RemiBoucher

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โ€จWorking at the Mont-Megantic International Dark Sky Reserve / National Park / ASTROLab. Mainly here to exchange about #lightpollution but interested in science, space, maps, photography, trailrunning, splitboard and more.
Websiteremiboucherphoto.com
Twitter@remiboucher
Workmeganticdarksky.org
FYI : Iโ€™m moving this account to @remiboucher

NEW: Elon Musk fired a top engineer over his declining view counts.

Plus the reason the site went down yesterday, fears about an upcoming FTC audit, and more, and more.

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

From @zoeschiffer and me.

Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count

Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max

Platformer
Watching all the folks who signed up for Mastodon accounts, and then ran back to Twitter suddenly showing up here again to talk about how Twitter is down. ๐Ÿ˜‚
Meteor shower radiants by date, based on almost five years of open data from the #globalmeteornetwork. Each of these 750,000 dots corresponds to a meteor, observed by at least two #raspberrypi meteor cameras to triangulate the radiant.

I've had the idea for a weird kind of Twitter client for years. With Mastodon being all open, I've decided to do the experiment:

What if your Timeline looked like iMessage. A normal timeline confuses me to no end because everything is out of context.

My experiment, Ebou, is a Mastodon client that looks like iMessage. Conversations are grouped by friends and sorted by recent postings.

It is super basic right now, but this already feels much more natural to me ๐Ÿ˜€

RT @[email protected]

Twitter appended a "Community Note" to @[email protected]'s reporting on Manatee County School District stating that ""[o]nly unvetted books will be removed" from classrooms.

At the time the policy was announced, ALL books in classroom libraries were "unvetted."
https://popular.info/p/twitter-cant-handle-the-truth

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: https://twitter.com/PENamerica/status/1617878938625404929

Twitter can't handle the truth

On Monday, Popular Information reported that the Manatee County School District instructed teachers to make their classroom libraries inaccessible to students, or risk felony prosecution. The directive was issued as part of an effort to comply with new laws and regulations championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R). It was based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.

Popular Information
Hello everyone, it's time we start officially posting on Mastodon, so here is our #Introduction -- we are the #Chandra X-ray Center, responsible for updating you on all of the goings-on at the #ChandraXray Center operating NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. From newsletters and workshops to proposals and peer review, we are here to keep you in the loop with what is going on in Cambridge and in orbit. #Astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Space #Science #Satellite #NASA #XRaysAreTheBestRays

Have LED lights reduced #LightPollution, or have things gotten worse because of blue light emissions? We have the answer, and it's not good news...

#Tootorial ๐Ÿงต below, full methodology and results new in @sciencemagazine
: https://science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7781 #ScienceResearch
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Astrology
I'm struck again by the power of Martin Luther King, Jr's 1964 Nobel Lecture. This passage especially resonated with me. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/lecture/ #NobelPeacePrize #MartinLutherKingJr
Nobel Peace Prize 1964

The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population"

NobelPrize.org