Mike Capern @mikecsees@qoto.org

Pluto backlit by the distant sun, captured by the departing New Horizons spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
https://www.nasa.gov/nh/nh-finds-blue-skies-and-water-ice-on-pluto

#science #astronomy #nasa #pluto

Documentation vs User experience.

NY Times newsroom workers will stage a 24-hr walkout on Thursday, Dec 8th.

Please stand in solidarity by participating in a one-day "no NYT" digital walkout Dec 8th.

This means not engaging w/any NYT platforms on Dec 8th, not logging in, and not purchasing, clicking, or reading content.

Including but not limited to:

-Website + any links from it
-All sections of the NYT
-Wordle, Crossword, Spelling Bee & any NYT online games
-Wirecutter, The Athletic

Just one day. Support NYT workers.

‘Putin bans protests outside universities, railway stations, churches and other places.’ May we never forget how important our Bill of Rights (including the 9th and 10th amendments BTW) is. We shouldn’t take out 1A rights for granted. #Russia #Ukraine https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-bans-protests-outside-universities-140820692.html

Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) has joined Mathstodon! He's an applied mathematician who works on nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, and he's written a lot of popular books: The Joy of X", "Infinite Powers" and others. Check out some of his essays here:

https://www.stevenstrogatz.com/essays

He has a massive number of followers on Twitter, so please say hi and help him with his withdrawal symptoms in this calmer, happier place.

As the world turns into a population chart: Earth, by the number of people living at each latitude
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/oh75y9/oc_spinner_top_world_where_the_area_of_each/

A beautiful timelapse of the Milky Way galaxy over Cerro Armazones in Chile.

Credit: ESO/S. Brunier

#photography #space #night #timelapse

“For the first time, ProPublica has cataloged cleanup efforts at the 50-plus sites where uranium was processed to fuel the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Even after regulators say cleanup is complete, polluted water and sickness are often left behind.”

Thanks, @ProPublica

#NuclearPower #NuclearWastw #StillAProblem

https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/109450569858835662

Even if you don't add an image to the #silentsunday tag (and you are warmly invited to join in), just touring the sharing is an amazing visual experience. If you are not sure what #silentsunday is, it is a weekly call for an image with no written context (except for the alt-text layer -- please do that). The result is this quiet unfolding of landscapes, spaces and objects from across the world, and it is a lovely sharing experience. Thank you, all

@Ciantic @jeffjarvis I've said this publicly before. The #Mastodon onboarding situation is a real problem, especially for nontechies without a lot of time to "research" all this. Frankly, I'd like to see a nonprofit create a quality onboarding and support structure, with some sort of membership fee involved to pay the bills. I realize this is controversial but I think it likely is necessary -- or else something else along these lines.

Let's go for a dusk drive through the prosaically named Economy, Nova Scotia as the moon rises. First stop, the Economy United Church. 1/3 (Hasselblad SWC,
38mm f4.5 Biogon, Fuji 40OH)

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#PoppyKitty playing in the #WAsnow. #caturday #wawx #seattle

@bps_artish @Gaina_Cee

What just popped up on my timeline 😁

Coincidence?

This one is doing the rounds a LOT lately…

All the talk of leaving the birdsite vs. staying on the birdsite to “fight” makes me think of Barry Lopez:

“The amount of energy that goes into the defeat of an enemy is energy that would be better spent in doing something that makes the enemy irrelevant.”

How can we waste attackers’ time, attention, and money? Can we inflict psychological damage on them? In essence, can we f*** with them for better resilience outcomes?

Yes we can! Our new paper — led by @dykstra with other fine folks — answers these questions, introducing the concept of “sludge” against attackers for systems resilience: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.16626.pdf