Bok @sudoreboot@sunbeam.city

"communist or anarchist"? dude, im nonbinary

Planck's constant is a thing we all hear about in high school physics classes, but no one really talks about why it's cool.

Textbooks will talk dryly about "blah blah theories of quantum gravity" and teachers will repeat that "something something a photon's energy to its frequency. And sure, these things are true. But when people say stuff like that, they're really burying the lede.

Planck's constant is about the limits of what's physically possible in the Universe!

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Libro.fm is an amazing alternative to Amazon's Audible: an independent audiobook platform that sells books from every major publisher at the same price as Audible - but without DRM, and with a share of every sale going to an indie bookseller of your choosing.

Virtually every audiobook title is available through Libro.fm - except for those titles that Audible demands be sold as "Audible exclusives."

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My sincerest fuckings to the megacorp rank and file programmers, quit your job and work somewhere else already you morally bankrupt pricks

Me when talking to leftists: anarchism

Me when talking to centrists, avoiding the word "anarchism" at all cost: grassroots consensus democracy

Semi-regular reminder that the word musk in English comes from the Latin word muscus. This, in turn comes from the Persian word mušk, which originated as the Sanskrit word muṣka, meaning scrotum.

So it's etymologically accurate to say Elon Ballbag.

Time for This Week in Matrix! Check out Matrix Live for bridging news, Dendrite progress, P2P, and just so many things! #decentralization #twim https://matrix.org/blog/2020/07/24/this-week-in-matrix-2020-07-24

The solarpunk hero we all need

The Cheddar Man was a Neolithic human found in England. He lived around 9100 years ago. Researchers analysed his DNA, which was fairly typical of Western Europeans at the time, and found that he was lactose intolerant, had green eyes, dark curly hair, and he was Black.

This made a lot of racists very upset, and I still find that pretty funny.

"Yesterday the Women's Council in northern and eastern Syria did a meeting in occasion of the anniversary of the Rojava Revolution.

The fight for women's freedom will continue until every women in the world is free!

#WomenDefendRojava #RiseUp4Revolution #OrganisedAgainstFemicide "
- Kongra Star Women's Movement Rojava
@starrcongress

https://nitter.net/starrcongress/status/1284864050791436291#m

Bronze disease is caused by a combination of water, atmospheric oxygen, and chloride. These three things make an environment which will ultimately wreck any copper objects.

It works in a cyclic process:
• Oxygen oxidises the copper
• Copper forms copper (I) chloride CuCl
• That CuCl reacts with water, making a mixture of copper (II) chloride CuCl2, copper hydroxide Cu(OH)2, and hydrochloric acid

In air, the copper continues to oxidise, and form more hydrochloric acid, and so the process continues.

@cadence Gemini is a new collaboratively designed internet protocol that is like the web but serving up text/gemini as the native format instead of HTML, CSS, and JS. Imagine a www made of simple Markdown-like files connected by links. It's fully encrypted, private, fast, non-commercial, and fairly malware-proof. Go to https://gemini.circumlunar.space to learn more and download a client. #gemini