Faszinationsgemeinschaft @mundauf@qoto.org

#TIL Scientists found that deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible. It is called the 'Homer Simpson Gene.'
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/scientists-discover-the-homer-simpson-gene/340027 #science #neurology #vegan

I'm extremely pleased to launch Run Your Own Social: How to run a small social network site for you friends.

This is a guide book to running a small, tight-knit federated social network server. It comes from my year of experience running Friend Camp. It's focused largely on SOCIAL solutions, though it does touch on the technical.

I've tried to keep it technology-neutral, and it should be a pretty easy read for anyone who's been on the fediverse for a while.

https://runyourown.social/

Aluminum (1886)

"...The specific gravity is but two and one-half times that of water; it is lighter than glass or as light as chalk, being only one-third the weight of iron and one-fourth the weight of silver; it is as malleable as gold, tenacious as iron, and harder than steel, being next the diamond. Thus it is capable of the widest variety of uses, being soft when ductility, fibrous when tenacity, and crystalline when hardness is required...."

#aluminium

https://todayinsci.com/Events/Technology/AluminiumHistory.htm

@zetetic
Thanks for the info!

I'm hesitant about maintaining too many / multiple accounts and appreciate #qoto. The rules are more concise, but align pretty well with yours, I think. Don't advocate things that are illegal and treat others with excellence. There's also an emphasis on reaching out and interacting with others you don't agree with, which I think we ought all to do.

@freemo @masterofthetiger@theres.life @MOTT freaky. Oo

Be warned gab.com just came up o the fediverse and it seems the server already has unauthorized clones of many of the most famous people on the Fediverse.

I have noticed a clone of myself on their servers and I assure everyone it is not me and I do not in any way support the GAB network.

#GAB #Fediverse #scam

‪Voraussetzung für Autonomie ist „die Bereitschaft, in einer sozialen Beziehung einander fremd zu bleiben“.‬
‪Richard Sennett, Respekt im Zeitalter der Ungleichheit, S. 242‬

@mundauf Ja, allerdings! Wir sollten nicht vergessen, dass der Nationalsozialismus in einer der in seiner Zeit hochentwickelsten und innovativsten Gesellschaften entstehen konnte. Deutsche Kultur und dt. Universitäten, Wissenschaftler und Forscher waren ein weltweit bewundertes Vorbild. In einer weniger entwickelten und lernbereiten Gesellschaft hätte der NS nie solche Verheerungen anrichten können. Die Organisatiosbeherrschung, Bürokratie, kaltblütige Unerschrockenheit und Lernbegier, die zum Konzentrationslager, zur Raketentechnik, zur Atombombe und vielem mehr führten setzen hohe Lernbereitschaft (ohne Angst und Hoffnung) voraus. Aber trotzdem bleibt nur: auch daraus lernen und das kann nicht heißen: zurück zur richtigen Moral (welcher denn?) oder zum Humanismus, wenn uns die kopernikanische, die darwinistische, die freudianische, die systemtheoretische Kränkung und bald noch die Kränkung durch cyborgs und KI genau das Gegenteil von: der Mensch in Mittelpunkt! lehren.