💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦊🧩 A taxidermied head bought at an #antique market as a #fox was identified as a #thylacine, the extinct #marsupial known as the Tasmanian #tiger.

Only the second known mounted specimen, it was confirmed by X-ray and added to the International Thylacine Specimen Database. Researchers may sample its #teeth for #DNA.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/antique-fox-head-bought-at-auction-wasnt-a-fox-at-all-it-was-a-long-extinct-species

#tasmaniantiger #taxidermy #extinction #museum #science #archaeology #naturalhistory #history #australia #wildlife #animals

@fsfe

Android custom ROMs are free software by the grace of Google. How do we make sure they're not limited (any further) or even stopped completely by Google once they get too big a market share (for Google's liking)? Because if we don't or can't we're basically in the hands of Google anyway!

@LineageOS

George David Birkhoff (March 21, 1884 – November 12, 1944) was an American mathematician. He is considered one of the top American mathematicians of his generation. He made valuable contributions to the theory of #differentialEquations, #dynamicalSystems, the #fourcolorProblem, the #threebodyProblem, and #generalRelativity. Today, Birkhoff is best remembered for the #ergodicTheorem. The #GeorgeDBirkhoffHouse, his residence in #CambridgeMassachusetts.

@mattblaze @heidilifeldman This implies that we will have a date, before E-Day, when voters can know whether they are in chaos mode.

What about contingency plans for this that local orgs can help with? They’ll vary by state and county.

(Early voting, rides to polls, canvassing — all things orgs can be doing anyway. Just telling people where and when they can early vote could be inpacrful, a lot of people don’t know. Info on print at home ballots, as an emergency last resort, maybe…)

@shlee
Ha ha! Your used car analogy puts it into perspective… But maybe there’s something extraordinary in that new iPhone… maybe it can make you breakfast or something?

@davidgerard just write about how it's making the world worse and how it most likely won't make cybersecurity or programming better and how this Verge article claims in the title that it's the "AGI era" even though AGI is just fucking marketing hype:
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989601/openai-gpt-6-astra-release

Tiny Offline Tip for Music! 📵🎶

You can move out of streaming services entirely, buy music to encourage artists on Bandcamp (where they keep about 85% of the sales) or Faircamp, download the music files, and upload them on a cheap MP3 player.

Benefits:

❤️ Actually helps the bands and artists you like to keep producing music.

📵 No need for the internet while listening to your music.

📴 No need for your phone when listening on the go.

🔒 No one is tracking you while listening to your music.

💿 Own your media forever, even if the online service shuts down later.

#TinyOfflineTip #Bandcamp #Music

@neil I am wondering (hoping) whether there might eventually be a reversal of the current trend to use slop everywhere - maybe driven by an increase in costs. Projects like the Linux kernel probably aren't heavily tainted yet and are not beyond rescue - there is still a lot of careful review going on. I doubt the current situation will continue without consequences, although admittedly things are more likely to get much worse than they are to get better.

@mattblaze @phloggen @mavu

you and others like you (@heidilifeldman for example) are helping me stay sane, fwiw

So I want to start out by saying this feels like a complete delegation of responsibility on the part of the UK government to basically tell households to fend for themselves if the basic necessities of life are interrupted, rather than accepting that it's the government's job to ensure that they're not. And also to say that I'm going to talk about helpful things that require purchasing, which not everyone can afford to do. And there are a lot of households in this country who can't even afford the food they need today, let alone to stockpile in advance, and that is also a result of the government neglecting its role to look after the people of the country.

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Jobseekers warned over online interview and recruitment scams - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk3xd8j3k5o

"This wasn't a badly written email with a suspicious attachment - this person was walked through what looked like a real job interview, on real Google pages, behind a real Google login, and the software they were asked to install was digitally signed like any legitimate app."

#jobhunting #recruitment #scam

@themipper

Apparently, if you are brave, you can also try to run CapCut on Linux...

https://linuxvox.com/blog/capcut-download-linux/

@quixoticgeek 🙄 that sounds sad. 😞

Piccolo reminder: sul sito di Agenzia X trovate (anche gratis) Kaos, che racconta bene la storia di Autistici/Inventati.

Sapere e conoscere la storia è importante anche per capire cosa c'è in gioco e come mai è importante fare fronte unito.

https://www.agenziax.it/kaos

recuperato dall'amica libraia, portato a casa e divorato d'un fiato.

intenso, divertente, toccante. solleva un sacco di punti problematici della nostra società in relazione alle identità trans e migranti, alle frontiere, alla politica, alle ideologie, alla cultura di massa, e lo fa in modo smaliziato, a tratti un po' surrealista, molto intimo e profondo e, soprattutto, con una gran voglia di migliorare le cose. una miriade di storie e avventure coinvolgenti e a tratti spassose.

bellissimo.

vi consiglio davvero di leggerlo, e non solo perché Ehsan è un pezzo del cuore mio, ma perché vi farà bene.