Mastodawn

MJ Valente Jul 4, 2023

Christian Selig Jul 2, 2023

Updated Apollo to give it that Tweetbot treatment 🤝

MJ Valente Jul 3, 2023

Mirabile Dictu Jul 3, 2023

For #MosaicMonday, an octopus from the Madrid Archaeological Museum. What the mosaic lacks in finesse, it makes up for in adorability...

MJ Valente Jul 3, 2023

ErNandy Jul 2, 2023

Strange human evolution. Is this a natural progression? 👣

#ClimateChange #Stopmethaneemissions #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #energy #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #wildlife #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #pollution #mangrove #news #biodiversity #earth #cartoon

MJ Valente Jul 3, 2023

Interesting talk about octopuses that addresses #biology #culture #diet and #ethics.

Is it ethical to eat octopuses? An acclaimed octopus expert and marine biologist weighs in | Salon.com

https://www.salon.com/2023/07/02/is-it-ethical-to-eat-octopuses-an-acclaimed-octopus-expert-and-marine-biologist-weighs-in/

Is it ethical to eat octopuses? An acclaimed octopus expert and marine biologist weighs in

Marine biologist Dr. David Scheel spoke about his new book, "Many Things Under A Rock"

Salon.com

MJ Valente Jul 3, 2023

In a time of such caution and fear of innovation (too much, too fast, not prepared enough), maybe I should put Novacene by Lovelock James in my STBR (Soon Too Be Read).

The reviews are quite mixed: some praising his optimism, others considering it overconfident.

I guess I will have to check it and make my own opinion.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313880/novacene-by-lovelock-james/9780141990798

#science #reading #books #future #technology #optimism

Novacene

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth. James Lovelock argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after three centuries, coming to an end. A new age - the novacene - has already begun. New beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and will regard us as we now regard plants. The cruel, violent machine takeover imagined by sci-fi writers will not happen: these hyper-intelligent beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are. They will need the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend from the increasing heat of the sun. Gaia depends on organic life. We will be partners in this project. It is crucial, Lovelock argues, that the intelligence of Earth survives and prospers. We are at present the only beings capable of understanding the cosmos, but he speculates that the novacene could be the beginning of a process that will see intelligence suffusing the entire cosmos. At the age 100, Lovelock has produced the most compelling work of his life.

MJ Valente Jul 3, 2023

Nicholas Mamo Jul 3, 2023

✍️ A requiem for #Twitter: what #science has lost

With limits on tweet reads (!), Twitter users are now feeling the pinch that #research has been feeling since Musk raised API prices.

I've written a blog post on what losing access to the API means for #AI, #journalism and emergency responses. #TwitterDown #RIPTwitter

Give it a read and boost: https://nicholasmamo.github.io/posts/a-requiem-for-twitter/

A requiem for Twitter: what science has lost

Twitter is dead. Technically, it is still alive—barely—but for scientific research, it is as good as dead. Twitter’s demise did not start with the saturation of blue ticks, nor with the nonsensical limits on daily views. It started and ended with cordoning off access to the Twitter API; now, it costs $5,000 per month for 1,000,000 tweets—a tenth of what academics previously got for free. I started researching on Twitter in 2016.

MJ Valente Jul 3, 2023

Wonder of Science Jul 3, 2023

Amazing thunderstorm photos captured at 37,000 feet by airline pilot Santiago Borja.

Web: https://www.santiagoborja.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/santiagoborja/

Santiago Borja – The Storm Pilot

MJ Valente Jul 3, 2023

TechHelpKB.com 📚Jul 3, 2023

An era of the #internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. #Twitter is on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline, #Reddit is self-immolating, #TikTok is likely to be banned, nobody’s on #Facebook anymore. https://tchlp.com/46vuwIz

Reddit, Twitter, Mastodon: where are we all supposed to go now?

As apps like Reddit and Twitter die out, and Instagram and Facebook and TikTok turn to entertainment, it’s the end of a social era on the web. And we’re left wondering if there will be anywhere left for us all to hang out.

The Verge

MJ Valente Jul 3, 2023

#Reddit might have won one battle, but the “war” is still ongoing

Fed up with Reddit, mods of popular AMAs quit organizing high-profile interviews | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fed-up-with-reddit-mods-of-popular-amas-quit-organizing-high-profile-interviews/