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Rosemary Fowler discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948 but gave up PhD to have a familyMabel Banfield-Nwachi (The Guardian)
THIS should be front-page news every day.
THIS should be the primary focus of every major world leader.
But it's not.
Instead, all we get is month after month of more Business As Usual.
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Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) delivers the latest update on our global climate emergency:
"The last 12 months were each at least 1.5°C (2.7°F) warmer than Berkeley Earth's 1850-1900 baseline. This brings the 12-month moving average of Earth's global temperature to a record high of +1.68°C (+3.02°F) above the 1850-1900 baseline, far surpassing previous short-term warming events."
See ➡️ https://fediscience.org/@RARohde/112824106977970378
Learn more ➡️ https://berkeleyearth.org/june-2024-temperature-update/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
April 2024 was the warmest April since records began in 1850. This year is very likely to become either the warmest or 2nd warmest on record.Robert Rohde (Berkeley Earth)
The trouble with craft shows is that I can't really sell some of the signs that I want to. You can still get them on etsy though, so have a look at http://Lewiswork.etsy.com if you have a lethal workshop and need something suitably offensive to deter visitors.
*Boosts appreciated, as always.
"All new MPs given panic alarms amid safety fears"
The 335 new members elected this month have been handed welcome packs containing pocket alarms with GPS trackersArchie Mitchell (The Independent)
CrowdStrike recently caused a widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows PCs, disrupting various sectors. However, this was not an isolated incident, CrowdStrike affected Linux PCs also.Pradeep Viswanathan (Neowin)
Trump is now the oldest POTUS candidate ever nominated by a major party.
He has repeatedly confused Biden with Obama and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He fell asleep at his criminal trial.
Will the media scrutinize his age & mental decline with the fervor it focused on Biden?
One thing I haven't seen mentioned with Crowdstrike is that, although this isn't malicious, a company has just shown off that it has kernel level access to a bunch of critical systems around the world and is willing to just run code with that access on everyone's computers without even giving it a once-over glance.
So if you wanted to get a bunch of backdoors into things because you're a nation state cybersecurity team/hacker group/bored troublemaker who wants to see the world burn/etc they've just shown themselves to be a great firm to do so with.
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What's more orange than orange? Hyperbolic orange! To see this weird color, stare at the blue-green dot for about a minute and then look at the the orange square. You'll see a dot that's even more orange.
How does it work? The complementary color of orange is blue-green, or more precisely 'cyan'. Staring at a cyan dot for a long time tires out your cone cells: it wears out their response to cyan light. When you look at something white, you then see an orange afterimage. But if you look at something orange, you see an orange color stronger than ordinarily possible.
Like Stygian blue, which I showed you yesterday, hyperbolic orange is a 'chimerical color': a color that's not possible in the usual simplified theory of color vision, which only becomes possible when some of your cones are fatigued. These were discussed here:
• Paul Churchland, Chimerical colors: some phenomenological predictions from cognitive neuroscience, Philosophical Psychology 18 (2005), 527-560.
Biden has seen that it was best for the USA if he stepped down.
Ask yourself if Trump would have done the same.
Now you know who puts America first.
There are as many ways to adapting a book as there are books to be adapted. But something about the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy makes it stand ou...YouTube
Content warning: Nonbinary coming of age, and all that baggage TW
I’m not an American, but my advice to American progressives is simply this:
Now’s your chance. If you don’t help elect the first African American woman to the Presidency, you’re full of shit.
That woman is your only chance to save American democracy, so you better get behind her.
There is a weirdly racist trend where people blame hypothetical minorities when systems fail because management cuts corners. We saw it with the Boeing door collapse and now with the Crowdstrike crash.
There is no mythical "DEI engineer" doing sloppy work at these companies.
It's down to leadership cutting corners to make a buck. A software update causing a crash that takes down all of your customers is due to inadequate testing. It's not because some anonymous minority wrote the code.
OMG, please tell me that they're not ... oh, nope, they are.
I am so absolutely done with these bigots.
US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.
We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.
Hey, you. Yes, you.
Remember this:
👉 You are deserving of love. 👈
Every day, just for being alive. Down days. Up days. In the gutter days. On the moon days.
Every ding dang day.
You are deserving of love.
💛
I remember having run-ins with raiders before, and them trying to teach young furs how to commit tax fraud. When I said something I got reported to admins. Then I got anonymous threats to me and presumably my hypothetical employer (except they didn't seem to know who I actually worked for).
That was 10+ years ago though and I haven't seen them around as much, but I also don't live near them either.
Random fursuit photos from the archive.
Rosie Collie invites you to join her by the sea, 2021.
