John Young @jsy1001@qoto.org

Finally! We've been waiting since November of last year to share these amazing results and beautiful images with everyone. Our Cycle 1 JWST/MIRI images of the Fomalhaut Debris Disk reveals never before seen details of the inner regions of this complex exoplanetary system!

We are a lethally stupid species 🙄

To avoid being castigated for visibly burning off methane from fossil fuel production, Turkmenistan is simply invisibly venting it, creating far more damage: CH4 has 80 x the greenhouse impact of CO2 🤦

They thought no-one would notice. They were wrong 🛰️

#ClimateCrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/mind-boggling-methane-emissions-from-turkmenistan-revealed

Just finished this, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the UK parliamentary system and UK democracy. It’s a very readable deep dive into what does and doesn’t work at the moment (only published last month), and although it’s depressing along the way, it points to some relatively straightforward fixes at the end. We can change this if we choose. Read it and tell your MP! #books #democracy #Parliament

This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.

"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.

In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/

#Europe #RightsRetention

How many astronomers does it take to change a light bulb? Well, apparently two if it is the halogen lamp of a Fabry Perot calibration unit and they don't really know what they are doing.

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RT @CubicleApril
big middle finger to the universe, but especially to the colleague who made my bones hurt by pointing out that the `z` in `tar -xvzf` hasn’t been needed since version tar 1.15, released in 2004.
https://twitter.com/CubicleApril/status/1653905572415119361

There’s an interesting exploration of the consequences of finite energy availability for economics here: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/ It’s a few years old, but maybe most of it won’t have changed much.

There’s also a blog somewhere about the effect of adding fusion energy into the Earth system (it’ll all end up as heat) and the risk of us cooking ourselves, but I can’t just find it. #energy

Another day in Microsoft purgatory 🤬

Mastodon Is Doomed

https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-04-24-mastodon-is-doomed/

In the late 1880s, when steam ships were replacing sailing cargo ships, one of the last roles for the sailing ships was to carry coal around the world to supply ports where steamships wanted to go. A clean technology was essential to enable the growth of a dirty technology. And even today, fossil fuels aren’t magically just everywhere. A gigantic *** 40% *** of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels. So eliminating fossil fuel also drastically cuts global shipping emissions. #climate #ships

Just realized I never wrote an #Introduction when I joined last fall -

#Books are my favorite thing; particular #Horror, #Fantasy, and #Mystery. You can see what I #AmReading in my profile, but lately I've been into classic fantasy, and the #SwordAndSorcery and #DyingEarth subgenres.

#Bass player in a past life. No longer play but still enjoy all kinds of #Music.

These are my primary interests, but don't be surprised if I also talk about #VideoGames, #Movies, or #ProWrestling.

Also yesterday I flippantly suggested that the UK Emergency Alert system only came about as a way to siphon money to a Tory MP's wife/family/friend etc.

Turns out Infosys, yes the one Sunak’s wife has shares in and was co-founded by her dad, was involved in the project.

*does the I told you so dance*

I'm a tiling WM user but the concept of the scrolling window managers were new to me. This idea might be experimental but using it was fun. If you want to try it, CardBoard is a good start. I had fun using it for a couple of days and thought it's good to share it with you too.

https://gitlab.com/cardboardwm/cardboard/-/blob/master/README.md

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://gitlab.com/cardboardwm/cardboard/-/blob/master/README.md

#linux #unix

20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

#ChatGPT #Emacs shell delegating markdown blocks to #org babel

https://github.com/xenodium/chatgpt-shell

Following Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.

I am joining this action and have also resigned.

Full announcement: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf

I think there should be a hashtag that's dedicated to helping people who are new to the Fediverse.

But for it to work it needs to be known and promoted by a critical mass of us.

The only way I can think of to make this happen is by asking you to boost this post, and to vote for the hashtag you think we should unite around.

I'll share a follow up in a week with the one that gets the most votes, or a new poll if there's lots of suggestions for different hashtags.

Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/ It creates a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites.

happy #eastern !

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