ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

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Interesting stuff!! 👀

"Back-to-back #meetings are messing our brains.

Here's some cool #research from #microsoft

Microsoft’s Human Factors Lab measured the #brain activity of 14 individuals.

For those *with breaks* b/w meetings:
- Their brains were steady and experienced "coolness."

For those *without breaks* b/w meetings
- Their stress increased with time, suggesting a "buildup of stress."

It's almost 2023. Either we need to fix meetings or kill them."

Via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6996865804457693184/

My first posting on mastodon but as I have no followers nobody is likely to see it.
I am a pencil artist based in the West Midlands and this is one I did recently just for a bit of fun and called it Emmy Emu..

RED ALERT, please boost! We got word this morning that Senate leadership has cut a deal to include #JCPA in the must-pass #NDAA.

This is a terrible, Rupert Murdoch backed bill that essentially creates a "link tax" and would make Big Tech and big media cartels even more intertwined. AND, apparently what Schumer "traded" for it was ... the vaccine mandate for the US military. I kid you not.

@team has a contact-congress tool here, please contact your Senators!

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/tell-congress-protect-our-access-to-credible-news

"Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I let it roll straight over you? ... None at all,” said Mr. Prosser
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

By a strange coincidence, "none at all" is how much long term damage the planet will suffer if climate change wipes us out

We're Johnny-come-lately apes with anxiety- this planet shrugged off the dinosaurs. Let's be real

Climate activism isn't an attempt to "save the Earth"- it's an attempt to save OURSELVES

I have literally waited all my life for this moment.

how to make over 2000+ commits a year. Start FLOSS based project aka Linux kernel and stuff https://github.com/torvalds

in Norway, "up and not crying" is a not uncommon response to "how's it going" type questions, and I feel like that's a very reasonable standard to hold oneself to nowadays

The only things on this map are railroads!
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lj4wqt/the_railroads_of_the_world_oc/

The Moon last night from the Los Angeles area. Composited with unilluminated side and cranked-up color.

#Moon #astrophotgraphy #Space #Science #Astrodon

Doctor: I can knock out the patient using gas, or a boat paddle.
It’s an ether / oar situation.

I've been collecting reports from Mastodon instance operators as they cope with the #TwitterMigration: https://dltj.org/article/mastodon-instance-reports

Starting with reports from @chad (Mastodon Canada), @nova (Hachyderm), and @aurynn (Cloud Island, New Zealand).

Learning lots. If you know of other reports, please @-tag me and I'll add them to the list.

Dust Rings in the Wolf-Rayet 140 System

The two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 produce shells of dust every eight years that look like rings, as seen in this image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Each ring was created when the stars came close together and their stellar winds collided.

Credits: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScl/JPL-Caltech

Instrument: Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI)
Mission: James Webb Space Telescope
Tags: Star
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA25432
#astrodon

If you happen to have a Kanye West tattoo and now regret it, a tattoo removal studio in London is offering to get rid of it for free. https://www.businessinsider.co.za/tattoo-removal-studio-offers-remove-kanye-west-tattoos-for-free-2022-12

The Orbit of Asteroid Didymos

This diagram shows the orbit of binary asteroid Didymos around the Sun.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Instrument:
Mission: Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART)
Tags: Asteroids and Comets
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24565
#space #NASA #JPL #photography #astronomy #astrodon

Every night.

This hike has no chill

A riff on #XKCD 1269, relevant to the #selfhosted #Mastodon #fediverse.

logic gate

""Can you show me?" is a very effective way of closing down a debate. Not a lot of people in the "show, don't tell" camp." – @jasongorman

I believe that @kentbeck had a rule that no design debate should last more than 15 minutes without doing an experiment on the computer.