sinski @aosinski@qoto.org

"J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji." - Terry Pratchett

they put a christmas sweater on the t-rex at the national history museum in london and it's ridiculous and adorable

About 1 in 5 of us have an APOE4 gene variant, the #1 genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. But the mechanism for brain injury was a mystery, now getting unraveled (cholesterol processing by oligodendrocytes) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05439-w
@nature@twitter.com
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03371-7

There is a solution

"You up?"
4th century, BC

because direct messages on Mastodon are clear-text, all admins are subject to warrants from their local/regional law enforcement agencies

same with usage metadata like IP addresses and time stamps

i disabled IP logging in UFW and nginx, but Mastodon itself still logs this to be able to present it to the user for authentication transparency

making mastodon more resistant to targeted surveillance would be valuable to protect users

#mastoAdmin #mastodonAdmin

Land mammals by weight, mostly humans and our livestock.

This classic XKCD was based on a book published in 2003, when there were 6.4 billion humans. There are now 8.0 billion of us, so imagine adding another ~25% to the human blob and probably a similar amount of extra livestock.

What chance do wild animals really have?

https://xkcd.com/1338/

#mammals #population #xkcd

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

Huge #climatecrisis #energytransition news - Indonesia JETP has now been announced.

$20billion of public & private financing to retire Indonesia's coal fleet early, led by US and Japan.

This will prevent 2GT of CO2 emissions, and will bring forward Indonesia's emissions peak from 2037 to 2030, where the peak will be 25% lower!

Big big big.

https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/us-japan-partners-mobilise-20-bln-move-indonesia-away-coal-power-2022-11-15/

One thing no one ever talks about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself on keeping a cardboard box because it's, like, a really good box.

Now wait until people discover @pixelfed (ethical, ad-free, algorithm-free and federated Instagram alternative), and the fact that they can use Mastodon to follow people on there, all while not being under the control of Zuckerberg.