Maricela Potoc @maricela@qoto.org

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I'm a PhD student obsessed with bio-based nanoparticles, so I'm trying my hand at 3D printing seaweed using at-home supplies. The troubleshooting is intense. Creating an at-home lab without funding is VERY HARD. Mashed seaweed was OK to print (with cellulose nanocrystals), but optimization? Yikes. Would love any tips !

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Funny :) If you want to "verify" your account on Mastodon, type : verified : (without the spaces) after typing your display name when editing your profile. You will then be :verified: 👌😂

Hey, so, we've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today. 1,124 new Mastodon servers since Oct 27, and 489,003 new users. That's pretty cool.

Één van de mooiste waarnemingen die ik vast kon leggen, een porseleinzwam met druppels ... guttatie of toch nog een overblijfsel van regen? Ik weet het niet zeker maar het is een sprookjesachtige verschijning.

#sporespondence #mushroom #mushtodon

Our world is connected. We see evidence of that from seeing social media updates from people around the world or news broadcasts that cover events happening from anywhere. But have you considered the physical infrastructure of the internet? Of course there are datacenters, giant buildings with loud computers buzzing away. But those buildings need to be connected to each other, to your modem at home, to mobile cell towers that are sprinkled all over the place, and connected "to the internet". But what does that mean? Contrary to popular belief, satellites are NOT how most information travels the world. Indeed, we have physical cables all over... but instead of sending electrical signals those cables carry light generated by lasers.

These cables not only exist alongside roads and hung on power lines. They're also running along the bottom of the world's oceans. The image attached below is an inventory of each of these underwater internet cables. What I find interesting is how many there are! It seems like a lot. But then when I think more about it I am also amazed at how few there are. If you pay attention you will see news articles describing occasional sabotage of these cables, here's one recently published by Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/submarine-internet-cables-egypt/. This is actually very important to the future and security of the global internet.

#internet #fiberoptic #infrastructure #submarinecable #lasers #packets

https://sudorandom.dev/portfolio/submarine-cable-map/

The data for generating this map is based on: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

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It's comforting knowing that nobody here is paying to get in front of my eyeballs, and there's no way to earn cred except to post interesting stuff, converse, engage, and be kind.

#mastodon #SocialMedia #AdFree

When I was a child I thought that in the future I'd have a flying car. What I actually have is a watch that congratulates me if I stand up enough.

How old are you guys here on #Mastodon? I'm just curious because over on the bird app I always feel surrounded by 18 to 22 year olds (with all the drama at that age). Full disclosure: I'm in my late forties = one foot in the grave.

Please put your #Mastodon username in your #twitter profile.

Then people can use https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ to scan everyone they follow in twitter to find you!