Martin Mars: Giants of the Sky
The Martin JRM Mars began life as a WWII U.S. Navy patrol aircraft, but Canada gave it new purpose. 🇨🇦 Converted into water bombers in B.C., these flying boats helped fight wildfires for decades—each carrying over 27,000 litres! 💧✈️ #Canada #MartinMars #Firefighting #Aviation
I predict we will see a mass departure from hyper-realism in music and art in general in the next several years. Now that "AI" "art" passably functions like art for the masses, artists will revolt against any aesthetic that resembles AI.
Now, ordinarily, if one were writing an enum to represent numeric error codes from an API, one would usually call the "server returned a code that does not exist" enum something like, say, UNKNOWN.
In this project I'm working on, I've decided to call that enum WAIT_WHAT.
I'm passing on this email I just received from John Strand & Black Hills Information Security:
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Hey folks!
We’re just a couple of months away from a major milestone: our first ever in-person Pay-What-You-Can Summer Camp at Capitol Technology University.
This event in the Baltimore/DC (and virtually) is part of our mission to make high quality cybersecurity training accessible to everyone, no matter their budget.
From July 21st to 23rd, we're bringing our community together for hands-on, in-person learning at a price that works for you, starting at just $25.
* Two days of live training including SOC Core Skills or Getting Started in Packet Decoding.
* One full day focused on career support with resume help, mock interviews, and networking.
If you believe training should be affordable, practical, and community-driven, this is your moment.
Learn more and register:
https://www.antisyphontraining.com/event/antisyphon-training-summer-camp/
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These guys are really great people, trying to make information security more accessible a field to enter. Check them out!
#cybersecurity #security #jobseeker
Progress on eliminating emissions is causing temperature warming future predictions to trend down from worst case scenarios. 🎉
We need to keep working on this hard though.
https://theconversation.com/earth-is-heading-for-2-7-c-warming-this-century-we-may-avoid-the-worst-climate-scenarios-but-the-outlook-is-still-dire-254284 #ClimateCrisis
Do you love trans joy? Do you love blogs?
Well, this is very exciting news for you: We now have a blog!
https://www.mappingtransjoy.org/blog
Follow along as we continue our adventures!
:Fire_Trans: :ms_purple_heart:
Hello! I am helping to compile a resource guide for LGBTQIA+ students with the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Hub!
Do you know of any financial literacy resources or emergency grants for young people in NY? (Doesn't have to be strictly for LGBTQIA+ individuals.)
Hey, some fun news! Sir Ian McKellen is headlining an all #trans and #nonbinary reading of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. It’s a delightful play with much playing with #gender and the understanding of it. I’m very excited and am buying livestream tickets. 🥰
#theatre #arts #plays #Shakespeare #yay #GoodNews
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Okay who hasn't been tempted like this at least once...
2h agoJapanese: 見
Me: that's mi
Japanese: what about 物
Me: easy, it's mono
Japanese: try 見物
Me: mimono
Japanese: no it's kenbutsu
Me: but...
Japanese: ok ok here 歌
Me: uta
Japanese: now do 手
Me: it's te
Japanese: 歌手
Me:
Me: utate
Japanese: no it's kashu
Me: fuck you
4h agonote that this approach gives Google no signal whatsoever that you don't want it, and still consumes the energy to produce the hidden results; instead please consider using another search engine altogether
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114585187424921165
Stream time! Might be a little eepy today, but there's more FF13 to play so lets have a go all the same.
Live now - https://twitch.tv/cantwearhats
4h agoThe day on which I have five meetings was maybe not the ideal day to wear my "if we are all the children of god someone should probably call protective services" shirt yet here I am
Harvard will transfer five daguerreotypes, believed to be the earliest photographs of enslaved people, from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to the International African American Museum in South Carolina, the state where they were enslaved in 1850 when the photos were taken. https://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9
"Do what you are called to do. Put ZFS in your air fryer, do your taxes in Fortran."
https://borretti.me/article/you-can-choose-tools-that-make-you-happy
Tales from the crypt: scientists have uncovered a remarkable time capsule beneath Milan's Ospedale Maggiore, where tens of thousands of hospital patients were buried between 1637-1697. This multidisciplinary project analysed hundreds of thousands of human bones, combining archaeology, genetics, and toxicology with the hospital's detailed archives to reconstruct the forgotten lives of ordinary people from a poorly documented period of European history. https://archive.md/SRMRh
#ShareGoodNewsToo