Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

Listen friends I need your help. I'm deeply attracted to these various kinds of enclosures and have a deep need to buy them and instal LCD screens and big click-y knobs and such in them... but I don't know what the heck I want to build.

I'm in danger of just getting one and "figuring it out later" this is madness.

I gotta find the right project!

Maybe some kind of obscure calculator? #electronics , #projects , #help , #enclosures

I believe that the only way to reduce and then reverse the damage we are doing to every part of the #ecosystem is to intentionally, gradually but consistently, reduce the amount of energy we run through our economy, slow our physical speeds, and begin a global project to regenerate working ecosystems of every sort that was here when the Europeans started this industrial thing, probably at least 300-400 years before the #IndustrialRevolution
Dutch East India Company, or before.

HUMAN GHOSTWRITER'S MOM USED TO STRUGGLE WITH USING "THEY/THEM" PRONOUNS, BUT TODAY SHE SAID SHE JUST IMAGINES THAT PEOPLE WHO USE THOSE PRONOUNS ARE ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY A FRIENDLY MOUSE IN A TINY BASEBALL CAP AND THAT THIS MAKES IT EASIER FOR HER TO GET IT RIGHT AND IT MAKES HER SMILE. I HAVE NO NOTES.

Teachers can only deduct $250 in school supplies on their #taxes, but billionaire Harlon Crow can write off his whole super yacht.😐

Why? Because millionaire politicians funded by billionaires & corps write tax #law for billionaires. We need a #Congress for working people—not the .1%

Quote by Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Pls boost so I can show my wife how a toot can go round the world

(we are boarding a long haul flight and will be on the other side of the world when I turn my phone back on, so even with 0 boosts I think this will be a sound demonstration)

Mastodon-software-knowledgeable people: is it possible to change one’s “handle” (the part after the @) on here without changing anything else? Leaving the server and the rest of the account as-is, in other words?

I don’t want to do this right now, but back on the birdsite I was comforted by the fact that I could, and it struck me today that I didn’t actually know whether it was possible here.

I'm lurking in a National Science Foundation webcast giving advice to researchers writing proposals, and the answer to the audience question "Any recommendations about wording the broader impacts section for those of us in states with anti-DEI legislation?"

is "We have no idea".

This could be a disaster for science in red states, if we are no longer competitive for federal funding.

#Texas #NSF #Science #DEI

How to Spot Bullshit: A Manual by Princeton Philosopher Harry Frankfurt (RIP) https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/how-to-spot-bullshit-a-manual-by-princeton-philosopher-harry-frankfurt-rip.html

this must have felt so nostalgic to him

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/17/tech/ghana-twitter-layoffs-severance-intl-hnk/index.html

The challenge faced by science in the United States isn’t that scientists are awkward and bad at communication. It’s that we’re beset by propaganda and mass media channels funded by corrupt billionaires to sow confusion.

We need big, generously funded communications channels dedicated to verifiable reality. Scientists who are slightly better at talking isn’t going to cut it.

Hitler was elected with only 43.9% of the vote. He won because of multiple parties splintering the anti-Nazi vote.

TIL: eating just one billionaire could zero out your carbon footprint for at least 500 years.

"The top 20 billionaires analyzed by Wilk and Barros emitted around 8,000 metric tons of CO2 annually in 2018, while average citizens worldwide had a carbon footprint of around 4 tons— and 15 tons in the United States."

https://www.dw.com/en/superyachts-symbolize-climate-breakdown/a-61245302

(Via @mariusrime and @Npars01 )

"Mastodon is not an ad-driven platform. There is absolutely zero incentives to let awful people run amok in the name of engagement. The goal of Mastodon is to build a friendly collection of communities, not an attention leeching hate mill."

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

When we talk about Germany, we always define that period when they weren't the happy go lucky, laugh a minute tuetons that we know today by referring to it as Nazi Germany.

We need to start adopting this for the US. For example, we should commence calling it Nazi Florida or Nazi Texas, or refer to it as the US Nazi Supreme Court. This shows we understand not all US citizens are Nazis, just that those institutions are run by them now

Remember when lots of journalists tried Mastodon but then found it too complicated, so they left? I think about that every time I read their 'analysis' of something

I’ve new coloring sheets available on Ko-fi for free https://ko-fi.com/pauloleite/shop

#drawing #paleoart #coloringsheets #coloring #dinosaur #art #mastoart

Assassin bug juveniles are quite Metal.