ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au
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It's impossible to overstate how good a job Aaron Reed has done with his book 50 Years of Text Games.
You may have seen his excellent free newsletter. The print version is even better: well-designed, easy to browse, and full of primary source material.
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And a sky update: I went outside at midnight and enjoyed a firefly flitting around, super bright stars, a Milky Way so cohesive I first thought it was clouds, and faint light on the northern horizon, because it's almost Summer Solstice.
While somewhat gratifying to see the satellite brightness models we published are correct and there are indeed bright satellites visible at midnight from here, I did NOT enjoy seeing them. I've never wanted so badly for a prediction of mine to be wrong.
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Do you have a friend or family member who is not on Mastodon?
And you are thinking, "love to introduce them, but the whole multiple servers thing... 🤔"
Well, you are in luck.
A new site makes joining Mastodon a snap >>> https://spreadmastodon.org/
In minutes, #newbies will be up and running on mastodon.social (other instances coming soon).
@spreadmastodon has been developed by @tchambers and his team, so you know it's safe to recommend.
Let's do this!
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I wonder how many persons with an IT background use fedi vs people with no IT background...
for reach (?
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We should do this in Canada too: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/09/new-law-50-solar-power-over-parking-lots-in-france/
France ... requires that that large parking lots have at least 50% of their lot covered in solar canopies.
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President Carter, now in his last days, home to be with his family as he passes, once personally saved Ottawa from a Nuclear Disaster, at risk, and cost, to his life, suffering from radiation poisoning all his life.
Canada had a Nuclear Accident in the 50s, asked the US for help, Lieutenant Jimmy Carter lead a team out of NY.
The future President Carter, had his team lower him into the reactor.
I had no idea
I have no idea why this isn't widely known.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574
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Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen - https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763538/reddit-blackout-api-protest-mod-replacement-threat
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Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, which is linked to cancer - NPR
“Levels of benzene can reach higher than those found in secondhand tobacco smoke and the benzene pollution can spread throughout a home, according to the research.”
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my mom just sent me this picture and, like, get in the basement mom
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test from target
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Flashing animation of optical illusion
These cubes aren’t moving or changing (as implied by the arrows). At all. Not even a little. Other than the color toggle, they remain constant.
(Credit: Ja Gari Kin)
EDIT: added content warning because of the flashing.
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“Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff #BillionaireCapitalists #ClimateCrisis #SocietalCollapse #Apocalypse #Accelerationism
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Tech peoples
Do you say (when pronouncing SQL) 👨💻
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In 1990, my physics teacher in Germany told our class that by 2050, the average temperature in Germany would reach the same average temps as 1990's southern Italy.
We laughed at him.
By 2005, I had realized he was right.
In 2023, I have decided that his estimate must have been conservative.
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William Gibson on coining the term Cyberspace (1993)
Joined Nov 2022
