ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

In my new #tectoldies post I follow up on the 1891 #Japan #earthquake and the seminal article by Bunjiro Kotô published in 1893:

https://tectoldies.mystrikingly.com/blog/the-great-1891-earthquake-in-central-japan-2

In this article, probably for the first time in the world, B. Kotô makes detailed descriptions of the earthquake surface rupture and offsets, and explicitly linked #earthquakes to #tectonic faulting.

Kotô gave a beautiful 3D sketch 👇🏼 and an amazing narrative about mole-tracks (a now commonly used term for some specific surface ruptures): “Amongst the extraordinary things done by the earthquake, one that always drew attention was the earth-rent. It strikes across hills and paddy-fields alike, cutting up the soft earth into enormous clods and raising them above the surface. It resembles the pathway of a gigantic mole more than anything else.”

#mastoart #history #sciencehistory #tectonics

🎆 Happy new year everyone! We’re back with a post by writer Joe Stucynski who writes about a new piece of technology, called Neuropixels, that is shaping what kinds of experiments neuroscientists can do.

💧 Joe talks about why neuroscientists need to engineer new tools if they want to understand the brain, why Neuropixels are so exciting, and gives one example of how Neuropixels have already taught us more about how the brain coordinates the response to thirst.

❓ What other things might you want to learn from experiments with Neuropixels?

#neuroscience #science #sciComm #Neuropixel #brain

https://pennneuroknow.com/2023/01/10/we-have-the-technology

Soar ever higher
Held only by walls of cloud
Soon to kiss the sun

#haiku #poetry

There is a strain in Conservative thought that pure Democracy is a "suicide pact" because the "masses" will
vote themselves Bread and Circuses endlessly and destroy society. (You find this in Heinlein)
What Conservatives do not seem to have considered is how the rich are 'voting' with stock buy backs,
focus on short-term financial gains (the whole financialization of the economy) and thus destroying society
by hollowing out the economy and not addressing concerns such as climate change.

I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the new comers on QOTO who dont know the history:

So there are some servers out there that demand every server int he network block every instance they do, and if a server doesnt block an instance they block then they block you in rettatliation.

Their reason for this is quite flawed but it goes like this.. If we federate with a bad actor instance and we boost one of their posts then their users will see it and defeat the purpose of the block. The problem is, this isnt how it actually works. If they block a server and we boost it, they wont see the boost, thats how blocks work.

The issue becomes even more complicated when you consider the fact that these servers, by virtue of their policy, have huge block lists where they block tons of major servers. So in order to satisfy them we too would have to block a huge number of servers.

This means you have a choice, you either join a server that isnt blocked, but has a huge block list themselves, or, you join a server that doesnt block and be blocked by a small handful of servers. Obviously that means on QOTO you will have bigger view of the world than you would on any of these others servers. In fact QOTO has onne of the largest federation footprints of any server in the network.

I want to also explain why we choose the decision we did. Years ago when this controversy started and servers across the fediverse started blocking there was a divide of people taking sides. WOTO was one of the few servers that didnt take sides and allowed people read content from any server (but with strict hate speech rules). This caused a huge influx of people,s pecifically from the LGBTQ community, onto our server. It turns out many people relied on us not-blocking for their physical safety. There were big name biggots (like milo yanappolus) who were on the network. They used their accounts here to watch his account for doxing so they could warn themselves and their community and protect themselves accordingly. In fact we added a feature just for them called subscriptions which allowed them to monitor accounts without following them so they could do so anonymously.

In tthe end for the safety of the LGBTQ community here we refused to engage in mass server blocking and instead encouraged our users to block servers on an individual basis and provided access to block lists for them to do so. But some really misguided servers blocked us anyway.

Thankfully the servers blocking us are few and far between and are limited to only the most excessive and aggressive block lists. As I said, QOTO has one of the largest federation footprints on the fediverse,

#mastoadmin

"Time? Time? Why worry about something that takes care of itself so well?" William Faulkner's 'Mosquitoes' is now in the #PublicDomain (it's about time!) Read at: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.182860/mode/2up

"I should be able to talk to anyone, about anything, at any time" and "I should be able to read and search any conversation held in a public place, from anywhere, at any time" are brain damage left over from pro-capital social media. Universality makes those projects more attractive to money.

Communities, definitionally, _aren't_ universal. A group of people (large or small) connected by common needs or goals has borders, or at least boundaries.

We’re hosting a #Tootup 🎉 revisiting the idea of social media cafes ☕️ on Tuesday January 24th, at Workhouse Coffee in Caversham, #Reading - join me, @jangles @drewb @gabriellenyc to talk #SocialMedia and online spaces (and catch up in general) - free tickets via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twitter-mastodon-open-house-tickets-486784213687 #Tuttle #TVSMC #Meetup

From 10 Jan: “I want to fight”: LGBTQ Texans ready for legislative session as GOP lawmakers target them in dozens of bills - https://www.chron.com/politics/article/transgender-laws-gender-care-texas-legislature-17704366.php?IPID=Chron-HP-Latest-News #uspol #lgbtqia+ #transgender #texas #healthcare-access #gender-affirming-care

I ask anyone choosing to use AI art apps, to consider & be curious how they work. It's not just harmless fun. This video by artist Steven Zapata, gives a breakdown of exactly how AI art apps work https://youtu.be/tjSxFAGP9Ss #midjourney #stablediffusion #laion #lensa #prismalabs

Useful info about communicating high pain levels, especially in #ChronicPain. Many professionals know the Mankoski pain scale, and will roll their eyes if you say yours is a 10 and are not visibly suffering. (Because you *can’t* communicate that if you’re at a Mankoski 10.)

When I had my eye surgery, they give tylenol after, but anyone who knows the scale knows tylenol only works up to ~5. I normally live at 6-7, so they gave me oxy.

https://www.painscale.com/article/mankoski-pain-scale

Youth Hacking 4 Freedom Registration still open -

* Participants must be 14-18 years old, living in Europe, to register at
https://yh4f.org
* The registration is extended till the end of January
* Six winners will be awarded again with cash prizes and a trip to Brussels.
* The competition takes place online. The Award Ceremony is in Brussels.
* The coding period started on the 1st of January and ends on the 30th of
June 2023.

#freesoftware #programming #hacking

ok, should a thirst trap's image description be written as short form erotica?

please can people not share pirate links to Mira's zine.

It's just $10.
http://fuckingtranswomen.org/

It was her pride of work, she was working on a sequel and together we had another written project that was 90% finished for a first chapter in a series.

The money goes to the bellwether family as we figure out things like funeral arrangements, medical bills and all the extras.

When my laptop tells me to "plug in or find another power source" I like to think that it's encouraging me to invent cold fusion.

tInder bio…

Are there any staff-level web devs I can talk to on here? I’m on a fact-finding mission 🕵️‍♀️

Reading this book, A Million Little Pieces by George Santos

Wow! I just learned an objective reason why sets and vector spaces are special!

Of course we all know math relies heavily on set theory and linear algebra. And if you know category theory, you can say various things about why the categories Set and Vect are particularly convenient frameworks for calculation. But I'd never known a *theorem* that picks out these categories, and a few others.

Briefly: these are categories where all objects are 'free'.

(1/n)