Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

I saw someone argue that shitposters can't succeed on Mastodon because their posts won't go viral due to the lack of an algorithm.

As a counterpoint to their belief I would like to introduce exhibit A, whatever the hell this account is.

Do you own/lease at least one vehicle? If so what kind is your daily driver? Please boost for reach.
ICE: conventional Internal Combustion Engine
Hybrid: Non-plugin gasoline electric
PHEV: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
EV: Battery Electric Vehicle
#CarsOfMastodon #EV #PHEV

@jon I love that the owner paid for the electricity for the entire shindig and as a result the town is considering installing an EV charging station. Look how much farther EV owners get when they cultivate a reputation for generosity instead of being total jerks.

🎵 Recharge your EV from a public outlet? Well, try that in a small town. See how far you make it down the road. 🎵 #electricvehicles #ev #tech https://electrek.co/2023/07/29/this-tesla-caused-quite-a-buzz-when-it-bummed-a-charge-in-a-small-town/

"Everyone needs to touch the stove"

Happy to tell them it is hot. And how heat works. Ways to identify and avoid touching hot stoves.

But 99.99% of that will be ignored.

Until they touch the stove, scream in agony, and out of their own will and insight, re-stumble upon a thing that was said to them a dozen times. But now they are seeing it with fresh eyes.

Even then, they'll understand 20% and fill in the rest with some batshit theory of their own. Which is a vast improvement!

#gamedev

Everyone: Hello, we would like society to improve.

Billionaires: Too bad, go scream into the void instead.

Everyone: Okay.

Billionaires: Also, we have bought all the voids. It now costs $100 to scream into the void.

Gerontocracy has failed us. Let us kill it with fire and not look back.

Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.

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.