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Więc mówisz, że kiedyś w komiksach nie było polityki (i tego całego woke)? [Epizod 27]

A pamiętasz, jak w 1964 roku (no... w czasie II wojny światowej) do zróżnicowanego etnicznie oddziału Howling Commandos dołączył na jedną misję rasista, któremu Nick Fury w żołnierskich słowach wyjaśnił, co sądzi o takich, jak on?

"Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos", vol. 1, nr 6, Marvel Comics

"The Fangs of the Desert Fox!", scen. Stan Lee, rys. Jack Kirby.

#komiks #comics #Marvel #MarvelComics #PolitykaWKomiksie #PoliticsInComics

Found this thanks to a friend

It’s like the cloud in Independence Day.
Moving in fast.
#ID4

Any help identifying this pollinator?

On a Narrow leaf milkweed near the Pit River in Shasta County around elevation 2700'.

#Insect #Insects #Pollinator #Pollinators

The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.

#dream
#dreammeanings
In my dream just before I woke up this morning, I was attempting to rescue an injured beaver from a boulevard center. Couldn't decide how to pick him up without getting bit. Was joined by a 2nd beaver and then 2 dogs who got distracted by a skunk. Then an antlerless moose appeared and started to attack me. I was trying to roll into the nearby underbrush to escape when I woke up.

Besides doing a bunch of useless research on the motion of planets, Kepler did some practical work on the volume of wine barrels. The story is interesting! Roberto Cardil writes:

"Kepler had several children before his first wife died. In 1613, he married for the second time in a celebration in Linz, Austria. Kepler bought a barrel of wine for the wedding but questioned the method the wine merchant used to measure the volume of the barrel and thus determine the price. In consequence, afterwards Kepler set out both to determine the correct volume of a wine barrel or cask, and to find the proportions that optimize the volume of such a barrel."

To determine the volume of a wine barrel, Kepler thought of any solid body as made up of thin layers, took the sum of the volumes of these layers, and then took a kind of limit where the thickness of these layers became infinitesimal.

Otto Toeplitz wrote:

"Working out finer approximations of various barrel shapes, Kepler consulted Archimedes and discovered that his own method of indivisibles had enabled him to obtain results in a far simpler and more general way than Archimedes, who had been struggling with cumbersome and difficult proofs. What he did not suspect was that Archimedes, too, had found his results by the same method of indivisibles (for his book The Method was lost until 1906!)."

I guess these "indivisibles" are like "infinitesimals".

For more, read this:

Roberto Cardil, Kepler: The Volume of a Wine Barrel, https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/kepler-the-volume-of-a-wine-barrel

The "optimization" problem is not quite clearly explained here, but it seems to be maximizing the volume of a barrel while keeping its volume as measured by the wine merchant constant! 😈

A quick #introduction: I am a #philosophy #professor working in #PhilosophyofScience especially the #geosciences & #paleo. I toot mostly about #academic things related to #philsci #histsci & #science that I find interesting. I live in #Boston, am a #mom of 2, & teach at #BostonUniversity. I also like to share #photos of #nature, #sunsets, #sailing, #travel, etc. Thanks for following! 🤎🦣

If you're new to Mastodon, know that you don't get your tusks until one of the longtime natives scolds you for not putting your stuff behind a content warning, and your response sets off an old-school flame war that defederates at least three instances.

The Apollo LVDC is the third computer on the ship that never gets any love cos it just ran the engines and wasn't sexy

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/LVDC.html

I am sorry to those who came over here with me in November in the hope and expectation that a good chunk of legal Twitter would also come.

Sadly most of the accounts I recommended as they came over then are now fairly quiet on here - many not having posted since December/January.

Am looking out for other legal accounts to recommend - and if you know of any, do let me know.

Any area of law, any jurisdiction.

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

@liztai We should all stop paying corporations as much as possible.

Fuck their AI, fuck their copyright, for their "intellectual property".

Paywalls are just an attempt at enclosing any and all remaining commons & public goods for mass #enshittification and value extraction.

#AbolishCopyright

Most handsome birthday boy. 18 months old, give Castor a big hooray!

#MastoDogs #DogsOfMastodon

Well-intentioned people: let's wait and see if #Threads is, for example, a privacy nightmare

Facebook: we're not launching in Europe yet because right now it would be illegal

Right so.

#FediPact