ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

whenever my boss says "think of the big picture, elle" I'm immediately an astronaut floating silently in space tethered to my ship looking down on earth, and nothing he wants seems important or even relevant so this tactic has really backfired on him more than once is what I'm saying

Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment

Lawsuit: Sotheby's $24M sale to FTX gave Bored Ape NFTs "an air of legitimacy."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/buyers-of-bored-ape-nfts-sue-after-digital-apes-turn-out-to-be-bad-investment/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Hello. We have a new comet that could reach naked eye visibility over the next few weeks: C/2023 P1 Nishimura, discovered by Hideo Nishimura observing from Kakegawa, Japan on August 11th. Currently at +9th magnitude (with a bullet) in the constellation Gemini, the comet is well-placed in the pre-dawn sky. The comet is expected to brighten to +2 magnitude in early September, when it passes 0.29 AU from the Earth on September 13th, and reaches perihelion 0.22 AU from the Sun on September 18th.

All the cool kids are publishing negative neuroscience results these days, it seems...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06397-7

🔖 Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over: OpenAI could be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of infringing content | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/report-potential-nyt-lawsuit-could-force-openai-to-wipe-chatgpt-and-start-over/ #BookmarkShare

Google released first quantum-resilient FIDO2 key implementation https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-released-first-quantum-resilient-fido2-key-implementation/

I can't stop playing with quaternionic hermite splines help

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"a fascinating way to show users the refresh rate of their screen by spinning a specially designed zoetrope-like disc graphic at speed. As it spins, the numbers representing the viewer’s refresh rate should remain visually stable unlike surrounding numbers."

https://cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/2465593-testing-your-animati

Gov. Ron DeSantis used to boast that Florida was where woke goes to die. Now he’s begging Disney to drop its lawsuit against him, and his poll numbers are in the toilet. Florida: Where presidential ambitions go to die.

Mars / Moon conjunction coming up Friday evening:

% sl_data -start 16Aug2023 -duration 7d -interval 5m -planets -refraction 37.8 -122.4 | sl_conjunctions
mars (full) and moon (crescent)
start at 18Aug2023 20:25 PDT b: 266.4° e: 9.8° 1.30° apart
minsep at 18Aug2023 20:30 PDT b: 267.2° e: 8.8° 1.22° apart
end at 18Aug2023 21:10 PDT b: 273.2° e: 1.4° 1.26° apart

I found this video which appears to be talking about me after a presentation I gave

I’m sure glad that this song is on Apple Music in Hi-Res Lossless Digital Master! https://music.apple.com/us/album/300bps-n-8-1-terminal-mode-or-ascii-download-30th-anniversary/1642793195?i=1642793303

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"It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist."
La nouvelle dynamique des quanta, 1928

Louis de Broglie was born #OTD in 1892. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. This concept is known as the de Broglie hypothesis, an example of wave–particle duality, & forms a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics. via @wikipedia

#science #physics

Got this phone up and running, and it is every bit as satisfying as I had hoped to be able to dial using punch cards.

Only one week until the release of #LibreOffice 7.6! In the meantime, check out all the cool features added by our community and ecosystem contributors: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.6 #foss #opensource

The English language is a wonderful thing, and we know some rules without knowing we know them.

‘Have you ever heard that patter-pitter of tiny feet? Or the dong-ding of a bell? Or hop-hip music? That’s because, when you repeat a word with a different vowel, the order is always I A O. Bish bash bosh. So politicians may flip-flop, but they can never flop-flip. It’s tit-for-tat, never tat-for-tit. This is called ablaut reduplication, and if you do things any other way, they sound very, very odd indeed.’ From ‘The Elements of Eloquence’ by Mark Forsyth.

#English #language

Well it had to happen eventually. #Scripps is retiring FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform). This is an amazing piece of engineering (and soooo weird on the inside - everything pivots, so walls become floors). The #ship to be towed out to a location, and it would literally flip, sinking most of the ship directly down to give a *very stable platform for #oceanography research. Launched in 1962.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/world-s-strangest-research-vessel-heads-for-scrapyard-after-51-years

@dansup I built a simple ActivityPub server for running accounts for my side projects to avoid running a whole Masto instance https://bugle.lol

Was more of a learning exercise than anything but it works (e.g. @wegotfamily) and I wrote up everything I learnt here: https://rknight.me/building-an-activitypub-server/