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2022-05-05 @ 13.31.24 ∈ In English

Laura Kelley on Twitter
“Can animal patterning create or conceal 3D form for camouflage? https://t.co/tf9LvB586y 📷Shipher Wu (Uropyia meticulodina - yes that wing is actually flat!)”
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2022-05-03 @ 13.31.44 ∈ In English

(From 2020)

An opinionated list of best practices for textual websites
A lengthy guide to making simple, inclusive sites focused on content before form. Emphasizes brutalist design and accessibility to include under-represented users.
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2022-04-29 @ 14.53.53 ∈ In English

EU Joins Mastodon Social Network, Sets Up Its Own Server
The EU’s Mastodon instance, launched in the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition, is part of an effort to support private, ad-free, open-source software.
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2022-04-28 @ 12.00.00 ∈ In English

Michaela Joffe on Tweet
so in 1989 there was a Dutch-Japanese cartoon called Alfred J Kwak that was a buck wild cartoon for many reasons, but it also had a trans masc character, Ollie the stork. Ollie also becomes the fantasy animal kingdom's first democratically elected president.
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2022-04-19 @ 18.39.57 ∈ In English

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation – Economics from the Top Down
The […] Dunning-Kruger effect has nothing to do with human psychology. It is a statistical artifact — a stunning example of autocorrelation.
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2022-04-18 @ 12.39.43 ∈ In English

Data center in Hokkaido uses server-cooling snow to raise eels | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
The company’s goal is to use as an energy source the heavy snowfalls that cause problems for Bibai residents every winter.
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2022-04-12 @ 11.17.50 ∈ In English

Harriet Atkinson on Twitter
On Thursday I got an email out of the blue from a stranger who had found me via my university profile. She said she owned something that might be of interest 1/11
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2022-04-07 @ 21.24.06 ∈ In English

We WILL Fix Climate Change!
It’s an age of doom and hopelessness and giving up seems the only sensible thing to do. But that’s not true. You are not doomed. Humanity is not doomed.
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2022-04-07 @ 11.51.33 ∈ In English

Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography | Quanta Magazine
The existence of true one-way functions, they proved, depends on one of the oldest and most central problems in another area of computer science called complexity theory, or computational complexity. This problem, known as Kolmogorov complexity, concerns how hard it is to tell the difference between random strings of numbers and strings that contain some information.