ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

I will never apologize for a post

How #sleep shapes what we remember—and what we forget. Researchers are starting to decode the #neural changes during sleep that underlie #LongtermMemory. A PNAS news feature: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220275120 #neuron #synapse #hippocampus #brain

Huron River in SE Michigan
An Amphicar heads down the Huron River near Portage Lake in 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphicar
#HuronRiverSEMichigan #Michigan

Katie Porter is reading “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” while Republican chaos ensues on the House Floor.

A brown anole scampers up some bamboo in Saint Augustine Beach, FL.
#anole #lizard #wildlife #saintaugustine #florida #photography

I know our hacker history from Ada to the Admiral,
If I ever leave a trace at most it is ephemeral,
I clone your black box hardware tokens or I social engineer
Filling logfiles with peculiar things, that will cause your CISO fear

Cara, proclaiming her complete innocence in the matter...

#Caturday

With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it's only a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy's truck leaves him too.

Ok, this is cool: a team of biologists worked out that turtles can talk. The hatchlings even talk to each other in the egg to coordinate their hatching. Turtle talk is at frequencies not very audible for humans and it can take hours for some species to reply to each other.

“Had we had a bit more expansive imaginations, we might have caught this earlier,” said Karen Bakker, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/

January #sunrise. 🌅

I never would have guessed.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

#Introduction

I'm interested in:

#Mathematics #Macroeconomics #Engineering #ComputerScience #Programming

#Ecology #Environment #Democracy #Freedom #Equity #Liberal #Socialism #PostKeynesian

#Vegan

#FOSS #GNU #Linux

#Python #Graphics #WebDesign

I use:

#Debian #KDE #Firefox

#Inkscape #Gimp #Blender #VLC

#WordPress #Mastodon #PeerTube:

#Nextcloud #GitLab #Docker

#Fdroid

I suppose with the #twitastrophe ongoing, I should get around pinning an #introduction.

I'm Eric Korpela, an astrophysicist by training. My expertise is in interstellar matter (#ISM), UV instrumentation, radio instrumentation, and #SETI. I used to direct a small volunteer computing project called SETI@home (#setiathome). I'm semi-retired, and theoretically working 17 hours a week. In practice that turns into almost as many hours as I was working before I retired.

My posts here will often be unrelated to my work. I find it hard to be chatty about things that have exhausted me during the day. My short term life goal is to learn all that is knowable.

My non-work interests are #vintagecomputing #fishing #politics #vintagegaming #cocktails #food #beer #wine #NCAAFootball and #photography.

That's it. I've found it. This is the energy I am bringing into 2023.

The first of my #SciFiSaturday #BookRecommendations settles on RM Meluch’s “Strength and Honor,” part of her “Tour of the Merrimack” her military sci-fi/space opera series, set in a future where the US and a recreated Roman Empire are at war with the alien "Hive.” There aren’t a lot of female authors writing in this sub-genre, but Meluch not only produces good material, she does so with some pretty neat and innovative plot lines into the bargain. #bookstodon #bookworm

First time someone got decent video as a Grey Whale gives birth! And shows off her new baby, who is going to be a little floppy for about 24 hours. :)

#whales #birth

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/06/1147337320/whale-birth-dana-point?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews

This one is doing the rounds tonight.

Rep. Katie Porter wins the evening.

#SpeakerVotes #Speaker #KatiePorter