Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 16

Star Trek (2009) established canonically that the Beastie Boys exist in the Trek universe. This leads us to the inevitable conclusion that the presence of the line "like a pinch in the neck from Mr. Spock" from their 1998 song "Intergalactic" was in fact influenced by the temporal travel back to the year 1986 as depicted in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In this essay I will--

this is what the fey eat

*David Attenborough hides in a bush, watching me take out my phone and start scrolling the timeline*

“Here we see the extremely rare Mastodon heterosexual. Like many before him, he’s wandered into a harsh environment to which his kind are ill suited, he must adapt quickly, or risk defederation. He’s cautious, he begins to type his first post, a reply to a woman with “men stay away’ in her bio: ‘Has anyone told you how beautiful you are when you smile?’ Oh, dear.”

Ah, the ol' ball-and-chain (referring to my tea diffuser)

Just in case it's useful to more people, I'm promoting this so it's not embedded in a thread: a description of how #Debian handles #PGP keys and why it's not vulnerable to the current SKS keyserver signature flooding.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2019/07/02/debian_and_the_sks_signature_flooding_attack/

I'm proud to introduce an interview with the maker of #Orgzly, the app that started my personal quest toward #orgmode #emacs and even #hugo.

Check it out:

Orgzly: An Interview · The Art of Not Asking Why
https://joshrollinswrites.com/help-desk-head-desk/orgzly-neven-interview/

@bstacey godd did you hear about the situation in germany? because it's incredible

basically, the German Conference of University Deans ("HRK"), in a moment of unlikely clarity, decided that they were Tired Of This Shit and told all the publishers that from now on all german universities would make one large agreement with them, on the universities terms, for access

elsevier and springer made offers so laughable that the HRK actually literally wrote a press release about how they should "come back to the table when they're ready to make a serious offer" and since then many universities have just kind of let access contracts expire

they recently came to an agreement with wiley, rest is still ? ? ? ? ?

it's fantastic because every day this goes on is a day more scientists learn about the greatest development in science access of this century, which, lets be quite honest, is scihub

One of the things I had not realized is that zinc-based sunscreens are less likely than oxybenzone sunscreens to make your eyes sting, which is information that is super fucking important IMO if you are a human who sweats

Some kids at the park were tossing around firecrackers wrapped up tightly in paper, to make a that bigger, cherry bomb sound. My daughter found one and unwrapped it, and it turned out to be a scene from Romeo and Juliet. It’s kind of beautiful, in truth.

Warm cat turnover

You've slept for so long that even your name has been forgotten, and your bones have taken root deep into the ground. Wake up, my child, for I gave you a whole new life.

#art #mastoart #watercolor