Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

#Biodiversity loss is felt more acutely in Hawaii than anywhere else in the US. Eight Hawaiian birds were declared extinct this year, and four others are at imminent risk of extinction.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/us-animals-birds-extinct-this-year

One week after leaving substack

My subscribers are up.
My paid subscribers are up.
My traffic is up.

S/o to @jkottke & others for the push.

I'm glad I took the leap.

if you google search "google map embed" you'll see a bunch of free tools for generating google map embeds and they work well except most of them hide a link to a spam or piracy site. if you use a code snippet generator, make sure you look at the code for strange links!

This is not subtooting, but there’s a full solar eclipse this spring, and it’s a really big deal in North America and I’ve gotten like 5 very kind con invites during it and I just hope y’all know …

Just arrived! Thanks @ZachWeinersmith for writing this!

Proof
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/ontological (click for bonus panel)
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #religion

Inert ingredients – like fragrances, dyes and preservatives – in pesticides are not as harmless as their name suggests.

And now research is showing how these added ingredients harm honeybees
https://theconversation.com/inert-ingredients-in-pesticides-may-be-more-toxic-to-bees-than-scientists-thought-218005

#bees #pesticides #environment

I genuinely believe that at this point all academic conferences should at least have a strong hybrid (online & offline) option—even when we aren’t in the middle of another COVID wave.

It makes the conference much more accessible.

So funny when cogsci guys who TA'd stats a few times graduate and join a health startup and all become "behavioral economists of futuring foresight" or whatever title they're on now

@vga256 3 solarpunk/hopepunk books for your delectation

1. Another Life by @sarenaulibarri
2. The Lost Cause by @pluralistic
3. 470 by @lindawoodrow

It seems like Madtodon is the solarpunk place to be.

@georgetakei this is a good piece on the subject. The author found that even many people features in stories like these eventually landed on their feet. That doesn’t make the college okay — there are lots of aspects of the system we need to fix. But the data doesn’t support the idea of it all being a scam. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/myth-unemployed-college-grad/676364/

Is there anything more delightful than remembering you get to create a new reference entry because you not only made the point that you now need to make in a new piece of work but backed it up in a large study 🥰

We've published over 60k words of openly shared original empirical research projects this year -- that's a book!

Website: Your password has expired! Let me take you to a different subdomain than the one where you login, to enter a new password!

MacOS KeyChain: Here is my generated strong password that I will store ... for this subdomain.

Next login attempt: Keychain enters old password…

Did a reverse image search on this container and #Google actually thinks it's a #Cybertruck 😂

#Tesla #ElonMusk

Here's an old pic I took of the snow-capped Llullaillaco #volcano, as seen at #sunset from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The volcano itself sits at the border between #Chile and #Argentina. I love the colour contrast between the ochre expanse of the Atacama #Desert and the white #snow covering the volcano!

#landscape #LandscapePhotography #astrodon #photography

Deidre asked me to "toot on the Mastodons" that we just did another episode, this time talking to Jon Millican and Timothy Buck about default-E2EE messaging across all Meta/Fb properties --- the largest E2EE deployment on Earth. Fun chat! I had at least one good question!

https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/12/28/e2ee-fb-messenger/

Making friends in abandoned places is the best. I met this sweet little cat in the ghost village of Gherdeal in Romania - thankfully, even though the town was mostly deserted at the time, he did have a human to look after him 🥰

Check out the village at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-ghost-village-of-gherdeal

Philosophy
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/philospohy (click for bonus panel)
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #philosophy