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  1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 22:01:02 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees

    Ceci n'est pas une pup.

    In conversation about 9 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    • John W. O'Brien (neirbowj@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 16:48:25 UTC John W. O'Brien John W. O'Brien
      in reply to

      @mcnees This is the sort of high-quality content I have come to expect from Mastodon. Thank you!

      In conversation about 8 days ago permalink
    • Michael Bernth (monovoce@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 19:57:56 UTC Michael Bernth Michael Bernth
      in reply to

      @mcnees Nature is once again showing us perfection

      In conversation about 8 days ago permalink
    • scot campbell (scotcampbell@universeodon.com)'s status on Monday, 30-Jan-2023 02:27:07 UTC scot campbell scot campbell
      in reply to

      @mcnees

      If the physical universe is endless then everything exists Even an anthropomorphic dog smoking a pipe. If I can imagine it, it exists.
      #smoking #pipe #dog #sketchbook #scotcampbell

      In conversation about 2 hours ago permalink

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  2. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 21:11:20 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees

    If you have a dog I urge you to install Snapchat and take a picture of them using the Pixar filter.

    In conversation about 7 hours ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 16:51:54 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees

      People go into robotics with the hope that one day a journalist will write this exact line about their work.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/26/liquid-metal-shape-shifting-melting-robot/

      In conversation about 12 hours ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      • Apuntes ortográficos (jc_rosell@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 15:18:04 UTC Apuntes ortográficos Apuntes ortográficos

        La preposición «a» ya está incluida en los adverbios «arriba» y «abajo».
        #ApuntesOrtográficos #PizarraOrtográfica #Ortografía

        In conversation about 13 hours ago from mastodon.social permalink

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        • Radio Skylab (radioskylab@astrodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 14:13:52 UTC Radio Skylab Radio Skylab

          ¿Sorprendidos? Parece que hemos captado una nueva frecuencia para hablar de los próximos planes de SpaceX: lanzamientos, misiones tripuladas y ¡cómo no! la evolución del sistema StarShip. Como bola extra no hemos olvidado al cometa C/2022 E3 (ZTF) ¿Listos? http://radioskylab.es/2023/01/28/2x002-aceleracion/

          In conversation about 14 hours ago from astrodon.social permalink

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          • Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 08:25:05 UTC Carl T. Bergstrom Carl T. Bergstrom

            It's not just the engagement-maximizing algorithms....

            --

            I wrote a thread over at post.news with this title, describing a new preprint about the sources of online toxicity. For those who want to read the formatted version there, here's the link: https://post.news/article/2KwklDyJQ7mRkNlrvRdeUh70Ej2

            For those who want to read it here, I'll recreate it below.

            In conversation about 20 hours ago from fediscience.org permalink

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            • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 18:08:59 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees

              Today is the 65th anniversary of LEGO’s 1958 patent on their bricks in Denmark. Their very first bricks were introduced earlier than that, in 1949.

              But did you know that Chicago’s ELGO Plastics manufactured and sold their own interlocking plastic building blocks in the late 1930s, a full *ten years* before LEGO had the idea?

              https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/halsam-products-co/

              In conversation about a day ago from mastodon.social permalink

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              • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 01:25:24 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees
                in reply to
                • Mike Mol

                @mikemol Lol, hope it’s not too many!

                In conversation about a day ago permalink
              • Mike Mol (mikemol@pony.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 01:25:25 UTC Mike Mol Mike Mol
                in reply to

                @mcnees yes, and I have a bunch of them. They got mixed together with my LEGO, and have been waiting in my office for months for me to get them fully separated out.

                In conversation about a day ago permalink
              • peppermint hattie (feral_hattie@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 05:12:20 UTC peppermint hattie peppermint hattie
                in reply to

                @mcnees I played with a big round tub of these bricks as a kid—thanks to my mom’s yard sale expertise. They came with a booklet of different structures one could build, and I was able to come close to making a lot of them (only limited because the set was missing several pieces, the drawback of its coming from a yard sale).

                In conversation about a day ago permalink
            • NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 22:02:08 UTC NYbill NYbill

              Going caveman style tonight.

              In conversation about a day ago from mastodon.sdf.org permalink

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              • NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 22:13:24 UTC NYbill NYbill
                in reply to

                Uhg...

                In conversation about a day ago permalink

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            • Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 19:59:15 UTC Ricardo Ricardo

              #acapellascience is back!

              Leukocyte (BTS Parody) | A Capella Science: Immunology I acapellascience

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFE8HQKpPlI

              #music #humor #science

              In conversation about a day ago from mastodon.social permalink

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              1. Leukocyte (BTS Parody) | A Capella Science: Immunology I
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              • Francisco R. Villatoro (emulenews@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 14:26:20 UTC Francisco R. Villatoro Francisco R. Villatoro

                #Blog #NatureGeoscience Sobre la posible oscilación cada siete décadas de la rotación diferencial del núcleo sólido de la Tierra https://francis.naukas.com/2023/01/28/sobre-la-posible-oscilacion-cada-siete-decadas-de-la-rotacion-diferencial-del-nucleo-solido-de-la-tierra/

                In conversation about 2 days ago from mathstodon.xyz permalink

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                1. Sobre la posible oscilación cada siete décadas de la rotación diferencial del núcleo sólido de la Tierra - La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
                  from https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007845464664
                  El núcleo de la Tierra está formado por un núcleo sólido rodeado de un núcleo líquido; más allá están el manto, el manto superior y la corteza. En 1996 se […]
                • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 03:06:43 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
                  • simsa04
                  Seeing that @simsa04 is facing a potential housing crisis, I think I should update on the situation with my family in #SoCal.

                  Mom is still in need of care, but my sister has to work full-time and then help out after work. Thus, she’s too tired to do much looking—either for another school district to work in, or for another home to live in. Prices are still too high for her income. The landlords have given us an undetermined amount of time to find a replacement.

                  In the US, it is common to require every adult in the household to sign the lease. Mom refuses to leave the area, despite it being too costly to remain.
                  In conversation about 2 days ago from nu.federati.net permalink
                  • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 03:00:11 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
                    Someone asked me to recommend some ABBA songs, and I realized that they were part of the background music of those years, but hardly ever did I specifically seek out their songs (other than Waterloo and Fernando and S.O.S.) … I couldn’t give them a real answer, since I only know their most popular hits.

                    Ever noticed that once you start digging into a group’s music 🎶, you start to favor one of their least popular songs?
                    In conversation about 2 days ago from nu.federati.net permalink
                    • NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 23:08:16 UTC NYbill NYbill

                      Some kitchen cleaning music: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1pPuwULbxEE

                      In conversation about 5 days ago from mastodon.sdf.org permalink

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                      1. Eddie Walker
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                        Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupEddie Walker · Ben Folds FiveNaked Baby Photos℗ 1998 Caroline Records IncReleased on: 1997-01-01Producer: Ben Fol...
                      • NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 00:34:34 UTC NYbill NYbill
                        in reply to
                        • VegOS

                        @vegos_f06 One of the only songs I know from 1967:

                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arNTF3Fs1uI

                        In conversation about 2 days ago permalink
                      • VegOS (vegos_f06@friendica.opensocial.space)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 00:34:37 UTC VegOS VegOS
                        in reply to
                        @NYbill How many times did you have to repeat this song, until your kitchen was clean?
                        In conversation about 2 days ago permalink
                      • VegOS (vegos_f06@friendica.opensocial.space)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 00:34:37 UTC VegOS VegOS
                        in reply to
                        @NYbill A song for not cleaning the living room:
                        Vicky Leandros - The Loves is Blue - 1967 (L´amour est Bleu)
                        In conversation about 2 days ago permalink
                    • NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 21:58:55 UTC NYbill NYbill

                      Friday beer while tracking the wild Pungsan. It's got big nasty fangs! It can leap...

                      In conversation about 2 days ago from mastodon.sdf.org permalink

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                      • Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 19:58:41 UTC Christopher Mims Christopher Mims

                        what a time to be alive

                        https://maxread.substack.com/p/ai-saddam-hussein-and-ai-michel-foucault

                        In conversation about 2 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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                        • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 16:34:18 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees

                          Albert Einstein gave a famous lecture titled "Geometry and Experience" #OTD in 1921, for the Prussian Academy's Leibniz Day.

                          He proposed that the question "Is the Universe spatially finite?" might be answered conclusively via measurement.

                          Photo: F. Schmutzer/Musée Historique de Berne

                          In conversation about 2 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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                          • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 17:05:51 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees
                            in reply to

                            The lecture set a course for philosophers and scientists gathered under the tent of logical empiricism. Via a system of "practically rigid rods" and "perfect clocks," it asserted that the character of spacetime could be determined empirically, as a matter of "practical geometry."

                            This is pretty much the conceptual basis for most experiments that test the predictions of general relativity.

                            In conversation about 2 days ago permalink
                          • Joe Barbere (joebarbere@jawns.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 17:25:54 UTC Joe Barbere Joe Barbere
                            in reply to

                            @mcnees as a non-physicist I made the mistake of trying to read the lecture without the requisite background 😁

                            lecture is here if anyone wants to dive into the subject:

                            https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Einstein_geometry/

                            and here is a discussion of the paper:

                            https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/2ux8kc/geometry_and_experience_albert_einstein/

                            In conversation about 2 days ago permalink
                        • peppermint hattie (feral_hattie@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 17:15:53 UTC peppermint hattie peppermint hattie

                          Just in case anybody needs to witness a dogge being a person today.

                          In conversation about 2 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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                          • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 20:53:24 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees

                            A short thread on Emmy Noether and giving credit.

                            Felix Klein gave a lecture at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. The title was “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics."

                            Klein included excerpts from letters in which he and Hilbert give priority to Emmy Noether for her results on conservation of energy in general relativity.

                            In conversation about 7 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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                            • Thony Christie (rmathematicus@historians.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 14:34:36 UTC Thony Christie Thony Christie
                              in reply to

                              @mcnees At that point in time, not antisemitism with regards to Emmy Noether

                              In conversation about 3 days ago permalink
                            • Thony Christie (rmathematicus@historians.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 15:41:53 UTC Thony Christie Thony Christie
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                              • BAPearlmutter

                              @mcnees @BAPearlmutter

                              Then your post was ambiguous, sorry

                              In conversation about 3 days ago permalink
                            • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 15:41:53 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees
                              in reply to
                              • Thony Christie
                              • BAPearlmutter

                              @rmathematicus @BAPearlmutter Yes, it was. Just wrote too quickly.

                              In conversation about 3 days ago permalink
                          • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 13:16:20 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees

                            *puts fingers to temples and tries to will June to happen*

                            In conversation about 3 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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                            • Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (lffontenelle@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 13:52:00 UTC Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
                              in reply to

                              @mcnees since space-time and all, could wish the South Hemisphere to happen as well!

                              In conversation about 3 days ago permalink
                          • Charlie Stross (the real one) (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 13:50:00 UTC Charlie Stross (the real one) Charlie Stross (the real one)

                            About the Tyre Nichols murder and subsequent charges:

                            I may just be a cynical Brit, but am I wrong for thinking that there's no way the cops would be facing those murder charges if they were (gasp) white?

                            In conversation about 3 days ago from wandering.shop permalink
                            • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 13:50:00 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees
                              in reply to

                              @cstross Plenty of data points already, but it’s a conjecture that, unfortunately, we probably won’t have to wait very long to test.

                              In conversation about 3 days ago permalink
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