Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@qoto.org

Color TV debuted 72 years ago today — June 25, 1951.

#EdSullivan hosted PREMIERE, the first commercially sponsored color show (on 5 CBS affiliates).

Few saw it, because color sets weren’t on sale yet! And CBS’s color broadcasts were incompatible w/ B&W TVs.

#OnThisDay #ClassicTV #1950sTV

‘A symbol of what humans shouldn’t be doing’: the new world of octopus farming - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/25/a-symbol-of-what-humans-shouldnt-be-doing-the-new-world-of-octopus-farming #AnimalWelfare #Wildlife #Farming #Environment #Food #Sustainability #SaveTheOctopodes

How to respond to Florida job offers👇🏻

With the disproportionate amount of press coverage of #OceanGate, I hope that more people learn the lesson that capitalist techbros cannot be trusted because they make fast-and-loose corner-cuts like this ALL THE TIME; it's the rule, not the exception. However, it tends to go unnoticed when it doesn't fail in such a dramatic and instantaneous way.

Tangentially, this is why I worry about the rush to (mis-)apply LLMs in such fields as medical care and insurance (or the inevitable lacks thereof).

Astonishing Agate
- A dinosaur cervical vertebrae with air pockets filled with gorgeous agate. Enjoy!
By #MarlèneThiery
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

This whole submarine thing is a preview of exactly how "space tourism" is going to go

We're very excited to be joining the #fediverse, so here's our #introduction post:

We are the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR), an archive preserving materials from the entertainment industries. We are home to over three hundred collections from playwrights, television and movie writers, producers, actors, designers, directors, and production companies.

Housed in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Library-Archives Division, the WCFTR is one of the world’s most accessible #archives and is regularly visited by researchers from around the world. Research undertaken in its collections has revolutionized the scholarship of American #cinema, #theater, and #television.

We provide in-person and remote access to our collections. Learn more here: https://wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/access-materials/

We use social media to share news about new collections, upcoming events, interesting materials we've found, and projects that we're working on -- as well as learning about what you're working on!

#intro
Uh, Hello, I'm new here.
I knew mastodon or the fediverse stuff from a youtube recommendation and how the 'general' internet is coming to an end.

So uhh...
Hi people of the...
Fediverse...?

I am very new and unknownledgable towards these kind of stuff cus' I was pretty used to twitter, and I was expecting mastodon works like twitter but I was wrong. This is definitely something unique experience that I am witnessing, and I am enthralled, of a kind of things I found on the wired.

So, I will appreciate if some of you could give me a thing or two about this place.

(Sorry if I made mistake in some grammar. Not a native eng speaker 😅)

1982 - "Tell them."
"I did. They laughed."
1992 - Tell them again."
"I did. They laughed."
2002 - You must keep telling them."
"I do tell them, everyday I tell them
few will listen"
2012. - "They must listen or it will be too late"
"It is too late."
2022 - "Is it really still too late?"
"It's way past too late. Fewer people are laughing."
2033 "Why did no one tell us?"
"Oh we did, many times, many ways. But we have made progress. No one is laughing anymore."
#ClimateEmergency

From an AP article:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional Tuesday, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states adopt similar restrictions.

U.S. District Judge Jay Moody issued a permanent injunction against the Arkansas law, which would have prohibited doctors from providing gender-affirming hormone treatment, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18.

Arkansas’ law, which Moody temporarily blocked in 2021, also would have prohibited doctors from referring patients elsewhere for such care.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-arkansas-gender-lgbtq-legislation-us-news-2a0d032f4e4f3195c180d879239e6521?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&fbclid=IwAR3baxeWrceZo0hKMUpZ5SOPZ3ETGW4p_qml7iLmkWs--yeFO4heA1qd_7w

#lgbtq #trans #legislation #genderaffirming #goodnews

Flying pigs are supposed to be the epitome of the impossible, and yet the grocery store is careful to specify that this is ground pork.

@BlackMastodon #Abolition #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #AI @BlackMastodon
During COVID, you may recall or perhaps you never knew, that Black folks were denied potentially life saving treatment because an algorithm determined they were unlikely to survive. Once the crisis was over, it was discovered that the algorithm used racially biased medical data to inform triage decisions. https://www.futurity.org/sofa-triage-protocol-disadvantages-black-covid-patients-2634292/
6/10

In a lot of rhetorical questions about "AI" you can basically just replace "AI" with "powerful people" to get to the actual question.
The tech is just a multiplier of power imbalances already in full force.

Google ended moderation of 2020 election lies on YouTube.

Facebook/Instagram restored Trump's deceitful, violence-promoting accounts.

Spotify stopped pretending to exercise editorial oversight over the increasingly vile Joe Rogan.

And of course, Twitter is now run by a right-wing extremist who uses the platform to promote right-wing extremism.

This is the social-media trendline as we head into an election that will decide the fate of democracy.