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If you would like a fun little break, we are publishing jigsaw puzzles every Sunday with an image from a recent Scientific American article. The puzzle makes a satisfying, crunchy click sound when you fit pieces together scientificamerican.com/game/sc…


A moth. If anyone can tell me what kind of moth this is, I’d be grateful. I don’t know much about moths. #moth #mothtodon


#CMSPaper 1340: are invisible particles (like #darkmatter) produced together with bottom quarks? This is the first-ever search at LHC checking for dark matter signatures in b jet events, using angles (plot) and missing energy, but no sign of DM, sadly💔 buff.ly/4edOA5s



Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

theguardian.com/technology/202…

> Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

>“It’s down to creative accounting,”

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The tool used by nearly all white collar grifters.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency



Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss figured out how to make a heptadecagon (a symmetrical 17-sided shape) & used it to solve a 2,000-year-old problem. He was 18. And he considered this his greatest achievement. scientificamerican.com/article…


Is there a #Linux #desktop #app like #URLChecker?

github.com/TrianguloY/UrlCheck…

On #Android, #URL Checker displays all #links I click on (outside of a #browser) so I can make sure #tracking parameters are removed, redirects are resolved, etc. before visiting it.

I want the same thing for my desktop!

#privacy #FOSS



"Lemniscating"

Another math-meditation, this time over lemniscate spirals, bells and an ambient sound...

Inspired by @fractalkitty 🙂

In my series of Tooll3 point generators, today I created first a lemniscate, but then extended it to be able to create lemnispirals by varying the radius over time.

youtu.be/l7UrvBH2b7w

#Tooll3 #realtime #particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #mastoart #audioreactive #sounddesign #math #lemniscate #opensource



Oh giggles, "TruthSocial" has a lie on every single page with:

"Proudly made in the United States of America. 🇺🇸"

Ripped and rebranded he means I guess

Open source doesn't mean you "created" it Donny Lier

help.truthsocial.com/legal/ope…

in reply to stux⚡

Muricans believes you put a US flag it became automatically USians
in reply to stux⚡

By the way, the guy who forked Mastodon is also on the Fediverse. I bet he has many interesting stories from that time. @0461fcbecc4c3374439932d6b8f11269ccdb7cc973ad7a50ae362db135a474dd



A sign I’ve arrived in an advanced #transit society: the first thing I see outside my hotel window is overhead wires for the city buses.

#Switzerland was one of the earliest nations to electrify its train network. Now 70 % of its electricity comes from hydro/solar …



Genome Sequencing Shows Kākāpō Evolved Two Plumage Colors To Evade Predators, study Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Aotearoa New Zealand Department of Conservation & Māori iwi Ngāi Tahu, pub'd by PLOSBiology

by @GrrlScientist

#ecology #ornithology🪶 #genomics #SciComm🧪 forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist…



BREAKING: Trump was the subject of an apparent assassination attempt at his Florida golf club, the FBI officially says.

The suspect arrested in the alleged assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump is Ryan Wesley Routh, per Bloomberg

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options



A group of female prisoners at Tehran’s Evin Prison started a hunger strike Sunday to mark the second anniversary of the nationwide protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody.

voanews.com/a/prisoners-on-hun…



Download 215,000 Japanese Woodblock Prints by Masters Spanning the Tradition’s 350-Year History

openculture.com/2021/12/downlo…




Trump is trying to incite a pogrom.

Mere weeks before the election, he has about a 50:50 chance to get back to the White House.

As president, he could then use the racist frenzy he and Vance caused as justification for mobilizing the federal government to “cleanse” the nation.

in reply to Thomas Zimmer

A pattern that has led to the worst mass crimes in history:

A regime targets certain groups as dangerous “Others” who poison the nation.

The propaganda incites a storm of violence.

Having created what it now calls an “untenable situation,” the regime declares it must act.

in reply to Thomas Zimmer

To “restore order,” the regime enacts a host of measures against the “Other”: Mass arrests, discriminatory legislation, “orderly” purges in the form of deportations.

But the situation will soon be “untenable” again: After more propaganda, more pogroms - leading to more extreme measures.



TRUMP CRIME FAMILY 🚨

Mike Lindell Group Accused of ‘Impersonating’ Election Cybersecurity Initiative

Lindell’s Election Crime Bureau emailed election officials requesting their home addresses and info about how they monitor security threats
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

rollingstone.com/politics/poli…