szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Just one example: the mindblowing volume that botanist Anne Wollstonecraft wrote in the 1820s in Cuba, only permissable because she did so under the guise of being an illustrator - beside making exquisite illustrations and detailed descriptions, she interviewed the indigenous people of Cuba and wrote about the ways in which they saw and used plants. Something a gentleman explorer would never ever do! The book was never published, only a single (!) hand-written (!!!) volume exists. It makes one weep at what could have been, had women been permitted to participate in this sexy, horny field of botany. How much richer we could all have been, how much more complete our understanding of the world. All because we had to frontload the whole thing with our own prejudices and sexist nonsense.

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When you look at some fern spores under a microscope and the spores are just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#sporespondence #fernfriday

Za każdym razem, co roku, jak tylko syreny zawyją libki na baczność staną a następnie zwyzywają Testament Polski Walczącej od Bolszewików. ZA KAŻDYM JEDNYM RAZEM.

@mkfirma dlaczego nazywa Pan powstańców bolszewikami?

Behind every bit of climate denial is somebody getting paid off.

British PM Sunak appears to be no different.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sunaks-family-firm-signed-a-billion-dollar-deal-with-bp-before-pm-opened-new-north-sea-licences-353690/

#UKPolitics #Sunak #Climate #ClimateCrisis

@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs it’s a Thing in California - they love the cheatgrass and flammable weeds and they’re nimble enough to work the steepest hillsides.
We hired a local flock at our last house. It was set into the hillside on one acre of absurdly steep and wooded redwoods, and the invasive shit was winning the understory war. A really nice mountain weirdo with about thirty goats, one longhorn heifer, and two LGDs came out one afternoon. He and a helper set up electronet with big marine batteries, and the goats and cow went right to work. They slowly moved through the entire property over three days, making the most peaceful sounds, Doing The Job. Like they clearly understood the gig, and of course the Anatolians did too. He said the heifer just refused to stay home when the goats went out on a job, so now she gets to go too 😂
At the very end they did escape, up the almost complete vertical slope onto the road above, but local Facebook immediately knew they were Wes’s goats. He’d gone to get the trailer and they were like, looks like more food if we keep going thataway, lol.
The thing is, it IS a job for an entire flock. They stuck together and ate everything in a slow wave across the property - but one or two loose goats will just kinda wander. The flock had its LGD members, and they knew the dogs were keeping them safe from lions, and they had zero desire to leave the flock and wander away on their own. It would take good training and a lot of luck to build that from a new flock, you know?
Amazing to watch them work. They were so peaceful! They ate it all, too: english ivy, poison oak, scotch broom, hazelnuts, even the low growing redwood fronds.
Wait, fuck, what IS a group of goats? It’s a flock of sheep. English is so dumb.

My favorite quote for today:

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

#Quotes

Od dziś jesteśmy fundacją!

Otworzy nam to nowe możliwości do działań, o których na pewno usłyszycie 💪

One hundred years ago this study, had it existed, might have been regarded as science fiction: “Machine Learning Approach for Muscovy #Duck (Cairina moschata) Semen Quality Assessment” https://improbable.com/2023/08/01/the-future-is-now-machine-learning-approach-for-muscovy-duck-semen/

Drops of water hang in a damaged spider's web after the rain.

In my garden in Berlin, but could be everywhere.

#TextureTuesday #SpiderWeb #RainDrops #Nature #NaturePhotography

Are we splitting the Web? Maybe it’s time to choose your side.

https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html

You can keep overhead projector transparencies in ring binder sleeves, and use masking tape to conceal certain words. Then you just pull the transparency out of the sleeve to reveal the words.

You can do the same in PowerPoint but it makes the computer screen really sticky.

Each frame visualizes 475GB volumetric data, 285TB total. Look at this detail!
Commercial #CFD would need years for this, #FluidX3D does it over the weekend.

No code changes or porting required; #FluidX3D works out-of-the-box with 32-#GPU scaling. The power of #OpenCL!

The SuperNODE AMD Instinct #GPU benchmarks and #FluidX3D source code are on #GitHub: https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/FluidX3D
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Neuroscience Needs a Revolution to Understand Consciousness. Encinitas - Aug 18-20
Live and online
https://vimeo.com/845485065

Tutaj inny interesujący artykuł: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/ (nie czytałem jeszcze całości)

📝 Some recollections on user feedback:

I remember sitting in on feedback session for one of the biggest things we were working on and a customer said, “Yeah, I suppose this is good and all, but it seems like you’re building stuff just to build stuff.“

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/user-feedback/

Gefiederten Zorro als Showact.
Ohne Worte, was er nun so abliefert.

#photography #nature

Tiny Privacy Tip 🔒:

Do not give your name to your devices.

Give them their own unique unrelated name. Like Steve or Martha or CyberApple or MyMagicTinyPocketComputer ✨

Giving it your own name isn’t really helpful in any way to you, and through Bluetooth or WiFi scanning can make your name known to strangers in the vicinity you might not want to share your name with.

Giving weird unrelated names to your phones, computers, WiFi network, etc, is not only safer, it is also much cuter ​

#TinyPrivacyTip

If you're still using Chrome for performance reasons:
- Firefox is now faster than Chrome out-of-the-box
- Firefox uses less memory than Chrome
- Contrary to Chrome, Firefox does not restrict Ad blockers, which will make your browsing experience much faster (and safer).