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Moving instances now, see you in a minute 🙂

Moving instances now, see you in a minute 🙂

TIL: You can see planets (and their moons) during the day. (Source: https://www.planetary.org/space-images/jupiter-in-daylight)

TIL: You can see planets (and their moons) during the day.

(Source: https://www.planetary.org/space-images/jupiter-in-daylight)

Here's my prediction: After Twitter falls apart, Melon Husk will run a Mastodon instance for his fans and claim to have invented it.

Here's my prediction: After Twitter falls apart, Melon Husk will run a Mastodon instance for his fans and claim to have invented it.

Melon Husk in GermanyHow it started & how it's going.

Melon Husk in Germany

How it started & how it's going.

Melon HuskIs Alanis Morissette on Mastodon yet? I would like to show her this prime example of irony.

Melon Husk

Is Alanis Morissette on Mastodon yet? I would like to show her this prime example of irony.

Interesting read:"Artificial intelligence and the technological turn of public education privatization: In defence of democratic...

Interesting read:

"Artificial intelligence and the technological turn of public education privatization: In defence of democratic education"

https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/LRE.18.2.04

#Science #MachineLearning #Education #Society

I just learned that Larry Ellison also put money into Twitter and now I really want to see it sink.

I just learned that Larry Ellison also put money into Twitter and now I really want to see it sink.

Twitter Drama

Twitter Drama

The sun is visible to the naked eye for up to ~60 light-years away from earth. For comparison: Deneb, the brightest star in the...

The sun is visible to the naked eye for up to ~60 light-years away from earth.
For comparison: Deneb, the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus, is 2,600 light-years away from us. The farthest star that is just visible to the naked eye is 16,308 light-years away.

(Image source: Torsten Bronger)

Octopuses throwing stuff at each other."In the line of fire: Debris throwing by wild...

Octopuses throwing stuff at each other.

"In the line of fire: Debris throwing by wild octopuses"

#Science

https://youtu.be/NMiIzA8AjgU

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276482#pone.0276482.ref007

A pretty inconvenient truth. The price of scientific visibility is paid with air travel and the associated damage to the environment.Sadly,...

A pretty inconvenient truth. The price of scientific visibility is paid with air travel and the associated damage to the environment.
Sadly, it looks like not even an ongoing pandemic can change this unsustainable privilege (after all, researchers of low and middle income countries tend to be excluded due to high travel costs and visa issues).

#Science #Climate

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9b51

Tech bros and Twitter drama

Tech bros and Twitter drama

Best science meme I've seen in a while.(Source: Unknown, multiple reddit posts)

Best science meme I've seen in a while.

(Source: Unknown, multiple reddit posts)

A lunar eclipse seen from the moon(Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-does-a-lunar-eclipse-look-like-from-the-moon)

A lunar eclipse seen from the moon

(Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-does-a-lunar-eclipse-look-like-from-the-moon)

The oldest known written sentence in the earliest known alphabet is:"May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the...

The oldest known written sentence in the earliest known alphabet is:
"May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard."

🦣

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/09/oldest-known-written-sentence-discovered-on-a-head-lice-comb

Seeing after names here is a bit cringe 😬

Seeing after names here is a bit cringe 😬

"Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming...

"Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/

FYI: I'll switch instances at some point this week as I am hosting my own with blackjack and all that.

FYI: I'll switch instances at some point this week as I am hosting my own with blackjack and all that.

By Michael de Adder.

By Michael de Adder.

(Well-funded) Universities should run *open* #Fediverse, and currently specifically #Mastodon, instances. They have the resources (knowledge...

(Well-funded) Universities should run *open* #Fediverse, and currently specifically #Mastodon, instances. They have the resources (knowledge and hardware), they're non-profit, are largely independent, and to do so aligns with their educational mandate. Same for #Wikipedia, IMO.