Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

* Isopods have 7 pairs of legs all pretty much the same length.

* 74** logic gates have ... 7 pairs of legs all the same length!

Coincidence? I think not!

Clearly, each isopod contains 4 logic gates. This Armadillidium vulgare has 4 AND gates. Don't forget to connect power & ground legs & use pull-down resistors on inputs.

(best practice is to simply ask the rollie to position itself in your circuit.)

Like most natural systems. they use micro-voltages, don't use standard 5V power sources.

For quite some time, I have linked TypeTopology files (articles?) from expository discussions here.

Now I have started to do the opposite, closing a circle. I am adding links from TypeTopology to the discussions here.

I encourange TypeTopology contributors to do the same from now on.

The idea is that people here can learn what we are doing in TypeTopology, and conversely, readers of TypeTopology can benefit from the discussions here.

https://github.com/martinescardo/TypeTopology

Just figured out how to rebrand smbc for the modern moment

Google is trying to put the web in a cage in the same way they put your devices in a cage (Android, ChromeOS).

There’s one really easy, simple and efficient way to fight them: uninstall Chrome/Chromium, use #firefox

Do it. Now.

– But I prefer Chrome because of…

If you are not ready to sacrifice a little comfort (so little, Firefox is great) to save the web, then you don’t deserve a free web anyway. You are part of those killing it.

Remove Chrome. Install Firefox.

(with adblockers)

To anyone wondering when “I have an important exam tomorrow & I haven’t revised!” nightmares go away?

Possibly never 🤷‍♂️

It has been more than 40 years since my last university exam and yet last night … 😱

(Possibly brought on in sympathy for our daughter who’s trying to finish the first draft of her masters thesis this weekend while her collaborators do f* all. At my old university.

And BTW, it’s asinine to insist on group work theses & with all groups working on the same mandatory topic 🤬)

The Tilings Encyclopaedia is wonderful. Comprehensive, nicely illustrated, clearly explained. https://tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/

I believed Russia would not destroy historic Odesa, because of the city's significance to the Russian empire. But I was wrong - now it seems they know they will never control it again, so they are happy to see it burn.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/07/23/russian-night-attack-kills-one-ruins-largest-orthodox-cathedral-in-odesa/

The median price for existing single-family homes reached $416,000 in June. That's basically the same price that a newly built house was selling for in May. https://t.co/5d3V3wVRPn

Why we think every scholarly organization, but in particular scholarly societies, should not just migrate to #Mastodon, but host their own instances - and what that has to do with the journals many scholarly societies use to generate revenue:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207

#fediverse #openscience #openaccess #infrastructure

She championed #womenInSTEM writing, “I live and work under 3 basic assumptions. 1: There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman. 2: Worldwide, half of all brains are in women. 3: We all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.”

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1393796836/lino-block-portrait-of-astronomer-vera

Compare #paychecks with you co-workers. It is the best way to get #equality.

In the #USA it is illegal for them to even ASK you not to talk about your #wages

This Climate Graphic is quite powerful 👇👇

c’mon… make money

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a debris field of boulders flung thousands of miles into space. It all started last September when NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft deliberately smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos. The rocks, which range from 3 to 22 feet (0.9 to 6.7 meters) in diameter, were most likely shaken loose from the Dimorphos’s surface during the impact. More from LiveScience: https://flip.it/wfS9Ab
#Space #Science #Hubble #NASA

My great grandmother who died when I was a kid grew up in a home with one of her grandparents who was enslaved, and also married into a family where her father in law was enslaved. American Slavery was NOT that long ago.

@adamgreenfield

I saw a this screenshot of a sam altman tweet and I had hoped it was a joke but oh god oh no oh fuck it's real oh shit.

Honestly, part of me is still clinging to a bare shred of hope that he's joking, because the idea that someone who misunderstands shit This Badly gets lauded as a genius and invited to the white house and fêted to help craft literal life-altering national policy? Holy SHIT.

I mean just… holy fucking SHIT.

Almost to 100k in our first week! Anyone have any suggestions for readers of the other Abridged books? We got Phil Plait for the Universe one. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-universe-abridged-beyond-the-point-of-usefulness?ref=user_menu

A periodic reminder that while most fediverse services are provided for free, they are far from free to run. Many thanks to all who donate and support your instance. If you are in a position to do so, I encourage you to take a look at your instance's "about" page for details on how to donate (for example, https://infosec.exchange/about)

Some instances do require a fee to join - I personally feel strongly that everyone should be able to participate, regardless of ability to pay and I will do all I can to make sure these resources are available to those in the community who want to use them.

Thank you and have a great weekend!