The highlight of my night was when these Sphinx cats came strolling by and a random person said "Aw. Look at the chupacabras!"

And now average temperature departures by month in the #Arctic since the year 1940.

Data from @CopernicusECMWF ERA5 reanalysis. More views at https://zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatures/.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Serious Goose pin. Fortunately for us, geese are naturally silly. There is only one historical record of a goose being serious, which directly led to the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
https://collabs.shop/kvmgfe

Two true things.

1. Marjorie is crazy and has no greater ambition than self-promotion.
2. She has a keen understanding of where the Republican base is, and moves there before her other colleagues do.

(1) is why I don’t trust her. (2) is why Trump is scared of her.

I'm a lawyer. I've written several books, half a dozen academic law review articles, I don't even know how many legal briefs, and literally thousands of OpEds. I say all this to show that I know the English language fairly well.

And yet, I did not know until this week of the word "hebephilia," and I'm pretty dang sure it's because no one I've ever associated with has tried to "umm akshully" pedophilia by explaining how hebephilia is in any way "better." My God why is this even a discussion. smh

I'm powering through yesterday's covid and flu shots 💀 Perfect time to show you that Moxxi is ready for winter with her jacket and #Fediverse goggles!
🤘 @sunguramy

#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Corgi #CorgisOfMastodon #Mastodogs #DogsOfFediverse #FediDogs #PetsOfMastodon #Photography #DogsOfPixelfed

Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica retreated 8km in just 2 months—the fastest ever recorded. Grounded ice loss confirmed by seismic data means direct sea level rise. Scientists warn similar collapses could happen elsewhere. 🌍📉 #Antarctica #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01802-4?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting

A young woolly mammoth now known as Yuka
was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 40,000 years
before it was discovered by local tusk hunters in 2010.

The hunters soon handed it over to scientists,
who were excited to see its exquisite level of preservation,
with skin, muscle tissue, and even reddish hair intact.
Later research showed that,
while full cloning was impossible,
Yuka’s DNA was in such good condition that some cell nuclei could even begin limited activity when placed inside mouse eggs.
Now, a team has successfully sequenced Yuka’s RNA
—a feat many researchers once thought impossible.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/worlds-oldest-rna-extracted-from-ice-age-woolly-mammoth/

android's data for rust adoption shows that rust code has ~5000 times fewer memory safety vulnerabilities per MLOC. that's a lot more than i expected, actually! https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html

(you might say that you're better than google's devs, but are you *five thousand times* better? i'd be skeptical.)

@burnitdown there's a ux factor to qr codes that urls don't achieve. you can't just scan the url after all

on the flip side, you can't know what's behind a qr code until it's scanned, so there's a security aspect to that too

both is maybe best, though theres no guarantee the qr code matches the url

but for the love of dogs don't use fucking link shorteners

"We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on software delivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one."

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html?m=1

#Rust

#MeshTNC #devlog

Working on BLE packet sniffing and transmission for MeshTNC, bc who doesn't want to do APRS or meshcore over BLE advertisements 😉

My quick hack feels promising so I think I'll clean this up and PR it.

https://github.com/datapartyjs/MeshTNC

#lora #meshcore #meshtastic #amateurradio #embedded #esp32

@theplaguedoc @TheBreadmonkey @JackTheCat @alwirtes @Nickiquote
They've got bangers and stash, they've got hidden sausage
But don't you dare put that thing back in the fridge
If you want to try the ol' bum sausage too
I'll talk to the butcher and get one for you

I finally became a Doctor yesterday 🥳 I presented my thesis "What Others Afford: sociotechnical shaping of normative processes on social media platforms" that I worked on for the last 4 years. In it I describe how the way we all shape each other's behavior on social media is in itself shaped by the architectures of the digital environments we inhabit.
It's still embargoed (1 article is still under review) but message me if you want to receive the PDF!

I don't need the northern lights, I have astigmatism