Getting some weird emails lately. Woman's name in the "To" line (e.g., "Mary", "Lisa"), inconsistent email address (has a man's name), message body like "Do you use this email?" I reply, curious about the scheme: I get follow up emails in German (I'm not German. I don't know the language) asking me to visit a website. Like, is just being weird a tactic in phishing?
@izaya IDK about RSS, but there's atom feeds. e.g.: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/commits.atom
Always fascinating to see the ways humans work with animals.
(I don't think I'd be putting *my* face anywhere near that close to sharp beak though 😬 )
Wow. Just skipping the lower half of the planet. "diversity" is a bit skewed... https://youtu.be/7PrLRlpDDh4?t=311
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@freemo similar. have noticed it more lately since, for me, it's related to social isolation.
also, it's like the background sounds give my mind some place to go and return when I get distracted (subjective. not sure that's how my brain works)
@izaya what's the goal with this? Just wanted to write a stack machine?
I recall the conversation around human germline editing, at least popularly, used to be much closer to "No, let's not do that" because of the potential for engineering a class of humans with heritable genetic advantages or disadvantages and all of the dystopian outcomes that entails, like a more perfectly controlled slave race or deeper disparities in health outcomes between wealthy and poor people. GP-Write is much more equivocal on that question. Essentially they say, "We're not doing that now, but we could later if it's technically legal and we get funding"
https://engineeringbiologycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Statement-of-Principle.pdf
it's funny that Hessel assumed there would be consent and contracts for acquiring some desirable genome. https://after-on.com/episodes/0004
Cool little video. I had tried hacking together a nailset before just going out and buying a set of them for about $7 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSspWqHszwQ
Really simple, but interesting game.
https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Fzcode%2FAisle.z5
Our AI overlords have arrived, but they just want us to be, like, more chill.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/11/how-old-ambient-japanese-music-became-a-smash-hit-on-youtube/
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(video in Spanish). This is an incredible data visualisation of air humidity levels and flows, and you can see the Amazon literally acting as lungs, breathing in and out this big mass of air in a diurnal cycle. You can just make out the pulsating motion.
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#NuestroFuturo | La Amazonía alberga más de 600.000 millones de árboles, y es gracias a estos que se crean impresionantes “ríos voladores” o grandes flujos aéreos de ag…
https://twitter.com/CentroOds/status/1332377231469973507
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