Dom @freeDomForTooting@qoto.org
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Postgraduate researcher studying #CondensedMatter, in particular #SoftMatter, #ActiveMatter, #MolecularBiology, #CellBiology, #PhaseTransitions, and #ComplexSystems using the tools of #TheoreticalPhysics, #BioPhysics, #StatisticalPhysics, #FluidDynamics, #ComputationalPhysics, and #Simulation.
For instance, one of the projects I'm working on at the moment addresses #universality in active #turbulence with #spectral techniques. A related project predicts a new microphase separation regime in inhomogeneous active #nematics by simulating the coupled #CahnHilliard, #NavierStokes, and #BerisEdwards equations. Another project develops a #FieldTheory of the #orderphobic effect, a nonspecific interaction between #transmembrane bodies anchored in a #lipid #bilayer.
My other interests include #cycling, #ArchLinux, #Linux, #LibreSoftware, learning #Korean, #yoga, #calisthenics, #singing, #autonomy, #Cooperatives, #DeliberativeDemocracy, #CitizensAssemblies, #ParticipatoryDemocracy, #DemocraticInnovation, #OpenDemocracy, #LibertarianSocialism, #RightToRepair, #democracy, #humanism, #rationalism, #OpenScience, #science, #CommunityEmpowerment, #community, #commons, #research, #wikis, #governance.
Joined Nov 2022
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Meaningful #climate action isn’t just about cooling off the planet. It will:
✔️Promote food, energy, & water security
✔️ Protect public health
✔️ Conserve biodiversity
✔️ Address ocean acidification
✔️ Promote justice & equity
✔️ Provide economic opportunities
✔️ Prevent the emergence new diseases
✔️ Foster a more sustainable & resilient future
There’s still time. 🌍 Not much.
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Article on Musk's cultural miscalculations
Great article.
"Musk thinks he bought a tech company, but he’s actually bought a community of users, and that's where its value lies..."
So says Prof Paul Bernal - Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of East Anglia School of Law.
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/why-elon-musk-the-chief-twit-is-in-trouble/
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"The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."
- Noam Chomsky
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French authorities declare the use of Microsoft Office and Google Docs illegal in schools and education markets, as they don’t follow GDPR and might disturb later competition by making students used to these proprietary solutions.
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Moving from centralized walled gardens to the Fediverse means understanding the importance of web protocols, interoperability, and the federated world of applications.
Mastodon is one of the numerous applications built on top of the ActivityPub protocol.
Just as email paved the way to the web for billions, federated applications will open door to many ambitious democratized solutions.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leaving-twitters-walled-garden #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Fediverse
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#Mastodon features that #Twitter doesn’t have:
* Temporary muting (e.g. for a day)
* Self-verified URLs in the profile
* Hiding spoilers etc. via content warnings
* URLs must start with protocols (fewer false positives, e.g. in code).
* Everyone can edit posts (in v4+).
* No ads (which doesn’t come for free = donate if you can afford it)
More obscure: I like that you can search for post URLs to “transfer” them between accounts.
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It's fascinating to see how the range of countries using the #fediverse changes every week I am looking at https://fediverse.observer/stats. I am wondering whether a chart that links user_growth to country over time would be possible with the API of @fediverseobserver? #opendata
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Dear #FediAdmin 
folk, please remember to take care of yourselves. 
These are exciting times and it's fun to be a part of what's happening, to be sure. But this is a marathon, not a sprint. 
It's okay…
✅ …to close registrations on your instance;
✅ …if your instance is a bit slower or experiences some hiccups;
✅ …if some of people from your instance flow somewhere else;
✅ …to decide to run a smaller instance.
Thank you for your work! 
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An Incredible Day In Internet History
It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.
It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.
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@Richard_Littler
Being on Mastodon for the past few days and it reminded me of the friendliness of the earlier days of the Internet, before *coughs* forced engagement, and *coughs* metrics. It's nice to feel heard and seen, and to reciprocate naturally to that. I don't mind the slowness.
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If you're new here, you might need some help with posting and privacy.
In between the polling tool and the CW tag on your text box is an icon that defaults to a padlock. If you click it, you can see the different visibility options for your posts. This is different than on the bird!
🌐 PUBLIC - is when you want it visible to the entire Fediverse, including search (though use hashtags!)
🔓 UNLISTED - means it's still public, but hidden from search
🔒 FOLLOWERS ONLY - self-explanatory
@ MENTIONED PEOPLE ONLY - only to the people explicitly tagged in the post
If you're trying to communicate as widely as possible, with the hope of getting boosted, choose PUBLIC.
All the other settings offer narrower options to your liking.
NB: You need to make this choice for all of your posts before you click "Post!"
I hope this helps you post how you want to post!
'the relative transparency of the internet constitutes a tremendous boon, providing oversharing plutocrats with all the digital rope necessary to publicly hang themselves'
I wonder, though, whether we'll find a more efficient route to a healthier society?
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Are you interested in using deep learning for genomic predictions? Join my lab!
please boost
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The Surgeons' Hall Riot happened #OTD in 1870. The Edinburgh Seven arrived at Surgeons' Hall to sit their anatomy exam and were met by a crowd of male students and several hundred onlookers who opposed of women studying medicine. Not to be deterred the women went on to sit their exam.
After not being allowed to graduate at the time the group were posthumously awarded their medical degrees from Edinburgh University in 2019.
#womeninstem #womeninmedicine #histmed #medhist #surgery #edinburgh
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"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done".
-Alan Turing
#astronomy #stars #science #life #turing #airglow #dave_lane
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To anyone coming over to Mastodon and worrying about gaining followers, remember the wise words of Professor Lupin: "It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers."
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Any Spanish in the Qotooo? I'm new here, my english is from google translate university. I would like to help as far as I can. Greetings from Granada, Spain
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Is the world ready for mass migration due to climate change?
With up to three billion people expected to be displaced by the effects of global warming by the end of the century, should it lead to a shift in the way we think about national borders?
#climate #climatechange #globalwarming
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221117-how-borders-might-change-to-cope-with-climate-migration
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Postgraduate researcher studying #CondensedMatter, in particular #SoftMatter, #ActiveMatter, #MolecularBiology, #CellBiology, #PhaseTransitions, and #ComplexSystems using the tools of #TheoreticalPhysics, #BioPhysics, #StatisticalPhysics, #FluidDynamics, #ComputationalPhysics, and #Simulation.
For instance, one of the projects I'm working on at the moment addresses #universality in active #turbulence with #spectral techniques. A related project predicts a new microphase separation regime in inhomogeneous active #nematics by simulating the coupled #CahnHilliard, #NavierStokes, and #BerisEdwards equations. Another project develops a #FieldTheory of the #orderphobic effect, a nonspecific interaction between #transmembrane bodies anchored in a #lipid #bilayer.
My other interests include #cycling, #ArchLinux, #Linux, #LibreSoftware, learning #Korean, #yoga, #calisthenics, #singing, #autonomy, #Cooperatives, #DeliberativeDemocracy, #CitizensAssemblies, #ParticipatoryDemocracy, #DemocraticInnovation, #OpenDemocracy, #LibertarianSocialism, #RightToRepair, #democracy, #humanism, #rationalism, #OpenScience, #science, #CommunityEmpowerment, #community, #commons, #research, #wikis, #governance.
Joined Nov 2022
