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(yawning) Status report, Website Work dep't: Getting ready for the complete restructuring of our European Cuisines site by doing some much-needed replacement photography. Today's work: reshooting Peter's Mum's soda bread... (http://www.europeancuisines.com/Peters-Mums-Soda-Bread-Recipe).

Dawn, County Wicklow, Ireland. Peter took the picture. (He was up early waiting for the postie to deliver something. The something didn't arrive, but the dawn did...

One of the big mistakes people make, over and over again, is relying on technological determinism.

That is, thinking the architecture of the technology will preserve the topology of the network.

Mastodon is Open Source. It's built with open standards.

This is necessary but not sufficient to keep the network decentralized.

We're going to need social and legal structures, plus cultural norms, that counterbalance Metcalfe's law, which pushes the network towards centralization.

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The racism that built this nation can also destroy this nation.

#racism #fascism #politics #unitedstates #blackmastodon

Some extraordinary photos of the Everest expeditions.

Hey everyone, the single-use molecular covid tests (that are nearly as accurate as a PCR, way more so than a rapid) are on sale at amazon for only $30! They're usually like $75. Great for peace of mind around holiday visitor cooties.

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Disturbed by reports of Black Mastodon users—Black women in particular—having negative experiences on this app, including being randomly banned for discussions of racism. Some of these users will not come back. All will share their experiences. The answer is not to condescendingly lecture them on “how the fediverse works,” as if their experiences are inevitable, nor to swear to do better next time. (There may not be one.) It’s to do better now lest the reputation of this app be cemented.

🫡 Elon Musk suspended me.

What were Elon Musk’s lenders thinking? Surprisingly, perhaps, there are actual answers to that question, @JamesSurowiecki writes. http://on.theatln.tc/N55zlmE

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1595533423820406785

In the true spirit of Nihilism, we no longer are going to stick to true nihilism. We will also include absurdism and fatalism and whatever the fuck we feel like doing.

Checkmate, atheists.

Tooted a while back about #WGSebald Vertigo. Now reading his second, The Rings of Saturn. Suddenly I get what he is about. An astonishing work using a long walk around the Suffolk coast as a springboard for wide-ranging discussions on history, literature and the environment. In that regard it is also prescient, lamenting on the #climatecrisis and how it was affecting the Suffolk countryside even when the book was written in the early 90s. Strongly recommended.

Quoi?

"In order to study how Escherichia coli leucyl-tRNA synthetase recognizes tRNALeu and discriminates it from the other two class II tRNAs, tRNASer and tRNATyr, various mutations were introduced into class II tRNA transcripts. The discriminator base A73, but not the anticodon sequence, was found to serve as a critical recognition element of tRNALeu."

Asahara et al, J Mol Biol 1993

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022283683712775

🌈🎨 Michelle Niedziela, PhD and Kathryn Ambroze's latest article in the tks | publisher, event organiser, media agency's Consumer Perspective Column, "Design debunking – Color alone won’t move the needle," is out! In the article, they discuss how color is an integral part of the visual experience, but it is not the end-all answer to communicating how a product will make a consumer feel.
🔖 Read more here: http://ow.ly/LelM50LJTRy
#consumerperception #colorpsychology #neuromarketing

How do you tell a relative to stop saying you know every three words or a sentence but they won’t stop?

@jerpirate Agreed. This is on us white people to fix. I think those of us who are trying to be #AntiRacist or #accomplices or even an #ally should commit to the position that if the instance where we landed doesn’t work for #BlackMastodon or other #BIPOC then it doesn’t work for us either. None of us are free until we’re all free.