Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

The work of Wheeler (along with a few others) in the 1950s-70s is often credited with bringing general relativity fully into the physics mainstream.

He also wrote a pretty well-known textbook on the subject with his students Charles Misner and Kip Thorne.

This absolute unit of a book enabled the “don't speak to me or my son ever again" meme pictured below, and is responsible for back problems in a generation of physicists.

Auke Hoekstra: The Underestimated Potential of Battery Electric Vehicles to Reduce Emissions #ev
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435119302715

@ianbetteridge By “Town Square” businesses like Meta really mean “Shopping Mall”; a space that has the illusion of being a public space but is relentlessly and ruthlessly a private space, with all activities tightly controlled.

Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/

#technology

@DrPsyBuffy However, folks on Mastodon are mean in a morally superior way! 😇

I like Mastodon, don’t get me wrong. But a lot folks on here who write these kinds of posts also talk about how Mastodon is superior because it isn’t as mean as Twitter, but I’ve seen quite a bit of meanness, it’s just wearing different clothing. Just my .02. 🤷‍♀️

Introduction? Sure, #introduction I guess

I'm jules and this is my professional account. I'm a mathematician and computer scientist based in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I'm an applied category theorist, which means I study compositionality, especially in microeconomics and machine learning

I'm affiliated with the Mathematically Structured Programming group, I'm a co-founder of the startup 20squares, and I'm in the process of co-founding a nonprofit research organisation called the Institute for Categorical Cybernetics

Many cultures around the world have a legend of a Bon Jovi-like figure.
Germans know him as Guten Joven;
in Brazil he is Bom João

Daily Mastodon trending topic report:

1. You’re using it wrong in many ways that personally offend me

2. This place was better without any people

3. Open-source software

4. You’re being polite but not in the way I prefer

5. The Fediverse (“fedora universe”)

6. Should we de-federate Toyota if they start a server?

7. Top 20 Fediverse alternatives to Wikipedia

8. Historical evidence that Hitler invented quote tweets

9. Cats

10. It’s weird how people create accounts but don’t stick around

Me: Mastodon is the best. People are friendly, there's no manipulative algorithm, and it's full of interesting content.

Journalist: Amazing, the headline of my article will be "Mastodon is social media's new hope".

Me: Also, there are no ads.

Journalist: Interesting. Let's change that headline to "Mastodon is a toxic cesspool that is already dead".

I just read another news article about why mastodon didn’t make it and is dying. It’s very sad to hear and probably explains why I have to keep adding more server capacity to handle all the people quitting mastodon.

@p1xelHer0 Choosing a programming language has gone from ”which function declaration syntax looks nicest” to ”which community is run by the least insane people”

I assume Amazon workers exchange stories of odd orders they've packed, like the one I just placed for set of kitchen knives and a pair of medical tourniquets.

Metrics
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/metrics (click for full comic)
#smbc #hiveworks

Please, take some time to check in on the ex-Twitter employees in your life.

Not because they need it or anything, I just bet they have some funny stories to share today.