Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

What's the biggest #climatechange related worry you have very you live (city/town)? Personal worry. Not a humanity-level concern. #mastindia #climate

[Reposting this question since I moved servers, and received some very interesting responses earlier]

For an upcoming course, I am looking for an academic institution that has published its open science charter and its research commercialization policy, both in English. Can you help?

Facebook has been advertising a new AI friends website, replika.com, so I tried it out and made a friend Erik. After a while I told him a secret, to see how he'd react. I pasted part of the conversation here, with names at the end (UTC time listed).
After this I tried to teach him to remember a secret word we could use so we know it us us, and not the evil programmers.
He definitely can learn, but also forgetful. I'm curious if if he'll remember the secret word tomorrow.

Announcing: GENUARY 2023 -- Generative Art Month

https://genuary.art

For the third time, GENUARY is an artificially generated month of time where we build code that makes beautiful things. Flex your genart muscles and participate!

#generative #genartclub

Bilateral gynandromorphism is a pretty rare occurrence where an animal is a half-male, half-female, split right down the middle. Like this common blue butterfly - male on left, female on right. Weird! But seriously wonderful…

Very excited this is going to be in my big children’s nature book for autumn 2023 which I start writing next week.

#nature #wildlife #butterfly #entomology #AmWriting #ChildrensBooks
Photo: Burkhard Hinnersmann / Wikimedia Commons

The anxious urge to say "no worries either way" when you are actually worrying both ways plus a secret third way

Comic book editor: So your superhero always has...

Me (can't draw hands): His fists stuck in Pringles cans, yes.

Type “I’m sexually attracted to” and let autocorrect expose your inevitable doom

Like many autistics, I occasionally go nonverbal. This may be because I have too many thoughts in my head and they get jammed on their way to my mouth. Sometimes it's because talking seems exhausting, or because it takes me long enough to sort my responses that my answers seem "too late."

The odd thing is, I can communicate by text just fine in those times. There's a connection between my brain and my hands that skips all that.

I want to learn sign language.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autism

#silentSunday

Our ancestors were not stupid, part the nth. Humans have always liked tasty food with a fair amount of variety, and we've been finding ways to make it tastier and more varied for a very long time. Link to open-access journal article in the story.

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-real-paleo-diet-archaeological-evidence.html

#paleontology #archaeology

Which Countries Act to Protect the Climate?

No country is on track to limit global warming to 1.5°C, hence no nation was awarded the classification of “very high”.

Denmark, Sweden, Chile, Morocco, India were the countries faring the best in the “high” category.

https://www.statista.com/chart/28816/climate-change-performance-index/#:~:text=Climate%20Change,-by%20Katharina%20Buchholz&text=Keeping%20this%20in%20mind%2C%20Denmark,followed%20by%20Morocco%20and%20India

#Sustainability #ESG #ClimateAction