szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

You know how young children will see some toy or shiny object on a store shelf, and somehow — by design! Marketers know what they’re doing! — they instantly •have• to have it, and are obsessed, and all sense and proportion go out they window and they need it now now NOW, but if they get it they abandon it within a week because it’s junk that only looked good on the shelf?

It’s like that with CEOs and AI right now.

Pozdrowienia z Biskupina. Nawet sobie nie wyobrażacie ile osób wybrało tę upalną niedzielę na stanie w korku do parkingów przy muzeum. I jak zabawne jest mijane ich wszystkich :)

#rower #Biskupin

📝 New on the blog: Just Build It

https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2023/09/just-build-it/

📝 New on the blog: On Gatekeeping Design and Democratizing Information

https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2023/09/gatekeep-democratize/

My sister has just lent me Chris Van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People, itself “processed” by her dog enthusiastically carrying it around the house for a couple of weeks. Apparently it was his favourite carry toy, and I’ve just temporarily deprived him of it.

#science #books #dogs

Are the boomers okay though.

Return to office orders appear to have been harder for them, for other reasons.

🇵🇱 Dzisiaj na #blog o mapach, ale nie byle jakich tylko takich dbających o prywatność użytkownika, czyli dalej wokół #Outernet! A konkretnie #OrganicMaps i #OpenStreetMap, z którego korzystają.

https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/outernet-maps/

🇬🇧 Today on the #blog about maps and not just any maps but ones that care about user privacy, that is further around the #Outernet! Specifically #OrganicMaps and #OpenStreetMap, which they use.

https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/outernet-maps-eng/

@skrybatv WriteFreely, np. https://writefreely.pl

Owszem, @ftdl zaczyna tworzyć magazyn.social (taki /kbin do blogów), ale WriteFreely jest już gotowy.
#fediwersum

Spontaneous alpha brain dynamics track the episodic “when”
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/09/11/JNEUROSCI.0816-23.2023
#neuroscience

I found the Final Boss of frogs

#SilentSunday

A reminder:

If your religion requires you to make sacrifices to follow its precepts - like, say quit a job that wants you to do something your religion objects to - fine, I'll defend your right to practice that religion.

If you religion requires other people to make sacrifices to satisfy your lust for power over them - like banning books or making birth control illegal - then fuck you and your "religion" to the nether regions of the planet.

Your beliefs should not make other people suffer.

“Never heard of Cecilia Payne?
Now you have”

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's 1925 thesis that the sun was composed mostly of hydrogen and helium was rejected by a professor who called it "impossible". Years later, the man who rejected it realized she was in fact right, but he was credited with the discovery for decades. A prominent astronomer called her discovery "the most brilliant PhD thesis
ever written in #astronomy".
#WomenInScience

This is how you make tea, right? Asking for a friend…

Ważny komunikat Pol.social ‼️

Dzisiaj w nocy od 2:00 do 3:00 planowane są prace z instancją Mastodon i serwer zostanie na ten czas wyłączony.

Przepraszamy za utrudnienia.

We wtorek wpada ważna aktualizacja security Mastodona i musimy się przygotować.

Można też dorzucić się do kawy i picki dla działu technicznego pracującego w nocy z soboty na niedzielę ☕️🍕 tutaj:

https://ftdl.pl/wplaty/

Dzięki za wsparcie i wyrozumiałość ♥️

Załoga @ftdl

What do Northern Saw-whet Owls & Barbie have in common? PINK! Northern Saw-whet Owls are very nocturnal & it’s hard to age them by flashlight. The trick? UV light! Newly molted feathers have fresh porphyrins, which glow bright pink under UV light. Year 1 owls are very pink!
For more info, visit: http://www.birdfellow.com/journal/2013/02/25/pretty_in_pink_the_northern_saw_whet_owl_s_flashy_secret

#BirdGlamour #BirdGlamourOfNorthAmerica #SciComm
#Barbie #BarbieScience

Last spring, I was arrested in a direct action at #DanskeBank, calling for the end of its investments in #FossilFuels.

Today, I heard that Danske Bank has completely divested from the #Adani coal corporation. This is a victory, but the fight continues: Danske Bank continues financing climate collapse, via billion-dollar investments in another fossil corporation: #Equinor.

We need more activism, we need you! Contact us: srdenmark@proton.me

#dkpol #dkgreen #dkklima #dkforsk @ScientistRebellion

I don't have a sound cloud, but I have another little project.

https://cards-for-ukraine.at/

We have a charity where we ask for donations which we convert into €50 grocery vouchers for Ukrainian families that fled to Austria. Our state fails them as well.

We are zero overhead, every cent goes towards the vouchers. We pay the rest (envelops, stamps, printer cartridges, etc.)

We are 100% transparent, all contracts/orders/bills/payments here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PxOL8A44bIRU1Hdoq87_2iXSLNmnMXQr?usp=drive_link

Bunch of friends doing stuff.

First of all, the minister initially planned to create a price comparison platform "himself". This would have meant that some company he's buddy buddy with would have gotten a million Euro contract and delivered an abmysal failure of a system.

He's now given up on that.

The second upside: as soon as media coverage of our efforts picked up, the price hikes stopped for the most part. I'm obviously not entirely attributing this to our work. But I like to think we played a part in it.