Sperm Whale Calf Playfully Swims With A Diver.
Sperm whales' clicks are the loudest animal sounds on Earth, reaching 236 decibels. They use these clicks for echolocation and communication, and their brains are 6 times larger than ours.
Goodbye, church... Hello, Wellness Industrial Complex! : It's Been a Minute
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/1263527059/its-been-a-minute-wellness-spirituality-religion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr
Thank you again to everyone who joined us at FOSS Backstage this year, both onsite and online!
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Why is the federal government still killing coyotes? : The Indicator from Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/1239050327/usda-funding-wildlife-coyote-culling?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-npr
Why 'Severance' is 'not that far off' from reality, according to one scientist : Short Wave
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/1239050333/brain-severance-apple-tv-neuroscience-consciousness?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Television @television-npr
This is kinda cool as a concept. (It is a bit weird that the only documentation on how to install this still somewhat limited too expects you to run a k8s cluster)
mastodon.social/@mrchrisadams/…
WOW - The French government announced a new OSS project simply called Docs:“A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentationZendisorm that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline."
It’s even offline-first, using the CRDTs under the hood (Y.js).
LOL, does this mean I get to roll out the
"Liberté, Egalité, CRDTé”
Dad joke?
I think it does. Link below:
V interesting joint project between DINUM (🇫🇷) and Zendis (🇩🇪)
Docs
Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.docs.numerique.gouv.fr
Phones glow in night at silent anti-government protest in Serbia
Thousands of protesters fell silent in Serbia's capital on Saturday, to honour the victims of a concrete canopy collapse which has sparked significant unrest...YouTube
The Pandemic Never Ended.
"5 years later, it is sad to think about what could have been ... For a moment, there was a sense that we cared about the vulnerable. There was a moment of solidarity, somewhere within the trauma."
"Those of us who don’t have the privilege of ignoring Covid know about the numerous studies that show the kind of damage Covid can cause on multiple organ systems. The young people having heart attacks. That people aren’t making connections between Covid infections and worsening immune systems feels unfathomable to those of us suffering from long Covid. People ask, naïvely, “Why do I keep getting sick?” Somehow, they don’t make the connection. Denial is a strong drug."
Source: archive.md/MDXGt
Rebecca Crumpler. 1831-1895
Rebecca Lee Crumpler MD..Physician...
She was the first Black Woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
💙 🎓
datarevolution.tech/2025/03/jo…
Jodie Miners – Navigating Cybersecurity for Small Business - Data Revolution Podcast
In this episode of the Data Revolution podcast, I speak with Jodie Miners about the importance of cybersecurity for small businesses, focusing on the SMB 1001:2025 standard.Kate Carruthers (My WordPress)
Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint
openculture.com/2018/09/europe…
Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint
Photo via the British Library If you’re a British history buff, next month is an ideal time to be in London for the British Library’s “once-in-a-generation exhibition” Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms:Josh Jones (Openculture.com)
BBC: “Can you see any serious signs that Vladimir Putin is actually willing to enter into serious negotiations?”
President of Finland: “I think the chances are abysmal. I don’t think Putin wants a ceasefire. Putin doesn't want peace. His original aim was...basically to have #Ukraine ceasing to exist. He hasn't changed his aim. And this is what all of us around the table have to understand." Alex Stubb President of Finland 🇫🇮
#eu #europe #EuropeanUnion #UK #nato #usa #potus
Open-source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, was compromised with credential-stealing code after attackers gained unauthorized access to a maintainer account, in the latest open-source supply-chain attack to roil the Internet.
arstechnica.com/information-te…
Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets
tj-actions/changed-files, corrupted to run credential-stealing memory scraper.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US
French Socialist MEP says Washington's embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.
By Joe Stanley-Smith
💬 “We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty.’”
- French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann
politico.eu/article/statue-of-…
Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US
French Socialist MEP says Washington’s embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.Joe Stanley-Smith (POLITICO)
Dove waiting out the unexpected heavy snowfall. #photography #birds #birdphotography #bird
edited; better pic after I got the photos off the camera onto a PC...
What to know about CECOT, El Salvador's mega-prison for gang members
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54206/el-salvador-mega-prison-cecot?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
NEW: Why trying to understand what the Trump admin did in response to the TRO matters.
Planes were in the air. They kept going.
What did they do, and why? I strongly believe that it matters for our future that we work to understand what is happening at times like this.
Tonight, at Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/what-the-trump-a…
Trying to understand the Trump admin's TRO response matters
Planes were in the air. They kept going. What did they do, and why? I strongly believe that it matters for our future that we work to understand what is happening.Chris Geidner (Law Dork)
UPDATE: Chief Judge Boasberg schedules a hearing for 4p today on the government’s notice and the plaintiffs’ response, notes that the gov’t “shall be prepared to provide answers to the questions raised by Plaintiffs on page 6 of their Response.”
Here are those questions:
Paul J Wege
in reply to FOSS Backstage • • •FOSS Backstage
in reply to Paul J Wege • • •@makeratschool Hi Paul, that certainly is on our to do list for the future. Right now we publish on YouTube and the TIB AV-Portal: av.tib.eu/publisher/Plain_Schw…
Also: The recordings of last week's event will follow in the next few days.
Plain Schwarz - TIB AV-Portal
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