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@meshell awful in what way? Never read, but Wendig has been on my radar for a little while.
@bookstodon

@paranoiapen sorry to break in, but you should see the folks I follow. Yeah, some are posting about "serious business" like politics and climate change, but it's also a lot of screwing around. I suppose most of the "chatting" is buried in threads though where you might not see @paul

I kinda think redwing blackbirds are actually trying to get photographed. everytime I take out my camera in the park, at least one always comes near enough for a great close up shot
#birds #birding #birdphotography #birdwatching

I have a two publications to my name, mostly for being *attached* to the group that actually wrote and edited the papers. (I did write software based on some of the ideas in the paper, but they weren't originally my ideas.)

OK. Whatever. What I'm curious about is, I'm on #ResearchGate and, lately, I get pretty regular notifications of new #citations on one of these papers, about once a month. It's a total of 80 since September 2018. Is this typical?

It's not a bad paper: I think it's actually quite good. Still, it's not "groundbreaking"? It's about an approach to #SystemsBiology where we use computer simulation that integrates multiple models to validate our overall understanding of an organism. Is that what folks are into these days?

Anyway, I just want a hint, because I'm not likely to actually read all these papers that cite us, if this is, like, paper mill output or are other folks legitimately taking on the ideas and building on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qskm9MTz2V4

i died💀
#music #piano

(I know it's four years old. I don't care)

@jason_w_karpf a professor--not in astronomy, rocket science, physics, or anything relevant to the claims he's making--who "worked with intelligence and defense groups" (read, "he worked on some government contracts"...like a lot of other people. That doesn't give him some special knowledge.) thinks aliens are here. Getting strong "Ancient Aliens" vibes off this one.

What do people, especially people who are opposed to surveillance-based capitalism, think about UTM codes? I usually remove them except sometimes when they indicate a "mastodon" "campaign" and I actually want some of these sites (e.g., news sites) to recognize traffic is being driven from the Fediverse so they'll engage more here.

On the one hand, I generally appreciate that they're typically more transparent than some trackers that follow you from site to site. On the other hand, I think, "It's none of your business where I'm coming from." There could still be tracking on the back-end that I can't see and can only avoid with a VPN or something, but I'm always in favor of "not making it easy".