Nick @internic@qoto.org

In unrelated news, we can all play as @jerry in COD MW3 now, which is pretty awesome 👏

Angela Dietz of the JUICE flight operations team at ESOC confirming that the spacecraft signal was successfully reacquired at 06:16 CEST this morning after last night’s flyby of Earth 🌏🛰️

Unofficially (🙂) all is well, no problems overnight, no exceptions, just like a regular contact – everyone’s happy 👍

Telemetry data are being downlinked. Image data from the monitoring cameras will follow soon.

#JUICELEGA #SpaceScience

"the odds of referring a woman were 38.3% lower when the job description mentioned intellectual ability"

"Children [chose] girls as teammates for the 'smart' game only 37.6% of the time"

"Bias against women and girls in contexts where brilliance is prized emerges early and is a likely obstacle to their success."

- Bian et. al., 2018, "Evidence of Bias Against Girls and Women in Contexts that Emphasize Intellectual Ability"

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112995182451653586

@GossiTheDog hehehe

“The hung loans also have cut into some investment bankers’ annual pay.

Barclays’s top investment bankers on the mergers and acquisitions team were told at a New York dinner early last year that compensation for everyone in the room would be cut by at least 40% from the prior year. The bank had several hung deals hurting its performance but X was by far the largest, according to people familiar with the situation.”

Voting is not a love letter to a candidate. It is a chess move for the world you want to live in.

There's a name for Trump's endless stream of lies and nonsense: the Gish Gallop. It came from creationists: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-weird-debate-strategies-come-from-creationist-tactics/ by @leafwarbler

Interesting reflection by a theoretical physicist on the nature of reality and the limits of the cognizable.

H/T @vieiro

Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist - Nautilus
https://nautil.us/confessions-of-a-theoretical-physicist-787199/

A picture from a bit earlier of Ignacio Tanquo, JUICE Spacecraft Operations Manager here at ESOC, & Marco Costa from ESAC, celebrating a successful flyby at the Moon.

By 8am tomorrow morning, it should be known how accurate the flyby was & whether a correction burn is needed prior to the Earth flyby tomorrow night.

First indications are that all’s well, saving fuel for Jupiter & Ganymede operations after 2031.

#JUICELEGA

Rather than talk in the abstract about whether consensus blocklists are good or bad, let's consider a specific example.

Let's suppose Georgia Tech wants to join the Fediverse. They want to start an instance at social.gatech.edu. ♥️

Georgia Tech has a student body of about 47K students. This includes the largest number of women engineering students in the US, and one of the largest Black engineering student bodies on Earth.

How does GT protect their students without consensus block lists?

1/N

Not that I blog very often but this piece is probably one of the most popular things I've ever written and that's just nice 😌

https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft

The last time a woman got promoted as a Python core developer was 21 men ago.

Sometimes I feel alone in thinking about this.

Just a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there.

Ha – amazing. Someone intercepted the telemetry stream coming back from JUICE during the lunar flyby, found the packets that corresponded to some NAVCAM images of the Moon, decoded them, & posted them on The Other Place already.

Top work – we’re still waiting to get access to the images here at ESOC 🤷‍♂️

👏

Julie Nováková, the astrobiologist I met at the Glasgow Worldcon, has edited this book. It's a combination of stories about the possible forms that alien life could take. After each story there's a scientific essay (I don't know if it's commenting that story in particular or more general). It really looks interesting.

Life Beyond Us – European Astrobiology Institute
https://europeanastrobiology.eu/life-beyond-us/

Pro tips for matplotlib figures to really feel right in LaTeX publications: https://duetosymmetry.com/code/latex-mpl-fig-tips/

The obstacle is a pencil, stationary, while the lazy Susan spins with the fluid underneath. The #rheoscopic fluid (more on that on another post) allows the currents to be seen easily. An instability makes the fluid "oscillate" and create the von Kármán vortices as it flows around the pencil. [3/4]

U.S. Wind and Solar Are on Track to Overtake Coal This Year

Two renewable resources, wind and solar, together have produced more power than coal through July—a first for the U.S. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-wind-and-solar-are-on-track-to-overtake-coal-this-year/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Bronze statue of #JohnLewis replaces more than 100-year-old #Confederate monument

#BlackMastodon #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteAllBlue

https://apnews.com/article/john-lewis-bronze-statue-replaced-confederate-georgia-b0c51086a4b83750ff38b1af2167abde

#104YearsAgoToday

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.

The Ukrainian air force commander says his forces operating in Russia's Kursk Oblast have destroyed a second key bridge. https://kyivindependent.com/another-bridge-destroyed-in-kursk-oblast-ukraine-claims/