 14 was kind of ugly so I didn't post it.

Same basil plant at f stop 32 the water droplet pathways leave a line across the image
A purple iris is shown up close and personal

mycotropic, to random
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Part of our summer is driving from Colorado to Maine and back with my kids. We usually stop at Mammoth Caves and other national parks but this year my daughter is already in Maine working for the summer so it's just me and a 17 year old and a 14 year old. I'm already catching flak from the older one for how boring it is to drive across the country and visit national parks so I thought I'd change it up and make them ride this all day on the third day of the road trip;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXTbzctl0c

mycotropic, to photography
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I warned you that there would be roses didn't I?

An out of focus bumblebee hangs on purple comfrey flowers
A pink rose is in focus where various other buds are out of focus against a clear blue sky

mycotropic, to denver
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If you're in Denver on of for a month after June 7th you could attend these art shows!

The first (Grow Up) opening night reception will take place on Friday, June 7th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM at Bell Projects. The second (HEAR/SAY) opening night reception will take place on Friday, June 14th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM at BRDG Project.

Another Denver art exhibit, this one titled Grow Up

mycotropic, to random
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San Diego Museum Of Art, I'm at the meeting but I had time for art! Yay art, no science for another three hours!

San Diego Museum of Art, Emil Filla abstract, brown on grey on more grey
San Diego Museum of Art, Jasper Johns, carved lead wall sculpture is a light cord

mycotropic, to random
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I guess I never flew over the before!

mycotropic, to photography
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180mm macro, most at 3.5. get ready to be incredibly bored by rose shots though, once this bush wakes up we have hundreds and hundreds!

A poppy bud is shown, it's not open yet but I think I'm seeing red in there
Heck if I know, it's a lovely purple flower closeup but I don't know what it is
Purple comfrey flower is shown, again a macro shot, nice purple color though

mycotropic, to random
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I'll just use the other bathroom then.......

mycotropic, to random
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mcc, to random
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My ex had this rule, or sort of a philosophy I guess:

"Never feel bad about spending money on books."

And this made a lot of sense to me, at the time,

but this was before I actually realized

just how much money I am capable of spending on books

mycotropic,
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@mcc

Tell me all about your book buying problems my friend!

elaterite, to california
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I decided to roll the dice, that my CV joint on my car wouldn't blowup, for a run up north out of city lights to see the aurora--& I'm so glad I did! Two shots from northern California: First is from Doyle & the second is from Frenchman Lake. What an amazing display! For a time the aurora covered a 180 degrees from east to west & was overhead & could be seen in the south! I shot these photos with a 15mm f/2.0 30sec ISO400.

Color photo of an aurora. The landscape is forested mountains with a tongue of a lake going from the lower left to lower central frame. A distant body of water can be seen past the tongue. In the sky there are stars. On the horizon, just above the low mountain ridge line, is a band of yellow-green. Blue is above that. Then red. Then purple. There are numerous vertical streaks as well.

mycotropic,
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@elaterite

Man, I need to get better at long exposures! Lovely work!

mycotropic,
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@elaterite

I use a EF 16-35mm f/4L II for dark stuff, do you think that could work?
Thanks!

bud_t, to academicchatter
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Fellow academic colleagues: please get involved in shared governance at your institution. I know, that kind of service takes up your time and is often thankless, but it is crucially important. And it is on the verge of extinction at many places. The rug is being pulled out from under us while we go about our teaching and research.

If we value our work in we have to do the work to make the institution a place that is fair, equitable, and just.

@academicchatter

mycotropic,
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@bud_t @academicchatter

It works pretty well at University of Colorado in my opinion.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Welp! 🧵

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

: Judge has indefinitely postponed Donald 's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

mycotropic,
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@GottaLaff

Do you expect they'll ask for her removal or are her arguments reasonable enough to cover her ass going forward?

mycotropic, to photography
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A few springtime views of our back yard, 22 years of work are represented. My lovely wife does the pruning and most of the weeding and I built the infrastructure, pavers, patio stones, arbor and all that. It's spring in Denver but too early for the masses of blooms that are coming!

[Edit] Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L so the yard isn't actually that big, it's the lens.

A grape arbor is shown in the corner of the back of a house, paving stones cover the ground and red chai cushions appear ready to accept guests butts
A garden is shown abutting a lawn, it's spring but not yet flowering and the garden is in shade

futurebird, to random
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The overhead for the AI on a minecraft ant is so great that the mod creators limit the colonies to just 20 ants to prevent lag. Fine for gameplay 20 feels like a lot.

Interesting the kind of things they do: remember the location of their nest, find a path back, collect leaves etc. are so taxing.

In the real world a colony of 1000+ is typical. Some colonies have millions of ants. And real ants have much more to "process" Kind of gives you a sense of the scale of the intelligence of a colony.

mycotropic,
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@futurebird

I'd guess that the ants each have their own GPU running a copy of the AntOS right? I wonder whether we could learn something about biological computing/cooperation by taking one of those stupid Bitcoin mining machines, installing AntOS on each of the GPUs and pointing the collective at a problem to solve?

mycotropic,
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@barrygoldman1 @futurebird

As a model for computing though, could it solve different types of problems using existing hardware? I've been told that those Bitcoin mining computers can't do much else but could you build an OS that's local to a GPU but mimics the logic that ants use in order to solve types of problems that aren't any related?

AmishSuperModel, to random
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Great article about how religion became part of American Law (and NOT by it’s Founders as some like to claim).

“The National Day of Prayer kicked off a profusion of official endorsements of religion: the National Prayer Breakfast (1953); “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance (1954); a Congressional Prayer Room in the U.S. Capitol (1955); “In God We Trust” as the U.S. motto (1956), on our money (1957) and inscribed on the rostrum of the speaker of the House (1962).”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/abolish-national-prayer-day/

mycotropic,
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@AmishSuperModel

And this crap is still playing out! trump learned from and admires Roy Cohn who was McCarthy's right hand in the early 50's; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

We need, as a country, to get past that goddamn generation of fascists.

Jennifer, to scifi
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I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon

mycotropic,
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@todwest @Jennifer @bookstodon

Hey now, that's great news, I love that series!

mycotropic, to animals
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Kiton has this area covered, go about your business citizens.

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