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"Scientists: the most trusted figures in today's society" by Ludwig Federigan for @TheManilaTimes: manilatimes.net/2024/08/17/bus…
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Congrats to Robert Tarjan and his collaborators on winning the best paper award at the 2024 Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science!

Their work, featured in Quanta Magazine, has proven that one algorithm — created by Edsger Dijkstra — is the "universally optimal" way to answer a quintessential problem: how to find the best path between two points.

quantamagazine.org/computer-sc…




@lovelylovely
If you haven't voted there are only three days left to make your voices heard and deliver that sweet victory defeat to Trump and his fascist.

Lets make history.

#VoteforAmerica

#VoteForHarrisWalz



Someone recommended me a #Friendica instance a few weeks ago but I lost it. Can you all recommend some English instances to try? #Fediverse


Please do not forget that our planet's fate in regards to global warming is also on our ballots.

When Joe Biden took office we had 36 gigawatts of solar and wind on the U.S. grid in February. This last February that had increased to 59 GW, from 11% to 18%. That only went from 9% to 11% during Trump's administration.

There is over 2 GW of clean electricity waiting to access our electricity grids and Republican Attorney Generals are fighting against grid expansions.
eenews.net/articles/republican…



Pa. officials apologize for shackled Harris display in Halloween parade (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)

washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
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George W Bush Daughter Barbara knocked on doors for Kamala Harris.

George W. Bush's Daughter Barbara Is Campaigning For Kamala Harris msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ge…



More people dying from lack of medical care in Texas must be a feature, not a bug according to Greg Abbott.

My tax dollars can go to hospital care for anyone who needs it. I don't care if they're citizens, green card holders, or undocumented. Immigrants contribute more than they take, and we should all be part of one health system anyway.

Texas doesn't elect a new governor until 2026, but vote blue and get rid of terrible Republicans at every opportunity.

apnews.com/article/texas-immig…



New #blog post: Magical Moments
(I borrowed the prompt I gave Amin 😅)

rldane.space/magical-moments.h…

cc: my #chorus: @amin @joel @joelchrono @dm @sotolf @ivan @thedoctor @pixx @mirabilos @twizzay@thisis.mylegendary.quest @twizzay@behold.mylegendary.quest @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk

*Cough*

Amin, Joel... that was three weeks ago. When are you going to write yours?
(Amin is somewhat excused as he is re-inventing the universe every 2.5 seconds ;)

#rlDaneWriting #WritingMonth

in reply to R. L. Dane

Oh ReBoot was an amazing cartoon series and one I'll never forgot. Tocuh screens were quite impressive when they hit the general market. I however don't miss the membrane version... I can't recall what this was called at the moment.



"[Damian Collins, a human geography professor and housing expert at the University of Alberta] is also skeptical of the argument that the situation hasn't gotten worse.

'The fact is that we have this incredible number of people experiencing homelessness in our city'"

But if you frame the issue such that it hasn't gotten worse, you can just policy drift your way right past it, duh!

Edmonton homelessness numbers surge toward 5,000, highest recorded since at least 2019
cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/ho…



LIVE SOON:

It's beta weekend, it's time to try and play Monster Hunter Wilds, I've been seeing some questionable results, so I'm sure it can only go well youtube.com/watch?v=395JmHuDIB…



✨🌏The Netherlands has returned 288 cultural artifacts to Indonesia, including sacred sculptures and jewellery taken during the colonial era
#repatriation #culture #indonesia #netherlands

@UK_ICOM




Walz: A paper said, 'this guy might be the poorest guy to run for VP.' I'm not poor but I lived on a teacher's salary. Thank god I was in a union. Look, I didn't expect to get rich but I didn't take an oath of poverty and I sure as hell don't want someone like Trump crapping on my job


Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of #Fascism.

Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features. “These features,” writes the novelist and semiotician, “cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”

openculture.com/2024/11/umbert…

in reply to Global Museum

Thank you, very interesting! A version of these 14 points that has been adapted to the current situation can be found here:

pressenza.com/2024/02/14-chara…



#PPOD: On 1 November 1977, a new minor planet, 2060 Chiron, was found in images taken at Palomar Observatory. Centaurs are small objects that orbit somewhere between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper Belt, often having the characteristics of both asteroids and comets. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the faint coma that surrounds Chiron, which was first seen in 1989. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Space Telescope/Karen Meech

#science #space #scicomm