spinflip @spinflip@qoto.org
PhD student working with visible-light photoswitches, supramolecular chemistry, NMR spectroscopy. Musician. Some politics.
Joined Aug 2018
@scarydan going on the next pic… Jackman and McRoss?
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IP thoughts
The reason "Intellectual Property" is bad is because it is a term that (probably intentionally) conflates so many almost completely unrelated issues
If we're being trained to think that copyright, patents, trademarks, etc. are all the same thing, then you can make an argument that works for a small-time artist's creative works, and then do a switcheroo and suddenly we're talking about drug patents
THAT is what I mean when I say that "Intellectual Property" isn't real or needs to die
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I had a drink. I'm content.
— Besmar Oburmafol, hammerer
I'm in my twenties, I have good friends (not relatives or frienda of relatives) in their fifties or sixties, and that seems like it should be cool and normal! Sadly, it's not
At an evening gathering of chemists in a pub, and it's kind of cutely fun but sooooooo full of awkward old retirees. I'm glad they're here! But it makes me sad, how difficult it is to have a social event across generations
@sydneyfalk @natecull antikythera, a device which when assembled results in the explosive disappearance of a little-known greek island
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I learned about striking. It's wondrous.
— Ducim Abanberdan, militia commander
@troodon for news articles? Do you mean Outline?
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Sci-Hub? Sure, here you go!
@xor sure! Can't promise crossword competence, though
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The Fediverse is just the original good Internet built on top of the shit Internet the original good Internet got turned into by rich people
Would it really have mattered if I used the larger file she sent me, and left the artifacts in place? Probably not, but it would have irked me. I'm also irrationally prejudiced against unnecessarily large file sizes, even in this age of cheap broadband and storage: if I can fit 50 pages of sheet music into a 950 kB pdf, sticking a 3 MB image on the front page just feels *wrong*.
I've been putting together a songbook for some Christmas singing in pubs, and thought it'd be nice to have a pretty cover for printed copies. A friend made some art and sent it my way, but the enormous file was full of unmerged layers and weird clipping artifacts… apparently she put it all together in PowerPoint, the mangling happened somewhere along the way, and that's that.
An afternoon of dissection+tinkering+reassembly in PS later, and it's in much better shape! Time for a final music and words check, and then printing.
@geordie the first one? I'm definitely a few years overdue for replay
@BernieTB "This list may not be complete. You can help by expanding it."
<smiles form and eyes begin to gleam in partyrooms across the city>
@Canageek@cybre.space I'm really loving the recent work pushing the boundaries of what a single crystal can be. Bendy crystals, 2d crystals, quasicrystals, crystals with internal concentration gradients… all cool work, and all moving beyond the simply symmetrical space groups
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In Australia you must vote. If you don't, you're fined, and there are other consequences like having your vehicle's insurance or registration cancelled. "That must suck!" I hear you say, "As an American I have the right to not vote!" Well, to that I say, where do you have a cook out if it's not at the polling booth? We have sausages, cake, burgers, often music and singing.
PhD student working with visible-light photoswitches, supramolecular chemistry, NMR spectroscopy. Musician. Some politics.
Joined Aug 2018
