tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@cfiesler
Since it doesn't actually use the asked for style anyway, it is a bit weird it refused in the first place...
@BenRossTransit
But if we take the view that Bibi does not mean that the trauma of loss will echo (if the death of their own children don't matter then no other death will) "for generations", it becomes _really_ hard to escape the demographic reading...
And although Bibi probably doesn't have a long time strategy (anymore), killing 8000 children is not simply "bluster"
@philipncohen
@mrundkvist
Why just lines? Is it simply that rock is a really annoying material to add details on?
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Interesting and unfortunate that Mennonites have become one of the major deforestation threats in Peru. https://twitter.com/Ecocentristas/status/1741507820472684601
@araneida
klickat lite, och lämnade rent av en kommentar!
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The Skylab-4 astronauts' "strike" ended 50 years ago today.
But: "After a thorough review of the available evidence, it is clear that no strike or mutiny took place during the Skylab 4 mission."
So what really happened?
https://www.nasa.gov/history/the-real-story-of-the-skylab-4-strike-in-space/
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This paper describes the predatory bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii, which preys on members of the bacterial species of the genus Halochromatium [1].
This thing is incredible. For example: Vampirococcus lugosii has a severely reduced genome, something like 1.3 Mbp, and lacks the genes which code for many of the standard biosynthetic metabolic pathways (e.g. phospholipid synthesis, amino acid synthesis, and nucleotide synthesis). Yet it is somehow still alive.
How does this work?
One mechanism that Vampirococcus uses is to get these raw materials from its prey. An example of this are the nucleotides that Vampirococcus lugosii gets by chopping up the DNA that it sucks out of its prey. And amazingly, Vampirococcus lugosii uses a CRISPR-Cas system and various restriction enzymes to accomplish this. See the image for a cartoon of this system.
Predatory microbes.
Crazy.
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Description of “Candidatus Vampirococcus lugosii”]
Lugosii after Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), who played the role of the vampire in the iconic 1931’s film “Dracula”. Epibiotic bacterium that preys on anoxygenic photosynthetic gammaproteobacterial species of the genus Halochromatium. Non-flagellated, small flat rounded cells (500–600 nm diameter and 200–250 nm height) that form piles of up to 10 cells attached to the surface of the host. Gram-positive cell wall structure. Complete genome sequence, GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number PRJNA678638.
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#biology #vampirococcuslugosii
References
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[1] "Reductive evolution and unique infection and feeding mode in the CPR predatory bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22762-4
@dltj
That *semver* is providing a novel way of declaring incompatibility is a pretty wild claim, because not only is there also release notes, the practice of putting semver-like version info in file names is really old, dating back to at least the mid 80[1] but probably much older than that.
No, I think this is a JavaScript dev with Stockholm syndrome who blames the messenger that reveals the reality of how sloppy the JS dev culture is. This is the dev culture that had thousands of build and deployment processes fall over because left-pad was removed; to blame aggressive breaking on semver is silly.
[1] This publication from 2000 references a text from 1987 that talks about naming libraries with major and minor versions, defining "major" in basically the semver way: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/als00/2000papers/papers/full_papers/browndavid/browndavid_html/index.html
@jimnauer @mike
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@adamgreenfield I am finding interesting it is not really...the network like organisation is very often found on terrestrial "meso" scales, i.e. from ~μm-m scales in organisms, and up to ~1-100km is some geological formation...then there's scarcity of network arrangement in a wide range of scales (i.e. no network pattern within galactic scales, which is up to ~3e22cm!), and then networks again for >1e24cm scales.
It's an extreme source of fascination why only specific scales have this!
@chrisgeidner
Is it a new thing that politicians try to literally ask the question back to the journalist, or have they done that for a while?
tobychev
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"What do you want me to say about slavery?" should be the end of Nikki Haley's political career.
@radiojammor
As you are loudly and proudly shouting "I am covering my eyes" I seriously doubt you have any grasp of the shape of the tool you use.
This is further evidenced by the fact you call yourself "AI user", using the utterly vacuous term "AI" to make a show of your credentials.... like dude, so what? We all have YouTube accounts that make automatic shitty recommendations for us, being an AI user is no big lift.
@Mabande @jalcine
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Interesting find by @brett - Massachusetts has a bill which "Blocks Cybersecurity Insurers from Instituting Limits on Government Notification".
Backstory, insurance firms have been stopping the US government being told about ransomware incidents. I’ve also heard about multiple instances of insurance firms controlling the incident response partner, so in effect they end to end control the ransom payment and cover up.
More US states need to adopt this.
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EU-27 electricity demand steadily increased until 2008. After that, it stagnated, and - so far - never reached its 2008 level again. Efficiency gains, e.g. through LED lighting, have outweighed new applications. And in the last few years, high prices led to some demand reductions too.
This of course made it easier to increase the share of renewables, to around 40% now. But...
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@kevin @ianbetteridge Because ChatGPT can do your daily Duolingo sessions then and keep you in the Diamond League.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day for Dec 26, 2023.
This beautiful image of a crescent moon behind mount Monte Viso, with the Basilica of Superga in the foreground was taken by Valerio Minato 10 days ago, after 5 unsuccessful attempts over 6 years. It takes a lot of planning and some good fortune to capture such an image. The alignment occurs about once a year and the weather has to cooperate.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231225.html
#APOD
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Elinor Ostrom, writing about some foundational assumptions of #neoliberal #economics. (Applying the tragedy of the commons, prisoner's dilemma, etc. to macroeconomics)
No, #privatization is not the solution to prevent degradation of common pool resources. Obviously.
But our politicians, education, and media corporations continue to listen to and perpetuate the bullshit of conservative think tanks and their so-called "experts", instead of actual economists.
Also, a previous post from @pluralistic comes to mind.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory
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For this year's gingerbread I made... the VLA!
@RoyBrander
"The true camera image is upside-down by earthly standards, showing the South Pole at the top of the globe, because the camera was held by a weightless man who didn't know down from up. Most reproductions invert it to align with our expectations."
This makes me wonder if anyone has written a post-colonial critique of astronomical coordinates, I've never seen their global north perspective as starkly underlined as in the phrase "invert it to align with our expectations."
@mcnees
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
