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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hey Dani, I run an account that falls outside the core criteria, but I think it might be worth including! I'd love to chat. :)

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

‘Whelmed’ really means ‘capsized’ - the over and under were added later for effect. But you can be consolate: consoled and comforted. And gruntled too.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

What gets to me is that there are legitimately weird things out there in nature that we aren't able to explain yet. Jupiter emits TWICE (2.132 ± 0.051) as much heat as it absorbs from the Sun. So does Neptune. But not Uranus for some weird reason. And no one knows why. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

doi.org

Less absorbed solar energy and more internal heat for Jupiter - Nature Communications

Radiant energy budgets and internal heat play a key role in the evolution of planets. Here, the authors analyze data from the Cassini mission to show that Jupiter’s radiant energy and internal heat bu...

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

These restrictions allow us to use these military technologies in day-to-day life while preventing harmful use. Much of American policy around EAR / ITAR can be summed up as, "If a dual-use system is built for civilian use, then it should remain ONLY for civilian use." Hence the hard-coded limits

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Dual-use technologies like GPS & Starlink are subject to EAR & ITAR. If SpaceX hadn't shut off Starlink, they would have (arguably) been in violation of US law by allowing weaponization of dual-use technology intended for civilian use. Just like GPS units turn off above 600m/s AND/OR set altitude

Commerce Control List, with relevant text highlighted — "Capable of providing navigation information at speeds in excess of 600 m/s;"

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The back of this photo says “Pulley’s cat. July 1956”. ❤️

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white and tabby cat approaching the camera with tail raised up in a friendly greeting. For some reason there are two dark regions on the photo, on either side of the cat, as if there were fingers over the lens or it was peering through a crooked fence.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/09/2023

dudes will make fun of women who are into astrology and then read shit like this

Bitcoin Set to Form Death Cross as Dollar Index Teases Golden Crossover
A death cross indicates a potential long-term bearish shift in momentum while a golden cross suggests the opposite.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 30/07/2023

Recreate the Conditions xkcd.com/2511

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

PSA - Don't scroll Bluesky's new "Discover" feed in public. Someone neglected to add a NSFW detection algorithm to their project. 🤦‍♀️

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

First Amendment litigator protip: do not write in your law that you are “trying to maintain content neutrality” www.thefire.org/news/sign-times-ala…

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

This stat, a random walk, is one way of measuring is how some of the energy generated via fusion in the core of the sun is transferred to the surface via radiation. The absorption, emission, re-absorption & re-emission cycle acts as a way to move energy via photons through a random walk. 2/2

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

No. This "fact" is a fairly common misunderstanding of what the stat is measuring. First, there is no "a photon" that is making a trip from the core to the outer layer. Photons are absorbed, emitted, reabsorbed, then re-emitted over & over again by the sun's plasma. 1/2

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Hi I'm new here, so if I put the little science emoji, my post goes to the science board list thingo? 🧪 I'm an enzyme engineer and crystallographer and now I am building X-ray instruments for a living! Here's some crystals

A grid of images of protein crystals under a microscope. They are mulicoloured, reflect the light in strange ways, pucker the surface of the drops they grow in.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪

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Why you should have a cat @shouldhavecat.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

He seems to be the first customer to be satisfied with the order 😆

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

POV: you are the one in charge of treats

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

If the inviter keeps on inviting toxic people, then that means their judgement isn't good, and that branch of social tree can/should be pruned. This structure will limit growth, necessarily, but I think it'll make it possible to have a high-quality social network that scales.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Here's the experiment + possibility, If someone you invited directly does something horrible, such as, posts slurs, then the inviter should also get a notice that their invitee was a horrible human being. Suddenly, there's a social consequence to being bad, people you're connected to get to know.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

I think they should hand out more invites, but I pray to Artemis, they never "open up." An invite-only social network is an opportunity to play 6-degrees of Bacon at large. Social shame is a strong motivator that hasn't been properly deployed by any platform (twitter & bsky mobs don't count).

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

This is a fun history of the four-color map problem and why some mathematicians are still yearning for a better proof of it 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/…

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How the Four-Color Map Problem Was Finally Solved

The twisty history and surprise ending of the four-color theorem saga

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rabid🦊wolf🌈 @tallwolf.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

look at this boy. look at my guy. he's a little blessing 11/10 cat

Tagalong the black cat in a pink sweater, pink bunny ears, and a yellow Easter egg bowtie. Standing in the yard yellow flowers

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 17/07/2023

One does not question The Dax. One merely accepts ones place in a universe with The Dax.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 16/07/2023

It makes the care that you take in your writing more palpable. It's no longer just a neat book, it's a well thought out book by someone who thinks things through and is really awesome.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 16/07/2023

Awkward to say this, but I've always liked your books. (I read Old Man's War when I was 15) But after reading your posts... it hits different Usually, learning about the artist subtracts from the work. Knowing about you adds to yours. The more I learn about you, the more I go, "oh wow he's awesome"

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

For such a small dev team, their productivity is astounding. They've managed to out-ship Twitter really quickly and are building something fascinating. I hope that they succeed. I'm grateful that they're trying.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

There's something called waterfall development that's the old-school, Apollo style development where you sit down, document everything in advance, document again & then write the code. BSKY & other projects are driven by more... fluid practises. Stuff slips but stuff also gets done.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

It's the perfect being the enemy of good adage come to life because people (especially creators) can't meet that standard. "But it's so basic, it should have been in there!!!" has been true for a lot of disasters throughout history. This was a PR mishap. No one was killed. Or harmed significantly

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

As someone who has audited projects, built stuff (mostly robots & some toy software) + spends her time reading sci/tech history, this is completely understandable. When projects move fast, the obvious sometimes slips. Sometimes to disastrous results; like people burning alive in a flame in 16psi O2

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

First, wow. Second, clearly, the correct term is Barbieheimer.

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1517 Fund @1517.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

A bee from the family Megachilidae that's preparing itself to take flight. - Saul G.

the picture shows a bee sitting on a twig. The bees wings are extended and it seems that it is about to fly away.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Ah isn't there an advantage to being second? Isn't it more efficient to stay in the shadow of someone and use aerodynamics to conserve energy? Also also they should do a Tour de France that's no holds barred & allows any stimulants/modifications as long as they don't harm the athlete's health.

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Why you should have a cat @shouldhavecat.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Hey Jay, that's true & it'll always be true! There's something called the 90-9-1 rule, 90% of users just lurk, 9% engage & 1% create/post frequently. A very tiny percentage of people are going to be nerdy enough to do this, but if we enable them we allow everyone to benefit from their creativity.

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1% rule - Wikipedia

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

EXACTLY. "Here are the 15 feeds you NEED to subscribe to!!!" by $Bizness_YooToober You'd be minting $$$ off of something that's normally a cost center. And it would subsidize the creation of the actually useful feeds like Faine's disaster feeds. Or, local journalism feeds.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Actually, I could see this as a way to make even more $$$ You can sell hosting/compute to people and/or let them sell paid feeds to one another. The platform takes a cut. There are probably a lot of uh... "consumers" (LinkedIn types) who'd pay $1.99/mo for a feed "curated" by $Business_Personality

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Honestly, if there's going to be one thing out of the cloud app experiment that takes root, I hope this is it. Giving users the power to craft their own algorithms and then share it with other users is incredibly powerful. We already do UGC. Why can't we do UGA/UGR?

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

*puts on best astronaut voice* "My god, it's full of cuties!"

The image is a still from 2001: A Space Odyssey that shows the astronaut Dave looking at the computer core of the space ship that contains HAL. He is wearing a helmet. The glowing compute modules that make up HAL are reflecting off of his helmet.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

*puts lawyer cap on* Au contraire! They're both states achieved with time, therefore stale means one thing and one thing only —> a negative state achieved with passage of time. I rest my case, your honor.

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

It is fascinating how intricate some of these practises are. Before any anatomist discovered Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) in the spinal cord that continue messaging after death; Japanese fishers were killing CPGs to postpone rigor mortis.

thejapanesefoodlab.com

What is Ikejime 活け締め – The Japanese Food Lab

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Michael Sheetz @michaelsheetz.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Hi Bluesky, I’m Michael Sheetz! 🚀 I report on the space business for CNBC: covering the ~$500B industry’s growth and its importance to life on Earth. 🌎 Follow me for the latest on space companies, agencies, and investors, as well as updates about rockets, satellites, astronauts and more. 🛰️🧑‍🚀🌕

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

I enjoy reading your posts! The kind of posts you write are a reaffirmation of humanity for me. We're all better off because you (and others!) write them. :)

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Solemn & Formal Declarations, The @areoform.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Twitter is the world's most expensive lesson on Chesterton's Fence.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

Scene from the long history of trying to get cats to look in a certain direction for a photo. www.flickr.com/photos/28333802@N04/…

Black and white photo of a very puffy longhaired silver or ginger tabby cat sitting on a stool outside on a lawn, looking at the camera. In front and above it is a white woman's arm holding a wire or string, seemingly try to get the cat's attention to make it look up.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 19/06/2023

Twice in my career (different jobs, not current one) RFK Jr. called my boss's bosses to complain about stories I published, and got their attention because of his name. He is dangerous, dishonest & wrong about everything, and anyone covering or sharing info about him should be QUITE CLEAR about that

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 15/06/2023

A counter argument: libraries are safe spaces that do not charge you money to be there. Librarians help those without access to the web to apply for jobs and housing, provide access to accurate information without payment, including physical or e- or audiobooks.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 13/06/2023

Molly where she should not be, a series

Molly (a dilute calico) lounging next to the stove

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