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eurunuela , to random
@eurunuela@fediscience.org avatar

I am experiencing a decline in neuroimaging, productivity, and note-taking content on my Twitter feed.

It feels like my main interests aren't represented anymore.

Any recommendations for accounts to follow here on Mastodon that focus on these topics?

DanHandwerker ,
@DanHandwerker@neuromatch.social avatar

@eurunuela I'm also starting to see groups like @neurobuzz (I joined) and @academicchatter (haven't yet joined) which are designed to boost within-topic posts that are shared with them.

cosullivan , to random
@cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

@neilhimself Hello from Vancouver BC, Canada. You autographed a 1st edition of Good Omens for my husband at a signing decades ago.
I am about to commit my husband to a columbarium cell (yes he is dead, we call him Urny now); authentication of your autograph ( DM me) would be worth a few installment payments. Would you kindly supply authentication?
Thanks

Inscription: Toby -- Have a nice doomsday. Signed by Neil Gaiman.

neilhimself ,
@neilhimself@mastodon.social avatar

@cosullivan that's my signature and my handwriting! And I am sorry for your loss.

cosullivan OP ,
@cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

@neilhimself thank you.

Rii_cck , to pics
@Rii_cck@pixelfed.social avatar

An old covered in and . [OC]
@Pics

Zoldyck ,

Markdown?

picard ,
@picard@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The square brackets around the hashtags followed by regular brackets and URLs should be interpreted by the client as URLs with link text whatever is in the square brackets - markdown is how it is formatted to do this.

So like:

#tree should read in the client.

Strangely, viewing the post here on blahaj.zone, the tree and moss links do display like that, but lichen does not - I suspect because the length of the title (including full URL links) exceeds the allowed title length so it stops parsing the text.

TootTropiques , to random
@TootTropiques@c.im avatar

"80% of the planet’s remaining biodiversity is on Indigenous land. Silently, they have proven that the smartest way to save us all is to recognise and protect their territories."

@MarkRuffalo

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/06/amazon-mark-ruffalo-indigenous-peoples-world-rainforest-life

TootTropiques OP ,
@TootTropiques@c.im avatar

@MarkRuffalo And to prove it, here is a recent scientific study I participated in showing how primate species fare much better when their territories overlap with indigenous lands.

@ethnobiology @anthropology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn2927
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-links-indigenous-peoples-greater-nonhuman.html

Forest_Jungle_Collective , to random
@Forest_Jungle_Collective@archaeo.social avatar
cultofmany , to random
@cultofmany@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Last RT - many mental health providers I know (myself included, though less often nowadays) use zoom for clinical work/meetings/teletherapy. We’ve been told by the company itself, by the health insurance industry, and by our agencies that it’s HIPAA compliant and safe/ confidential to use.

Is anyone out there talking about or able to explain the implications of the TOS change for this use case?

siderea ,
@siderea@universeodon.com avatar

☝️☝️☝️
Hey, therps, wake up a new (apparently super problematic) new Zoom Terms of Service just dropped that seems to say they can listen in to communications across their service and use them to train AIs, no opt out, HIPAA BAAs be damned.

Lots of people, clinicians and otherwise, are understandably freaking out. I'm just hearing about this and haven't had a chance to investigate, and won't for a while.

Read the above post, which in turn is about this: https://hackers.town/@devlogic/110843380784157782


@therapists
@psychotherapists
@psychology
@socialwork
@mentalhealth
@psychiatry

Meganium97 , to lemmyshitpost

@lemmyshitpost Making a test post.

AlmightySnoo ,
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Meganium97 OP ,

@lemmyshitpost @OsrsNeedsF2P No, this is a robbery. Give me your memes.

elonjet , to random
@elonjet@mastodon.social avatar

Landed in Teterboro, New Jersey, US. Apx. flt. time 2 h 58 min.

elonjet OP ,
@elonjet@mastodon.social avatar

1,512 mile (1,314 NM) flight from AUS to TEB

~ 1,496 gallons (5,661 liters).
~ 10,023 lbs (4,546 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $8,375 cost of fuel.
~ 16 tons of CO2 emissions.

TheresaReason ,
@TheresaReason@mstdn.ca avatar

@elonjet who's in New Jersey?

elonjet , to random
@elonjet@mastodon.social avatar

Landed in Teterboro, New Jersey, US.

rob11563 ,
@rob11563@mastodon.coffee avatar

@elonjet eww 🤮 That's too close. Send him back.

broximar , to random
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I thought about buying Baldur’s Gate 3, but instead, the kid and I started a fresh Ocarina of Time playthrough on the N64.

And who am I kidding? I wouldn’t have enough time to enjoy BG3 before Starfield, anyway.

maskedpineapple ,
@maskedpineapple@mstdn.ca avatar

@broximar
Gotta get that screen back to 4:3 other Jesse. Definitely feeling the time crunch with 2 large games coming out so soon, but I guess they're not going anywhere when I have a chance to start. Just got through TotK too.

elonjet , to random
@elonjet@mastodon.social avatar

Took off from Austin, Texas, US.

darth , to random
@darth@silversword.online avatar

First game that comes to your mind when you see this image. Go!

Rhaedas ,
@Rhaedas@kbin.social avatar

@darth Frontier: Elite II - I never had an Amiga, but being a huge fan of Elite on the C-64 this was a reason to want one. I got to play it much later on the PC.

Fun fact - the Amiga version's actual executable file was only around 400 KB (uncompressed), its small size partly due to the entire game being written in assembly language while its universe was mostly procedurally generated.

jlou , to technology

Longtermism poses a real threat to humanity

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/08/longtermism-threat-humanity

"AI researchers such as Timnit Gebru affirm that longtermism is everywhere in Silicon Valley. The current race to create advanced AI by companies like OpenAI and DeepMind is driven in part by the longtermist ideology. Longtermists believe that if we create a “friendly” AI, it will solve all our problems and usher in a utopia, but if the AI is “misaligned”, it will destroy humanity...."

@technology

lloram239 ,

effective altruism specifically encourages wealthy people to keep their wealth to themselves, so that they can use their billionaire galaxy brains to more effectively direct that capital towards long-term good.

And how is that a bad thing? The alternative is to spend money on stuff that doesn’t work or even is actively harmful. The argument here is literally use less brain, do more pointless feelgood measures.

If, as they see it, Mars colonies tomorrow will help more people than healthcare or UBI or solar farms will today

Are we forgetting that Musk has an electric car company and used to have a solar company (since been absorbed into Tesla). He doesn’t just want to go to Mars, he does a lot of other stuff as well. Also why should billionaires be responsible for UBI and healthcare? If Musk would spend all his money on healthcare, you’d have healthcare for about three months before he is bankrupt. That kind of stuff is the governments job.

Mars ,
@Mars@beehaw.org avatar

It’s an amazing ideology to have because if you can create a plausible future benefit you can do any real evil and feel like the good guy!

  • Stealed billions in wages from your workers? It’s alright, the funds will be used for you to gain influence and guide humanity to a better future!
  • Did you release a bioweapon in some global south country? It’s all right! Overpopulation was a danger 5 or 6 generations from now!
  • Destroyed democracy! It does not matter. Fascism today ensures democracy in the year 4000, trust me bro!
jupiter_rowland , to fediverse

@Fediverse

I have a question to all of you who have subscribed to Lemmy groups from Fediverse projects that aren't Lemmy. Who follow Lemmy groups from e.g. #Mastodon, #GlitchSoc, #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #MissKey, what's still called #CalcKey, #FoundKey, #Mitra, #GoToSocial, #Socialhome, #Friendica etc., but also #kbin. And I sincerely hope that I'm not the only subscriber to this entire group who isn't on Lemmy.

My question is: If a Lemmy post contains an image or any other media, can you see it?

I'm on #Hubzilla. And when someone posts something with an image in it, I can see the post, but I can't see the image. When someone posts something with a video in it, I can't see the video either.

I can see images in comments with no problem. But I can't see them in posts.

How about you on Mastodon? Or on CalcKey? Or on /kbin? Or elsewhere?

I'm asking and hoping for replies because I need to find out if the issue is on Lemmy's or on Hubzilla's side so I can file a bug report.

jrp ,

@Juno Rowland Let me know...

jupiter_rowland OP ,

@_jayrope I've filed an issue for Lemmy a while ago, but Nutomic says that Lemmy is working properly, and the issue has to be on Hubzilla's side.

Now I've also filed one for hubzilla-addons, hoping that it has to do with Pubcrawl. If not, I'll have to file it for hubzilla-core again.

clive , to random
@clive@saturation.social avatar

Amazon is crawling with travel guides written by AI -- vague, crappy, and pushed up in search results by astroturfed fake five-star reviews: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/amazon-guidebooks-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=Gmcb6fkRXSAX7JUdbTpFyhH1lSBWBcI0RuiXgcku3gVTdQV7s_SPvl1tKw76F_txTehAmHdU0bZ3PUoPyH0h-dybeb8_bGL7UzysZynt-SFcx9yByC4wr37_65cVodjr_Z-sRcqUfioeOsUAKJpEECejhG2SlL4jPCoaBG8PFnu_YLKDXA0hkzvhrJnGuD5kw59N8Bz7T7D7UOeJXLkowJnnoB6IDt6bHn6XiBvlH--t6M_9xmGCkNlYdtiiScdbS3ebGG5C3xKkCxwacaT96yLi9NK5dx9YHwhHSPdoVJPqslvVGAwQFvpSQvDvgHZGOFxW09EeUVAHYZl6uI-aSYS0_UfYhcXjDi6J2-M1oFlpWg&smid=url-share

That's a "gift" link so you don't need to be a New York Times subscriber to read it

It's a great investigation, and highlights the real problem, which is ...

... unsurprisingly by now, Amazon seemingly does little-to-nothing to stop this

The site is just soiled top to bottom with fake crap in every category

CandaceRobbAuthor ,
@CandaceRobbAuthor@historians.social avatar

@clive Why anyone uses them for books where there are so many independents online, and bookshop.org, I don't understand.

ClaireFromClare ,
@ClaireFromClare@h-net.social avatar

@CandaceRobbAuthor @clive Agree! For delivery of books & music in the UK there's also www.hive.co.uk
My current favourite loves Hive.The is tiny, with very high danger-to-size ratio, & has made as much money through nominations on Hive as on direct sales. Hive is run by Gardners the big UK book distributor. If you can pick up in the shop, it earns 25%.

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