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In the Arctic, microalgae are doing the limbo : Short Wave
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/1240892106/arctic-winter-sea-ice-light-microalgae-survival?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Protip: doomscrolling at 3am is not an effective way of dealing with the crippling anxiety that’s giving you insomnia.

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With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics : Code Switch
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/1240892108/code-switch-history-of-plagues?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Murder comes to the White House in 'The Residence' : Pop Culture Happy Hour
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/1240892107/murder-comes-to-the-white-house-in-the-residence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Can Europe stand without the US? : The Indicator from Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/1240892104/can-europe-stand-without-the-us?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Eugh, I’m having a really hard time visualising the #3dprinted enclosure for my seven segment clock project. Can’t quite decide how to take it to the next level. #1segrgb
#3DPrinted #1segrgb
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Michael Horne
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I feel your pain. Trying to envisage anything 3d always fills me with inadequacy!
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@recantha yeah, I recently came to realise I have something called "Aphantasia" which is where you can't physically see things in your mind. It means my 3d design process requires a lot of test prints just to figure out how one thing works with another in real space. How I ever ended up working as a designer is beyond me!
@Michael Horne

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Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
Toronto shopping street

Birmingham Reveals Radical Ghent-Style Plan To Cut Car Addiction

Car-besotted Birmingham wants to reduce the number of car journeys in the city.
Forbes
@Carlton Reid

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Great talk at @hackaday Europe 2025 by Rehana Al-Soltane about how she created a flexible PCB in the shape of a crown while at MIT, using a Javascript- and web-based open-source tool

youtube.com/live/uBOfawHQ0cA

SVG-PCB:
leomcelroy.com/svg-pcb-website…

#fablab #fabacademy #electronics


Hackaday Europe 2025: Rehana Al-Soltane - Make PCBs Bend Over Backwards for You

PCBs-as-we-know-them are usually flat and rigid, but what if you could create flexible boards in the shape of anything your heart desires? In this talk, I’ll...
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#electronics #fablab #fabacademy @hackaday
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Ever wondered if weather modification could aid in the fight against climate change?

Maya Posch explores the topic...

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The Challenge Of Weather Modification In The Face Of Climate Change

Over the past decades we have been able to observe a change in the Earth’s climate, caused by an increasing amount of energy being retained in the atmosphere. This in turn has affected weathe…
Hackaday

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Gunman who killed 23 in Texas Walmart attack can avoid death penalty with plea deal
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/g-s1-55939/gunman-texas-walmart-attack-death-penalty-plea-deal?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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#Engineering students explore how to ethically design and locate nuclear facilities in this @umich.edu course: buff.ly/jEUFqkB
#uncommoncourses

Engineering students explore how to ethically design and locate nuclear facilities in this college course

Students explore nuclear facilities in virtual reality and learn about the ethical dimensions of nuclear technology in a University of Michigan course.
The Conversation
#engineering #uncommoncourses

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Crossbower. ‘The Rutland Psalter’, England ca. 1260. British Library, Add 62925, fol. 57r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
Crossbower. ‘The Rutland Psalter’, England ca. 1260. British Library, Add 62925, fol. 57r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#medieval #medievalart

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big thanks to @ArchiteuthisFlux for letting me piggy back on his jlc order and sending these my way! I excitedly rushed to assemble one as soon as i got them! Really happy with how they turned out #chippydootles
"a small black and silver circle amulet standing, turned on, animating the leds on the design. the design is a cartoon shaped heart with a line down the middle. five leds traverse the middle line to represent stitches. from top down the leds are colored blue, pink, white, pink, blue. Circling the design is handwriting that says “fix your hearts or die”
#chippydootles @Kevin Santo Cappuccio

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This is sick as hell and deserves more attention:

youtu.be/47jlny15IEc

I don't think I've ever seen that done before, which means everyone making futuristic credit sequences in the 1970s missed a *major* trick! Also, what a great tool for understanding signal processing.


Putting Audio Effects on Text

Buy the full album: https://aihvhia.bandcamp.com/album/operavilleBuy a t-shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/aihvhiaPure altruism: paypal.me/AihvhiaOfficia...
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maybe I'm wrong but without the compute and libraries and standards and standard hardware interfaces we have today, you'd need to build an analogue tool first to record the writing of that waveform and then replay it very fast...
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@mmby True. I could be wrong, but I think that should be possible with a Fourier transform and some oscillators, but maybe not easily to that crispness. The earliest video games were all done by drawing onto an oscilloscope just like this, though, so the idea wouldn't have been utterly foreign to them.
@mmby

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26 March 1934 | A French Jewish boy, Francis Levin, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 November 1943 in a transport of 1,200 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among the 914 people murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Picture of the face of a young boy in a white shirt buttoned up to the neck. He is smiling. He has short hair and a fringe pulled to the right side - slightly wavy.
#auschwitz

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Well, at the very least #Trump is doing wonders for the German defense industry, as lots of European countries (a) seek to increase their military spending and (b) try their best to get away from fickle American supply lines... 😔

#military #Germany #USA #USPolitics

A graph showing the stock price of Rheinmetall AG for the last six months, with the stock having risen to more than twice it had at the date of the US election.
#uspolitics #usa #trump #Military #germany
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Rheinmetall has a lot looking good for (its upcoming profits).

First off, the Ukraine war has massively boosted demand for their wares.

Second, Trump has made it more likely they need to boot USA bases and/or not rely on them.

Third, Leopard 2 and upcoming variants like the next generation Leopard 2a RC3.0 really make the Leopard 2 platform just plain more flexible for different country's needs - including better than USA.

Leopard 2 and Skyranger are particularly needed.

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All the Rheinmetall boss has to worry about now is not being assassinated by Russian agents.

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I made a mock-up gallery display for the #GeorgetownSteamPlant Science Fair

#Petrofuture

a mock-up image of seven Petrofuture maps on display in the boiler room of the Georgetown Steam Plant. The corridor is dark, and the prints that have been photoshopped in are illuminated. Seattle Petrofuture is projected onto a large screen in the middle, and is the largest and brightest.
#petrofuture #georgetownsteamplant
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'Like a sound from hell:' Was an illegal sonic weapon used on protesters in Serbia?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5341198/sonic-weapon-serbia-belgrade-protests?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Wildfires ravage South Korea, killing 18 and destroying a 1,300-year-old temple
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5341196/south-korea-wildfires-buddhist-temple?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Trump's new executive order could upend voting
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/g-s1-55927/trump-voting-citizenship-executive-order?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Designing a Portable Mac Mini

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Designing A Portable Mac Mini

When Apple first launched the Macintosh, it created a new sort of “Lunchbox” form factor that was relatively portable and very, very cool. Reminiscent of that is this neat portable Maci…
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Funny how informational security is so much less important to the NYTimes now than it was in late 2016.
New York Times front page: October 20, 2016 & March 25, 2025 Images of NYT front pages above the fold from two dates. Both front pages have highlighted text for the stories about (on the left) Hillary Clinton's emails and (on the right) Trump admin officials sharing war plans with a journalist in an unsecure group text. 2016: Every word on the front page above the fold is highlighted. There is no other story. 2025: A single story, very small near the bottom right, is highlighted.

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1/2 Did somebunny say it was #TeefTuesday? -Sitara ✨ #SitaraLove
Bunny opens her mouth wide, showing two teeth on top and bottom
#sitaralove #teeftuesday
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Could Florida get any worse?

Florida: Yes.

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It turns out, as always, that your social media posts are public. ActivityPub features that attempt to set any other expectations for users are wrong and should maybe be considered a vulnerability in and of themselves. #ActivityPub #privacy #Pixelfed #Mastodon
mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/…

⬡-49016 :neobot_box_cat_ears: (@49016@catgirl.cloud)

Content warning: pixelfed meta; tl;dr stay away, even after today's vuln, both as users and as security researchers
catgirl.cloud
#privacy #mastodon #pixelfed #activitypub

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If you have not yet received a notice, over the next few weeks, if you own a domain, and your domain register falls under Us Jurisdiction, expect to receive a notice about privacy policy updates.

For example, Name Dot Com, as shown below.

In fact, if you use any digital service under Us Jurisdiction, expect to receive privacy policy updates.

#Name #Domain #DomainName #DomainRegister #Privacy #PrivacyPolicy

Privacy Policy Update Hello, Thank you for your support of Name.com! We’re writing to let you know that we’ve updated our Privacy Policy. Privacy laws continue to evolve and we made changes to our Privacy Policy to help reflect these developments. In addition, we strive to make our information practices easy for you to understand and to clearly communicate the choices you have, and the updates reflect this goal. If you have any questions, you may contact us via chat or by opening a support request at https://www.name.com/contact. By continuing to use our services or interact with us, consent to our updated Privacy Policy applies to you.
#privacy #name #domain #domainname #domainregister #privacypolicy

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yikes! This is bad, but also I kinda think the way DMs work in the activitypub protocol is a joke and we should either just not have it or fix it

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Pilot and 2 children survive a night on airplane wing after crashing into Alaska lake
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/g-s1-55929/alaska-plane-lake-rescue-children?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Top left panel of today's Questionable Content is very much what we used to call "exploitable"
Woman on left: I can be normal about [conspicuous blank] Woman on right:I have yet to see any evidence of this.
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I make no claims about possibly "being normal about _______."

I am *extraordinary*! 😁

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🚚 Chevy Truck Key Hanger • STL and 3MF files
➡️ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2843942
💡 Designed by soarpix

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ESA finally has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?
Late this year, European governments will have the opportunity to pay up or shut up.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/…

ESA finally has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?

Stephen Clark (Ars Technica)

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On a tiny island in South Florida, researchers are tracking evolution in real time by studying five species of anole lizards. Their decade-long study is revealing how natural selection drives evolution, an #ecology professor explains: theconversation.com/amid-a-tro… #evolution

Amid a tropical paradise known as ‘Lizard Island,’ researchers are cracking open evolution’s black box – scientist at work

A decade of fieldwork is revealing how one of biology’s fundamental principles works in real time.
The Conversation
#ecology #evolution

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This is great: a DIY 3D-printed stamp that turns Andrew Jacksons into Harriet Tubmans on US $20 bills kottke.org/18/09/the-harriet-t…

The Harriet Tubman $20 Stamp

Frustrated that the US Treasury Department is walking back plans to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with Harri
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My former junior college jazz band has mastered the art of being petty, and I am here to support it FULLY.
If you’re in #LosAngeles, go support them if you can.

#DEI
#music
#jazz

#music #dei #jazz #losangeles

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Breaking: New Sleep Token track has exceptionally filthy beat

youtube.com/watch?v=JJpFTUP6fI…


Sleep Token - Emergence

Click to worship: https://sleeptoken.lnk.to/EmergenceWorship: https://www.showmehowtodanceforever.com/Gather: https://www.showmehowtodanceforever.com/tourPre...
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26 March 1920 | Jewish man, Hirsch Metzger, was born.

In #Auschwitz from 15 April 1942
No. 29673
He perished in the camp on 10 May 1942.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
#auschwitz

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#TeamSpaces is currently beating #TeamTabs, but only barely.

via @nixCraft

mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1142…

Tabs vs Spaces showing the Drake dislike/like meme, except the boxes on the right are just invisible whitespaces.
#teamspaces #teamtabs @nixCraft 🐧

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Every day we look away, more civilians die in Sudan and South Sudan. More children join the 12.5 million people already displaced. More families face the impossible choice between starving and risking death to flee.

theindex.media/no-aid-no-accou…


No Aid, No Accountability, No Outrage

Famine, ethnic violence, and foreign intervention are tearing through Sudan and South Sudan. This is not a distant crisis—it’s a global failure.
Joan Westenberg (The Index.)

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They always tell you their shitty evil plans up front. Always. They’re going to do targeted voter roll purges, and then destroy the evidence and insist no do-overs or audits or takesies-backsies.

From: @noondlyt
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LAUREN (@noondlyt@hellions.cloud)

ICYMI Trump signed an EO which can and will do many terrible things with regard to voting rights but the most insidious is the following reported by Marc Elias and Democracy Docket: "The order mandates the Social Security commissioner must share fe…
HELLIONS CLOUD
@NEURAL

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Someone just shared this with me. Holy shit. 🤯

“Yale professors, #TimothySnyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of #OnTyranny, and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of How #Fascism Works, move to #Canada” (to positions at the University of Toronto).

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Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
#Canada #fascism #timothysnyder #ontyranny
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