What's a good example of biological determinism in pop culture or mainstream media? Asking for a class. I'd like to challenge my students to deconstruct some of the irl narratives out there. #teaching #anthropology #pleaseBoost
Deutschlands mentale Museumsdirektion Energie, Digitalisierung, Mobilität—Deutschland steckt tief in einer selbstverschuldeten Transformationskrise. Wer wissen wollte wie tief, sah und hörte gestern Merz den Vorgestrigen über die Zukunft […]
I find it a really useful exercise for the shinobue to "arpeggio" over every note of song in order, up and down. (I don't know if that's what an arpeggio is). on account of how the difficult part of the shinobue is how you have to blow in a different way for each note and register.
of course when the song jumps from a high to a low note you have to focus on that jump too, but it's generally much easier in the shino to move between adjacent notes (except when they jump registers), and doing it the easy way builds muscle memory (I hope) of what it feels like to blow the low notes successfuly for when you have to jump to them.
While you can configure the alarm clock sound in #Phosh the default isn't great atm (it's the fallback from the freedesktop.org sound theme).
If your into 🎵 music / sound design and want to provide us with a good morning wake up sound 😴 please join us on Matrix at https://matrix.to/#/#phosh:phosh.mobi .
The sounds we ship in sound-theme-phosh are usually also used by distributions like @postmarketOS, , @mobian and others so this would make a real difference for our daily driving users.
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Posted a PR, github.com/picolibc/picolibc/p…, to finally delete the original newlib stdio code from picolibc. It's well past time; that code is missing a bunch of functionality and fails a lot of tests.
Lucca, in 50 premiati dal Comitato Paralimpico della Toscana Consegnate le onorificenze ad atleti e tecnici protagonisti ai campionati europei e mondiali
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We've had tsundere.love blocked for many months due to transphobia, but they're a 4chan hub, so they also post a lot of nazi trash, including antisemitic things, lolicon, and severe racism. They also federate with known nazi instance, poa.st. We've included some evidence below, but content warning, it is severe.
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As #Russia has unexpectedly returned to the original demands from 2021 #NATO ultimatum, namely rolling back the alliance to the 1997 borders[^1] many people seem to be genuinely surprised. “They said they wanted peace, so why escalate now?”
Yes, this is anything but unexpected. This is a very logical thing to do, under Russian diplomatic framework, which had not changed since 1950’s[^2] Western observers persistently apply the wrong framework, so they get the wrong result, so they are constantly surprised.
Western framework is transactional - we make step back, you make step back and we got a compromise.
Russian framework is precisely the opposite: “if they make step back, they are weak. If they are weak, you make step forward… because they made step back”. Is there anything more logical than that?
Trump is consistently demonstrating that he’s much more concerned about the future and stability of Russia than Putin himself, so of course Putin escalates demand. It would be illogical not to.
I think these rivers are also not subject to a pattern. Everything is more volatile and chaotic.
Global heating is not uniform over the planet. higher levels of temperature increase are experienced at higher latitudes. This dynamic weakens the polar jet streams. They get long and stringy and drift towards the equator and sometimes throw off artic cold air masses. These then come in contact with these atmospheric rivers supercharged with their burden of moisture.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell The jet stream impacts (see: arctic amplification) seem to make a huge difference. Stalled out jet stream pattern nails a wet pattern in one place for evern just a few days... flooding. Holds a hot dry windy pattern in place... wildfires. Do it for weeks/months? Absolute disaster (ie civilization ending droughts).
Exactly. But I think the absolute disaster is both ends of extremity.
One region is subject to flash droughts and when the air mass laden with all the water it carted away runs into something slightly cold another region is obliterated in floods.
Both of these extreme damages existing productivity. They damage existing infrastructure.
What kind of long-term infrastructure can be built, when we really don’t have an idea of its operating conditions?
@ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell That the air holds more moisture as it gets warmer is only news to people who have been paying attention 🙂, but its also the basis for one potential outcome which is glaciation. Basically jet stream stops, moisture precipitates out as snow, albedo goes through the roof, creating a positive feedback loop and you get 10,000 years of ice age.
@ChuckMcManis @ai6yr The only trick in that would be that the water precipitating out as snow would have to remain snow or that it could fall out as snow in the first place.
These atmospheric rivers are dumping trillions of metric tons of water on the Greenland ice sheet. It is falling as liquid water, not snow or ice.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr Agreed, if you've read the research there is a big variable in the IPCC (and other) models about clouds. If clouds form in the troposphere you get cooling on the ground, if they form in the stratosphere you get warming. The glacial event scenario starts with tropospheric cloud cover that puts the ground below into a deep freeze and then water precipitating out as snow, which then leaves behind the high albedo.
I am a bit curmudgeonly about climate models, mostly about the climatologists who neglect global biomes with the exclusion perhaps of the Amazon forest.
That may be changing, where they come to accept again that land use is also climate change, and that if you kill the land, you kill the climate, because life just happened to have created the environment we exist in.
They should take a refresher on the great oxidation event..
Well back when I bought my 3999x Thread Ripper 128 core + 256GB "desktop" I thought I should run something challenging on this and found the IPCC model in R so I fired it up and started playing with it. It was educational to fix a dozen or so nodes in the model and run forward a decade or two.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Yes. Chaotic polar conditions are like speed wobbles, and it stops weather from staying in the “regular” tracks on which infrastructure was designed, etc. It’s also like natural terraforming and will change the landscape on a pace that humans’ haven’t experienced before. Weeee
Ragazza di 25 anni cade su un sentiero a Metato, soccorsa da Sast e vigili del fuoco L'infortunata è stata stabilizzata, quindi è stata trasportata tramite manove su corda per poi congiungersi con l'ambulanza
Some people think they can have a utopian sci-fi future, but an exclusionary one, built on a reactionary, bigoted society. That's not how it works. That's like trying to build on top of quicksand.
Fascists fundamentally don't believe in science, they don't believe in the openness and honesty needed to make it work, and they will purge society of all the brilliant people because they don't conform to their prejudices. They don't know how to build or create, only how to destroy.
Conservatism inevitably leads to dystopia, barbarism, and death.
These people are just used to taking advantage of the work done by other people to make their lives bearable. Whether that's labor, art, cuisine, science, etc.
One of the reasons they're so infatuated by "AI." They're like those guys who prefer blow up dolls to real women. "Now I don't need them for anything anymore."
reminds me of one of the most chilling lines from Humans (UK Channel 4 show about robots that gain consciousness), when the robot working in the brothel says "what they do to us is what they'd do to you if they had the chance"
There's a very good reason the champions of AI agree with Musk's line that empathy is a malfunction. That's the only way to doublethink their way out of what they're creating.
Una de las mayores mentiras que nos vienen colando desde la transición es que la convivencia de lo público con lo privado beneficia a ambas partes por igual.
Que las personas que pueden pagarse un seguro privado de salud contribuyen a descongestionar la sanidad pública y a reducir listas de espera. Que los colegios concertados permiten a las administraciones ahorrar en construir y mantener lo que serían escuelas públicas.
Es todo mentira. La única manera de dignificar la sanidad y la educación pública es obligar a los ricos a que tengan que usarlas. Porque los ricos pueden permitirse el privilegio de comprar las políticas que hacen que se deje de invertir en lo público (total, para qué, si no van a usarlo) mientras que consiguen que esos mismos fondos públicos se vayan a financiar sus chiringuitos privados dónde les curan y educan a sus hijes. Así tenemos la mafia de Quirón o las FP privadas llevándoselo gordo.
¿Pero si los ricos tuviesen que llevar a sus hijes a un colegio público? Veríais como bajaban las ratios y no faltaban recursos. Ídem con los centros de salud.
Max Planck presented work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.
His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter should be treated as it it emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf.
Planck’s quantum hypothesis would revolutionize physics, but he initially thought it wasn’t real.
He suspected that the interaction of matter and radiation was tremendously complicated but still governed by the physics known at the time — what we now call “classical physics.”
Invoking quanta of radiation to derive the blackbody emission spectrum was, it seemed to Planck, just a mathematical trick that somehow encapsulated all that complication.
Previous efforts to derive the blackbody emission spectrum using classical physics gave nonsensical results at high frequencies. Replace continuous emission with discrete quanta and things work out perfectly.
Evidence for the reality of quanta began with Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905. The proposal that radiation of frequency f exists only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf was the first result of Einstein’s “Miracle Year.”
Many physicists remained skeptical. But Arthur Compton’s 1923 explanation of X-rays scattering off electrons was near-incontrovertible evidence that quanta were real.
This sequence of events was a not uncommon narrative in the transformative years of late 19th and early 20th century physics. It would go something like this:
1. An experimental result doesn’t make sense
2. A physicist proposes a radical solution.
3. The solution seems too weird to be real. Everyone assumes it must be a convenient "trick."
4. Eventually, everyone realizes it wasn't a trick, and reality is in fact weirder than they expected.
Planck’s hypothesis was in fact a deep statement about the nature of Nature. Electromagnetic adiation of frequency f comes in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. It's not an artifact of a complicated interaction with matter.
Nowadays we refer to the proportionality constant h as "Planck's constant." In the SI system it takes the value h=6.626 x 10⁻³⁴ kg*m²/s, or 4.136 x 10⁻¹⁵ eV*s.
As far as we can tell, h is a fundamental constant that is hardwired into our Universe.
The results of Planck’s December 14th lecture were submitted to Annalen der Physik a few weeks later, on January 7th, and published not long after that.
Something that isn’t as widely known is that “h” is not the only fundamental constant that was introduced during Planck’s presentation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900!
Planck was investigating emission and absorption by blackbodies, so he needed a way to relate energies and temperatures. Thus, he had to introduce what we now refer to as “Boltzmann’s constant.”
That’s right, the factor of “k” that appears in the formula “S = k log W” — the formula engraved on Boltzmann’s memorial! — was actually introduced by Max Planck. Boltzmann expressed his results in terms of the ideal gas constant R.
Remember in 2010 when Berlin archaeologists found a bunch of Degenerate Art #sculpture and the ashes of loads of burnt paintings that had fallen into the basement of a building bombed to pieces by the Allies near the end of WW2?
The tragicomical aspect here is that the people who finally destroyed all those Degenerate modernist paintings were not the Nazis. They were the Allies.
A weakness has been identified in code-projects Computer Book Store 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /admin_delete.php. This manipulation of
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today led a coalition of 20 attorneys general in announcing a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration over its unlawful policy imposing a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions.
Antisemitischer Anschlag. Und ich höre wieder dieses bedrückende laute Schweigen. Ist wirklich nicht verstanden, dass diese emotional aufgepeitschten free free palestine- Schreihälse eine zweite, rechtsoffene Front aufgebaut haben? Die Tür heißt Antisemitismus.www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ozea...
Am Bondi Beach im australischen Sydney sind mehrere Menschen durch Schüsse getötet und verletzt worden. Nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen haben zwei Angreifer eine jüdische Chanukka-Feier angegriffen.
![The title and introduction of the paper read:
ON A HEURISTIC POINT OF VIEW CONCERNING THE PRODUCTION
AND TRANSFORMATION
OF LIGHT
by A. Einstein
[Annalen der Physik 17 (1905):
132-148]
There exists a profound formal difference between the theoretical conceptions physicists have formed about gases and other ponderable bodies, and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic processes in so-called empty space.
While we conceive of the state of a body as being completely determined by the positions and velocities of a very large but nevertheless finite number of atoms and electrons, we use continuous spatial functions to determine the
electromagnetic state of a space. so that a finite number…](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/68226966 "The title and introduction of the paper read:
ON A HEURISTIC POINT OF VIEW CONCERNING THE PRODUCTION
AND TRANSFORMATION
OF LIGHT
by A. Einstein
[Annalen der Physik 17 (1905):
132-148]
There exists a profound formal difference between the theoretical conceptions physicists have formed about gases and other ponderable bodies, and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic processes in so-called empty space.
While we conceive of the state of a body as being completely determined by the positions and velocities of a very large but nevertheless finite number of atoms and electrons, we use continuous spatial functions to determine the
electromagnetic state of a space. so that a finite number…")
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Also the trope in mainstream shows that women ultimately always want babies, even if they repeatedly stated they don't.