TIL in Stockholm (Sweden) they made a giant phone tower in the late 1800s to connect 5500 phone lines over the rooftops.
it makes me wonder if the hl2 combine citadel was inspired by it
#TIL that HDD prices also increased (because of "AI") like the SSD/memory prices before. I was slowly building my home NAS, thinking that if I use HDD, not SSD, then I should race only with the possibility of Internet shutdown in my country and hope that I'll build the machine before the Internet will become unusable or completely turned off, and I will be able to preserve at least something from human knowledge and creativity. But … looks like for now I should race not only with censorship, but also with fucking "AI" corporations 
The worst timeline ever, I never saw how the price of something was decreased in my life. When I moved to my city at 2008, the bus fare was near 18 roubles. For now it is 88 roubles — the 389% rise. Fuck this shit.
I think, one time the novel "Walkaway" from Cory Doctorow will become not a novel but a real-life. Because there are no mass-adopted solution for now — you could choose only in between "you own nothing and be happy" and "you own nothing and welcome to GULAG" 
. So the good enough solution — not to participate in that circus at all and walk away.
So it was only yesterday when I learned that some of the spiritual and work songs sung by Black slaves here in the US were used to communicate messages and directions on how to escape.
"Harriet Tubman; a significant American Abolitionist who saved many enslaved Africans from slavery through the Underground Railroad used songs such as “Go Down Moses," to indicate safety and “Wade in the Water” to signal escapees to get in the water to hide their scent."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Underground_Railroad
#TIL #history #BlackHistory #UndergroundRailroad #slavery #music #songs
TIL: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai, diver_sky on IG 🪼🐙🦑🌿
https://www.inverse.com/science/baby-octopus-jellyfish-rodeo
RE: https://bots.ambience.sk/@wikipediatoday/8f01c0cc-64d5-43cf-8fe5-385d3dd957fe
How about a featured daily image from #Wikipedia in your feed to make it nicer?
#wikimedia #commons #openSource #opendata #featured #daily #today #til #fediverse #tip #tips #activityPub #mastodon #bot #photo #photography
fedi22是什么意思？
> 由于2022 年下半年（尤其是马斯克收购 Twitter 期间）出现了大规模的“推特难民”迁移至 Fediverse 的现象，许多用户会在个人简介或者嘟文加上 #fedi22 标签，比如[@]catsalad[@]infosec.exchange 的个人简介
含义： 表示自己是 2022 年入驻 Fediverse 的成员。
为什么有些人要在个人昵称/用户名加上类似「🎱9️⃣6️⃣🍀」？
答：为了防止被不打码名字，被截图无授权搬运发到墙内（做成视频、图片）
其他手段：在昵称内加上Taiwan旗
#TIL #搬运
参考：https://xcancel.com/i/status/2037763688711553353
Poliovirus
The following is Prof. Gareth Williams at Gresham College, lecturing on the development of the Polio vaccine.
I've shared (pinned) Vincent Racanello's 3rd year virology course.
I've shared (pinned) Worobey's Influenza lecture.
I have a few other good lectures I have not shared. This is one of them.
#Polio #Poliovirus #TIL #Virology #PublicLectures #Vaccines #Racanello #Worobey #Williams #TWiV
#TIL
根据《The Carbon Footprint of Everything,》里面说的，一封普通的垃圾邮件会制造0.3g的二氧化碳，一封普通的电子邮件会制造大约4g的二氧化碳，而一封带有较大附件的电子邮件会制造大约50g的二氧化碳。
而储存电子邮件也会增加碳排放。根据The Good Planet估算，如果全时间每个人只删除10封电子邮件（无论是否是垃圾邮件），能够节省的储存空间，所节约的电力消耗就约等于310万车的温室气体排放量了。
Frances "Fran" Kuboye (Nee Ransome-Kuti) was Fela's niece. She died 19 days after his in 1997.
She was a dentist and a talented singer. Married to Tunde Kuboye, they formed the Jazz 38 Club (Ikoyi, Lagos) together in the 70s. It was the most important jazz hub in the country at the time, where Fela and Femi would play occasionally.
Here's a short documentary from 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-tGrSisy4
Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀
(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)
If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊
"Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.
But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible.
In the late 1950s, #NASA had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.
So they came to #Gallaudet.
Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.
NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.
Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.
No #Gallaudet_Eleven — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.
Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth & came home safely.
They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.
Now you know!"
#TIL : in the ISO-639-3 norm, there are 12 languages primarily linked to Madagascar :
- 11 individual languages in the Malagasy macrolanguage https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mlg
- the Madagascar Sign Language https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mzc
Apart the #Madagascar Sign Language, the Glottolog project identifies 13 languages in the Malagasic family https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mala1537. Difference is attributable to Kibosy Kiantalaotsy-Majunga (linked to Mayotte island and known in ISO as Bushi), and Mahafaly-Antanalana Malagasy.
#TIL that Mastodon has a LinkedIn page. And it’s up to date.
