During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab.

https://news.agu.org/press-release/thunderstorms-conjure-ghostly-coronae-in-treetops-observed-outdoors-for-the-first-time/ #science #nature

Last boost: Age verification is never about child safety. It’s about restricting the free web, linking legal identities to everything you do, and harvesting data for profit.

Edit: typo

⚖️📚 The #EUCommission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the #GDPR. If internal drafts become reality, this would have significant impact on people's fundamental right to #privacy and data protection.

👀 Read more here 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/eu-commission-about-wreck-core-principles-gdpr

We can now safely say, asteroid 2024 YR4 is not coming for us after all.

Latest observations indicate that the asteroid has just a 0.0039% risk of hitting Earth in 2032. But there's still a small chance it could hit the Moon.

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2024%20YR4 #science #space #2024YR4

Some of you may recall that I told Ashley about rubber ducking. Now she has bought a fleet of small rubber ducks for her entire coding in biology class so every student gets one (all typically students who have never programmed/are often very intimidated by learning to code). They're pretty excited.

This may be my biggest contribution to the future of coding.

Toxic masculinity and machismo always make a comeback during fascist eras because one of fascism's core principles is the dominant group doesn't have to change or be accommodating or even be happy and healthy, that it's entitled to its power and privilege and anyone who says otherwise is the enemy.

Some men will cling to toxic masculinity and its fascist purveyors even as it makes them miserable because they're convinced they'll get what they "deserve" in the end.

We, the anonymous editors of the Stallman report, have published our investigation of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation today to a general audience:

https://stallman-report.org

Our report exhaustively catalogues, analyzes, and offers a rebuttal of Richard Stallman's political program of sexual violence, catalogues credible allegations of misconduct, and documents the misconduct of the #FSF circa 2019 and 2021. Please read and share our work.

Boosts encouraged.

#freesoftware