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Can we pause what we're doing for just a minute to appreciate what a stunning technological achievement this is?
"First ever rocks from the Moon’s far side have landed on Earth. Scientists are eager to work on Chang’e-6 rock samples"
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Slack just announced they're deleting most of the message history of workspaces on the free plan. They are not giving groups a chance to save their older messages. We still only have access to last 90 days. Options are: buy a paid plan for a month and use it to download your archives, or abandon your workspace history. May be able to hack this with free trials but either way it's a reminder that VC funding will run out and the free things you've come to rely upon will be used to exploit you.
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I love Ukrainians. The Ukrainian Security Service blurred a cat's face. THEY BLURRED A CAT'S FACE. (from @UA_Nationall on the foul place)
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 Peter Dutton colludes with greedy billionaire coal and gas miner Gina Rinehart for the fake “Nuclear policy” scam https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2024/06/23/peter-dutton-colludes-with-greedy-billionaire-coal-and-gas-miner-gina-rinehart-for-the-fake-nuclear-policy-scam/ #Auspol To facilitate walking at night on the roads of ancient Rome, the Romans resorted to the technique of placing small white stones called cat's eyes (Selent Stone), which reflected moonlight and thus served as modern street lamps, which helped people walk or ride after dark. @archaeohistories during a guided tour of Pompeii, with a guide who was experienced and knowledgeable, we were told such stones guided incoming sailors to the brothels. That path was at an incline so allowing the necessary reflection of moonlight at night. It sounded like this was unique to Pompeii; not something in general use on Roman roads. Interesting.  @archaeohistories this got me to look up a thing and TIL actual (modern) "cat's eyes" are distinct from the reflectors we use in north america https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_eye_(road)
 @archaeohistories  viciously blaming all current problems on hypothetical leftists or nonvoters is a big win for fascists: they really want you sitting at your keyboard enraged at your own base or an abstract left wing. because then you’re not out building community with vulnerable people, you’re not having nuanced and intelligent discussion with folk who have different life experiences, you’re not — to put it bluntly — practicing the kind of solidarity that defeats fascism Before they will let me publish a new release of XScreenSaver on the "Play" [sic] store, Google, the most rapacious privacy violator ever, insists that a screensaver have a privacy policy. This is where you come in! I'd like this policy to be a series of bullet points: "Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will not [Thing.] An endless, concise catalog of their sins. I need both your snark AND a link supporting your snark. It's critical for the joke to land. Include both. GO!!
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@jwz Unlike Google, XScrenenSaver will not give users a false sense of security around tracking within a mode designated for more anonymity. https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-incognito-mode-privacy-warning/ XScreensaver will not broadcast your location to your friends, unlike Google Latitude @jwz unlike google, xscreensaver will not hire union busting consultants. Aranet, the company from which folks are getting the nifty little CO2 monitors, is having another great sale that puts them at $166.83 AND you get a nice little pouch to carry one around (great to check the air quality of stores and restaurants!). If you have the monitor already and want the pouch, it's the Square Bag from TopoDesigns, retails for $19.  When I got my first monitor, I was shocked to learn how much CO2 was building up in rooms at home, even with just one person. I started opening windows and watching the numbers go down. Last night we turned on the AC and closed all the windows, and I woke up at 4am feeling off. The thought that popped into my head was, "the air is bad," and then I thought, "I can't possibly know that," but I got up and checked the monitor: CO2 was way too high. Opened the windows, went back to sleep.  @hollie "The offer is valid until June 10th or while the product is in stock." I wonder if they're coming out with a new model soon. (I hope they aren't dropping the product; I like mine. Seems pretty popular so I'd be a bit surprised if they just stop selling it.) Just a tech industry-wide coordinated assault on privacy. Nothing to worry about at all. Just leaving this here, no particular connection to my previous post. Feel free to read it again while stretching the s's if you feel like it though. @julienbarnoin These four companies doing dodgy things? I am shocked, shocked!, to hear that there are privacy concerns going on at these companies!  One aspect of this story I haven't really let myself get angry about until just now: this particular SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk that dropped garbage on Sask. was from the Axiom 3 "private astronaut mission." "Private astronaut" = billionaire space tourist. Billionaires own companies that other billionaires pay for joy rides that drop potentially lethal garbage on us from orbit. This is fine. I already knew billionaires are horrible, but this particular situation really lays it out starkly. World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September. “If successful, this therapy could be available to patients with any permanently missing teeth within six years.” https://newatlas.com/medical/tooth-regrowing-human-trial/ New recycling method makes solar cells even more environmentally friendly All the major elements in a solar panel can be reclaimed using less energy.  @arstechnica 1. "waste isn't a problem yet": yes it is. Mining tailings for example are a real problem. So is air pollution from making them (all PV factories are powered by coal plants). Of course, since this happens in China, it doesn't exist, right? Wow, lucky people in Sydney are seeing a fairly rare kind of soliton cloud known as a “roll cloud”: tubular clouds that appear to be rolling across the sky. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-04/nsw-sydney-roll-clouds-explainer/103934424
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 How did you get that ad in there? Is it a photo editing piece, or did the actual advertising company ok it going up, or did you need to be more... "flexible" with placement methods... Generally ad companies won't run ads against major corporations for fear of losing potential future business... In the same way most of us say “goodbye” without realising it derives from “god be with ye”, maybe one day people will end conversations with “likensubscribe”
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 @kate I've read that we can't confirm its "god be with ye." Not that that affects your point! Lamppost EV chargers are the answer to how you charge your vehicle in cities. This is possible because when energy intensive street lamps were replaced by LEDs, there’s excess power for charging EVs. All cities should do this. ⚡️ h/t Robert Llewllyn
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@davidho @pluralistic and EV manufacturers should design charging port on curb side of car. Looking at you Tesla Migratory birds could bring the lethal bird flu variant that is assailing the rest of the world’s birds. |
@petergleick I’m glad that the rocks landed safely! So many questions about the far side of the moon and why it’s so different from the near side. Contrasting this with the Apollo samples will make some planetary scientists very happy!
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Yes, definitely a great achievement.
Collected and returned is probably more accurate.
I am pretty sure moon rocks have landed on Earth before due to large rocks striking the moon.
@petergleick A stunning contrast to the Boeing Starliner snafu.