Picking scientific content to watch is very hard, but I think I've been very successful with the following rules:
* Scientific explanatory videos must be written and presented by experts in the field, and must use their name and face.
* Scientific commentary videos must never promote original research.
I don't use Netflix, so after watching many anthropology videos on YouTube I started being suggested videos about this show "Ancient Apocalypse" that I had never heard of.
After scanning its wikipedia article (which opens with the solid banger "Ancient Apocalypse is a television series, classified by its publisher Netflix as a documentary"), I think all you need to know about it is:
"Hancock's son's role as head of unscripted originals at the company may explain why it was commissioned."
Right after the Brazilian presidential elections I had this momentary feeling of sadness as I thought to myself "good, but only for another few years".. And I'm sure some people are feeling like this today.
Well, that's the reality: the fight against authoritarianism and for democracy is never ending. You have to fight it on every ballot. On every election. Forever and ever. Complacency is the easiest way to lose.
New #Yello album out! https://music.apple.com/ca/album/time-lab/6807127117
Each time the reactionary far-right lost an election in Brazil we sent a Bolsonaro to the US. If we keep it up, pretty soon the whole family won't be bothering the country anymore.
Bad Breath and Beyond
1. Get FT8 signal from 11000km away.
2. Check their QRZ page.
3. Cat photo.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/117504652898814339
Just to give one example which was widely reported: if you asked Meta AI to generate a "electoral campaign poster for a fictional cartoon character," it would consistently show Bolsonaro's ballot number "22" (in Brazil you vote by typing the candidate's number into a voting machine). Asked to use Lula's number instead, Meta AI would refuse, saying "it can't use numbers from real candidates." When told they had used a real one for the first poster, they'd weasel their way out of fixing it.
If you ever needed proof conservatives need moderates to stay home to win, let it be this: BC's first conservative majority in 100 years is partly due to a turnout lower than the 2020 elections held during Covid lockdowns.
> In 2024, the B.C. Conservatives received just over 900,000 votes, with preliminary figures showing they had received over 860,000 this time around.
> In contrast, the NDP's vote cratered — from over 950,000 votes in 2024 to just under 670,000 votes.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/voter-turnout-2026-provincial-election-9.7395379
I just taught myself how to produce this table from thin air. Didn't think I was still capable of this level of mnemonic recall! 😛
This is your occasional reminder to Taste the Biscuit.
RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117496701775368408
It took me a whole minute to get this joke lmao
I've seen some Highly Qualified™ people suggest that AI making vulnerabilities easier to find is proof AI is evil and worthless. And somehow suggest they wouldn't be found otherwise?
It shouldn't take a PhD in computer science to realize that the vulnerabilities already exist. And just because they're not publicly known doesn't mean they're not known to nation-states and mercenary actors.
Yes it is a pain to go through the patch-o-mania, but can't be argument against fixing vulnerabilities!
I'll once again state what seems like the obvious to me but apparently needs to be stated: if all you see on your mastodon feeds is angry kooks, that's entirely your fault. No one else has control over what you see. There's no algorithmic feed.
It's okay to love an algorithmic feed, but state it plainly, with those words, rather than shift blame elsewhere.
This is probably one of the best videos on the SciShow YT channel ever. It's worth the 45 minutes.
Some more because it’s hard picking favourites:
Spending the long weekend in Tofino and Ucluelet. Here’s an assortment of photos:
#LandscapePhotography #VancouverIsland #BC #sunset #forest #lighthouse #ocean #PacificOcean #PNW
And I've asked Sky Watcher, and they only sell the whole new motor assembly for $200. The motor and connectors work fine, I just need a new $5 box lol
