Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

If you're sharing scientific research, have you ever thought about why you're sharing it, or who you hope will see it?

I attended a grad-level #science communication class this past spring, and I've turned the basics into a short #SciComm planning guide for scientists.

It's meant to help you design the way you share your research by prompting you to consider your message, goals, and audience.

You can read the guide here: https://medium.com/@gregorymanni/the-scientists-quick-start-guide-to-science-communication-7efe61bb4d90

I was never much of a country fan, but my god 911 really upped the fascism ante.

This line from The New York Times this morning kind of blew my mind:

"The game industry now accounts for significant chunks of the economy. It is larger than music, U.S. book publishing and North American sports COMBINED. Microsoft’s game division and Activision Blizzard *each* make more money annually than all U.S. movie theaters."

(Emphasis mine)

According to the WSJ, “Ford, GM, Rivian, Volvo, Polestar and Mercedes-Benz have announced plans to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard, making it possible for their products to access Tesla’s vast and growing network of Supercharger stations.”

NACS reminds me of what USB did for the computer industry in standardizing hardware interconnects.

#EV #Tesla

Does boosting a post from a new instance help the server federate? Boost this post to find out!

Retrieved a large wine fridge from someone’s trash. No compressor which is okay. Looking to convert it to a #raspberryPi managed environment controlled storage unit for some 1870 Carlo Ponti #megalethoscope slides. Thoughts, ideas, link, suggestions… I’m all ears. Never done something like this before. https://megalethoscope.com

Dear boss,
Apologies for not responding to any messages today.
I was too busy sharing 1 thought relevant to our company on 83 different platforms with slightly different writing constraints.

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”