Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

July 9, 1958, an #earthquake and rockfall into Lituya Bay, Alaska, triggers a 1,700 ft (518m) high wave, the tallest wave ever observed & survived by humans 🌊

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2019/07/09/worlds-tallest-tsunami-hit-the-gulf-of-alaska-more-than-60-years-ago/#6447b9ae4d7f

Homer Simpson and the Threads logo

Meme check: Homer Simpson’s ear resembles the Threads logo. But is it true? #StrangeTimes https://kbin.social/m/StrangeTimes/t/166130

Amazingly, I made this several years ago

So, I spend a lot of time reading weird books and occasionally I post bits of what I find. Lately I've been thinking about having some kind of site for Zach Reads Books, e.g. reviews, jokes, maybe readings? What's the format for this today? Youtube?

The contact information for the REI board of directors is board@rei.com

If you're an REI member who's not a fan of union busting, please let them know that when next year's board of director elections are happening, you'll be voting accordingly.

(Also, please boost)

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186006322/rei-union-busting-allegations

I just want to say for my first post to the #Fediverse that I've already seen more #alttext in the last couple of days than I've literally seen in my entire life. I don't know what it is, but as a blind user it's making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content. Think I'll write an introduction soon.
#accessibility #Mastodon #redditMigration

Just three years after replacing their manicured front lawns with a wild flower meadow, Trinity College Dublin reports the emergence of rare orchid species in the heart of the city.

An incredible positive illustration of the benefits of allowing for biodiversity

#Biodiversity #NoMowMay #TCD #Dublin

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0703/1392111-orchids-dublin-trinity/

Mastodon lets anyone verify themselves with their website.

Bluesky lets anyone verify themselves with their domain.

Threads lets anyone verify themselves with their government-issued ID.

Twitter has no verification system for people to verify themselves. Their leader is too stupid to implement an ID-based verification system like Meta did in 2 weeks.

Join NASA to Celebrate Webb Space Telescope’s First Year of Science http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/join-nasa-to-celebrate-webb-space-telescope-s-first-year-of-science #NASA

Hi all! I'm a 2nd-year PhD Student in Computer Science at Northeastern, with a focus in exploratory analysis tools for #datavisualization of high-dimensional data. I'm particularly interested in #XAI and #genomics . I'm also a practicing emergent media artist, and currently teaching myself #Blender #B3d . Here''s my website for more background: http://universalities.com/

I’ll be on @cbseveningnews tonight talking about the climate change-fueled unprecedented heat and what we can still do. about: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/topics/evening-news/

I made a colleague very happy today when I told him this tip, so for people that use duckduckgo for your search engine, if you want to repeat your search in another engine like google, just add "!g" into your search box and hit enter. You'll be redirected.

They have >13k bang short codes, for more see: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

(And I just learned something new, I normally use g!)

Jfc i feel old but just realized: if you’re younger than like 35-40 you basically have zero memory of life without the worldwide web (or what some people call “the internet”) because in 93/94 you were only 5-10 years old. Even scarier, if you’re younger than 25-30 you don’t remember a Googleless world. And holy shit: an ad-free web. It was about 98 when the first ads started appearing, IIRC. STUFF is REALLY NEW, people. And it can CHANGE. IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE THE WAY it is now.

In 1998, I stayed online for over 20 hours straight and got a warning email from my ISP

"I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably."

Christiaan Huygens died #OTD in 1695. In physics, Huygens made seminal contributions to optics and mechanics, while as an astronomer he studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its largest moon, Titan. As an engineer and inventor, he improved the design of telescopes and invented the pendulum clock. via @wikipedia

Books by Huygens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648

#books #science #astronomy

This makes me sick! #BlackMastodon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-07/us-black-workers-account-for-90-of-recent-unemployment-increase#xj4y7vzkg