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In what’s being called a breakthrough, scientists have had an extended conversation with a humpback whale. Could this encounter teach us how to talk with ET? It’s “Alien Says What?” on Big Picture Science.

Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/alien-says-what

#seti #ceti #whaleseti #science #scicomm #podcast

Will Whoever is putting these signs in the shops near me, please stop as it’s too funny watching the farage acolytes meltdown 

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #rishisunak #SunakOut #Labour #immigration #housing #conscription #davidcameron #BrexitBenefits #sunday

Poll of scholars finds Lincoln remains greatest US president while Trump ranks last. http://www.brandonrottinghaus.com/uploads/1/0/8/7/108798321/presidential_greatness_white_paper_2024.pdf

"Images in this article were generated by Midjourney"

You don't say! Lots of JAKing off going on in these images.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full

HT Reviewer 2 Must Be Stopped! https://www.facebook.com/groups/reviewer2/permalink/10160854344375469/

#GenerativeAIArt #MidJourney #AIart #AItools #PublicationEthics #AcademicChatter #FrontiersIn #ResearchIntegrity

Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car

Florida deputy Jesse Hernandez screamed “shots fired,” and frantically fired his gun after an acorn fell onto the roof of his squad car, making him jump.

(In body cam footage shared across social media, he was seen jumping to the ground and shouted “shots fired” after the acorn strikes the roof of his car. He then turned and emptied every bullet from his gun, each aimed squarely at his squad car.)

https://jalopnik.com/florida-cop-empties-his-gun-runs-for-cover-after-acorn-1851255383

"The UK has had nine sets of fiscal rules since 1997. Our fiscal rules are not immovable laws of nature – they are invented and decided by our politicians. Chancellors simply change their fiscal rules when they become too difficult to meet – they are a political tennis ball, not a tool of effective policy." https://neweconomics.org/2024/02/labour-should-learn-that-every-fiscal-rule-is-a-political-choice

20MPH, Wales and the Tories

Whikle half of Private Eye does not interest met, the subscription is worth every penny for snippets like these. The Tory connection to a campaign to prevent Wales implementing the 20MPH urban speed limits.

#Wales #ToryCorruption #Cycling #Walking #20MPH #Speedlimits

Elon Musk tells his 173,000,000 followers, that he believes Ukraine is killing their own soldiers Stalin style.

There is zero evidence for that outrageous claim.

X is the misinformation platform.

It would be kind of darkly funny if Trump's re-election ends up reversing Brexit and creating that pan-European army the loons were frothing about

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/uk-europe-nuclear-shield-donald-trump-germany-nato-deterrent

So the Tories might keep 80 MPs.

The British Electorate should be permitted to select them collectively by shortlist.

Let them be the very worst eighty, from Thug Anderthal downwards.

All the airhead Toffs, sex-pests, tractor-pornos, bribe-taking second-jobbers, corporate 'consultants', GB News presenters, climate-deniers, deportation freaks, global-Britain empire-delusionist, Fakelord, SmugKnight, statue-worshipping flagshaggers

So we don't forget, for next time.

#EnglishNationalistsOut

So Britain's self-styled "first green Chancellor" takes climate sceptic money, then drops £28bn pledge? What's next, just abandon net zero altogether? Never been more vital to have Green MPs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/02/14/rachel-reeves-accepted-donation-climate-sceptic-28bn-pledge/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1757873900396962178#m

[2024-02-14 21:06 UTC]

Another heartbreaking story from #Mariupol, #Ukraine 💔

📹: slidstvo_info

Watch (42 Second) Insta Rell Source: United24 Media

Hundreds of green activists face legal threats from private companies and governments https://theferret.scot/legal-threats-environmental-campaigners/

I'm tired of sitting through #science talks where all plots are properly credited but artist's impressions and photographs aren't.

As a researcher and astrophotographer who works with super talented artists, this attitude really bothers me.

You study galaxies at the dawn of time. You look for biomarkers in the atmospheres of distant planets. You can most definitely find who made that cool image you just pasted in your slides.

To those who do credit #art : you're awesome 🤗

NY Times - President Biden today shielded thousands of Palestinians in the US from deportation for the next 18 months, using an obscure immigration authority. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/us/politics/biden-palestinians-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU0.Rtj_.sH1k7xxuw7ih&smid=url-share