102 women and LGBTQ+ journalists back Turkey’s new #MeToo disclosures
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More than 100 women and LGBTQ+ journalists in #Turkey have declared their support for the latest wave of MeToo-style allegations, saying they will stand with survivors and continue to report on gender inequality, harassment and violence.
102 women and LGBTQ+ journalists back Turkey’s new #MeToo disclosures - Turkish Minute
More than 100 women and LGBTQ+ journalists in Turkey have declared their support for the latest wave of MeToo-style allegations, saying they will stand with survivors and continue to report on gender inequality, harassment and violence.Turkish Minute (TurkishMinute)
Marcello Gemmato in pole position come candidato del centrodestra: “Presente”
https://bari.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/08/30/news/marcello_gemmato_in_pole_position_in_puglia_come_candidato_del_centrodestra_presente-424816476/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Cronache italiane - La Repubblica @cronache-italiane-la-repubblica-repubblica
Marcello Gemmato in pole position come candidato del centrodestra: “Presente”
Il fedelissimo della premier Meloni a Manfredonia apre in chiaro all’eventualità di partecipare alle regionali: la sua candidatura a presidente sarebbe letta, …Davide Carlucci (la Repubblica)
Auf unserem baldigen Land steht ein Urwelt-Mammutbaum (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) neben dem Anbaugarten. Quasi alle sagen, der muss raus, weil er das Wasser vom Garten klauen wird und richtig groß wird. Nach etwas Recherche tendieren wir nun dazu, den Baum nicht zu fällen. Kennt sich hier jemand mit Metasequoia aus und kann mir sagen, ob das wirklich eine schlechte Idee ist?
Und weiß jemand ob die Nadeln, die ja wie Blätter im Herbst fallen, eher Laub oder Nadeln vom pH sind?
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Calcio in tv: le partite in palinsesto sabato 30
https://www.lastampa.it/sport/calcio/2025/08/30/news/calcio_in_tv_le_partite_in_palinsesto_sabato_30-15288786/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su La Stampa Sport @la-stampa-sport-LaStampa
Calcio in tv: le partite in palinsesto sabato 30
Quattro incontri di serie A, in prima serata Napoli-Cagliari e Pisa-RomaDaniele Cavalla (La Stampa)
“I think that Pritzker has kicked open a door to an alternate future: One in which the restorative work of post-Trump patriots involves accountability for criminals and reparations for the people they’ve harmed. ... By including this as part of his political ambition, and broadly suggesting it may be the major goal of some future Pritzker administration, he allows us to imagine this future and have a hand in creating it.”
#Politics #USPolitics #HoldTrumpAccountable
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JB Pritzker Just Set Himself Apart From All Other Democrats
This week, the Illinois governor suggested that he’s ready to take the fight against Trump much further than his party colleagues.The New Republic
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Sony α6400 | Sigma 30mm DC DN
#photography #fotografie #urbanphotography #streetphotography #flowers #orchid
Heavy beam subtype, slow charge up, slow tracking (especially when firing), better range, brutal dps and nice swirly effect as a bonus.
#Precursor #gamedev #vfx #screenshotsaturday
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Migliori chiavette Internet e router wifi portatili (settembre 2025)
Se avete sempre bisogno di una connessione stabile mentre siete in viaggio le chiavette internet sono la soluzione perfetta per voi.Antonello Buzzi (Tom's Hardware)
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The Secrets to Stunning Wide Angle Landscape Photos
Wide angle lenses can make the biggest landscapes look small and dull. You’ve seen it yourself: mountains that felt huge when you were standing there shrink to a disappointing background when viewed on your screen.Alex Cooke (Fstoppers)
#OTD (Aug 30) in 1967, #NewYork #Mafia leaders conduct a series of meetings in an effort to resolve factional struggles in the #Bonanno Crime Family.
#NYC #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory
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A sunrise from Youzihu Reef's Archway, Green Island, Taiwan, at morning light.
#landscapephotography #landscape #seascapephotography #seascape #naturephotography #nature #sunrise #island #taiwan #asia #photography
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Beim #KiezfestLöbtau gibt es übrigens auch einen Stand von #NeinZurBezahlkarte (neinzurbezahlkarte.de)
Auch mit Tauschangeboten. Also packt Bargeld ein und kommt rum!
Auch wenn es viele nicht gut finden. Inzwischen kann man mit Paypal und nfc fähigen Handy auch bezahlen.
Dann brauch die Person nur ein PayPal Konto und kann auch online einkaufen etc.
Kann seitdem zum Beispiel nebenan in Polen wieder einkaufen, weil neuste Karte irgendwie nicht mehr im Ausland geht.
Bargeld zu bekommen ist teils ja auch inzwischen umständlich.
Wäre noch so eine Alternative Idee dazu. Falls die Leute auch online kaufen wollen/ Digital einkaufen... dürfte ja diese Karte auch so ziemliche Beschränkungen haben.
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Rioting has broken out across Indonesia.
In the midst of economic hardship and historic inflation, lawmakers voted to give themselves a housing allowance 10 times the minimum wage.
By August 28th, protests and riots had spread to Jakarta, Makassar, Bandung, Medan, and Pontianak
Police have arrested over 700
and killed a motorcycle taxi driver, running him over with an armored vehicle.
As the situation continues to escalate, anarchists are raising funds to establish a network of safe houses for protesters and frontline activists at risk.
Funds are being raised through Firefund firefund.net/indonesiansafehou…
Indonesian Safe House Network
ISHN Fundraising Campaign, a shelter for all combatants, and yes, we are anarchists, subjective, and never neutral.www.firefund.net
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#PalestinaLivre #politica
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"We are sailing to Gaza. Here's why.”
Melanie Schweizer of the Global Sumud Flotilla details the aims – and anxieties – of the largest humanitarian convoy to Gaza since the blockade began.Progressive International
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It’s Daily Fella time. Read about tRumps disappointment that Zelenskyy & Europe refuse to surrender to russia, will Ukraine get new cruise missiles & a new Danish aid package.
#DailyFella #DailyFellaNews #SlavaUkraini #NAFO #Ukraine #Russia
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Suki Waterhouse bling ring al Festival di Venezia 2025: il look gioiello di Rabanne con frangia alla Marianne Faithfull
https://www.vogue.it/article/suki-waterhouse-festival-di-venezia-2025-look?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Suki Waterhouse bling ring al Festival di Venezia 2025: il look gioiello di Rabanne con frangia alla Marianne Faithfull
A sorpresa è arrivata anche Suki Waterhouse al Festival di Venezia 2025: i dettagli del look bling ring firmato Rabanne che abbaglia più dei flashGiacomo Aricò (Vogue Italia)
La Festa del Pd torna a Reggio Emilia, il governo non ci sarà - Notizie - Ansa.it
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La Festa del Pd torna a Reggio Emilia, il governo non ci sarà - Notizie - Ansa.it
La festa nazionale del Pd torna per il secondo anno consecutivo al Campovolo di Reggio Emilia: al via il 2 settembre, chiude il 14 l'intervento della segretaria Elly Schlein. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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Sindacati in pressing sull'ex Ilva, la politica si muove - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Sindacati in pressing sull'ex Ilva, la politica si muove - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Integrità del gruppo, risanamento ambientale, decarbonizzazione, garanzie occupazionali. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
»Mastodon – Eine Altersverifizierung sei wegen der dezentralen Struktur nicht möglich:
Jugendschutz - oder Meinungsfreiheit? Ein neues Gesetz im US-Bundesstaat Mississippi verpflichtet soziale Plattformen dazu, das Alter der Nutzer:innen zu prüfen. Mastodon verweigert das aus technischen Gründen«
Mastodon ist ja auch keine Firma im klassischen Sinne und deswegen mMn auch nicht möglich.
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#mastodon #fediverse #jugendschutz #usa #mississippi #altersnachweis #web
Mastodon: Eine Altersverifizierung sei wegen der dezentralen Struktur nicht möglich | t3n
Jugendschutz – oder Meinungsfreiheit? Ein neues Gesetz im US-Bundesstaat Mississippi verpflichtet soziale Plattformen dazu, das Alter der Nutzer:innen zu prüfen. Mastodon verweigert das aus technischen Gründen.Noëlle Bölling (t3n Magazin)
André Pitz: Jules Vernes 1870er Ausgabe von „Von der Erde zum Mond" ist wunderschön illustriert andrepitz.de/2025/08/30/jules-…
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Jules Vernes 1870er Ausgabe von „Von der Erde zum Mond" ist wunderschön illustriert
Wunderschön und wunderschön unheimlich.André Pitz (Feuilleton & Firlefanz)
Graham Platner is blunt, even proud, about how he’s benefitted from government programs. He went to college on the GI Bill. His healthcare is free—paid for by four tours in Iraq & Afghanistan.
"But watching your friends die as the bar to meet for decent healthcare is disgusting.” trib.al/IjoLlMU
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Taking on Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.The New Republic
No, but the rumors, which evidently started on X, say someone did or is in the process. Just cruel if not so!
Ainda me recordo do tempo em que os carros em Portugal nos bancos traseiros não tinham cinto de segurança (não foi assim há tanto tempo). Muito mudou desde a nossa entrada na UE
Os construtores automóveis queixam-se do rigor das normas europeias, mas não explicam porque um Citroen C3 tem nota 5 na Europa e nota zero no Brasil
Este video explica a realidade chocante de como os construtores ajustam os níveis de segurança dos carros conforme a regulamentação dos países
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IS TRUMP DEAD?
No, but noone had seen him in public for days....a rarity for the attention hound!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
metro.co.uk/2025/08/30/donald-…
Is Donald Trump dead? Rumours hit social media after president not seen for days
Is US President Donald Trump dead? Rumours flood social media after days out of sight, fueled further by a troubling remark from JD Vance.Donald Trump (Metro)
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A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can be persuaded to comply with objectionable requests using the same tactics that persuade humans (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can be persuaded to comply with objectionable requests using the same tactics that persuade humans
By Dina Bass / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
Introducing JabRef's New Walkthrough and Welcome Tab
JabRef has so many features that it's sometimes difficult to get started. This year's completed #GSOC project from our student Yubo changes this.
He successfully implemented a Welcome
#Walkthrough that helps new users to set up JabRef. This also includes the revamped welcome tab with quick settings. For more details, see our blog post.
#javafx #java #academia #TexLateX #bibliography #opensource
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Introducing JabRef’s New Walkthrough and Welcome Tab
Hello! I’m Yubo Cao, a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student at JabRef this year. Today, I’m excited to share with you the new walkthrough and welcome tab features in JabRef that I worked on.Yubo Cao (JabRef’s Blog)
of you’re debating with Ben Shapiro, you’ve already lost because you’ve made life choices to bring you into close proximity to him.
Incidentally, I don’t think I’ve heard Ben Shapiro ever debate. Gish gallop? Yes. Debate? Never.
I'll say here what I said on Twitter:
I actually do think it's worth pointing out how in a time of overt fascism, white trans people are also becoming more reactionary and facist overall, because that has real ramifications for Black trans people, who already bear the brunt of anti-trans violence.
I'll say that again: by every meaningful metric, Black trans people bear the brunt of transphobic violence. Not white trans people. And white trans people are not organizing en masse in any real way to change this fact.
And to be clear: White trans people are not becoming more reactionary and facist because they're trans, it's because they're white. And in a white supremacist society, white people will always be white first. Race traitors are rare, very rare. Us Black folks remaining real clear on this point is what will help to keep us safe and keep us from fates like that of Sam Nordquist.
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Loool over on Twitter white transfems are sputtering "but but white trans people aren't any more racist than white cis people" and like yes exactly that's the fucking problem!!!!!!! Your racism isn just as devastating as the racism coming from white cis people, you know, the type that regularly kills us??????
Marginalized white people always want to use their marginalization as a get out of jail card for their role in upholding a white supremacist society
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≪ Schönheit am Wegesrand ≫
#photography #fotografie #foto #photo #postprocessed #myphoto #mywork #ownwork #nature #natur #umwelt
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コムラサキの実が色づきだしている。こういうところも季節は進んでるんだなぁ…って感じる。まだめっちゃ暑いけど!! (大切なことなので2回言う)
#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部
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Natural landscapes: the Wild Pacific Trail
SUNRISE AT AMPHITRITE POINT LIGHTHOUSE, UCLUELET, BRITISH COLUMBIA Named after the Greek sea goddess, Amphitrite lighthouse is one of the many tourist attractions on the west coast of Vancouver Isl…FRANK KING PHOTOS
The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps – 5th Edition
Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.Olivia Moore (Andreessen Horowitz)
boston, massachusetts
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wrought iron
pinckney street, beacon hill
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#photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #boston #massachusetts #beaconhill #pinckneystreet #streetphotography #building #steps #wroughtiron #1950s
I am concerned about the increase in crude and inflammatory comments coming from people on #Mastodon and other platforms, particularly those aimed at children (e.g. Roblox, Scratch.mit.edu, etc.). There seems to be a noticeable rise in such posts, and it's becoming a global #trend at this point. Not just from "anonymous" users (the myth on the #internet is that only anons are trolls since anonymity makes them more emboldened) but also from professionals with real names making casual posts (mostly jokes, but sometimes rants) without considering the impact their language has on others and their profession.
This shouldn't even be seen as judgmental or tone-policing or "limiting one's freedom of speech" to point this out. I'm also pointing it out regardless of whether I think the comments are intended to bother others or not. Inflammatory speech is still inflammatory regardless of intent.
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Da bin ich ja mal gespannt, #Fritz,
wie die Armen und Alten und die Kranken die Wirtschaft wieder auf Vordermann bringen.
tagesschau.de/inland/merz-ford…
Merz fordert Sozialreformen: "Können uns System nicht mehr leisten"
Kanzler Merz hat die Bürger bei einer Rede in NRW auf harte Einschnitte bei den Sozialausgaben eingestimmt. Das derzeitige System sei zu teuer. Es brauche dringend Reformen, etwa beim Bürgergeld oder mehr Anreize für Arbeiten im Alter.tagesschau.de
Und ICH finde, wir können uns angesichts der #Klimakrise und drohender Radikalisierung von Rechts diese desaströsen Politiker absolut nicht leisten....
Die Grundlage unserer #Demokratie, der #Sozialstaat, droht zerstört zu werden.
Ich weiß da ne Finanzierungshilfe:
Gli astronomi sorprendono un buco nero supermassiccio nell’atto di “svegliarsi”
I radiotelescopi NRAO rivelano getti infantili provenienti da un gigante recentemente risvegliato in un lontano ammasso di galassie.
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The world’s best solar telescope snapped unprecedented shots of a solar flare, revealing new details of these mysterious explosions.#TheAbstract
This Stunning Image of the Sun Could Unlock Mysterious Physics
Welcome back to the Abstract! What an extreme week it has been in science. We’ve got extreme adaptations and observations to spare today, so get ready for a visually spectacular tour of deep seas, deep time, and deep space.First up, a study with an instant dopamine hit of a title: “Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur.” Then, stories about two very different marine creatures that nonetheless share a penchant for brilliant outfits and toxic lifestyles; a baby picture that requires a 430-light-year zoom-in; and lastly, we must once again salute the Sun in all its roiling glory. Enjoy the peer-reviewed eye-candy!
Ankylosaurs: Swole from the start
Maidment, Susannah et al. “Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur.” Nature.
Paleontologists have discovered an ankylosaur that is epic even by the high standards set by this family of giant walking tanks. Partial remains of Spicomellus—the oldest known ankylosaur, dating back 165 million years—reveal that the dinosaur had much more elaborate body armor than later generations, including a collar of bony spikes up to three feet long, and fused tail vertebrae indicating an early tail weapon.
Ankylosaurs are known for their short-limbed frames, clubbed tail weapons, and thick-plated body armor that puts Batman to shame. These dinosaurs, which could reach 30 feet from beak to club, are mostly known from Late Cretaceous fossils. As a consequence “their early evolution in the Early–Middle Jurassic is shrouded in mystery due to a poor fossil record” and “the evolution of their unusual body plan is effectively undocumented,” according to a new study.
“Bring it.” Concept art of Spicomellus. Image: © Matthew Dempsey
In October 2022, a local farmer in the Moroccan badlands discovered a partial skeleton that fills in this tantalizing gap. The fossils suggest that the plates, spikes, and weaponized tails were features of ankylosaurian anatomy from the Jurassic jump.“The new specimen reveals extreme dermal armour modifications unlike those of any other vertebrate, extinct or extant,” said researchers led by Susannah Maidment of the National History Museum in London. “Given that Spicomellus is an early-diverging ankylosaur or ankylosaurid, this raises the possibility that ankylosaurs acquired this extravagant armour early in their evolutionary history, and this was reduced to a simpler arrangement in later forms.”
The Spicomellus puzzle set. Image: © Matthew Dempsey/ Maidment et al.
As you can see, this early ankylosaur was the living embodiment of the phrase “try me.” Two huge spikes, one of which is almost entirely preserved, flanked the “cervical half-ring” on the animal's neck. The fossils are so visually astonishing that at first glance, they almost look like an arsenal of spears, axes, and clubs from an ancient army.The team doesn’t hide their amazement at the find, writing that “no known ankylosaur possesses any condition close to the extremely long pairs of spines on the cervical half-ring” and note that the fossils overturn “current understanding of tail club evolution in ankylosaurs, as these structures were previously thought to have evolved only in the Early Cretaceous.”
This incredible armor may have initially evolved as a sexual display that was adapted for defensive purposes by the rise of “multitonne predators” like T. rex. That might explain why the ornaments seemed to have simplified over time. Whatever the reason, the fossils demonstrate that ankylosaurs, as a lineage, were born ready for a fight.
In other news…
Now you sea(horse) me
We’ll move now from the extremely epic to the extremely twee. Pygmy seahorses, which measure no more than an inch, mimic the brightly-colored and venomous gorgonian corals that they symbiotically inhabit. Scientists have now discovered that these tiny animals achieved their extraordinary camouflage in part by discarding a host of genes involved in growth and immune response, perhaps because their protective coral habitats rendered those traits obsolete.
Basically we are very smol. Image: South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
“We analyzed the tiny seahorse’s genome revealing the genomic bases of several adaptations to their mutualistic life,” said researchers led by Meng Qu of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The analysis suggests “that the protective function of corals may have permitted the pygmy seahorse to lose an exceptionally large number of immune genes.”Living in a toxic environment can have its benefits, if you’re a seahorse. And that is the perfect segue to the next story…
When life hands you arsenic, make lemon-colored skin
After a long day, isn’t it nice to sink into a scalding bath of arsenic and hydrogen sulfide? That’s the self-care routine for Paralvinella hessleri, a deep sea worm that “is the only animal that colonizes the hottest part of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the west pacific,” according to a new study.
Paralvinella hessleri. Wang H, et al., 2025, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/b…)
So, how are these weirdos surviving what should be lethally toxic waters that exceed temperatures of 120°F? The answer is a "distinctive strategy” of “fighting poison with poison,” said researchers led by Hao Wang of the Center of Deep-Sea Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The worm stores the arsenic in its skin cells and mixes it with the sulfide to make a dazzling mineral, called orpiment, that provides its bright yellow hue.“This process represents a remarkable adaptation to extreme chemical environments,” the researchers said. “The yellow granules observed within P. hessleri’s epithelial cells, which are the site of arsenic detoxification, appear to be the key to this adaptation.”
My own hypothesis is that this worm offers an example of convergent evolution with Freddie Mercury’s yellow jacket from Queen’s legendary 1986 Wembley Stadium performance.
Mind the protoplanetary gap
Your baby photos are cute and all, but it’s going to be hard to top the pic that astronomers just snapped of a newborn planet 430 light years from Earth. This image marks the first time that a planet has been spotted forming within a protoplanetary disk, which is the dusty gassy material from which new worlds are born.
The protoplanet WISPIT 2b appears as a purple dot in a dust-free gap. Image: Laird Close, University of Arizona
Our “images of 2025 April 13 and April 16 discovered an accreting protoplanet,” said researchers led by Laird Close of the University of Arizona. “The ‘protoplanet’ called WISPIT 2b “appears to be clearing a dust-free gap between the two bright rings of dust—as long predicted by theory.”If Earth is the pale blue dot, then WISPIT 2b is the funky purple blob. Though stray baby planets have been imaged before in the cavity between their host stars and the young disks, this amazing image offers the first glimpse of the most common mode of planetary formation, which occurs inside the dusty maelstrom.
Welcome to the Arcade of Coronal Loops
We’ll close with yet another cosmic photoshoot—this time of everyone’s favorite star, the Sun. from the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii. The telescope captured unprecedented pictures of a decaying solar flare at a key hydrogen-alpha (Hα) wavelength of 656.28 nanometers.
The images show coronal loops—dramatic plasma arches that can spark flares and ejections—at resolutions of just 13 miles, making them the smallest loops that have ever been observationally resolved. The pictures are mesmerizing, filled with sharp features like the “Arcade of Coronal Loops” (and note that the scale is measured in planet Earths) But they also represent a new phase in unlocking the mysterious physics that fuels solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
“This is initial evidence that the DKIST may be capable of resolving the fundamental scale of coronal loops,” said researchers led by Cole Tamburri of the University of Colorado Boulder. “The resolving power of the DKIST represents a significant step toward advancing modern flare models and our understanding of fine structure in the coronal magnetic field.”
May your weekend be as energetic as a coronal loop, but hopefully not as destructive.
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur - Nature
The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.Nature
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In the USA, "the AI boom is fueling a frenzy of data centers that are competing with residential homes for capital, power, water, and even sonic space. The result is a housing market stuck in neutral, with the potential for higher bills on the horizon, and neighborhoods kept awake by the hum of chillers designed to keep machines-not people-cool."
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There are so many hidden costs to AI.
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When the droughts worsen, who will be prioritized?
(rhetorical; we already know)
Sincerely,
person watching wildfires appear in temperate rainforest.
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