The neighbour's 8 gignormous Clydesdale horses were all staring at me from the fence-line while I was moving the goat fence, so I had to go say hi. They are SO BIG. 3 of them let me give them gentle nose pats this time (even though I did not give them any treats). Their noses are SO SOFT and SO HUGE.
Myth: Indigenous lands are rich in biodiversity because they are remote and underpopulated
Fact: Indigenous lands are rich in biodiversity because of Indigenous knowledge and traditions that center environmental conservation and protection
Indigenous Peoples have a wealth of knowledge and experience in sustainability and conservation. So why are climate politics still putting them on the sidelines?
Be aware that a malicious website is using guttenberg.org (two “T” not one) to distribute malware. We haven’t been able to neutralize them yet, still working on it.
Ireland’s is the world’s first permanent basic income program sending direct, unconditional cash payments to professional artists, and it enjoys overwhelming public support – of 17,000 public survey respondents, 97% supported the program becoming permanent... an independent study of the pilot found that artists didn't just get more work done – basic income reduced their levels of anxiety and alleviated depression, too. https://rgmii.org/blog/thousands-more-artists-join-irelands-basic-income-plan/
There appears to be some black magic happening here. The font calculates the checksum. https://github.com/graphicore/librebarcode
Lots of regrettable silliness here: two papers by Max Planck (!) have been retracted, probably by some automated process that based the decision on the same material appearing in another journal (which was far more common at the time, and even Einstein did it) and a rebuttal to a work being published under the same title (but not author) as the thing being rebutted.
But the funniest line in the article is:
“Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.”
To recap—in the last week Zohran Mamdani
•Banned ICE fascists from all city property
•Went 8 for 8 in his endorsements winning their elections
•Has now frozen rent for 1 Million rent-stabilized apartments for the next 2-years—for the first time in NYC history
Reminding everyone again that if politicians wanted to—they would. This is the power of people funded public servants, not corporate bought politicians. ❤️✊🏽
@concretedog @jamesb btw. in tabbed mode of Libreoffice you find the feature in a slightly different location: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/01/qrcode.html
Huh! I was today years old when I realised that the mighty @libreoffice has a great tool for generating QR. In a world where online QR code generators tend to re route via themselves this is an awesome tool to find! #opensource
Goofball 😹
I almost missed this one — it sat buried in my library for months while I worked through everything else from this year's trips.
It's from my home ground.
Rhythm of the Ridges - Tukituki Valley, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
An absolutely stunning photo! The 35m-long #Roman shipwreck, along with its cargo of 6,000 (!) amphorae was discovered in 2019 off the coast of the Greek Island of Kefalonia.
It’s one of the largest Roman shipwrecks found in the Mediterranean.
📷 Ionian Aquarium
Meet the newest little void in training. 🖤 Fully convinced they own the entire patio chair already.
#CatsOfMastodon #BlackCat #KittenLife #CuteAnimals #CatContent #MastoCats #VoidCat
Another Studio Ghibli evening here
Oh, so now scraping data without permission is bad for AI training? 😂 how ironic 😉
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using thousands fraudulent accounts to extract Claude AI model capabiliti and data. Anthropic urged Congress to penalise the companies behind scrapping attacks like this and to ramp up measures to prevent US tech from being stolen. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyklykn5dwo
How about Anthropic pay first for stolen books, and all content out there for its shity ai?
@cohentheblue @Beggarmidas @thomasfuchs This article from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists talks about what would be needed for significant direct air carbon capture, and it's not good:
https://thebulletin.org/2023/12/direct-air-capture-an-expensive-dangerous-distraction-from-real-climate-solutions/
Went canoeing today on a river north of Boston. Very pleasant, ideal conditions. Saw a nice mix of turtles, swans and their cygnets, a heron, and expansive areas of flowering lily pads. So much nature to enjoy in spite of the river winding through neighborhoods! #nature #canoe #river
#photography #NaturePhotography #landscape #LandscapePhotography #boat