Black Woodpecker ♀︎ (Dryocopus martius, 🇩🇪 Schwarzspecht, 🇵🇱 dzięcioł czarny) at work.

#birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

New short story review on my website!

Solitude, Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★

The people of Eleven-Soro live alone except for a bare minimum of human interaction. But what is that bare minimum, and what does it mean for people who avoid all other contact?

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/books/solitude/
#UrsulaKLeGuin #ScienceFiction #HainishCycle #alienation #community

Unfortunately #Discord doesn't have any real 1:1 alternative and existing options each have their own big issues. I brainstormed a stupidly simple list of what a 1:1 alternative should have to compete and not go down a similar bad path.

Must have:
- FOSS, duh
- Discord-like UX (groups with multiple text and voice channels, PMs)
- federated (e.g. [email protected]) or at least decentralized like IRC
- end-to-end encryption at least on private messages
(page 1)

Protesters dressed as handmaids went to the State of the State address in Nebraska and just stood there in peaceful protest. Gov. Jim Pillen called them "libtards" and-- this is rich-- complained that they didn't show their faces. His amazing insight: "Americans have the right to protest, but here in our state, people show their faces when they debate serious issues."

Just not when zip tying kids to engage in human trafficking, I guess.

#Nebraska #Protests #50501movement

Irish Examiner: Government bodies need to get off X, now

"Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed"

"... most Government departments continue to use X for their outbound comms with the Irish people, with several, including the HSE, An Garda Síochána and the Department of Transport (via TFI and the TII) providing essential real-time updates via this now-niche third party platform — some exclusively so."

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41787647.html

#Ireland #IE #Mastodaoine #X #SocialMedia

Let's remind everyone what a safe internet actually means. 🌐🌍

Share this & Spread the word!

#SaferInternetDay26 #SID

the ancient fauna of Gargano island included amazing animals: The giant swan Garganornis, the giant falconid Garganoaetus, the giant barn owl Tyto gigantea, and of course, Hoplitomeryx, the five-horned deer with fangs. But the makers of 1980s cartoons made it all about Gargamel, his cat, and smurfs, because 1980s cartoons were the epitome of boring.

#fossils
#birds
#deer
#notDeer

The Second Edition of

Make Your Own Mandelbrot

has a new chapter explaining the Distance Estimation Method which overcomes the loss of sub-pixel detail.

Check it out!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQS8JYJC

all the code is freely available:
https://github.com/makeyourownmandelbrot/Second_Edition

#maths #fractals #python #generative #mandelbrot #chaos