K2

@Krosen_nw@mindly.social
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🌍🌎🌏 👋 “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle, Duwamish

Acknowledging that I live on the land of the #Atfalati tribe of the #Kalapuya people who inhabited this land before colonial settlers arrived

#PNW #Cascadia #knitting #crochet #gardening #BloomScrolling #SilentSunday #LichenSubscribe

Pixelfedhttps://pixey.org/K2

Hmmm forgot to do an #introduction, shame on me 😂

Mostly I'm here for dog pic's because my real home is @bob

I am all about off grid life. I served 2 years US Army during Desert Storm and came to realize that it was simply murder for CRUD oil.

Since 2011.10.01, I've lived on the streets of the country I swore to defend and see everyday over 13 years how homeless people have ZERO rights even when we are veterans.

I'm fed up with a system that puts money above people. I'm fed up with a country that is ruled by corporations.

Protesting has done nothing to improve the lives of Americans, its time for the UN to issue CEO Hunting Licenses because THEY are supposed to protect citizens from the country they live in.

We just released #Mastodon 4.4.1, a small patch release fixing a few issues with 4.4.0.

We recommend to install this version instead of 4.4.0 when you update your server.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.1

#mastoadmin

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If you post a job opening on the Fediverse, please make sure it includes the salary range and location.

Salary ranges are mandatory by law to be shared with job posts in some jurisdictions.

Also, we're way past that bizarre game to waste everyone's time by trying to guess what each other is willing to pay and work for.

This is just silly and unprofessional.
Advertise your salary range.

#Jobs #FediHire

For those not up to speed with the latest AI jargon, I hope to clarify some things:

  • AI: Actually Indians
  • LLM: Low-cost Labor in Mumbai
  • AGI: A Genius Indian
  • GPT: Gujarati Professional Typist
  • API: A Person in India

Every time a company promises a revolutionary “AI” product, they just exploit cheap labor from India.

My friend in Norway just came home with this lovely old girl, wow. 💜 When I asked her if she’d mind me sharing the photo here, she said no, go ahead, this beauty should be shared. What a find! I see them around sometimes but never in this good a shape.

Cycling friends will also be pleased to know she hauled this heavy thing home on her cargo bike. :)

Update: she paid only 500 kroner - ~$50!!

#singer #SewingMachine #sewing

Jay Kuo says that two reports that came out yesterday about the horrifying conditions at Alligator Auschwitz did not get the attention they deserve, so he wants to draw attention to them:

"Anna McAllister of CBS News reported on the inhumane conditions for immigrants now held inside fenced cages in the camp."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #AlligatorAuschwitz #cruelty #ConcentrationCamps
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/alligator-atrocity

Alligator Atrocity

An American concentration camp became operational last week, and it’s already a human rights nightmare.

The Status Kuo
random reminder that ace people can have sex and non-binary people can have computers

AI is bad compression. Every time you run training material through it, you get a lossy summary of that material back, along with some noise.

You quickly run out of *quality* training material and start dog-fooding the output back in. Then you end up with lossy summaries of lossy summaries, and eventually all your pizza sauce recipes are dog food.

#AI #LLM

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A NASA astronaut has captured an electrifying image of Earth from space, featuring a gigantic, jellyfish-shaped "sprite" of red lightning shooting upwards above a thunderstorm in North America. The rare phenomenon is still poorly understood, despite being studied for more than 30 years.

Image credit: NASA/ISS/Nichole Ayers

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/astronaut-snaps-giant-red-jellyfish-sprite-over-north-america-during-upward-shooting-lightning-event

#NASA #Space

@Natasha_Jay Tesla coil goals: visible from space
@Natasha_Jay Any idea what part they don't understand? We've had neon tubes for a hundred years already, and we know that high-energy particles is what gives us auroras...
@JustinDerrick @Natasha_Jay We don't even fully understand how regular lightning works. We only really began understanding the charging mechanisms in the 2010s and it's still an open question as to what exactly triggers the initiation of the lightning strike.
@gnarf @JustinDerrick @Natasha_Jay true for many areas of electrostatics. For everything that we do know there are still some fundamentals that are still being worked on

@gnarf @Natasha_Jay I'm no physics major, but isn't it simply when the difference in electrical charges between the earth and sky/cloud exceeds the electrical resistance of the air? Or is there something extra I'm missing?

It's the same thing for a static shock -- if I scruff my feet on shag carpet and I touch something conductive and grounded, the spark and snap is the result of the surplus of electrons bridging the last few millimetres. The scale is just... way bigger.

@JustinDerrick @Natasha_Jay You'd think that but if you calculate the necessary charge for bridging the gap it's about ten times higher than what's present in common thunder clouds.
@JustinDerrick @gnarf @Natasha_Jay Yes, but your description is kinda like saying that cars move because the power supplied by the engine exceeds the friction forces working on the car. It’s not untrue, but it’s lacking a bit of detail.

@JustinDerrick @gnarf @Natasha_Jay
That's the easy part.
The difficult part: *why* do the differences in charge build up?

Yes, that also applies to static electricity in your shag carpet. The Tribo electric effect that causes it isn't fully understood either.

"While many aspects of the triboelectric effect are now understood and extensively documented, significant disagreements remain in the current literature about the underlying details."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect

Triboelectric effect - Wikipedia

@Natasha_Jay New cosmology theory - Earth is actually the center electrode for a big ass plasma globe.
@Natasha_Jay A whole city definitely just got wiped out with a ripple of energy and then silence and darkness and sad, defeated feels, 20 minutes before the end of the movie and the heroes save the world

@Natasha_Jay

What they look like from the ground

Taken a few weeks ago.

@Natasha_Jay Here’s a filtered version of the original image by NASA/ISS/Nichole Ayers. I’ve noted what looks like a high number of stars more visible than in the original image. Are those stars at the top of the photo?

@gdsherif
Might be, due to f.e. gamma increase. Yet to be sure you'd have to reference them against a star map.
Which is rather a moot exercise, as they might be just enhanced noise from the original photo and they're just background to the photo subject.

@Natasha_Jay

@gdsherif Maybe you can get a better version directly from NASA. The image appears to be a still frame from a video feed. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153422/sprites-camera-action
Sprites, Camera, Action!

An astronaut photographed the atmospheric phenomenon, associated with lightning, during a stormy night over North America.

@Natasha_Jay That's awesome looking 👌.
@Natasha_Jay its the superportal

-carrie
@Natasha_Jay I'd like to know the scale/size of this.
@abetterjulie 50-90km (has to be that high to ionise that much nitrogen)
@Natasha_Jay it’s the earth rejecting rump.
@Natasha_Jay it’s above Meta’s HQ, and called “the eye of Sauron”.
@Natasha_Jay that’s V’Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
@Natasha_Jay I think it’s the planet asking for help with an infestation. #humanparasites
@Natasha_Jay Warning beacon telling all spacecraft to avoid this planet.

@Natasha_Jay

“I’M SIGNIFICANT!!” — Dust Speck

@Natasha_Jay that looks like it could be even more than 1.21 gigawatts

@Natasha_Jay

Yeah pretty amazing stuff.

Probably going to be a long time before we figure this out properly, it's not like it's down here on earth where you can attract strikes with conducting materials and analyze effects and so on, up there probably would not be a good idea to get close/struck either, and why is it red/other colors, lots of questions, not many answers.

Makes for fantastic images though.

@trelord75 @Natasha_Jay we’ve got a fair idea about them. They’re caused after a large positive (rather than the usual negative) lightning strike on the ground. They ionise nitrogen which is why they’re red.
@Natasha_Jay
I think the reason is light reflections.

@Natasha_Jay

I wonder if the color can be explained with this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmer_series

Balmer series - Wikipedia

@srslypascal @Natasha_Jay close. It’s nitrogen that’s being ionised. But the cause is similar; electrons in the atom dropping from higher to lower energy levels.
@Natasha_Jay this is a space view when the president is having a tanning bed
@Natasha_Jay That looks so cool and pretty, I definitely wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that (from either earth or ground) though!
@Natasha_Jay
JJ has some amazing footage of these sorts of events, from the ground, in Australia.
https://youtu.be/_fGr-NlLTG8?
Is This Even Real? 😱 | Mind-Blowing Lightning Storms of Northern Australia

YouTube
@Natasha_Jay looks like a earth-to-sky lightning to me with a long exposure shot to get enough light to see the earth

@Natasha_Jay

Every time I see a photo of one of these, I think of Spider Robinson's 1st novel, published in 1976. Telempath, in which, because of increasing air pollution, humans came into conflict previously unknown plasma creatures, which I think he based on sightings of sprites. In the novel, they were called "Muskies," if memory serves.

Edit: This is esp fun bc at the time (according to the novel, at least) even the •existence• of sprites hadn't yet been confirmed.

Yay, science!

@Natasha_Jay @inthehands

How long before this image is shared by MTG saying: "See!!?!"

@Natasha_Jay

wow. that is extremely cool. thanks for sharing it.

@Natasha_Jay I just watched a Dr Who episode and this image was in it.
@Natasha_Jay You’d think with 146 re-toots, you’d get more than 4 likes. This app is weird.
@RagingOwlbear
Actually this right now. But federated behavior can be weird I have learned. Open the post in your browser
@Natasha_Jay @RagingOwlbear 4.4.0 will bring real interactions, at least from what I understand, since we already have this in the nightly build.
@rolle
That would be good. The lack of consistency vs the "correct" picture on a poster's home server has always bugged me
@RagingOwlbear

@rolle @Natasha_Jay @RagingOwlbear

Yeah, this should get better, even when federated.makes this a little harder. I only see 19 Shares :D

@RagingOwlbear @Natasha_Jay The mastodon client I use, @MonaApp, has an option on a toot “load from remote server” - that allows you to see the actual real numbers.
@Natasha_Jay That's clearly aliens teleporting their own up into orbit. And you only don't see what is above it because of their stealth technology which bends the entire electromagnetic spectrum around their ship.
/s

@Natasha_Jay Seen that once from board of a tallship - there was clear sight an a thunderstorm at the horizon.

We had to get under deck some seconds later, for we had St. Elmos Fire on the masts.

@Natasha_Jay thanks for sharing. The Wikipedia page about this type of events : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning
Upper-atmospheric lightning - Wikipedia

@Natasha_Jay It's a wonderful photograph I agree