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oh, you asked an LLM? well we posted an offhand question on mastodon and an autistic cat-type entity infodumped to us about it

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

Globe & Mail: Wikipedia editors, the internet’s nerdy unsung heroes, keep the website one of the last best places online

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-wikipedia-page-editors/

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia

Wikipedia editors, the internet’s nerdy unsung heroes, keep the website one of the last best places online

Free of ads and profit-seeking corporate overlords, and maintained by dedicated volunteers, Wikipedia has consistently ranked as one of the top 10 most visited websites worldwide

The Globe and Mail

Dilman Dila is an award-winning independent Ugandan film-maker doing short videos often with sci-fi or fantasy elements. You can follow his video account at:

➡️ @dilmandila@video.ploud.jp

There are already many short films and other videos uploaded, you can browse them all at https://video.ploud.jp/a/dilmandila/videos

You can also follow Dila's general non-video account at @dilmandila

#FeaturedPeerTube #FilmMaking #SciFi #ShortFilms #Uganda #Africa #AfricanCinema #PeerTube #PeerTubers

Dilman Dila

Dilman Dila is a Ugandan writer and filmmaker of science fiction stories. He has been shortlisted for the BSFA Awards (2021), the Nommo Awards (2022), and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2013),...

Ploud Video Japan
Please report any account that claims that you need to verify your #Mastodon account to continue using it. It is a scam. Don't click the links. Real staff accounts either have a special role badge on their profile or are verified through the joinmastodon.org domain.
We're as frustrated as everyone else with these phishing attacks. mastodon.social had new sign-ups in approval mode this week to limit the impact, but offenders targeted other instances and compromised existing accounts. We take the problem very seriously; we're suspending and blocking as quickly as possible, as well as actively working on countermeasures.

@vicgrinberg There is the Southeast Asian hashtag #makanApaToday if you're interested in food photos from this side of the world.

I'm not sure if there are other regional food hashtags, but maybe they are out there.

Testing the movement for the Shark Cranial Kinesis model. Think this is pretty close?

Shark/marine/anatomy people, I'd love your feedback! Intended for outreach for "general public". In the final version the parts will each be a different color.

#SciArt #SciComm #SharkWeek

6 hours left! This goal is tiny but transformative—for a genocide survivor to start over with a student visa. He won’t have to rely on strangers for his needs anymore, & he can return to his art therapy research.

Last check, 462/550. Anything else will go to his basic needs (rent, food) since he’s not allowed to work in Egypt.

PP: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=A8J9PXT3RGHCW
V: gothhabiba, note “concert”

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Gaza

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Check our new paper on liana community structure in Ghana. We investigated environmental and forest structural drivers of liana diversity, abundance and basal area: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70124

With funding support from IFS, Sweden.
#tropics #lianas #climbingplants #ecology

Little Bird, by Satoshi Kamiya

Folded by me from a 30 cm square of Luminous Thai from origami-shop.com

#origami
#origamiart
#origamibirds

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Veggie sautee with 100% garden veggies: long beans, sweet pepper, and Okinawa spinach (which grows incredibly well in our area and is a rich source of cooked green leaf veg).

This is the first time we've had my beloved long beans in years (the first year we lived here, we harvested them by the bucket and it was incredible). I'm saving the beans (and cooking the pods, which are soft and tasty) because this is exactly my favorite kind of bean and I don't want to repeat my previous mistake of letting them drop off. They are too delicious and nutritious!

Now I just need a local source of cooking oil (there has to be a local coconut oil company, right? 🤔 There's local macadamia nut oil, but it's very $$$)

...and an alternative to propane 😭 (I do have my solar cooker, but it doesn't fry - it steams, boils, bakes).

This was part of a lunch that included a fried egg (egg from @saltphoenix 's birds), fresh tomato from the garden, and short grain brown rice from the store. Instead of rice, I often have kalo (taro) from my bf, but today I didn't have any.

When the boats stop coming, I think there will be a lot less frying (more cooking over a fire) and when frying does happen, it'll be on butter (or tallow, for the meat eaters). It's definitely easier to get butter from cows than oil from coconuts or macadamias.

And as for propane replacement, I really don't know, but probably the ideal solution would be to get beefy solar panels and batteries, and an induction cooker.

I also don't have a local replacement for soy sauce, but we do have salt on the shoreline. It gathers in little low areas in shoreline rocks during dry periods. To get enough for daily supply though, you'd have to know the spots and spend a fair bit of time harvesting. The shoreline in my area really puts the "trace" in "trace minerals". I'd have to find the right spots.

#hawaii #growyourown #gardening #food #vegetarian #solarpunk

@mk30 soy sauce can be made. Soybeans will grow here, but you can also make it and miso from other bean sources like pigeon peas.
afa how to cook: waiwi = BTUs galore, especially if turned to charcoal, if they didn't destroy that (future) resource with the galls. 🙄
@saltphoenix do you know of any local coconut oil producers? 🤔
@mk30 not personally. There are some tho. Locavore store prob has some. I think it would be cheaper to press your own, than buy theirs. 😅
Kukui is a nice oil. Can burn it for energy/flame, idk if it's ever used for cooking tho.
@mk30 avocado oil? Grows like weeds lol 🛢️🥑🛢️🛢️

@mk30 @saltphoenix for replacing propane is there any chance anaerobic biogas generation could fit?

I know they use it for generating power while composting sewage or manure into something safe to use on farms. And a quick search engine skim shows at least a few hits on cooking with it. Biogas may be a decent drop-in replacement for propane though I don't know if it's something practical for a homestead. Not sure if it can be stored in personal tanks (I think it might be more corrosive?)

@jacobcoffin @mk30 my neighbor has a home made biodigester. He cooks on it. Many people have the plug and play ones here, it really just depends on where you are, as to how well they work.
@jacobcoffin @mk30 his tank is reinforced concrete
@saltphoenix @mk30 that's really cool! Looks like I've found my next topic to read up on
@jacobcoffin @mk30 he just throws a cow turd and a few handfuls of grass clippings in it every so often lol

@saltphoenix @jacobcoffin my partner tried to make a homemade one, but it didn't really work.

I know that some of them work, but I haven't investigated it seriously.

@saltphoenix @jacobcoffin I'm pretty sure I saw his, and it was very solidly built. A big ole cement thing. I don't know how one would service it if it got clogged or if you needed to debug it 🤔