szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

I see that the no fly list was leaked - and to absolutely nobody's surprise, it's just a muslim ban.

Can we get rid of this garbage? It's been twenty godsdamned years. It's obviously xenophobic horseshit. There was never any legitimacy to this nor to the department allegedly responsible for it. It does nothing but harm.

A huge herd of bison, containing up to 170 of the animals, has been spotted in Poland.

Scientists say it is the largest they have ever seen.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/01/20/unprecedented-herd-of-170-bison-spotted-in-poland/

A great photo of three moose hanging out between Caribou Creek and Eureka, #Alaska
📸 by Brian E. Reed

CLI tools list - this one is good ! :)
https://dev.to/lissy93/cli-tools-you-cant-live-without-57f6 Thx @Lissy_Sykes

I just added another anecdote that I just remembered to the part of my book about web scraping:

"Somewhere around 2002, when I was in high school, my friends and I decided to make a song lyrics website. Similar sites existed but they were incomplete. I thought it would be simple to just scrape the lyrics from all of those other sites and make a single site that had all of the lyrics. I wrote a script to scrape thousands of lyrics from one of these sites, but my script crashed while it was running, and I realized this was because the website had stopped working. A few days later, the site came back online with a message: The owner was overjoyed to learn how much traffic they were getting, but they had to raise money to keep their site online to keep up. I felt bad about it, and we never ended up launching that lyrics site."

Whenever someone says re: EVs “But the Lithium Mines”!
I feel like screaming back: “You haven’t cared about the copper, gold, silver, aluminum, coal, lead and every other mine required to make cars until this date and oh ya, even if we had dug every mine in the world twice as deep for the past 200 years, none of them would have changed the global atmosphere and endangered civilization and all life on Earth like burning fossil fuels has. Stop repeating Fossil Fuel lobbyist talking points!”

During the #CivilWar an enslaved man, the remarkable Robert Smalls "hatched a daring plan that put a permanent dent in the Confederacy, won him [& many others] freedom & [greatly] changed #US #history". Smalls got his chance bc the white crew left the black crew in charge while they, contrary to orders, went offshore to sleep. They believed then that black folks weren’t capable of carrying out a plan like Smalls. Nobody saw it coming!
#BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #Ships
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/robert-smalls

I think the AliExpress graphic designer quit...

Software developers, please stop making the mistake that you're the only technical people in the room.

Domain experts are experts. They don't have an opinion on Go vs Rust or tabs Vs spaces because they're not express in your field. Don't pretend you're an expert in theirs because you have a favourite text editor.

Stormy day at the wild New Zealand coastline... These beaches all have a remote, untamed beauty that's good for the soul

©All rights reserved

#NewZealand #Photography #TravelPhotography

Eisvogel auf Ansitz, Blick durch mein Fernglas
#birds
#Alcedoatthis

The German word "ausbauen" can have 2 meanings:
- to disassemble
- to enlarge

So if your German friends say: "Wir haben unsere Küche ausgebaut" it can mean they have a bigger kitchen now - or none at all.

You better ask before you make any plans for dinner.

Enjoy our language!

#TheGermanWord

Ladies of a certain age have free rein to ravage the tub of hay that was intended to be for all four donkeys. 😄 #astodon

May you sleep as well as my dog with my cat's butt on his face

(he slept just fine)

Beautiful day here at DVF

Recurrent networks endowed with structural priors explain suboptimal animal behavior
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.044
#neuroscience

Hannah Arendt observed of the Nazis that they didn't lie because they believed it, or even because they expected YOU to believe it. They lied to say what would have to be true to justify what they intended to do.

Niezły duet

Update on ua-fediland.de :

One of their moderators got back to my email. They're in Ukraine and can't moderate during the blackouts (understandably!), and the bots/spammers take advantage of the power outages (they're Russian) to sign up when they know they'll have maximum time to stay on the instance before getting moderated.

I've suggested they might want to close sign ups before the outages to try to prevent it.

We're moving them from suspended to silenced and will keep an eye.