✨WHAT IF…? ✨
What if hope is a discipline, not a mood?
What if Starfleet’s optimism is something you practice on purpose?
🖖 What Trek quote brings you back to hope every time?
#StarTrek #Starfleet #WhatIfWednesday #TrekCommunity #CloneStarPodcast
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KC1MUR Pink radios is not the answer
KC1MUR - Women and ham radio. KC1MUR talks about the massive gender gap in amateur radio and a call to action to change it. #ham radio,#amateur radio,#inclusion,#gender equality,#sad hams,#kindness,#toxic masculinity
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I'm working on a new report looking at how we can create gender equality in the workplace. I've started reading a bunch of reports and papers as background. Most of it won't make it into the report, so I thought I'd write up the most...
bsky.app/profile/adal...
...interesting ones.
The first paper looked at the performance of academic evaluation committees in Italy and Spain, and how likely they were to recommend women for promotion based on the gender split of the evaluators. The results were... not great.
findingada.com/blog/2026/04...
that's just beekfish
Dear Nephew Gobo,
Today I heard the most amazing thing. A flat, plastic wheel that plays music. Strange? It sounds like me!
Love, your Uncle Travelling Matt #Fraggle
youtu.be/e2cSZKWHvkw
Action…#impeach…now. Calling is critical right now: 📱📞☎️
Use @5calls.org and/or switchboard
202-224-3121
Amplify with @resist.bot multiple writers options available. Here’s just one: Text ‘sign PBNVKR’ to 50409
Make sure Congress hears from you.
resist.bot/petitions/PB...
Lina Stern, a biochemist and neurophysiologist, was one of the first researchers to identify what is now known as the blood-brain barrier, and conducted pioneering research on the central nervous system. adalovelaceday.subst...
Chris O'Leary, author of 'Rebel Rebel', discusses his revised deep dive into David Bowie's formative years, the growth of his song-by-song blog, and why he fears the tools that supported his research may not exist for future music writers.
Chris O'Leary on Bowie, Blogging, + Music Writing's Future:
Young male violinist wearing an FFP2 mask.
@elhopkins.bsky.social Handsome young violinist in the Essener Philharmoniker, all the more handsome because of his wisdom. #MaskHeroes
When Apple built the first Newton, they commissioned AT&T to create these Hobbit chips, and they were too slow, too hot, and couldn’t deliver the power. And they discovered Arm. A little two-man team with the project name ‘Möbius’ went to the UK to try their chips
#AppleNewton #RetroComputing
Just… breathless. For those of you who know me, I apologize -they’re already acutely aware- I’ve been an astro/cosmos/space geek since I was 8 after visiting the Kennedy Space Center & witnessing the Columbia (yes, that one) launch firsthand. But I cannot encourage enough, for your own well-being…
4x4” acrylic painting of Nutella floating across the Orion capsule. It is done in a loose style a bit different from my normal work
SPACE NUTELLA
We're only just starting to see the real harm that AI can cause creatives, disabled, BIPOC, queer, and other minority communities. Fortunately, these five women are among those leading the effort to pinpoint exactly what harms AI presents:
LENIPEN
Intelligent Graphic Software
…For Intelligent Graphic Hardware
Malicious compliance at its finest. They're *technically* complying with the new state law, but not in a way that harms the people the state law intends to harm
Flyer for my talk at the university Pittsburgh on April 9th at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar
I’m coming to Pittsburgh next month ✨
I’m giving a talk at the University Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on April 9th at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar; it’s free and open to the public, so tell your yinzer friends!
GREETINGS, FRIENDS: This is the next step. What was old will be new.
Have missed everyone being in one place, won't ever have what was Twitter again, but we are too scattered and I know many won't switch to something new a second or third time.
Interfaces I've designed for the SAM Coupe to use VIC-20 Cartridges and ZX ROM Cartridges.
April Fools back then, but in recent years I've had fun designing interfaces to get cartridges from other systems running on the #SAMCoupe! Sinclair's failed ZX ROM cartridges from 1983/4 and a selection of VIC-20 cartridges that can be read in and emulated...
Pittsburgh journalists: Get free training with IWMF’s Newsroom Safety Across America initiative. This one-day workshop on 5/15, Downtown, will include customized instruction and live-action training.
Reporters including freelancers and students, apply today here: bit.ly/NSAA-Pittsbu...
In the decon chamber aboard the Enterprise NX-01, we see T'Pol standing in the blue tinted room applying gel to her abdomen. Her left foot is up on the bench in front of her. To the right is Telly Monster from Sesame Street wearing a sun hat, sunglasses, and holding a bottle of sunscreen.
Day 167 of inserting a Muppet into a Star Trek screenshot
#StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise
#TheMuppets #SesameStreet
What's that thing labeled "care.ai" in the corner of the hospital room? Pittsburgh's health systems are doing a lot with AI, but some workers would rather see them hire more human help www.publicsource.org/how-ai-is-us...
also going to leave this here because…
taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
“But how is a new developer meant to learn the rules if their day-to-day work is nothing but the babysitting of models? How will they gain the hard-won experience that allows a human in the loop to be a useful safeguard?”
close-up of the wolfman's face in a misty night sky, bearig his teeth. a more full illustration is shown, wearing ragged, torn clothing, looking like one of the munsters. a full moon replaces the 'o' in wolfman.
wolfman, commodore 64 (1988) www.mobygames.com/game/29200/w...
sword bolt hilt as bouquet handle
A positive uplifting video to start the day, discussing the benefits and the stakes.
@standupforscience.net
