Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

Aerial image of a forming thermokarst lake in western #Alaska. Ice wedges in the ground are melting, the ground is sinking/subsiding and water is ponding in the newly formed depressions. This process will likely continue and accelerate and eventually form a #lake
The image is around 370m wide and taken from about 1000m altitude in one of our flight campaigns in 2021.
164.535°W; 66.532 °N
#aerial #aviation #eochat #landscape #remotesensing #earthart #science #permafrost #arctic #geography

I found it, here is the small program I wrote for Run! magazine. They paid me $15 lol, I never cached the check, it was just too cool to hold onto.

#C64 #retrocomputing

It's #ThrowbackThursday and as it was #InternationalWomensDay yesterday, here's a project I worked on with Inspiring Girls a few years back, which focused on gender stereotyping in children's cartoons.

Meet Angela the Astronaut! 🚀 🪐

#TBT #MastoArt #PolymerClay

#PenroseKitchenTiles ok, it's starting.

I’ve tried drawing whales a few times with limited success, but I think I’ve finally captured their grandeur, so majestic and regal.

Also, I learned that if you draw alcohol marker over pencil, the pencil won’t erase. This is Copic markers on regular typing paper, and it bled almost completely through to the back. I think I will get smoother results and less bleeding on better quality paper. Still learning. Always learning.
#mastoart #copic #character #markers #whale

New comic is up on Daily Kos, plus some thoughts on why the term "culture wars" is a euphemism in a time of ascendant fascism
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/7/2156679/-Cartoon-Culture-wars

1959 Sealtest Ice Cream in Gay new packaging.
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#icecream #Gay #Advertisement #Food #Ephemera #Retro #Vintage #Dessert @GayOldTime

My paternal grandmother was born in Berlin, Germany in 1900. She was, as was her whole family, Jewish. She was smart and driven. Had her own dressmaking shop by the time she was 25. But, the handwriting was on the wall, and she left home for New York in 1925. She learned English and worked as a dressmaker until she got married to an Italian immigrant she met in English language class. Some of her siblings stayed in Germany. Perished in the camps. Her youngest sister survived and came to America. But she was mentally damaged from that horror, attempted suicide at least once (had a scar around her neck) until she succeeded in drowning herself.

People talk about the horrors of fascism in the abstract. But for my family, it is very real. I think that we all need to speak about it.My generation, the grandchildren of the victims of the Nazis, is old now. I try to tell this story as often as I can.

I did something fun this week: I made a typewriter simulator!

It ended up being more complex than it seemed. You can overtype, rotate paper, set margins, use Wite-Out, change ribbons… Let me know what you make!

(Desktop only so far.) https://shifthappens.site/typewriter/

If you're a small Bandcamp artist looking for some new listeners, leave a note with a link to your favorite song you've released and I'll listen to it, give you a thought or two about it and boost it.

(Boosts to this to get it in front of more eyes are appreciated.)

Today, on #InternationalWomensDay, I feel exceptionally proud to be working under the leadership of so many incredible women.

DYK that the
@CMSexperiment Spokesperson,
@Fermilab Director,
@CERN Director,
@ENERGY Office of Science Director, and
@ENERGY Secretary are all women!

My latest, on substack: “how long does Twitter have left?” (I give it six months)

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/how-long-does-twitter-have-left

❤️ I undersrand. I'm glad if I could bring you peace and sooth your heart, @mikako6. You deserve many smiles, my friend. 🙇‍♂️

Hello world! Elon Musk picking a twitter fight with Icelandic philanthropist and man of the year 2022 Haraldur Thorleifsson ended up being the final push that we needed, so now we are here on Mastodon. We don't know how any of this works, but follow us for posts on vision science, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and stupid memes.

#InternationalWomensDay

Words, unusually, fail me in describing this moment (photographers unknown).
Something in my eye, every time I look at it.

#GretaThunberg #JaneGoodall

Per advice of others, here’s an #introduction post: I like to build things. Co-founder of…
+ #Foursquare & Dodgeball (OG #mobile #social #location #socialmaps apps)
+ Stockade FC (4th Division semipro #soccer team in #Kingston NY in #HudsonValley #Catskills)
+ Street FC (think: Soul Cycle for pickup soccer, with #gamemechanics & #community)
+ LivingCities.ai — Mashup of #AR games + #realworld spaces (#DefendIRL)
+ Actively trying to work #climate #sustainability & #solarpunk themes into my work

one final computer history question: why are Intel processors little endian? Why were some other processors big endian?

I'd love citations / links if possible -- I got a lot of guesses and speculation in replies to the last computer history question.

The state of molecular phylogenetics, as of the publication date (2018). Focusing especially on "three surprises": the discovery of the archaea; endosymbiosis; and horizontal gene transfer (HGT).

Featuring the lives and work of Charles Darwin, Carl Woese (especially), Lynn Margulis, Ernst Haeckel, George Fox, Fred Griffith, Oswald Avery, Joshua Lederberg, Ford Doolittle, and many others.

I like that the author describes the personalities and academic circumstances of the scientists involved. An easy and enjoyable read.

#BookWyrm #DavidQuammen #CarlWoese #Evolution #MolecularBiology #MolecularPhylogenetics #Archaea #Endosymbiosis #HorizonalGeneTransfer #HGT

(comment on "The Tangled Tree")

Celebrating the amazing Scottish Lumberjills on #InternationalWomensDay

See more photos and a brief history in my poster at http://dendrochronicle.co.uk/the-scottish-lumberjills/

There were over 2500 Scottish Lumberjills in 1943, yet their service was not formally recognised until 2007. Scotland trained Lumberjills from many other parts of these isles too.

With thanks to Joanna Foat, author of the 'Lumberjills' book for use of images.

sero: I plant
Minimus dug a little fovea (hole) with his pala (spade) and planted this glans quernus (acorn) back in auctumnus (autumn). The young quercus (oak) germinat (is sprouting)!
#LatinVerbs