See that purplish glow?
That's the flower's ultraviolet signal to bees. They can see very well in that spectrum.
McConnell warns of future headline: ‘Russia wins, America loses’
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #russia #putin
McConnell warns of future headline: ‘Russia wins, America loses’
The former Senate GOP leader spoke out on Trump and his team Thursday as he received the Star of Ukraine Award from the US-Ukraine Foundation.Burgess Everett (www.semafor.com)
Black cat adoptions are up. An Oscar-winning animated movie may have helped
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Artists descend on Idaho's Treefort Music Festival
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28 March 1926 | A Czech Jewish girl, Edita Spitzová, was born in Kolín.
She was imprisoned in Theresienstadt Ghetto on 8 February 1942 and deported to #Auschwitz on 26 October 1942 together with her mother Anna (b. 1893) & father Eduard (b. 1886). None of them survived.
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‘Chaos and panic’ as Israel threatens to bomb Beirut; Gaza attack ongoing
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‘Chaos and panic’ as Israel threatens to bomb Beirut; Gaza attack ongoing
[Photo of a city being bombed]
(o) Live updates
• Published 3 minutes ago
Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since ceasefire ended Israel-Hezbollah war
• Published 10 minutes ago
Israeli drones hovering above building threatened in southern Beirut
• Published 12 minutes ago
‘Targeting civilians is part of Israel’s policy’")
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Week in politics: Top FDA official forced out, auto tariffs take effect
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5340637/week-in-politics-top-fda-official-forced-out-auto-tariffs-take-effect?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#ScribesAndMakers Mar 29: What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?
I got a little distracted and ended up making a thermal camera for myself. It has 3 modes: thermal, video and overlay. I just finished printing a nice retro-looking case for it.
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How a 2015 shipwreck off the Greek coast shows the human cost of the refugee crisis
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5173709/how-a-2015-shipwreck-off-the-greek-coast-shows-the-human-cost-of-the-refugee-crisis?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The best things to see and do in Busan, South Korea | Backpack and Snorkel Purple Travel Guides
Busan has it all: South Korean culture, beaches and ancient temples. Join us to explore the Jewel on the Sea. Get insider tips!Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
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Meet Jerry Weinstein, the 81-year-old new coach of the Chicago Cubs
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In which Tesla shamelessly tries to defraud Canada of $40 milllion and gets caught.
nytimes.com/2025/03/27/world/c…
Tesla Dealers Claimed They Sold 8,653 Cars in 3 Days in Canada. Did They?
The sales numbers provided by the company-owned shops allowed them to claim tens of millions in government rebates. Now those numbers are under scrutiny.Ian Austen (The New York Times)
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Trump pulled the plug on Voice of America and Radio Liberty, and now a court has ruled the move was illegal, and these organisations have had their money restored.
Wannabe dictators are just that: Wannabe.
Let us just hope that one day he and his bunch will stand trial for their destructive and criminal behavior.
It is ether Trump, or the rule of law. Danger ahead.
The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Authoritarian Actions
Professor Christina Pagel of University College London has mapped the actions of the Trump administration’s first few weekkottke.org
Get out there are listen to them wake up with 20% off our DIY bat listener kit for the next month:
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A year in the life of a bat - About Bats - Bat Conservation Trust
The Bat Conservation Trust was formed in 1990 as an umbrella organisation for the rapidly growing network of bat groups, providing support, training and advice.Bat Conservation Trust
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
The move is a sign that the public health agency may be falling in line under RFK Jr.ProPublica (Ars Technica)
Teleskop und Kamera folgen brav der Sonne und ich darf sie nicht stören!
Darum ein Foto über mein Smartphone solange:
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“[T]hey noticed Meta AI automatically added to WhatsApp on iOS [..] Meta AI's integration into WhatsApp is mandatory and cannot be disabled.” https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/meta-rolls-out-ai-on-whatsapp-in-europe-and-users-cannot-disable-itEUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble
🚨 New publication!
I am very glad that my article on Open-Source Software under the Cyber Resilience Act has been published in JIPITEC. The article delves into the (widespread) discussion surrounding the regulation of cybersecurity for open-source software under the CRA.
Working in open-source software and eager to know more about what the Cyber Resilience Act means? The article is, very much in the spirit of "open source", available in open access in JIPITEC now!
jipitec.eu/jipitec/article/vie…
The Cyber Resilience Act and Open-Source Software: A Fine Balancing Act
Open-source software, a type of software that can be publicly accessed, shared, and modified, is an integral part of modern digital infrastructure. Many products, from personal computers to internet-connected devices, run on open-source systems (e.www.jipitec.eu
I've taken a while to think about what to say about this since yesterday
quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/…
What I'd like you to notice is that it's not the law or government policy to raid Quaker meeting houses to arrest people for talking together.
Notice it was a choice made by police who wanted to do it, and knew they wouldn't be held to account for it.
And I can't stress enough how much you do NOT want unaccountable police making up public policy. There's a name for that kind of country.
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.Quakers
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@virtuosew Of course. I forgot to quote the exact legislation(s) that the police used. You might want to include this (see the original article for details).
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Preventing Bird Collisions Webinar:
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"Each year in Canada approximately 25 million birds die from building collisions. This is not only heartbreaking to witness but is a significant loss to biodiversity and the role these birds play. The good news is that there are solutions! Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation on Tuesday, April 1 at 7:00 p.m. ET to discover effective ways to prevent bird strikes at home, work or at the cottage. Our guest will be Michael Mesure, a founding member and Executive Director of Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Canada. Michael will speak about the work of FLAP Canada, how human-made structures threatens birds and offer solutions for mitigating building collisions. This will include examples of both effective and ineffective collision deterrent methods and some background on bird-friendly building design guidelines, policies, code and law. We hope you can join us!"
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Airlines Cut Seats to the U.S. as Canadians Stay Away nytimes.com/2025/03/28/world/c…
Airlines Cut Seats to the U.S. as Canadians Stay Away
Several airlines have reduced the number of seats on U.S.-bound flights in April, while industry data shows that bookings have declined significantly.Vjosa Isai (The New York Times)
He enticed amateur sleuths into the wilderness with buried treasure. It didn't go well
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5336714/gold-and-greed-review-netflix-fenn-treasure?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?Mother Jones
Absolutely glorious and thrilling to see the solar eclipse today in London ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆
Made a solar projector using a colander! And also watching the Greenwich live stream: rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/sola…
Partial solar eclipse LIVE
Watch the Moon hide a portion of the Sun live online with Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomerswww.rmg.co.uk
Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing
: Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover projectRichard Speed (The Register)
If you are curious what is going on in Hungary, please read our article we wrote on this today, it's absolutely insane. And please subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/ai-surveil...
AI Surveillance to be Deployed...
AI Surveillance to be Deployed on Banned Budapest Pride
The yearly parade has been banned, and its organizers and attendees will be targeted with AI surveillance, facial recognition software, and automatic fines.s. baum (Erin In The Morning)
This deems delusional.
Did I miss some groundbreaking discovery about low back pain that discovers that it comes from an infection in our spine?
Because it’s kind of terrifying if they think low back pain comes from an infection that could be cured with antibiotics, so they think everyone with low back pain is walking around with a festering bacterial infection?
This sounds delusional.
theguardian.com/society/2025/m…
New drug for lower back pain could be ‘a gamechanger’
Exclusive: early stage trials of drug that uses antibiotics finds benefits for people whose pain is caused by infectionDenis Campbell (The Guardian)
Recreating the Analog Beauty of a Vintage Tektronix Oscillator
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Recreating The Analog Beauty Of A Vintage Tektronix Oscillator
Tektronix must have been quite a place to work back in the 1980s. The company offered a bewildering selection of test equipment, and while the digital age was creeping in, much of their gear was st…Hackaday
Michael K Johnson
in reply to Michael K Johnson • • •#OpenSCAD advantages that I care about:
git diffis more meaningful (though it's possible to make it somewhat meaningful for FreeCAD)2/3
OpenSCAD CheatSheet
openscad.orgMichael K Johnson
in reply to Michael K Johnson • • •Why not both‽
/fin
cpm
in reply to Michael K Johnson • • •I'm really wishing that any of this stuff was a functional clone of Acad 9,10 dos/unix
used that simple command structure, etc
I suppose it's because I was literate enough in it, to write autolisp routines,libraries, etc
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I was never able to make that jump to mouse+'windows' stuff
summagraphics (or cheap clone tablet) kbd,txt display, graphics display, not convinced it ever improved.
3D modelling? Sure, I concede. but x,y,z like the olden times worked pretty well for long time
Michael K Johnson
in reply to cpm • • •@cpm Not clones, but you might appreciate some of the other open source CAD packages out there. In case you aren't aware of any of these, here are some actively-developed ones today.
There probably aren't very many developers today eager to pour their lives into precisely cloning exactly one particular CAD implementation from a few decades ago.
GitHub - BRL-CAD/brlcad: BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source combinatorial solid modeling system
GitHubcpm
in reply to Michael K Johnson • • •Hehe
thanks kindly.
I get it
I know I'm pining for lost glory days of youth, lol!
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yeah, seriously obsolete stuff, I know
Feeling the need to shake my cane & shout at clouds
(modern CAD does clouds a lot better)
KalleMP
in reply to Michael K Johnson • • •Your post hints at possibilities for me. I have a desire to print replacement drum type chart recorder grids. I have a Temperature Humidity recorder and it would be nice to print calibrated charts. This would allow me to modify the recorder to operate in the T, H and t ranges I want. Also there are many recorders that are obsolete and exact replacement charts are not easy to source. Also they are often only sold in large quantities. Adjusting for language and locale, branding would also be handy.
I was wondering if you could offer an opinion on what free CAD software would be the easiest to use for parametric type drawing with repetitive curves.
I don't use CAD regularly and the bait and switch Dassault did has soured me on closed source completely.
A version for circular charts would also be handy for those who use them.
sksato.co.jp/en/7210-00/
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佐藤計量器製作所Michael K Johnson
in reply to KalleMP • • •@kallemp I don't have experience with parametric open source 2d CAD so my advice wouldn't be much use.
I have done work using FreeCAD to lay out text and index marks, but I can't imagine its sketch solver handling thousands of constraints.
Sorry!