Galena, like the mineral she's named after, is unusually heavy. #LeadSulfide #geology #caturday #cat #cats

A petition to reinstate an admitted sexual harasser has reached 100,000 signatures because the sexual harasser was good at making money and there are 100,000 people who think that's a good enough excuse. https://www.businessinsider.com/petition-reinstate-jensen-huang-nvidia-elon-musk-2026-11

RE: https://thecanadian.social/@mike/117616853051361597

There it is. #HNOM

14:28 on Thursday November 12th, over Brazil

@hanspetermeyer @punishmenthurts @mike I think. Celebrini is doing a great job. He learned a lot about leadership from Crosby when they played together at the Worlds. From all accounts his work ethic is epic, and he’s been calling player meetings when they needed inspiration during down periods.

The weather forecast for tomorrow is heavy rain, light wind, and a temperature of ~7 degrees c.

Let's see how waterproof, windproof, and warm my Airsoft clothing is!

@panos @technostructures I think its still in active dev but they have mostly been working on this now (https://technostructures.org/en/projects/posca) which intends to use Kazarma inside it

So the FAA tried to install a driver, failed at installation, and is now demanding 50 Billion actual American dollars to fix the mistake they made.

The strategy of intentional enshittification followed by the demand of capital to deshittify what was intentionally ruined works again.

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/117614251587239708

I very much agree with Baldur’s line of thinking here. In my own framing:

Arguing over whether the •single smoking gun• in the Microsoft or FAA fiasco is vibe coding or layoffs (or whatever) misses big picture — and the big picture is dire.

Working that out a bit in a thread.

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We can see the Pacific Ocean from our house. We aren't close but have a great view and can hear the surf. We can estimate our beach walking risk level before we leave the house.
Today the surf is so wild that the beach we usually walk is under water. The ocean has breached the dunes and gone into the pastures at at least three places.
Easily thirty five foot waves reaching the dunes.
Even though we won't risk going down on the beach we took a drive to Table Bluff near Loleta California to get a closer look.
There are surf warnings that not everyone is heeding. I worried for the people venturing onto the dunes. There were more than a few of them with kids and dogs.
Yikes.
We stayed on the high ground and enjoyed the show.
Amazing.

NEW: Our reporter deliberately bet like a problem gambler on DraftKings to investigate its guardrails.

The story went viral. The company’s CEO downplayed it.

Then, DraftKings shut down our reporter’s account with no explanation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/draftkings-investigation-closed-account?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Sports #Gambling #Regulation #DraftKings #Journalism #Investigation

@christianselig what’s the audio like on the baseless unit???

The first time I encountered the ONE LOVE was back in 2018, at the Kunstlabor in Munich. LAPIZ has a certain feeling for what is important 😊 That's why he is one of my fav artists.

“AI” “”Security“” ““”Research””” is a DDoS attack on FOSS and should be treated as such.

But I was informed that the Federalist Society was a “non-partisan” organization.

@anathema @camille I also got a phone number for the guy and figured texting was probably an iffy bet

@RnDanger Yyyyyep.

www.biorxiv.org/content/…/2026.11.06.764567v1

(Found with Aftergleam, a private reader for new research papers.)

Decentralized social media for environmental research

A. Chai-allah, A. Ghermandi, N. Fox, D. Van Berkel bioRxiv · 10.64898/2026.11.06.764567v1 · ecology · submitted 2026-11-12

Abstract

Social media data are reshaping environmental research. However, recent ownership and policy changes on centralized platforms like Twitter/X have motivated many users to seek new alternatives while simultaneously accelerating data restrictions for scientists. Decentralized social media, particularly Bluesky and Mastodon, are emerging as alternatives for users seeking greater control over their data and as a more stable and sustainable source of data for researchers. This rise may be instrumental in revitalizing the role of social media in environmental research. This study aims to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the potential of these new sources for environmental research, demonstrating their potential usefulness through the examples of climate change discourses and people’s appreciation of wildlife. We find an increased adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky, with high linguistic diversity, even if dominated by English. Wildlife image content reveals broad taxonomic diversity, with plants, birds, and insects dominating the records. We find this pattern broadly consistent with that observed on the popular citizen science platform iNaturalist. Climate change discourse is found to broadly reflect the scientific consensus on both platforms, with contrarian claims remaining uncommon. This suggests that researchers may benefit from less polarized opinions and misinformation, arising from interactions that are less driven by engagement maximizing algorithms implemented in other platforms. Our study illustrates the promise of decentralized social media as a new data source for environmental scientists and paves the way for their broader use in environmental research.