Dean @dean@librem.one
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I am into science and climate activism. I love to learn about social issues and to challenge my own perspectives. I'm also into free and open-source software and I am back in University studying computer science.
Joined Jun 2019
@Snoro Fusion has crossed the first zero point. Overall it still took orders of magnitude more energy to achieve this milestone. The true zero point is if it can run its own plant, including the kitchen. Then to be abundant and affordable (same wishes as fission) it needs to be 1000 or 1000000 times more energy. It's a very long road to have the first 5 plants operational. Until then we need to solve climate change.
@blindscribe @samwilson uses Flickr and if I remember they are looking at adding ActivityPub. I don't know how accessible their UI is or how much they cost.
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Are folks really pressuring independent artists, authors, etc., not to promote their work here?
Do you also picket your local independent cafe and mom and pop stores? What happens if you succeed in shutting them down? That’s right, you end up with a McDonald’s in their place.
Please learn to separate capitalists from folks trying to survive under capitalism. Independent people trying to pay their rent isn’t advertising, it’s existing. What Coca-Cola does is advertising.
#fediverse ❤️ #indie
@xerz @be the best laid plans never work when they hit the ground. They should open it and see how people abuse it and then fix it. it's still just programming just more undefined behaviour then C.
Case: let's make art with AI! Wait it's just touching up existing art, where's the randomness, uniqueness, the intelligence? Why doesn't it make 'new' art???
*Purposefully not talking about the legal/copyright issue.
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Feel free to boost this poll, but I'm wondering how many people do where they respond to a notification by using win+shift+V on the PC or holding on it on the phone, and taking action on it that way, is this more just a thing that sighted people do? Most of my friends don't do this but I hear a lot of people on YouTube doing this.
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I used to think publishing in #Elsevier journals like #Cell was a sign of #scientific prestige. Now I see them more and more as stains in my CV. The extent of the ties between Elsevier and the #climate wrecking #FossilFuel industry is truly deplorable:
#Climate #OpenScience #ScienceMastodon #Publishing #ClimateCrisis #Greenwashing
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How the Grinch Stole the Fediverse parody. Long serial thread, updated daily.
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In case you don’t believe the same equations govern #motion in the #atmosphere and the #ocean.
Video by Tristan Heth in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Ready for #pride! I'm playing a shaker with the Sambanistas and we are group 99 just behind the volunteers of #prideParade.
@LovesTha when you do go, check what they have and send an update. Even updates like `they sold out of cake, but do sell cold drinks` is welcome.
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Remember how IBM Watson, the computer that beat a human in Jeopardy!, was supposed to revolutionize medicine? Did you know it is being sold off for parts?
“If you think about it… the notion that you’re going to take an artificial intelligence tool, expose it to data on patients who were cared for on the upper east side of Manhattan, and then use that information and the insights derived from it to treat patients in China, is ridiculous.”
From Slate article:
https://buff.ly/3VcRyh3.
@samwilson encyclopaedia only has a small paragraph on the main topics that never helped me in school. Nothing like Wikipedia.
@zyk@mastodon.nz let's keep it as court yards and not school yards.
@rae they are worse on the inside
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@Sheril Alt text: Image of hourglass:
Each grain of sand in this visualization
represents 10 million people.
[Top of hourglass] 140 million children are born every year. 14 grains of sand enter the hourglass.
You are here. These 795 grains represent the 7.95 billion people who are alive today.
[Bottom of hourglass] 60 million people die every year. 6 grains of sand pass through the hourglass.
About 109 billion people have lived and died. 10.900 grains of sand.
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@nami_wiki @Tim_Boettcher I rarely post so that would make my timeline blank. Leave enough time so people looking to following you could get an idea about your tooting style.
@Snoro simple counter. Eating red meat 'helps' you gain muscle so we should attack gym junkies*. Normal weight but high carbon foods. You can be vegetarian and eat fried food and chocolate. Overweight but low carbon foods.
* There are a lot of great foods vegetarians can eat to 'help' gain muscle. The number 1, 2, and 3 best things to do is, go to the gym!
- Country
- Australia
I am into science and climate activism. I love to learn about social issues and to challenge my own perspectives. I'm also into free and open-source software and I am back in University studying computer science.
Joined Jun 2019
