Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

@loshmi Excellent thread! I like to add this article: "How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)" from Lionel Dricot.
One keyphrase: "But there’s another way: make it irrelevant. That’s exactly what Google did with XMPP."
...because the protocoll of the fediverse is a competitor to their businessmodel.
No worries, Microsoft and his behaviour is mentioned, too.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

So the purpose of the #fediblock virtual picket is to stake a claim and build a common consciousness. It could grow - we could build a cross-#fediverse infrastructure to negotiate and make collective decisions. We could develop a standard for all those who want to join - a viral thing. @dk
wrote of this in the Telekommunist Manifesto a long while ago.

The point of the #fediblock is not to stop Meta, it ultimately cannot do that. The point of it is to realize what we can do together.

🧵 6/6

A #strike / #fediblock doesn't let them do this. It prevents #Meta from entering the existing conversation with interesting content and dynamic developments. It makes it harder and more expensive for them to develop their own ActivityPub software, makes #EEE slightly more expensive.

Whoever thinks that we have somehow "won" by having them adopt #ActivityPub is deeply ignoring reality and history. We have opposing interests. They are capitalists, we are a commons. They want to eat us.

🧵 5/n

Ultimately, Meta would kill what Mastodon has become, as everyone will mostly be using their app. They will have saved their business empire from the threat of #communization.

This is why they are doing this. It's a business move, and if you think that you somehow outsmart 500 billion $ company you're deeply misguided. In capitalist societies, smarter people are not more successful at doing what they want to do, richer people are.

🧵4/n

People will be divided between interoperability with #Meta and alternative clients. They will like the no ads stuff on #Masto, but at first the ads on #P92 will be promoted posts and will actually be useful. It will be reliable. Small servers on #Mastodon will collapse because of rapid growth, difficulty in moderation, attacks by right-wing trolls. People will want reliability and move to the meta thing, because it's just easier.

🧵3/n

Meta will data collect not just public content, but also statistics like how long your eyes stay on certain text. What you hover over, what you toot and erase, what you search for. None of this is available to them now.

Regular people won't care because they have busy lives and just want something that works. Geeks won't care because we can use alternative clients (for now). After a few years, #meta's #p92 will introduce features unavailable on alternative clients.

🧵2/n

@cyrilpedia thanks for posting, it’s always fun and inspiring to read about this generation of scientists (while of course recognizing that the structure of modern science does not allow pretty much anyone to work on a 20-year problem!)

Do y’all think about how the desert city of Dubai, which is hosting the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), has a huge indoor ski facility that has a lodge that uses gas heaters to keep guests warm?

Now out in @CurrentBiology -- our paper on cortical pattern amplification with learning, w/ @KanakaRajanPhD 🧠📄

Below in thread: Huge perceptual improvement. No vis resp changes. Simple recurrent model. Relationship to recent S. Peron lab paper. +more.

What does it mean? Biological recurrent networks in vivo can change to accommodate totally new patterns of input. We provide those artificially w/ optogenetics.

1/ #neuroscience #ai #

All you need to know about how rentier #capitalism works in one but of data:

The UK's water firms were privatised without any outstanding debts over thirty years ago.... now, the privatised #infrastructure (regional) #monopolies have around £62bn in debt, but are still failing to deliver an adequate service.

If that debt has not been used to invest sufficiently in the #infrastructure, which the firms now (grudgingly) admit,, you might wonder where has it gone?

I leave that for you to guess!

Ever wondered what a baby #scorpion looks like? Wonder no more! This is the first instar pronymph of scorpion species Centruroides vittatus (the striped bark scorpion).

Image from Farley, R.D., 2005. Developmental changes in the embryo, pronymph, and first molt of the scorpion Centruroides vittatus (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Journal of Morphology, 265(1), pp.1-27.

#science #arachnids

On this day in 1869: Hans Spemann born, won 1935 #NobelPrize for discovering embryonic induction #ThisDayInBiotech

Hi #ScienceMastodon. We, @Dev_journal are a community journal covering all areas of #devbio. Development is led by Editor-in-Chief James Briscoe & published by the not-for-profit @Co_Biologists.

We will toot about #research papers, #reviews, #interviews, charitable activities, and news from @the_node.

We’ve moved over to our own instance @biologists.social, & hope that you’ll join us there for friendly chats between biologists!
https://biologists.social/about

https://biologists.social/about

Mais uma vez, a direita juntou-se à extrema-direita contra a proteção do ambiente, acenando a mentira e a chantagem sobre a crise para boicotar a ação. Quando é para ir além dos discursos genéricos, a direita nunca falha. Ou melhor, falha sempre.
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Marisa Matias: O voto da 🌱Lei do Restauro da Natureza, hoje na @ENVI, foi uma clarificação entre quem defende o futuro e quem não têm qualquer tipo de escrúpulos na defesa dos interesses económicos que trouxeram o planeta ao estado em que se encontra.
#RestoreNature 🧵 https://t.co/y2kNikZlkp
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/joseggusmao/status/1673651628434415616

On #TechnicalTuesday we’re highlighting the OptIC-Notch tool from Jonathan Townson, Sarah Bray and colleagues based on the BLITz approach. The authors used this optogenetic method to temporally interrogate the interaction between Notch intracellular domain and the DNA-binding transcription factor CSL.

📖@Dev_journal: https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/11/dev201785/316612/OptIC-Notch-reveals-mechanism-that-regulates

#microscopy #devbio