Mastodawn

Eldercare - visits are important:
- https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-japan

#eldercare #aging #health

The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

As loneliness deepens in one of the world's fastest-ageing nations, a network of women delivering probiotic milk drinks has become a vital source of routine, connection and care.

BBC

Giovanni - ZL2GX 2d ago

Great photo of a great Egret chick (among others):
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2026/mar/27/week-in-wildlife-a-flying-rodent-a-duty-free-possum-and-an-emerald-viper?CMP=share_btn_url#img-14
#nature

Week in wildlife: a flying rodent, a duty-free possum and an emerald viper

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

The Guardian

Giovanni - ZL2GX 3d ago

ESO 4d ago

In the future, we might see one million more satellites in Earth's orbit. The consequences to astronomy would be devastating.

Fighting for a fair and sustainable usage of space, for astronomy and humanity — that's Betty Kioko's job as ESO’s Institutional Affairs Officer.

Learn more about her job and what ESO is doing in this direction: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/betty-kioko/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #environment #sustainability

Giovanni - ZL2GX 4d ago

Calishat 4d ago

My mother's got long covid and has been having a hell of a time using her computer because she can't find the letters on the keyboard.

Today I went and swapped out her Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard (black keys, white letters) for a mechanical keyboard with a set of "gummy bear" multicolored keycaps.

It's night and day. She's typing a THOUSAND percent better. I'm so pleased.

Giovanni - ZL2GX 5d ago

Why would you intentionally throw data away? Which part, how do we choose?

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/22/cern_eggheads_burn_ai_into/?td=rt-4a

#ai #edgecompute #physics

CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge

feature: The operating system of the universe isn’t going to debug itself

The Register

Giovanni - ZL2GX 6d ago

You won't have imagined this: "Researchers started with self-contained autonomous legs that include a central processing unit, battery, and motor. It's a remarkably simple system featuring just one moving joint.

They then fed that design into their AI. From the paper, "feeding modular legs as building blocks to an automatic design algorithm enables the discovery of novel 'species' of agile legged robots."

https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/ai-robot-snaps-together-like-lego-and-moves-unlike-anything-ive-ever-seen-before-i-cant-stop-watching

#robotics #ai

AI robot snaps together like Lego and moves unlike anything I've ever seen before — I can't stop watching

Researchers used AI to design an unusual-looking Lego-like AI robot that moves and survives unlike any robot you've seen before.

TechRadar

Giovanni - ZL2GX Mar 23

Ketan Joshi Mar 23

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024. Compare that to: Google: 71% Nvidia: 88% Meta: 96% Microsoft: 119%

Giovanni - ZL2GX Mar 23

camwilson Mar 23

I wrote in today's Sizzle about why it makes sense for Australia to create — and enforce! — rules around what data centre operators do for the local community and the country.

https://thesizzle.com.au/p/data-centre-approval-sped-up-for-patriots-android-sideloading-and-a-new-alleged-fraud-ai-company