Mastodawn

Restarted my journey after a few days break, with friends (@amenonsen & H)

In between the outside weather was thunder, lightening some what frightening (not) with heavy rain, falling trees & more than a day of no electricity. Internal weather was also a bit down - now ok

Today partly overcast, sun also out & overall cool weather.

Ahem "avenue" trees line the not so avenue mountain roads.

Sharing a landscape view & some cool trees..

#Himalayas #trees #landscape #travel #mountains #journey

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 1d ago

Colin Purrington 5d ago

My fruit enclosure. On the left side along the back is a raised bed with strawberries, plus aerial baskets with even more varieties. Four blueberry bushes are on the back right but still too small to really provide much this year. In the front are blackberries, raspberries (normal and black), tayberries, and boysenberries that I put in last year (and also a bit small). In the corners are grapes that are being trellised to grow along the back in a single vine. Spanning the width (27 feet) are several galvanized wires onto which the berries and grapes will be attached when they get bigger. #berries #strawberries #garden #gardening #fruit

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 1d ago

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬4d ago

#Chernobyl #Fungus Seems to Have #Evolved an Incredible Ability
Clinging to walls of one of most #radioactive buildings on Earth, scientists have found a strange black fungus curiously living its best life.
Fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing #radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. Proposed mechanism is referred to as #radiosynthesis.
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-seems-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability

Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life.

ScienceAlert

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 1d ago

Col 1d ago

"Dad, there's been a terrible accident, I'm in the police station, they won't let me fly home unless I pay £1000 immediately, send it to them now please."
He recognised his daughters voice and her panic like when her cat died. STOP!!!
His daughter was fine, relaxing safely on a beach.
AI clones your voice from three seconds of audio. The match is 85% accurate. 70% of Americans can’t tell a cloned voice from the real one. One family code word defeats the entire scam. Pick yours now.

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 1d ago

Abhijit Menon-Sen 1d ago

Black Soldier Fly larvae, photographed by @ramkay inside our compost bin earlier today.

#nature #insects #entomology

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 1d ago

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Abhijit Menon-Sen 1d ago

@colinpurrington I was just about to post photos of black soldier fly larvae that @ramkay took earlier today while we were emptying our compost drum. Wasn't going to credit him or nuthin'. They're OUR flies! All ours!

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 1d ago

Tuta 1d ago

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model on your device

❌ No consent
❌ No opt-in
❌ No real opt-out for regular users

This isn’t a small experiment & it’s on billions of devices.

😠 A tactic we've already seen with Gemini on Android. But at least you can disable it here, learn how: https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 1d ago

Abhijit Menon-Sen 1d ago

Just heard the first Indian Cuckoo (Cuculus micropterus) of the season, with its mellow "ka-fal pa-ko" call. (Eurasian Cuckoo has been around for a week or so already. Haven't heard either the Oriental Cuckoo or Common Hawk-cuckoo yet.)

Followed a few minutes later by a few White-crested Laughingthrushes (resident, not seasonal, just noisy and chaotic).

#birds

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 1d ago

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency 1d ago

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116515863634209592

"Solnit says that the GOP has 'confused having a lot of power with having all the power' and is perennially surprised when their attacks on Iran and Minneapolis evince a reaction from the people in Iran and Minneapolis..."

Trump has (also) exposed The Right™️ at a fundamental level: Their project requires having all the power so they can force us to live with "policies" that nobody but a tiny cabal at the top wants.

Let's try to remember this lesson.

#politics #uspol @pluralistic

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 1d ago