#StarTrek

What is to be the manner of her death?

Here’s What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/heres-what-dinosaurs-really-looked-like

Alex Hollender led the recent redesign of Wikipedia and wrote up some notes on the project and process. "We felt confident that if we gave it some overdue attention we could make it better for both reader and editors." https://alexhollender.com/wikipedia-2023-redesign

Hey everyone, I have an exciting federated.press announcement to share:

We just released an integration with News Detective—a new project to reduce misinformation on social media and teach media literacy with built-in transparency. They're part of MIT's Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, and are working with journalism students and the public to promote media literacy.

Read on to learn more. 👀👇

#Journalism #Misinformation #MediaLiteracy #Mastodon #FederatedPress #NewsDetective

The seemingly well-meaning usage of the term "culture wars" is "a misuse of the concept of culture, creating a false equivalence between marginalized groups and those who would harm or eliminate them in a quest for ever more power". https://kottke.org/23/03/the-so-called-culture-wars

Pilot Luke Czepiela landed a Piper Super Cub airplane on an 88-foot-wide helipad 56 stories above the ground. The Super Cub is known for its ability to land and take off in short distances, but this is crazy! https://kottke.org/23/03/landing-an-airplane-on-a-tiny-helipad-on-top-of-a-dubai-hotel

#StarTrek

Me: I worked in a film photo lab in high school. It wasn't a golden age. It wasn't a great medium to use. It was expensive, bad for the environment and your health. The quality of the photos were limited by your budget. And no, film doesn't have "infinite resolution" because it's analog—the quality of the photo emulsion limits the clarity of the photo, so there's no reason to—

Phone makers: We put AI in your camera so it fills in the details with guesses!

Me: So to set up a dark room you need—

The point and click adventure sequel to 1993's Nippon Safes Inc, The Big Red Adventure, is now freeware through an agreement with the developers.
I have uploaded the MS-DOS version to Web Archive (the Amiga CD version is already available on the site). ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-big-red-adventure-dos/

I need this.

Wow. Discover the real spicy history of big media's many anti-library moves, and how librarians and supporters have resisted.

On 3/20, we're adding another chapter to that history and you can be a part of it. Join the battle for libraries at http://battleforlibraries.com/

QT KyleKCourtney: With the #ControlledDigitalLending #CDL case coming on Monday (3/20) 🐦jziskina and I are excited to announce the release of “The Publisher Playbook: A… https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1636064888429903874

@danjones000 Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

re #introduction radio free fedi is a small web, consent driven, artist populated, non-commercial, attribution promoting, community radio

~1 month into this experiment. 142 musicians, labels, writers, voices, patrons have contributed so far!

see pinned posts and site for guides how to contribute.

keep up the amazing support you have shown each other so far!

https://radiofreefedi.net

24/7 music and sounds from the fediverse

keep fedi weird

#radio #community #fedimusic #fediart #radioFreeFedi

Don't judge a book by its movie.

#OddProverbs
#HashtagGames

Random first trial post: today, March 14th, is the 29th anniversary of the Linux 1.0 announcement.

Of course, there are other arguably more important dates in Linux history, but this is one of them.