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Greta Stevenson has her own Wikipedia page, too. She was a botanist and mycologist, and also a mountaineer. She was a graduate of the University of Otago, who went on to work in Imperial College in London for a time before returning to NZ.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_S...
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I'm kinda being constantly tortured online bc I both think
1. It's extremely unlikely current AI models are conscious.
2. Almost every argument I scroll by for my side is insane and is just steamrolling decades of philosophy of mind work.
omg, nailed
Most people also wonβt finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.
The Festival's writer events are on this weekend: get amongst it! First up at 6pm tonight is Tina Makereti's collaboration with Riki Gooch and Chamber Music New Zealand, Δ Mua. Featuring musicians Ruby Solly, Serenity Thurlow, Serenity Fraser and Kiva Pirihi.
www.festival.nz/events/all/t...
The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world KΔkΔpΕ population to 300βa major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.
A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered KΔkΔpΕ. spklr.io/6044E87xp
πΈ: New Zealand Department of Conservation
This is the big secret of LLMs. A lot of people don't want to do the reading, they see the development of expertise through reading primary sources as a chore that can be sidestepped via summarization because all they're really interested in are the benefits of being perceived as an expert. .
There have been MULTIPLE early leaks of scientific discoveries via DECORATED CAKE. Scientists are good at many things, but shutting up is definitely not one of them.
Just quietly, the Kat's Nip Fluffy Ball catnip toy craft kits are now available to purchase.
You get everything you need to make 4 Fluffy Ball catnip toys, including written and video instructions.
Buy one of the first 10 and get a 10% discount!
#nzpets
Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie meowing at the camera with her little pink, toothless mouth open looking like the cutest lil gremlin. The words art show are written in sloppy digital crayon above and below her face.
THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated β¨CAT-RELATEDβ¨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 12 am EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
tomorrow the fruit of an absolutely insane amount of research about sloppy joes drops. i read a play and novel and also did so much archive trawling for this. i started sweating manwich sauce. so many questions arose. so few answers. get it in your inbox here
buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich
Per protocol analysis strikes again!
Folks, if you randomize but then donβt analyze some of the people who got randomized (maybe because they didnβt adhere to instructions, maybe because they dropped out), randomization will no longer do all the heavy causal inference lifting.
Fond memories of working at NTL, woman rang up screaming at me. Her husband in background shouts at her, βdonβt talk to them like that. Theyβre on fuck allβ
Then he takes phone off her, and gives me a line which I have used myself since
βDo you have a manager you dislike intensely I can speak to?β
when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten
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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Here we go. Free, no-reg versions of favorite stories from my four years at the Washington Post. First, three pieces from our Pulitzer-finalist series on how India's ruling party coerced U.S. tech giants into violating their own policies. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...
A new tee - I wanted to make something positive for stormy times. I'll take pre-orders up until March 10th and print them after that. Pre-order means it takes a little longer than buying something off the shelf but it'll be custom screenprinted, sent directly from me to you. xtotl.bigcartel.com
Iβve got this book of his graphics and it is great: powells.com/book/w-e-b-d...
Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth
A cyber attack at Hazeldenes chicken meat processing plant in central Victoria has stalled production leaving businesses across the state short on supply www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Illustration from an 1876-83 British entomology monograph showing detailed color drawings of nine aphid insects labeled 1 to 9. The aphids include both winged and wingless forms of Callipterus quercus and castaneae species. They have various green, yellow, and brown segmented bodies with red eyes and translucent veined wings on some. One small drawing depicts aphid eggs on a plant stem. The style is scientific and precise, typical of Victorian natural history plates, with delicate lines and subtle shading to highlight anatomy and wing patterns. The page is titled "PLATE XCI."
π Monograph of the British aphides ...
London, Printed for the Ray Society, 1876-83.
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Following the #kakapo breeding season and want more detail? Don't forget to check out the "KΔkΔpΕ Files" #podcast from Radio NZ with the wonderful Alison Ballance. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/kaka...
Two red toadstools with white stems on brown driftwood decorated with moss and lichen. The background is pastel green.
The same two toadstools, but this time in the dark. They glow red and the background is black.
Two casts of real mushrooms, painted to resemble Amanitas. They glow red and are battery operated. The perfect Christmas gift for nature and mushroom lovers. Unfortunately, I am currently unable to ship to the USA.
For sale! CHF 110.-, exclusive shipping.
#art #smallbusiness #mushroom #bsnm
Jane Baer has died at 91. A titan, she worked on 'Sleeping Beauty,' co-founded Baer Animation, supervised 'Roger Rabbit,' and advocated for her fellow artists. Few careers trace the evolution of late-20th-century American animation as completely.
www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/jane-bae...
Students sometimes ask me why they have to read old things in my classes and what relevance old texts can possibly have for them. Ian McKellen recited a monologue from Shakespeare on Colbert's show two days ago that answered that question.
the monologue : www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiw...
6 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.
#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request
I printed it and stuck self-adhesive copper tape to it. There's copper tape with conductive adhesive so you can add multiple overlapping pieces and it counts as one conductive surface. Then I used the second part of the mold to shape the copper, so that it sticks inside the recessed traces. Then I used sandpaper to file away at the raised ridges. The copper traces are now electrically independent of each other. Done! But if I want, I can remove the extra copper tape.
The companion mold at the bottom. This second 3D-printed part pushes the copper tape down into the recessed trace channels so it conforms to the shape. The two parts sandwich together with alignment spikes to keep everything registered.
screenshot of QZW Labs' raised pcb idea! here is their youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLliKgzKKUI&t=592s
Adobe Illustrator on top (you can use any free tool that makes SVG vector files. I just own an old illustrator version. Bottom: the PCB Forge tool I made
I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind
castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge
People always ask, "What would you do if you were born in another time period?"
With my health the answer is almost always, "Die before kindergarten."
Medical progress is the real deal, buddies.