When the cataloger of our fabulous new miniature books collection comes by and asks, “Do you want to see something pretty?” you say yes.

This is the ideal computer setup
You may not like it, but this is what peak computing looks like.

playboy: traditionally attractive women in lingerie
playgirl: traditionally attractive men in lingerie
playstation: traditionally attractive trains in lingerie

I hope I don't get in trouble for sharing this publicly, but I managed to get my hands on the detailed design docs that everyone is using for their big UI redesigns of late.

#Firefox #Mastodon #AndSoManyOthers

Seid furchtbar und wehret Euch.

Today’s quickly made shitpost…

#CookieLaw #DataProtection

we must separate the art from the artist. into the centrifuge you go

ShePlusPlus is here!!

#Art #FediArt #MastoArt #Krita #DigitalArt #CodeGals

Good morning Mastodon ☕

Friendly reminder:

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8 yr old Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The butterflies he had tended as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. When he released them into the wild, they would fly right back to him. Was it possible they actually remembered him?

Jo wrote a letter to an entomologist at Georgetown University, Dr. Martha Weiss. He asked if she could help him design an experiment, and she said yes.

Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70% of them still avoided the scent. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis, yet the memory survived anyway. Then he bred them.

The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to lavender their grandmother had been taught to fear.

Jo presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.

A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/ten-old-butterfly-researcher-discovers-184204801.html

#Butterflies #Science #Nature #Memory

RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaytch/116036998103007299

Fellow tech workers: The librarians are roasting us on Mastodon and we have no plausible defense

digging through my phone for a picture and found this

This object is a legitimate masterpiece of design

You can say "Have a nice day" without any problem, but using the phrase "enjoy the next 24 hours" can sound slightly threatening.

Them: Can you confirm you have no more than 15 personal electronic devices in your carry on?

Me: (excitedly infodumping) Well, it really depends what you consider to be a device. Many of these computers themselves contain multiple smaller computers. Consider these microSD cards (waves a small anti-static bag around), each of which has a tiny ARM processor - designed by a trans person from the BBC Micro team, if I might go off at a tangent for a moment. Or the battery controller chip on the LiPo pouch protection circuit, which significantly reduces the probability of a thermal excursion. And let's face it, nobody wants a spicy pillow in their lap at 30,000 feet-

Them: Just say yes. (Pleadingly) Just yes. That's all I'm asking. I'm begging you.

#39c3 #AuDHD