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Brilliant! #AI vs #Books
The latest form of #BookBurning and #Censorship
So much truth here...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/31/isnt-ai-terrible-enough-already-now-they-want-to-eat-the-worlds-books
Updated with link to full article.
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Amazing little historical fact...
As a kid I followed all of the #Apollo #Moon missions with great interest, especially the drama and heroism of #Apollo13. But I missed this bit of "life-saving, on-the-fly, found object #engineering to save your life".
"Aldrin said the pen used to fix a broken circuit-breaker helped him and Neil Armstrong to return to the Earth."
#History #Artifacts #NASA
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I've been a fan of #Bulgur (parboiled wheat) for years. I make a salad with it almost every week.
For years I've been noticing the bin alphabetically next to it at the co-op... #Buckwheat Groats.
I remember having buckwheat flour pancakes in my youth, but never the groats. So I decided to try them...
I learned two things: 1) Groats are as close to "whole grain" as we generally eat. Basically seed
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"Forty percent of America's corn crop — 36 million acres — goes to producing ethanol, a fuel that barely breaks even on energy and may be worse for the climate than gasoline. Billions in subsidies keep the machine running."
The chart I'm including here is really the take home.
At this time, with current tech, 👉️ #Ethanol from #Corn is NOT economically viable. 👈️
So all that Federal money is just
📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
0.7%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2024
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Brilliant! #AI vs #Books The latest form of #BookBurning and #C · 15 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3.3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.9×
Follows 301 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Brilliant! #AI vs #Books
The latest form of #BookBurning and #Censorship
So much truth here...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/31/isnt-ai-terrible-enough-already-now-they-want-to-eat-the-worlds-books
Updated with link to full article.
"Northern #Minnesota July lightning #fires nearly 60 percent contained, crews watch for new starts"
A big chunk of the #BWCA is closed.🙁
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/07/31/wildfires-nearly-60-percent-contained-in-northern-minnesota
Related... #Fauci hearing...
https://theconversation.com/faucis-covid-origins-hearing-shows-how-conspiracy-theories-became-political-weapons-288680
Important for viewers of the recent #Fauci hearings...
"#COVID ’s #Origins: what we do and don’t know"
Main points...
"Hypothesis one: animals infected with SARS-CoV-2 passed the virus to humans
Most of the peer-reviewed scientific eviden…
Meet the "Dark Doodad"... 😉
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260731.html
#APOD #NASA #Astronomy
Amazing little historical fact...
As a kid I followed all of the #Apollo #Moon missions with great interest, especially the drama and heroism of #Apollo13. But I missed this bit of "life-saving, on-the-fly, found object #engineering to sav…
Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA RSS Feed)
@birb https://apod.com/feed.rss
Sent to me by a friend... #Insects at Risk
Loopy Five #Firefly to be Considered for #EndangeredSpecies Protection
https://xerces.org/press/loopy-five-firefly-to-be-considered-for-endangered-species-protection
Should be widely read!
I heard it on Cory Doctorow's podcast. "Hell Is Other People"
"Not everyone feels this way. A subset of humanity is committed to a world where everyone else takes orders from them. We have different names for these p…
"Forty percent of America's corn crop — 36 million acres — goes to producing ethanol, a fuel that barely breaks even on energy and may be worse for the climate than gasoline. Billions in subsidies keep the machine running."
The chart I'm i…
Interesting package #labeling sent by a friend...
a) Why are frozen organic green beans being imported from #China all the way to a co-op in #Minnesota?
For those unfamiliar, the upper Midwest USA was a big producer of canned veggies, bean…
I've been a fan of #Bulgur (parboiled wheat) for years. I make a salad with it almost every week.
For years I've been noticing the bin alphabetically next to it at the co-op... #Buckwheat Groats.
I remember having buckwheat flour pancakes…
Amazing little historical fact...
As a kid I followed all of the #Apollo #Moon missions with great interest, especially the drama and heroism of #Apollo13. But I missed this bit of "life-saving, on-the-fly, found object #engineering to sav…
Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA RSS Feed)
@birb https://apod.com/feed.rss
Sent to me by a friend... #Insects at Risk
Loopy Five #Firefly to be Considered for #EndangeredSpecies Protection
https://xerces.org/press/loopy-five-firefly-to-be-considered-for-endangered-species-protection
Should be widely read!
I heard it on Cory Doctorow's podcast. "Hell Is Other People"
"Not everyone feels this way. A subset of humanity is committed to a world where everyone else takes orders from them. We have different names for these p…
"Forty percent of America's corn crop — 36 million acres — goes to producing ethanol, a fuel that barely breaks even on energy and may be worse for the climate than gasoline. Billions in subsidies keep the machine running."
The chart I'm i…
Interesting package #labeling sent by a friend...
a) Why are frozen organic green beans being imported from #China all the way to a co-op in #Minnesota?
For those unfamiliar, the upper Midwest USA was a big producer of canned veggies, bean…
I've been a fan of #Bulgur (parboiled wheat) for years. I make a salad with it almost every week.
For years I've been noticing the bin alphabetically next to it at the co-op... #Buckwheat Groats.
I remember having buckwheat flour pancakes…
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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.3× per week.
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- Est. 87% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.7% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
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"Remain calm, be kind, and carry on regardless!"
The first two are from Seneca & the Stoics via Colin Powell.
The last is a British expression that I think is associated with WWII when the bombs were falling all around.
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