EARLY CAT: What that?
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it. #cats
This article is genuinely interesting (cats are BIG on umami, apparently).
But I love that for all the science, the reason WHY a desert animal love fish still seems to come back to them just deciding they did one day. And then demanding it off our ancestors, who duly obliged. #cats https://www.science.org/content/article/why-do-cats-love-tuna-so-much-scientists-may-finally-know?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=ownedSocial&fbclid=IwAR3dgpvT7dJfn_hEcBI-vQpemCRFv3IgSnzX6TuCkULmYzviwgGPtMrKXmg
Hi there!
I am a biologist working in the University of Antioquia, in Medellín, Colombia. I am mostly involved in #ComputationalBiology and #Bioinformatics, but I enjoy and work in other subjects too:
- Molecular Biology
- Genetics
- Dynamical systems (ODEs)
- Systems Biology
- Microbiology
I believe in #OpenScience and I could say that #Linux and free software changed my life.
Currently I am promoting the field of Computational Biology in Colombia: https://biologia-computacional.github.io/
"[Q]uite a few of these people know that the Big Lie is a lie. They just don’t care. They love Trump and as far as they’re concerned he can lie all he wants."
https://digbysblog.net/2023/08/30/they-believe-what-they-want-to-believe/
New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people.
Guess what?
"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."
Congrats to my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao on this study.
Australia's top journalism awards were founded and are sponsored by a huge oil & gas company. Today a bunch of cartoonists all took a stand and withdrew their entries as a result, rather than be complicit in this greenwashing. Congratulations to them for taking a stand. Greg Jericho has also noped out as well. https://www.kudelka.com.au/2023/08/why-im-not-entering-the-walkleys-this-year/
I never know what to #write in this #introduction thing. Maybe because I don't really know who I am or maybe I'm a mixture of many things.
Anyway, my name is Gustavo and I live in #Jundiaí, the city of #grapes, in #Brazil. I am currently a #PhD student in #biochemistry and the #question I am trying to answer is:
Is it possible to use the knowledge of the #plant #circadianclock to increase the efficiency of #weedmanagement in #sorghum crop?
At the same time I trying to answer what is #time?
In between, I make #music and #dance to the #rhythms of #life. It's like @neilhimself says in his profile: "It is too late now!"
And that's it! I joined this instance because I like the #idea behind questions. @freemo seems to have created something special here. Thanks!
It will be a pleasure to meet you all!
Conservatives are on a mission to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump's vision
https://social.icims.com/viewjob/pl169334645678405383
Get #FediHired
Our teams looking for a Cloud Engineer with Azure or AWS experience looking to move into a Security Role, or a Security Engineer with Cloud Experience!
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Please Boost! #Infosec
InfoSec, CVE
#CVE 1337: CAT OWNERS, BE AWARE OF THIS CRITICAL-LEVEL EXPLOIT. This is a denial of service attack on Layer 3 network stacks. Payload involves cat asking for treats, then, pretending to be starving to the next person they meet.
Hardware-level exploit, so patch is impossible. Only option for remediation is to participate.
McDonald’s ice cream machine teardown shows error codes, DMCA keep it broken
Public Knowledge and iFixit want the right to repair commercial kitchen gear.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.