szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

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I'm not doing this anymore. It's not worth it. Personal attacks calling me of all people a Nazi, a TERF, an antisemite...

Congrats on destroying something I cared so deeply about. I hope you're happy.

One last message before anyone tries to further assassinate my character:

Fuck Nazis.
Fuck TERFs.
J.K. Rowling can die in a fire for all I care.

I'm just gonna say this: If you are writing an email to any femme-presenting person you don't know and address her as "Young Lady"...

...Just go back and delete it and don't.

Signed: The 40 year old woman with a PhD.

As the things we value become cheaper we become richer.

Here is the price of light over the very long run. One innovation after the next drove down the price of having light at night.

[From our redesigned page on the history of light at night, published together with Hannah Ritchie: http://ourworldindata.org/light-at-night]

Bee's eye view of a Magnolia, the coros of stamens slowly unfurling.

#NaturePhotography #wildlife #coro #woodland #scotland #forest #wood #lake #loch #river #Highland
#Fungi #mushroom #wildflowers
#Insects #nature #photography
#Magnolia

Na "moją" instancję mastodon.social właśnie wjechała nowa wersja oprogramowania #mastodon: v4.1.0rc3

A z nią nowe polskie tłumaczenie neutralne płciowo.

Przykłady:
Podbito Twój post przez (konto)
(konto) dodaje Twój wpis do ulubionych
Właśnie umieszczono wpis przez (konto)

Trzeba się trochę przyzwyczaić, może coś poprawić, ale to imo bardzo dobrze. Sam na blogasku #m0biOFedi od początku stosuję język neutralny płciowo -> https://zb3.org/m0bi13/

Komu to będzie przeszkadzać?
Macie typy?😉

OpenAI being honest in a paper:
> internet-trained models have internet-scale biases
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf#page=36

#ChatGPT

If you've been waiting for full-text #search on #Mastodon, please go to #TootFinder and sign in. The more the merrier.
https://www.tootfinder.ch/

It's opt-in, not opt-out. It respects Mastodon culture and doesn't index accounts that don't sign in.

That means the index might be small if we don't spread the word.

#mastotips#feditips

#Wyoming!
“After the consequential #floods in the spring of 2015, Coffman says, “We came to the observation that there were some serious benefits to having #beaver dams and beavers in place.” This beaver complex serves as a model for the conditions that he hopes to restore several streams to. Across an increasingly parched and degraded West, land managers and researchers seeking effective and efficient water management solutions may benefit from the same realization. Perhaps, it’s time to end recent antagonism against #beavers and instead form an alliance with nature’s most effective, once prolific waterway engineers.”

https://westernconfluence.org/leave-it-to-beaver
#beaverrestoration #drought #floods #climate

(More)

Advertising fail… or win???

#HisAndHearsePress #Crematory #Crematorium #McDonalds #Advertising #AdvertisingFail #Funeral #Cringe (Thanks for the pic, 🇬🇧 Lou!)

I swear typos are gonna be the depth of me.

Gibbs thinks he might have heard somebody in the kitchen and is wondering if he's being left out of something very important!

#DogsOfMastodon #dogs #RescueDog #pyrendor #GreatPyrenees #Komondor

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VICTORY -- Florida will NOT try to collect menstrual data from high school student-athletes. The organization that was going to require the data be collected and sent to schools has backed down.

However: I doubt this fight is done. Vigilance, always.

Mokradła są kluczowe dla powstrzymania zmian klimatu, ochrony bioróżnorodności, oczyszczania wody, zapobiegania suszom i powodziom. Niestety, stan mokradeł w Polsce i na świecie jest zły. Poniżej deklaracja uczestników konferencji "Pakt dla mokradeł".
#bagna #mokradła #katastrofaklimatyczna
https://naukawpolsce.pl/aktualnosci/news,95301,naukowcy-praktycy-ochrony-i-inni-eksperci-o-potrzebie-ochrony-bagien-i

Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.

Evolutionary psychologists: masks conceal facial asymmetry so I bet less attractive people wear them.

Frontiers: yeah, we’ll publish that.

Fox News: if you’re still wearing a mask, you must be ugly as f***

#DogsOfMastodon #Michigan
Unfortunately we are loosing our snow but still had a good walk last night

"Oh hey, Peanut Lady! Give me a sec, I'll be right down"

#Squirrel of the Day for February 8, 2023

#Squirrels #NaturePhotography

Even statues can’t read in peace!

Reminder: this is why employers don’t want public healthcare — the American system is practically designed to break strikes:

https://mastodon.social/@HuShuo/109831760283979429