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Constructs a comprehensive, dynamic and digitally-available tree of life by synthesizing published phylogenetic trees along with taxonomic data. github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/open… #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain



The Netflora Project involves the application of geotechnologies in forest automation and carbon stock mapping in native forest areas in Western Amazonia. github.com/NetFlora/Netflora #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain


An open source plant database infrastructure and application programming platform on which complex data from genetic resource collections can be stored, queried and visualized. github.com/germinateplatform/g… #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain


Python library to search and process images from the CBERS-04A and AMAZONIA-1 satellites, which provide remote sensing data for the observation and monitoring of deforestation, particularly in the Amazon region, and diversified agriculture throughout the national territory, with a high repetition rate, in order to act in synergy with existing environmental programmes. github.com/gabriel-russo/cbers… #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain


For my newsletter I decided on Ghost as a platform. This post from its co-founder will help you understand why:

john.onolan.org/democratising-…

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in reply to Dan Gillmor

Not to mention: Their data servers are in the EU and they're fully GDPR compliant. For many European operators, this is not just a plus, it's a requirement. Ghost should make more noise about it (I learned this in the depth of an FAQ).
ghost.org/help/ghost-gdpr-comp…
in reply to Dan Gillmor

This says it all, about #ghost as a publishing platform:

● "Structured as an independent non-profit organisation. No owners, outside investors, no ulterior motivations, no conflicts of interest."

● "A sustainable revenue model with official, managed hosting. Not a giant venture-scale startup, just a simple business."



New UN Special Rapporteur report warns Israel’s genocide in Gaza could be expanding to the West Bank mondoweiss.net/2024/10/new-un-…



NEW Congressional Research Service Report

Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress
crsreports.congress.gov/produc…
by Ronald O'Rourke. 65 page(s).

This is the 421st published version. See crsreports.congress.gov/produc… for previous versions.


in reply to Robert Reich

Undemocratic total power is what they want... only the government can change this perversion. Tax the rich. Progressively.
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"Manolo, si no sabes torear, pa'ke te metes..."

Abro Edge, abro Copilot y formulo una pregunta para saber que cliente de escritorio recomienda para leer RSS.

Me responde con varias aplicaciones, y ofrece a la vez los enlaces oportunos.

Pero sistemáticamente salta la sorpresa : antivirus dice que esos enlaces mejor no entrar.

Resultado : Windows y Copilot son fuentes nativas de virus. Y gracias.

A las pantallas me refiero.



Please reflect on this.

Voyager 1 “turned off its primary X-band radio transmitter and instead switched over to its secondary S-band radio transmitter, which uses less power.” Then sent us a message. From 15 billion miles away.

It sounds like AI, but it’s not. It’s a space craft we launched in 1977. That’s FOURTY-SEVEN years ago.

We did this. For all our flaws, we do some spectacular things. I have to remember this.

space.com/space-exploration/mi…

#Voyager #Space #NASA #Spacecraft #Humanity

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thank you too! I reckon that on a grand scale, we're all probably orbiting *something*, and the Voyager craft were sent out to see what's out there. I feared I might have missed some big news. ;)


An Afro-Australian Daisy (genus Dimorphotheca) spotted in Italy on 19 Oct 2024. A lovely looking flower.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/2… ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Italy #Plants #Plantae #Flowers



Interesting post on bluesky pseudo-decentralization, the tech bros of the valley, and as a filigran, capitalism :)

rys.io/en/167.html

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Purple donkey orchids (Diuris punctata) in open heathland, Croajingolong NP, VIC. Widespread in VIC + NSW but generally uncommon in disjunct populations - regarded as vulnerable in VIC due to habitat depletion. Good numbers out this spring at this location.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #Diuris



Found 3 new servers and 7 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

22,798 servers checked. 14,708,379 Total Users with 1,081,044 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

test-fga.kate.wtf a #katewtf 11ty server from Slovakia
friendica.ginestes.es a #friendica server from Spain
mouthf.art a #mastodon server from Portugal

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer



CORSO 31 OTTOBRE is in a beautiful village called Mel in the Italian dolomites.
While I was taking these pictures, a half-English woman came over to me and explained that "Mel" is a contraction of "Gemelli", and the village got that name because at one point in history it was ruled by a pair of twins.


A few people have said that the blurry person in this photo looks like a ghost or even the Grim Reaper.

Taken at Denmark Hill London Overground Station.

Happy Halloween 🎃

#photography #railway