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Today’s #worldle is one for the ages. #Worldle #1166 (01.04.2025) 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 ⭐📍🚩🗿📜🛡️🔤🗣️👫🪙 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

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Hmm.. we are on this side of the Pond of America, @dburke

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https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=66550 I should share this with all of my collaborators to explain why it is all their fault I haven’t yet finished the edits for the paper

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A french research going to the #LPSC conference outside of Houston Texas wasn't allowed to enter the country. After a "random" control at the border, the police searched their phone and computer and found compromising statements about Trump […]

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Update your terminology, @planet4589.bsky.social https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/778171673734201344/my-latest-new-scientist-cartoon

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The arXiv is where we keep papers on math, physics, etc. It's run by Cornell University. It seems unlikely that the US government would demand that Cornell destroy the arXiv. But the many copies of the arXiv around the world were shut down on September 15, 2024, and it seems that now all the […]

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It is never not amusing to watch Americans as they first encounter "prepone"

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Sin^2/(c+Sin^2+Cos^2) for sunspot numbers? Whew, my job is still safe. https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophSR_bot/114148282173943419

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I made a bit of a speech before our CHASC meeting last week on the subject of supporting science, and the usefulness of diversity and inclusivity in the execution thereof.

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I'm finally unveiling the #ActivityPub project that has been consuming my weekends: Encyclia, an #ORCID bridge that will make ORCID records followable and interactable on the fediverse. 🙂 It's early-stage and the ORCID following function is not publicly available yet. We're seeking community […]

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Evident Indian Exceptionalism: Virgin Atlantic has a policy of one checked bag worldwide, except on routes between India and UK/US, where they allow two. I guess they know they will have a mutiny on their hands if they try to restrict Indian pax to 1 bag.

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You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all. We don't want to be on any list. And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]

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As many people here I'm looking to switch from Gmail, github, etc to more reliable non-US tech/services. I like https://european-alternatives.eu/, but EU countries/companies are not necessarily stable either. So, is there a list that ranks services by resilience, like to: govt change […]

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

The lack of quote posts has been a major impediment honestly. https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114003104286886445

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Today’s history fact: The partition of British India resulted in an estimated 1 million to 2 million deaths with many of those killed in communal violence. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-indians-and-pakistanis-can-relocate-why-cant-gazans-refugees-displacement-palestinians-39d7678c

submitted 47 days ago • 27 comments

This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!

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In case you were wondering... My spouse is a school bus driver and these are the instructions drivers have received today.

submitted 62 days ago • 5 comments

To resist a dictator, you don't do things just because they demand it - especially when they have no legal power backing them up. The more we acquiesce, the greater their power grows. And the WORST thing is to do things to please them before they even ask! For example, the President of the US […]

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If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it. "The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND […]

submitted 70 days ago • 14 comments

The lyingest lying popups ever devised by rampant non-functional tech infrastructure. They look pretty though, clean designs, well laid out, nice color schemes.

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Reminder if you’re unaware: most US travelers to the UK (including for flight connections) will need an “electronic travel authorization” starting January 8th, or you may be denied boarding for your flight or turned away at immigration. It costs GBP 10 (about 13 bucks) and is valid for two […]

submitted 84 days ago • 6 comments

When after several indeterminate hours into a 9 hour flight the guy in the window seat opens the shade[*] and you catch a glimpse of a stretch of coastline under the wing and you think “Oh, Romania”, and upon checking with the in flight map it turns out you are correct, you have flown this […]

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I have learned not to comment on the politics in other countries because of what I hear about US politics from foreigners. Today's example from India: Biden is committing genocide in Bangladesh because the Americans wanted a base for oil exploration in the Bay of Bengal and were refused so the […]

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Happy Pythagorean Year to all who celebrate! #2025 is a perfect square that is also the sum of perfect squares, a 9-fold version of the first primitive triple (3,4,5). The next such year is going to be the 10-fold version, 10(3,4,5) -- 2500 which ALSO happens to be 14^2+48^2, or 2(7,24,25) […]

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I signed up for a black-market time-travel tour as soon as I heard about them. (The first rule of Time Club etc.) There’s an hour long pre-mission briefing on how you must be extremely careful in what you say or do as the smallest event could have future-changing consequences. After that […]

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Pythagorean Year to all who celebrate! #2025 is a perfect square that is also the sum of perfect squares, a 9-fold version of the first primitive triple (3,4,5). The next such year is going to be the 10-fold version, 10(3,4,5) -- 2500 which ALSO happens to be 14^2+48^2, or 2(7,24,25) […]

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Hah, joke's on you all who thought you were getting Caligula. You're getting Ricimer instead.

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Hi Astronomy community in the Fediverse. I am wondering whether we should organize better. There is now an Astro starter pack at @mastodonmigration, but there may be more people out there. Hence, I was wondering if we could find a (or more) volunteer(s) as curator/moderator who could collect […]

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

This took me a minute to get.

submitted 127 days ago • 18 comments

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

submitted 135 days ago • 30 comments

Smithsonian "Castle", National Mall, Washington, DC, 2021. Museum-grade pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51221570481 #photography

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