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I live in Colorado, USA. I'm almost constantly hiking. I'm interested in humanities, computers, physics, and other sciences. I worked in physics and computer science for 30 years. I am a lucky guy!

Chrononaut: In my current, I'm traveling into the future at close to 1 sec/sec.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Important Question: Why is this image so overtly sexual?

outer,
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@RickiTarr It sells tickets. When will it/he be released?

mlawton, to wildlife
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Saw this beauty through the window, a 4-1/2 foot (~137 cm) Central Ratsnake (Pantherophis Alleghaniensis). It climbed up a bush near the corner of the house and I was able to get some close ups. I didn’t see a birds nest, so I suspect it was preparing to lay in wait for prey to ambush, which I’ve read they sometimes do.

A long black snake on the ground among leaves and green plants.

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@mlawton Wow! I've never seen one. What a beauty.

csilverman, to art
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@csilverman @rhempel Wow. I enjoy these iPhone art pieces a lot. Thank you!

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@babbadookspinoza
This is a "quote-post" from the iPad app "Mona".

The main author of the default Mastodon web client doesn't want quote-posts because he thinks they too easily lend themselves to a few behaviors he doesn't like, such as "piling on". https://mastodon.social/@babadookspinoza/110753810044256815

anathema_device, to random
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Today at Scarborough. Absolutely perfect :)

Golden sandy shore with beach vegetation (Casuarina sp, and Norfolk pines) on the land side, and a calm blue ocean beneath a clear blue sky beyond. Just a few scattered white clouds on the horizon
Golden sandy shore with trees in the stances, and a calm blue ocean beneath a blue sky beyond. Scattered white clouds are gathering on the horizon

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@anathema_device Scarborough Fair Weather. Beautiful! Thx.

brewsterkahle, to random
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Ethics Of Digital Librarianship

-- 1992 essay included in every software distribution of pre-web WAIS system. seems prescient.

"As more of us become involved in serving information electronically to other users, we so-called “digital librarians” must become conscious of our ethical responsibilities to protect the privacy of our the users being served. ...

This information has power, a power that can be abused and thereby thwart the usefulness of the tools we promote."

https://brewster.kahle.org/2024/03/23/ethics-of-digital-librarianship-1992/

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@wndlb Thank you, Brewster. @brewsterkahle I love reading your communication. (Always both youthful AND wise.) And, of course, I love using the incredible tools you've birthed and nurtured. Thank you for all your hard, constant, important work!

And THANK YOU, Wendell, @wndlb for reposting Brewster's message. You catch a lot of good stuff I would have never seen.
#OpenMinded #OpenData #OpenHeart #Science #History #Information

CarveHerName, to history
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, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines arriving.

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@bloodravenlib @CarveHerName @bookstodon @librarians History is good for everyone involved. That is, past, present and future people.

Thank you, A. Rivera @bloodravenlib

https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/04/booknote-lost-kingdom.html

Thank you, Julia Flynn Siler, for "Lost Kingdom: the Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure"

I LOVE Hawaii, and I grateful I'm a Child of Earth.

outer, to random
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Me too. When he chose her, McCain showed that he'd totally lost it, and that he was totally owned by ruthless, conscienceless assholes. https://universeodon.com/@Tonkey/112406856331721423

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That kitty is heels over head in love. https://mstdn.ca/@EllieK/112354875830016017

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THANK YOU for all your excellent hard work, Laffy, @GottaLaff .
I really appreciate it. Doing it would kill me. And I could never do it well. Keep yourself well! https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112282747549248073

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Thank you, Teri @Teri_Kanefield! (And thank you Chuck @ATurnOfTheNut!) I hadn't read Stephanie Jones' writing until now. She's great. Her writing really gets you, right in your heart.

Here's another blog entry of hers. Just because it also really got to me.
https://blog.stephaniejones.com/2024/01/26/my-old-man-did-know-something/ https://mastodon.social/

outer, to humanrights
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Thank you, Jennifer Ouellette @JenLucPiquant !!

And thank you Pennsylvania, and PA court judges!! We need a Democratic Party trifecta there, REAL SOON.

https://universeodon.com/@JenLucPiquant/111847345916180931

outer, to random
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Ed Yong has posted another great one.
The Ed's Up - Birding for Long-Haulers
https://buttondown.email/edyong209/archive/the-eds-up-birding-for-long-haulers/

He’s taken up birding recently. (His PHOTOS!) He just started bird outings near Oakland, CA for COVID Long-Haulers—still trying to work out all the bugs.

I recommend all his stuff: books, articles, PHOTOS and blogging.

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https://thatsbelievable.com
Thanks for the website tip, @Jyoti ! I think I'll browse that site for the next hour.

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WHO Overturns Dogma on Airborne Disease Spread. The CDC Might Not Act on It.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/infectioncontrol/109934?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2024-05-05&eun=g2199647d0r

This important news even if most people that care already new it. It’s important on the face of it, it’s important the WHO is acknowledging it (again), AND it’s important that the CDC still won’t admit it.

Masks work. Indoor fresh-air ventilation works. The US Gov’t says, “Your job is to keep shopping…nothing to see here.”

People are DYING here.

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Yeah! Go Mona! Best Mastodon App. https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp/111873666772554419

outer, to science
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Here's one of the few more modern articles I found about this Arc gene and how brains work. "Arc Regulates Transcription of Genes for Plasticity, Excitability and Alzheimer’s Disease"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405677/

This link results in lots of technical articles, including one from this year:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?filter=simsearch2.ffrft&linkname=gene_pubmed&from_uid=23237
#Alzheimers #Neurology #Neurobiology #Genetics #Science #Consciousness https://mastodon.social/@chuckevolving/112378879583996198

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Cliburn and Moulton reintroduced the legislation, today! It would be a fair deal if it included MUCH more. Fairness delayed will always stay behind. But that means we need to go WAY beyond fair--for justice's sake. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@timo21/110775124442388439

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Gary Larson is STILL making new cartoons!!!(…!)

He retired, but he still publishes on a great website:
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

New ones were published on December 7, 2023. The older ones are nearby, too!

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Little by little, our society is getting better and better. The crumbs are crummier, tho https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/112124900997920732

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Bravo! What a photo! https://federate.social/@danielscher/112152302944819955

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Fairy wasp, the size of a printed period.
No. 90891644 from https://www.mindenpictures.com/stock-photo/battledore-wing-fairy-fly-(mymar-sp)-female-preserved-specimen-from-antique/search/detailmodal-0_90891644.html
Battledore-wing fairy fly (Mymar sp.) female…amongst the smallest insects on the planet…they are wasps rather than flies. They are so tiny that air is relatively thick and viscous to them. Their stalked wings are rimmed with fine hairs, enabling them to effectively row through the viscous air.
Photographer: Alex Hyde

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Great article. Great writing, thanks! https://blacktwitter.io/@CuriousScout/112174485630113991

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Seize it, and make it nap with you. As it will, with a little encouragement. https://mastodon.world/@Trilobyter/112145751467644247

outer, to animals
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Thanks for the cat picture, @stefano and @me
I really enjoy kitties in the sun with flowers.

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/112106237714415170

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