ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Chinese rocket stage CZ-2C-Y35, launched in 2014 to sun-sync orbit, reentered at 1512 UTC Jan 21 over northern Libya, heading north towards Epirus and Albania.

A rare thing, too.
The universe tends toward entropy.

One day around 32,000 years ago, an arctic ground squirrel ate parts of a plant, silene stenophylla, including its seed. The squirrel was digesting it when its life ended.

Its body was recovered from permafrost and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed. This silene stenophylla just bloomed.

It is 32,000 years old.

The strength, the vitality and stamina of living things — of life itself — is incredible.

What I'm listening to today: "GRP A4 sequence 3:1", Klang Zaun

The A4, it turns out?, is a $5000 synthesizer the size of a desk, designed to be a "more affordable" version of the A8 (a $10,000 synthesizer the size of a wall).

No drums in this, just synth tones that don't feel so much retro as prehistoric, like that proto-electronic stuff from the 70s before Giorgio Moroder realized synths were for dance music. It's hypnotic and ends with you kind of wanting more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4byztyOvIjU

Learned how to use/implement Rodrigues' Formula for those off x-y-z axis rotations.

One of my first trips the the Trexler Nature Preserve in 2021 was probably one of the best sunsets I've seen since.

JasonFinkPhotography.com

#photography #photographylovers #lehighvalley #sunset

ICYMI: Hack the Pentagon 3.0 bug bounty announced https://www.cybercareers.blog/2023/01/hack-the-pentagon-3-0-bug-bounty-announced/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #cybersecurity #cyber #infosec

Good morning #mastodon

#Aotearoa #nz #Photography #Nature #naturephotography #LandscapePhotography #NewZealand #LongExposure

This is pretty near:

Detect breaches with Canary credit cards!

TL;DR;

Today we’re releasing a new Canarytoken type: actual credit cards!

1. Head over to canarytokens.org;
2. We give you a valid credit card (number, expiration, and CVC);
3. If anyone ever attempts to use that card you’ll be notified.

https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/01/swipe-right-on-our-new-credit-card-tokens.html

I don't like owning a lot of things, but I sure do still love this thing. Makes me happy every time.

If layoffs are about over hiring, why am I seeing so many 15+ year Googler friends let go? They’re the ones who built it into a business with $100 billion in cash.

It’s not about over hiring.

“If the World were 100 People”

25 are children
75 are adults (9 are 65+)

60 Asians
16 Africans
14 people from the Americas
10 Europeans

31 Christians
23 Muslims
16 people w/o religion
15 Hindus
7 Buddhists
8 other

Languages:
12 Chinese
6 Spanish
5 English
4 Hindi
3 Arabic
3 Bengali
3 Portuguese
2 Russian
2 Japanese
60 other

86 can read & write
7 have a college degree
40 have Internet
78 have shelter
91 have access to safe drinking water

Source: 100people.org based on 2016 #data

#SilentSunday

@kd9cpb

The Google layoffs remind me: When I considered starting my first company I worried about "job security".

My then-girlfriend said:

"Big companies do not provide job security. They provide the service that you are the last person to know when the job is gone."

Wisdom.

It's amazing (or maybe not given current events) that only 400 years ago the Church imprisoned Galileo for daring to declare that the planets orbited the sun.

how to talk to your child about hosting a fediverse instance

This is so cute

Happy 89th birthday to my Doctor, Tom Baker!

#DoctorWho

#HappyBirthday to #TomBaker!🎂 🦉 ❤️

#DoctorWho #4thDoctor #BarnOwl