Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Zooming. #comics #funny #zoom

I'll take "Messages you don't want to see in your Okta admin console on Monday morning for $1000, Alex."

Assume a nonlinear dynamical system depending on some control parameters.

Assume you want to study if the system is critically slowing down or undergoing some critical transition in general.

Besides studying how autocorrelation at lag 1 and first (two) moments change over time, what would you study? Can you point to papers related to early warning signals?

Cc: @johncarlosbaez @j_bertolotti @lmrocha @lamaral @thilo @c4computation @tchambers

can someone rescue politico? they seem to be trapped in 2021

#journalism #TechHype #metaverse

I'm informed it's the done thing to have an #introductions post on Mastodon.

I've been on Twitter (https://twitter.com/urban_formation) for over a decade, where I've had some amazing conversations ranging from urbanism, mapping, to baking and books with some wonderful people.

For now I'll be cross-posting, testing out these hopefully less polluted waters, to see how it goes.

Thanks to @kerstinsailer for leading the way over here.

Biden administration to urge Americans get new COVID-19 boosters | Reuters

>The Biden administration plans to urge all Americans to get a booster shot for the coronavirus this autumn to counter a new wave of infections, a White House official said on Sunday

>The official said that while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are reporting an increase in infections and hospital admissions from the virus, overall levels remain low
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-urge-americans-get-new-covid-19-boosters-2023-08-20/ #covid #covid19 #vaccination #US

I shared this privately before, but I just got the okay to share it in public. The Bluegrass Archive is online with a website and everything. This is a MASSIVE trove of legal live #bluegrass recordings from earliest days right up to now, which you can download and listen to for free. It is one of the greatest achievements of the fan-driven #music archiving community I've ever seen. I contributed a small number of filesets out of the thousands here. #music

https://bluegrassarchive.com/

@mcnees
A few pics of the making of the Golden Record.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/making-of-the-golden-record/
#Voyager

#Cyberattack knocks 10 big telescopes offline since early this month. NSF-funded facilities in Hawaii & Chile affected.

#science #astronomy

https://www.science.org/content/article/cyberattack-shutters-major-nsf-funded-telescopes-more-2-weeks

@alexwild The American Museum of Natural History 🦕

In 2001, I got to work there as an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates). Best. Job. Ever.

I’d arrive before the museum opened & walk through the still dark exhibits. One night, my cohort slept over (before Night at the Museum was a thing).

For me, AMNH will always be a magical place.

Late last week, MSN.com's Microsoft Travel section posted an AI-generated article about the "cannot miss" attractions of Ottawa that includes the Ottawa Food Bank, a real charitable organization that feeds struggling families. In its recommendation text, Microsoft's AI model wrote, "Consider going into it on an empty stomach."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/microsoft-ai-suggests-food-bank-as-a-cannot-miss-tourist-spot-in-canada/

#AI #Ottawa #FoodBank #Bing #Microsoft

Using #Mastodon
and the #Fediverse is an act of rebellion in itself.

By being here,
you are contributing to grow an alternative system that is led by the people and for the people, not for profits.

By being here,
you are encouraging a solution to a deteriorating social climate that thrives on outrage and monetization of hate.

By being here,
you are participating to the development of a new system that can slowly build a better world.

Thank you for being here 💚

Pronounce
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/pronounce
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #linguistics

Linguistics question - in American English, has there been a shift toward AAVE vowels among non-black Americans? I swear I've been hearing several vowel shifts I associate with AAVE e.g. feel-->fill and words like burn and journey moving toward barn and jarney.

#SilentSunday #Nature

Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years smashes into the moon in failure
🔗 https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russias-moon-mission-falters-after-problem-entering-pre-landing-orbit-2023-08-20/
#space

“Granularity walkers for textual descriptions” https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/0219/

The #fediverse has our back. Here are just a few of our favorite newsrooms that are reimagining the future of #journalism:
@BBC_News_Labs
@KnowableMag @damemagazine
@SFPublicPress @THECITY @themarkup @Chron @TheConversationUS @gbhnews
@sltrib @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
@texastribune @insideclimatenews
@FAIR
@grist

#newstodon #followfriday