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Mastodon has rejected more than five investment offers from Silicon Valley venture capital firms in recent months, as its founder pledged to protect the fast-growing social media platform’s non-profit status. (open access link) on.ft.com/3YSq8PU
#twittermigration #mastodon

This is a carbonized loaf of bread from Pompeii, 79 C.E. - preserved for thousands of years in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The baker left his stamp, which reads: “Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus." Celer is known to have survived the eruption, as his name later appears on a list of "freed men." Most bread at the time was baked in community ovens, so customized stamps were used to mark individual families’ and bakeries’ loaves.

#histodons #TIL #WeirdHistory #AncientHistory #DYK

@eniko @MaddieQuestions
I knew the "Hamburger", but didn't know the Meatballs... I think I'll start calling it by that name now. actually, there's more food names:

Dmitry Kokh from Russia has been named the Nature Photographer of the Year 2022. His winning photograph "House of Bears" was taken at an abandoned Weather Station on Kolyuchin, an island off the coast of Russia.

"Huts and unemployed, West Houston and Mercer Street"

From Berenice Abbott's Changing New York series, 1935.

Behind Blue Eyes

Did you know that reindeer are the only known mammal whose eyes change seasonally from golden in the summer to a wintry blue? Their eyes also become a thousand times more sensitive in winter, adapting to dim light in the near darkness to avoid predators.

Part of this is because of changes in the tapetum lucidum (TL), a mirror-like layer under the retina. 1/n

#ScienceSunday #ScienceMastodon #Christmas

PHOTO BLOG: Earlier this month, a storm chaser from the Netherlands took a wonderful photo showing several textbook ice halos, including a 46-degree halo, a 22-degree halo with parhelion (sun dogs), and an upper tangent arc. accuweather.com/en/leisure-rec

Jewish holiday tradition: Chinese food

Asian holiday tradition: Kentucky Fried Chicken

@mattodon The term probabilistic circuits was invented to unify a family of probabilistic models represented by a circuit and to make the study of their properties easier. Those models often allow interesting inferences to be computed exactly, like marginals. PPLs serve a different purpose but PCs are a valuable backbone for PPLs. There is some work on the latter but it’s rather immature. I’m interested in enabling Bayesian inference in flexible models (NNs, BNP) through PCs.

BIG NEWS: Pawoo.net, the world's 2nd biggest Mastodon instance, has just been acquired.

The entity acquiring them is the Mask Group, an entity that also runs mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud. They are also active in the so-called "Web 3.0" space.

If you haven't heard of pawoo.net, it's because many instances have de-federated from it.

finance.yahoo.com/news/mask-ne

一些人可能不清楚mastodon现在是个什么情况:
从今天pawoo被Suji Yan这个满嘴马克思主义的纯种洼地佬收购起。

世界上人数最多的头几个毛象实例除了官方运营的那个外,现在全都掌握在了同一个中资运营手里,等于Suji Yan现在手里掌握的毛象用户数据量,保守估计也占了整个毛象网络的半壁江山。

我们无从确定洼地佬反复收购各大毛象实例的目的。
不过现在在互联网上想要安全生存的基本常识,就是必须以最大的恶意去揣测那些满嘴马列主义的北越南人。

左棍现在就显得非常诙谐,从Twitter run了毛象,结果毛象的热门实例几乎全归北越南。
尤其那些害怕马应龙通支跟着左棍一起run的黄左,直接搞成了自己卖自己的行为艺术。

A key part of any new research project is finding the books you wish you had written.

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