Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Is anyone here yet? I wrote a cool thing about why vertical farms don’t work but also why we so desperately need something like vertical farms. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/food-and-farms/why-vertical-farming-just-doesnt-work

I hate to be a debbie-downer, but the idea that decentralization increases resilience is just wrong, wishful thinking. Shit happens. Stuff decays. Monopolies fuck around with things, individuals fuck around with things.

Institutions create resilience. We like to fantasize that it's otherwise, play around with anarchist/libertarian ideas, but it's the luxury given to us by the simplicity and resilience of the institutionally-strong context in which we live.

@bflipp there's a good article by @tchambers that has a well thought out and reasoned approach that also suggests avoiding a knee-jerk reaction.

https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/110653223227682630

I feel like #Threads would be much better served being used as an on-ramp to the Fediverse for normies and we should be providing ample resources to migrate them out of #Meta ASAP instead of preemptively blocking Threads completely. People on #Mastodon seem overly skittish and reactionary when we can use Threads to poison pill all of Facebook.

@pikesley and also https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/07/04/the-fediverse-is-a-privacy-nightmare/

I know most of y'all aren't reading anything this week at all, let alone today, but there's a really great article by Bryn Nelson out in the Journal Cancer Cytopathology on the problems of using "A.I." in medicine: https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncy.22739.

It was fantastic to talk to Dr Nelson about this, and he honestly did fantastic work covering this very important topic.

(And if you're interested in more of what I, specifically, had to say, here, also keep a look out for the upcoming July-August issue of American Scientist.)

We're looking for a technical student to join our data management group at CERN, Geneva (12 months placement, paid, holidays, health insurance, flexible start date). You must be CERN member state national, should be between bachelor's & master's in your studies, have good experience with Linux, Python, git, and have a general idea about networks, databases, and storage. There's also the possibility to do a master's thesis as part of the programme. Please contact me directly if interested!

If you're new to Mastodon, know that you don't get your tusks until one of the longtime natives scolds you for not putting your stuff behind a content warning, and your response sets off an old-school flame war that defederates at least three instances.

The fact that some people can't distinguish between entomology and etymology bugs me in ways I can't put into words.

I've tweaked it a bit and am now comfortable with sharing it widely, so here it is! My crochet pattern for Einstein's Hat, the recently discovered aperiodic monotile: https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/einsteins-hat.pdf

(And if you make the tiles in max 4 colors, you can ALSO illustrate the four color theorem.)

#introduction

Hi all! 👋 I come from Reddit, so you can probably understand why I'm hesitant to post too many personal details. I'm hoping to loosen up here over time, but you can just call me by my username, or should it ever come up, then you can call me Tee.
This is probably my first time letting the internet know that I'm a #bisexual #black #African woman.
I tend to cope with frustration by being facetious, and lately, the world has been VERY frustrating. I'm also an adult who is newly diagnosed with #ADHD, so my thoughts tend to go to interesting places, and I have an interest in a variety of topics.

Work in Healthcare
I am currently really into #Skincare and thus, I now have a small collection of hats 😀
Looking forward to participating more!
#LGBT
#neurodivergent #blackmastodon

OH MY GOD LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND IN THE #BAYCON DEALERS’ ROOM!

I’m so completely delighted! I, big dumb #Trekkie, wrote that thing back when Twitter was fun! Ahh!

(Actually my brother found it and played it all smooth and casual like he didn’t know because he is the best)

Happy Independence Day, neighbour.

The future of the internet—a bunch of broken Twitter widgets

IT HAS BEGUN!!!!

Every time someone from the US complains about how bad things are becoming I empathize, but I also can't avoid thinking that in Italy we have been dealing with the same stuff ~20 years before them.
If you want a preview of all the shit that is going to hit the fan, just look at Italy.

The rate limiting incident in Twitter isn't really what pushed me over to use Mastodon more and more. Currently there is a hashtag on Twitter related to the French riots that's calling on the expulsion of all Muslim, African, and Arab immigrants from the entirety of Europe. The entirety and trending hashtag (at #2) is filled with images encouraging mass killings and lynchings of Arabs. There is no come back from this.

@ASleepyWanderer the free iNaturalist and Seek apps from Cal Academy are a great resource for identifying any kind of organism.

But here, #Entomology or #Insects should work.