szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

pronouncing 'W' as double u is way too long and doesn't even make sense since it's more double v than u

we should just refer to W as wa from now on

when talking about the world wide web you won't have to spend an eternity on saying double you double you double you out loud but instead just say wawawa dot domain dot TLD

“I didn’t make up the problems. All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.“
— Octavia E. Butler, who would've been 76 today, on not being a prophet

#OctaviaButler
#SpeculativeFiction
#ScienceFiction
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Almost every human disease involves inflammation in some form or another, so being able to detect inflammation biomarkers in sweat would make it easier to monitor a person's health.

And now we can.

It's my latest for work:

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/wearable-sweat-sensor-detects-molecular-hallmark-of-inflammation

Today, an estimated 5.3 billion people, or 66% of the world’s population, use the internet.

However, in Africa, the average is just 40% of the population, making it the least connected region. https://globaldigitalinclusion.org/2023/05/18/transform-africa-summit-meaningful-connectivity-is-key-to-unlocking-africas-potential/

20 years jail for rescuing 1000 low income migrants who were forced to put their lives at risk.

Expanded search for rescuing a few billionaires who chose to put their lives at risk.

Criminalizing poverty and excusing oppulance.

Smh. We don’t have to live like this.

Henneguya zschokkei is a parasite that doesn't have mitochondria and doesn't use oxygen to metabolize. And one theory for its evolution was that it was a cancer of jellyfish that became its own species.

Let me get this straight: it doesn't have mitochondria, doesn't use oxygen to metabolize, and it might have been a cancer that became its own species.

Life is terrifying, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henneguya_zschokkei

Exactly this.

Happy birthday to the 19" equipment rack, which turns 100 next month. From the July, 1923, Bell Systems Technical Journal: "All panels are to be of a uniform length, designed to mount on vertical supports spaced 19>< inches between centers. The height of the different panels will vary, according to the amount of apparatus in each unit, but this vertical dimension is in all cases to be a whole multiple of 1-3/4 inches."(p139 at https://archive.org/details/bstj2-3-112/page/n27/mode/2up )

Know what's fun... when a response to my toot gets way more attention than the actual toot. That's the best!

In 2001 my cousin, Sofia - a medical doctor - died when the EVAC helicopter she and four others were on crashed into the Med in bad weather while on a mission to rescue a rich arsehole who'd got into difficulties aboard his yacht.
Hers was the only body found - it washed up on one of the islands two months later.
Go ahead and not give a shit about the lives of people you deem unworthy of compassion. My family will still try to rescue you, too, if you get into difficulties for whatever reason. It's what we believe.

Dzisiaj porównuję ze sobą słowa "rooting" i "routing" - różnią się tylko jedną literką, ale jest to znacząca różnica w świecie IT (i w sumie w normalnym angielskim też). O tym dzisiaj przygotowałem dla Was tekst.

#rooting #routing #IT

https://wildasoftware.pl/post/czym-roznia-rooting-routing?ref=mastodon

Less than 60 percent of those living on Tribal lands in the lower 48 states having access to basic broadband connections

So we are thrilled to announce another ACLS Fellow will be joining our team this fall to help advance better Internet connectivity among Native Nations

https://communitynets.org/content/cbn-welcomes-new-acls-fellow-work-advancing-digital-sovereignty-indian-country

Cyphomyrmex sp. carrying a caterpillar poop multiple times its own weight, on a mossy bark. And people think i am crazy when i look closely at trees with a big smile. Their loss.

I did it! I made an epicycle clock!

Check your loopy time here:
https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/

#Scientists need to avoid disingenuous #debates with those who are practiced in “…flooding the zone with garbage.”

There are plenty of people who want to #learn and have genuine #discussions. Focus your attention there.

Quote via 🔗 https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/scientists-shouldn-t-debate-gaslighters