Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Black To The Future: an Afro-Futurist celebration of outstanding Black artists, taking place in London and online

https://blacktothefuture.space/

#SFF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Afrofuturism

me: hey big companies, can I download all of your copyrighted movies and music and images in case one inspires me to make something someday?

big companies: lol no get rekt

also big companies: btw we're downloading and using all of your copyrighted works to stuff into our machine learning models

Omg they just broke into afternoon #news with breaking: #Trump is whining on the courthouse steps about how unfairly he was treated during his rude tantrum on the stand today

CBS is giving him 10 free minutes of airtime for his political bullshit!

No wonder people have no idea what Biden is doing!

Media doesn't cover him even when he's delivering real speeches from the White House

#LockTrumpUpAlready
#VoteDemocratONLY
#SaveOurDemocracy

@peltast @shoq

Fucking consumer mentality "Earn my vote–I need to speak to the manager" shit from people who are supposed to be on our side will help get us killed.

Just vote against the Nazis, people, it's not that hard.

Watch: Cycling group encounters bear family on North Carolina road https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/11/06/bear-family-cyclists-Greenville-County-North-Carolina/2051699306792/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Once Again Trump Doesn’t Disappoint. He Really IS That Stupid https://politizoom.com/once-again-trump-doesnt-disappoint-he-really-is-that-stupid/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Remember when Betelgeuse didn't blow up?

But it blew *out*. Dust, that is, and a lot of it. Like, the unit "gigaton" is postively smashed flat by the amount it disgorged.

So here's what it looked like in the infrared as it did that.

https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/mars-sample-non-return-betelgeuse

So we all noticed the Amstrad PPC512 in episode five of Loki, right?

Owls are both the most easily recognizable and elusive birds. They’re not easy to spot. And their wings are designed for soundless flight. We get wiser about these nocturnal fliers in the episode “Night Flight” on Big Picture Science.

Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/night-flight

New study shows that "academic researchers [are] demoralised by a culture that disincentivises sharing and collaboration, encourages questionable research practices, and increases the risk of bias."

"...writing research under the pressure to find 'impactful' results [make me feel] like 'I'm a novel writer instead of a researcher'" explains one interviewee.

Summary of survey (N > 400): https://www.octopus.ac/research-culture-report
h/t @HughShanahan
#OpenScience #Science @academicchatter

The man who turned himself in after a shooting in September is the same man who robbed Chatterbox at gunpoint in 2002. He was released from his 20-year prison sentence just months ago.

https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/11/06/man-suspected-in-wausau-shooting-served-20-years-for-2002-chatterbox-armed-robbery/

Only one more day to submit questions for the Meet and Greet with #GNOME Foundation Executive Director Holly Million! All questions are due tomorrow (Nov 7): https://events.gnome.org/e/HollyMillion

Remember to register! Join the remote event on Nov 14 at 18:00 UTC by registering online.

‘The Frick Pittsburgh postponed an exhibition featuring 10 centuries of Islamic art that was supposed to open on Saturday, citing the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war and the fear that the show could become “a source of unintended insensitivity or offense.”… “… the collection was supposed to help people understand the diversity of Islamic art… it included works by Muslims, Jews and Christians... The collection is so far away from anything that is remotely political or sympathetic to fanaticism.”’ #arthistory

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/arts/design/islamic-exhibition-postponed-frick-pittsburgh.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8Uw.TNZr.rw5aiEHMxyn1&smid=url-share

The UN chief tells reporters Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children”.“Hundreds of girls and boys are reportedly being killed and injured every day,” he s...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Antonioguterres #Gaza #Hamas #Israel #Israelgazawar #Israelhamaswar #Unitednations #Unitednationssecretarygeneral #Unitedstates #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #gazaaid #gazaceasefire #gazahospitals #gazahumanitariancrisis #gazahumanitarianpause #gazawar #gazawardeathtoll #hamasattackonIsrael
UN chief: ‘Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children’

Books by Albert Einstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630

Books by Marie Curie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39174

#books #science #physics #relativity #radioactivity

Albert Einstein and Marie Curie conversing in Geneva, July 1924.

Marie met Einstein personally in 1911, during the first Solvay Conference in Brussels. Einstein confirmed this fact in one of his letters:

"I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels(…)"

Credits: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Held by Niels Bohr Library & Archives

#science #physics