shnuboops @shnuboops@qoto.org

@RulesBuster Democracy inherently involves a lot of people who don't know much having the vote. Doubly so in America (sorry). You can't assume that most of these people even heard the dictator thing. And the means to "educate yourself" are so polluted — there's a reason why "do your own research" is a conspiracy theory slogan.

Hello everyone!

I write my bachelor's thesis about Mastodon as an alternative social network and how its users perceive the platform.

I would be gratful if you would participate in my survey:
(The link is deactivated now)

It only takes 10-15 minutes and would help me a lot.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

In case you want to support me, you can repost the access link, which would also help me.

Thank you!

#MediaStudies #AlternativeMedia #Mastodon #Survey

Be shocked by the words if you must, but Residential Schools are our Canadian Holocaust. It was genocide. Therefore, I am absolutely in favour of Leah Gazan's private member's bill to criminalize denialism of that reality.

This is what Germany does about Nazism. And it is correct.

#TruthAndReconciliation #Canada #CanPoli #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #Indigenous #FirstNations #ResidentialSchools
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-mp-private-members-bill-residential-school-denialism-1.7334916

"After Bach II" by Brad Mehldau, After Bach II https://songwhip.com/brad-mehldau/after-bach-ii
@jazz
@classicalmusic
#JohannSebastianBach
#BradMehldau

My novel “Scale” — a political thriller set in a world where people belong to seven groups that differ vastly in size — is included in the 2023 Locus recommended reading list.

https://locusmag.com/2024/02/2023-recommended-reading-list/

https://www.gregegan.net/SCALE/SCALE.html

It's been a long time coming, but the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to see first light at the end of this year. When it comes online, it'll see the entire southern sky every three nights, revealing everything that changes from night to night. A new paper highlights some interesting things that could be discovered within the Solar System, like interstellar objects, near-Earth asteroids, and, if it's out there, Planet 9.

http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08763

The other thing that is really wild, is that the Huygens scene has had the contrast massively stretched. Really massively. If you saw this with your own eyes, the entire scene would be a uniform dark muddy brown. (Karkoschka et al., Icarus 2016).

What does that tell us?

It tells us that Titan has some type of dusty coating that gets everywhere, or at least in this part of Titan. Probably optically thin (few hundred microns).

This could be reason why optical and radar see differences.

So that is a pretty good story. But there's some really parts too that don't get a lot of press.

The big geology story seems correct. (And our work seems to confirm it, too..) But...we actually don't know what those "rocks" and "sands" are made of. A lot of people assume the cobbles are ice (and you'll see that in literature), but the ugly truth is that we actually don't know.

It seems likely to be ice, but we don't have any actual analysis of those cobbles. It is a mystery!
(Mystery = fun.)

Introducing my newest novel: BLADE, the fourth and penultimate volume of my Inverted Frontier series. Publication date is March 5, 2024. The E-book version is available for preorder now. Print version to come. Check out the beautiful cover art by Sarah Anne Langton! And visit my blog for more information: https://hahvi.net/?p=8044

"Looks like you're using an ad-blocker"

Looks like you're trying to install 52 trackers on my computer.

@taylorlorenz the Naomi Klein book Doppelganger is largely about how right wing media offers a comfortable landing pad for people humiliated by liberals/left/society as a whole.

Remember what preceded Naomi Wolf's big change to the right: nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/naomi-wolfs-book-corrected-by-host-in-bbc-

Maybe smug "actually" and "told you so" is not good for a movement

#UPDATE: Three Indigenous land defenders charged more than two years ago with defying a court order have been found guilty of criminal contempt in B.C. Supreme Court. @afh reports.

#Wetsuweten #CoastalGasLink

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/01/12/Court-Convicts-Indigenous-Land-Defenders-Alleged-RCMP-Violations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

On January 3 I confidently told myself it would take only three days to read the WIP from beginning to end, because I'd only be making minor edits. The last part is true; edits have been minor. But the job's going to take at least five days. #InvertedFrontier

NASA's Cassini spacecraft made detailed radar scans of the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan, and found seas of liquid methane in its northern region. It also found mysterious features in the lakes described as "magic islands." A new study suggests that these features might be spongy blobs of simple organic molecules like nitriles, triple-bonded hydrocarbons, and benzene that form in the atmosphere, collect in the lakes, and float around.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL106156

Io, Jupiter's world, just a few hours ago - the closest
NASA Juno approach so far

Full size image 4000x2250: https://flic.kr/p/2ppEsfy

Orbit (Perijove) 57
Altitude 2839km
JNCE_2023364_57C00022_V01

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS /AndreaLuck

#Space #Astronomy #Jupiter #Io #Astrodon #Spacetodon #Solarocks

"Four political parties voted during #Poilievre’s 30 hour filibuster. Only 1 party, the Conservatives, voted no against EVERYTHING.
Bloc, NDP & Liberals passed every single bill. When the Cons get ratioed that badly you know they are not in politics for Canadians."
PP stood & moaned “kids are sending letters to Santa not to ask for presents but to ask for food” to berate PMJT.
Shortly after his comment he voted AGAINST the Liberal's National Food Program for Kids. #cdnpoli

cc @merry123459

When NASA's Lucy mission flew past asteroid Dinkinesh, it discovered a tiny moon. Not just any moon, however, but a contact binary moon with two large rocks gently resting against each other. Of course, it needed a name, so the IAU approved "Selam," which means peace in Ethiopia's language. Everything's connected here. Dinkinesh is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil, and Selam is named after another fossil from the same species of human ancestor.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/2023/11/29/satellite-discovered-by-nasas-lucy-mission-gets-name/

Today I'm using Montage (http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/) to make my own JWST mosaics since the pipeline ones are unsuitable. I'm actually having success! It ran straight away without issues on my Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the PowerShell console.

@DanMorgan @chris
I was everGreen until the local green party member turned out to be a qanon conspiracy nutbag.... and the greens in canada really dropped the ball over the last few years... like, really droppped it. They were not ready for leadeship, which was heartbreaking.

Mastofriends! Put the moss down for a moment. I am lucky enough to have work in a sensational Clarkesworld issue! Again! Part 1 of my novella is in November's issue, 206, the rest will be in December issue 207. Huzzah! https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/