Dimestorehalo @Dimestorehalo@qoto.org

The starling’s plumage is so very impressive and beautiful up close. #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Nikon

We'll be live in beta tomorrow with case updates here on Mastodon.

What cases should we start following? Reply with docket number, court, and link to CourtListener, if you have it!

In the process of making a different point, @mmasnick does a great job showing how deeply US #copyright law in 1790 differed from US copyright law today.
https://www.techdirt.com/2013/02/21/arguing-that-copyright-first-amendment-coexisted-200-years-is-to-ignore-reality/

PS: Or how far the original US arguments for copyright fall short of justifying what copyright has become.

Hahahaha!

What was that again, Fascist Party? Nobody’s coming after our earned benefits?

Via Aaron Rupar:

Mike Rounds on CNN suggests he supports funding #SocialSecurity on a year-by-year basis

Art made by nature.. ❄️

The goal posts have moved so far that we are now celebrating the fact that the FL Athletic Association will not require female athletes to provide information about their menstrual cycles.

Next celebration, history allowed to be taught! Books allowed to be read! Dystopian. Orwellian. United States in 2023.

https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/sidebar/

#politics #democracy #education #books #law #lawfedi

Ten years ago I made lots of Lego photographs, most were just for fun but some were made commissioned. These two Council of Elrond set images are from a LotR photoseries I made for #lego in 2013.

Looking at the newly revealed gigantic Rivendell set brings back a lot of fond memories from the old LotR photoshoots. I loved those session, they were my personal "there and back".

Do you ever see faces in things? That's a phenomenon called pareidolia, and it's when our brains see familiar shapes in objects or data, like in the cloud clouds or the cosmos. Here are some of our favorite examples of pareidolia in space: https://go.nasa.gov/3jIDzCp
#NASA

time to post again the best user interface i've ever seen

Microsoft just released a demo of BigGPT-Large, which they define as "a domain-specific generative model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature, has achieved human parity, outperformed other general and scientific LLMs, and could empower biologists in various scenarios of scientific discovery."

Here's the response to the first question that I asked: @ct_bergstrom @emilymbender

Are you a student majoring in... anything? Apply now for an internship at http://intern.nasa.gov!

We have several programs, including Pathways, which accept many majors and provide a structured path to potential full-time employment at NASA after graduation. Deadline: Feb. 10.
#NASA

We've discovered 5,243 planets beyond our own solar system – exoplanets – so far.💫 Each week we add to the known worlds.

#MondayMotivation: Search for understanding wherever you can.
http://exoplanets.nasa.gov
#NASAExoplanets

If you need yet-another-reason to give up on Twitter and stop cross-posting your projects/research/blog posts/announcements/etc to Twitter, my announcement of Ronin 2.0.0 being released got 3x more traffic from Reddit (!) than from Twitter according to Google Analytics. Twitter has now sunk below Reddit (!) in terms of exposure and traffic. If you're still thinking cross-posting to Twitter might still be worth it, you might as well cross-post to Digg or Slashdot. Time to de-prioritize Twitter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_suy7gARps

"2001: A Space Odyssey" directed by George Lucas?

This literally had me laugh out loud...

Is there a US attorney who would be willing to donate some time to draft a volunteer moderator agreement for a Mastodon instance?

Also, are any other instance admins willing to share your agreement if you have one? I don’t know if this is standard practice, but seems like a good idea when granting access to user data.

I found something similar from Stack Overflow for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/legal/moderator-agreement

#MastoAdmin #Legal #Lawyers #Law

Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX

Tag someone who makes you feel like this.

With funds from a grant through @NASAArmstrong, scientists studied how arctic ground squirrels retain muscle and bone mass while hibernating, which could apply to future astronauts on long-duration space missions: https://go.nasa.gov/3HUpHNF
#NASA

It's #WerewolfWednesday, and I have a story I really wanna share:

In 1691 an 80-something Livonian man named Old Thiess was called to court as a witness in a theft case. As he was sworn in, another witness laughed: "How can he swear a holy oath when everyone knows he is a werewolf?"

The judges immediately forgot about the thief and put Old Thiess on trial. He calmly admitted that yes, indeed he was a werewolf.
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#folklore #werewolves