Neekerbreeker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Neekerbreeker@qoto.org

I've been on Mastodon since early last year, though not too active, and it's great to see the new influx and interest.

Thought I'd mention this essay from @mmasnick from 2019, which was one of the things that got me interested in the #fediverse. "Protocols not Platforms" is one of the best essays on #technology and #freespeech that I've ever read. It doesn't even mention #mastodon, but it groks the essence of the internet as it was and again could be.

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

We advance #science by making connections, by connecting people that previously wouldn't have met, that have unique ideas and a diversity of perspectives. By recognizing that people and problems are COMPLEX.
I am grateful for ALL of you. You make think and have made me better.♥️

US officially in a flu epidemic. Remember, masks work for influenza too.

#MaskUp
#BringBackMasks
#Influenza

https://fortune.com/well/2022/11/04/us-united-states-in-flu-epidemic-federal-health-officials-say-cdc-hhs-rsv-covid-omicron-2022/

@Neekerbreeker I would love to see people get inspired like that! :) I have the pleasure of doing two poster sessions this year (one diversity program-specific, one sensory/pain topic-specific) so I will encourage people at both sessions to do the same if it comes up.

I normally put my Twitter @ on my posters at conferences so I can connect with people I meet, or if someone wants to get in touch about my poster later they have an easy, relatively informal way to do so instead of email. Is anyone else considering putting their Mastodon handle on their conference posters?

As I do some last-minute work on my poster for Society for Neuroscience next week, I'm considering putting this with my email address. How about y'all?

#TwitterMigration
#NeuroscienceMigration
#SfN
#SfN2022

The people who host the radio mast by gentlemans's agreement for the line-of-site rural broadband for some of the posh folk in the village have become convinced radio waves exacerbate mould spore growth. They are unilaterally removing the mast with two weeks notice.

The village WhatsApp group is KICKING OFF. Particularly the microbiologist who lives further down the chain. He's just asked for peer reviewed papers.

Interesting fact of the day: The same effect that cuased light in a prism to split up into different colors is what ultimately caused the first transatlantic telegraphic wire in 1858 to fail.

Morse code is transmitted as on-off signals, effectively square waves. Square waves are in fact made up of many different frequencies. Like in a prism different frequencies move at different speeds through a wire. Therefore as the on-off pulses traveled through the transatlantic telegraph wire the signal spread out like it does in a prism and ultimately the pulses would overlap and be indistinguishable.

The effect was so extreme that it took a message of only 98 words (the first message sent) over 67 minutes to send one way and a whopping 16 hours to confirm the message.

Whitehouse, a doctor with little mathematical understanding, thought he could solve the problem by increasing voltage, which we now know was a futile effort. He increased the voltage to the point he managed to short out the cable entirely and made it useless. However Lord Kelvin had already warned of the problem as was ignored and he came up with the law of squares to describe the problem which later was refined to give us the telegraphers equation. The telegraphers equation is still used today to model feedlines in radio transmitters and receivers.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science #QOTOJournal

I've been on here for a while, but hey, since there's an influx of users that might still see the original instance
Greetings, fellow Mastodorks! I am Anatoly Shashkin, the DOS guy. I mainly talk about stuff related to IBM PC and MS-DOS gaming. Tell me about your DOS memories or recent DOS escapades. 💾
I also enjoy cats 🐈, movies 🎥, and alcohol 🥂.
Moved from Russia to the U.S. almost 20 years ago.
#DOSGaming #MSDOS #IBMPC #introductuons #RetroGaming #Videogames

I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's