Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@qoto.org

Hello new people! 👋

If you need help getting started on here, have a look at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

It's written in non-technical language, it's a beginner's guide.

If you can't find the answers you want on the site, @ me or message me.

Trans Rights are Human Rights.

Please remember to be kind to our trans friends and family.

They're enduring so much these days; they need our help.
#MakeKindnessNormal

It's not just you. US healthcare, already a bureaucratic nightmare of buck-passing and price-gouging, has gotten *far* worse. Private equity firms have created regional health-care monopolies that don't just rip patients off - they're *killing* us.

Private equity is a scam. Fund managers raise gigantic sums by claiming to be able to "beat the market." In reality, they do worse for their investors than a boring old index fund:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/pluralistic-your-daily-link-dose-25-feb-2020/#extraordinaryclaims

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I think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.

Just a quick poll. #Boost ok.

Have you been infected with Covid-19?

friend taught me about something recently, known as Gell-Mann Amnesia

quoting this page: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

There should be a #synesthesia equivalent to the concept of onomatopoeia.

(I say this as someone with synesthesia. If anyone knows a word for this please tell me.)

if I was still using Twitter, I'd reply to every Elon post with "you all are ignoring the pioneering work in micro services at the MIT Media lab done years ago by Frumunda's group"

and when Elon replies asking for a pointer to the paper where the findings were discussed, I'd say FRUMUNDA MY BALLS, YA DICKHEAD

What's your bird situation?

#Twitter #Mastodon

Hello to fediverse friends new and old! For those who haven't met us yet, we'd like to introduce ourselves. For those who have been long-term fanny-fans, we're gonna reintroduce ourselves and maybe you'll learn something new.

First things first: YES there's a Vagina Museum, a bricks-and-mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas, and the gynaecological anatomy. And we're it.

Taking my level 7 Cleric into Jiffy Lube to get its alignment checked

How to Catch a Mountain Lion
an illustrative guide

1. Place a cardboard box where the animal frequently visits.
2. Sit back and wait.
3. A cat is a cat is a cat.

🦋 #citizenscience 🦋

As part of a research project led by Maël Doré (@Eonymus) on mimicry in tropical butterflies, we have developed a survey to quantify our perception of butterfly color patterns. ⌛ < 10 min

Your participation would be very helpful.The more data we have, the better. Thank you so much!

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Please boost! And follow Maël for great research on #macroevolution and #mimicry.

#colsci #survey #research #perception #cognition