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A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.

This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Hamlet Hail to the Thief. So good.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Grand Theft Hamlet tonight, Hamlet Hail to the Thief tomorrow. A very tragic bank holiday weekend

Labour's disastrous plight is very easy to understand.

The people who run the party were good at one thing: smashing the left.

Destroying, not building, is their skill. They have no vision for the country. They're in power because the Tories imploded, and no other reason.

Thanks @jasonhickel.bsky.social for the great discussion this evening, which served as a fitting debrief after finishing ‘Less is More’ last month.

Have had worse Sundays

Extinction is forever: de-extinction can’t save what we had | Aeon Ideas Even if it works, genetic resuscitation would begin something new; it can’t restore what we lost. Extinction is forever

I don’t care what Colossal or Beth Shapiro are trying to sell you. Woolly mammoths are extinct and not coming back. De-extinction is an unethical vanity grift that cannot deliver on its promises.

the malcom tucker monologue would be generational

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet.
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Tweet from Yuval Abraham: "A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Sheffield's Leadmill loses eviction court battle with landlord – but vow to fight on The Leadmill in Sheffield has lost an eviction court battle with its landlord, but has vowed to keep fighting – read its full statement here.

Long, disturbing NME piece about the state of play with Sheffield's great Leadmill venue. Btw NME, not just early Arctic Monkeys gigs that took place there. They played their 2nd album launch at The Leadmill for 900 of us, at a time when they were the UK's biggest band.

www.nme.com/news/music/s...

Few fontanesi style 📸 while in Marrakech this week

Sacha Lord: Nightlife boss's firm must return £400k Covid grant Nighttime economy adviser Sacha Lord announces he is stepping down following a review of the funding.

Sacha Lord is a great example of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He was never ‘For the Culture’🥱 the WHP exclusivity contracts are the reason so many grassroots venues are closing nationwide.

Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

Please sign, this institution was a godsend when I was a broke undergrad in London!

A2. Picasso - Dubaholic Here at Rube Goldberg Series we pride ourselves on having everything you need to complete your ski gear set-up this season. So, whether it's ski bindings, ski goggles, ski poles, helmets, thermals and

Dubby goodness on this one

Darwin always seems to be stuck somewhere around Alice Springs. #LFC

I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable.
Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies).
And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.

Nosferatu… future family Christmas classic

Aphex Twin be like driving home for XMAS_EVET10 [120][thanaton3 mix]

Tarkovsky 🤝🏻 me falling asleep

Hopped back on the bike for the 3rd extended ride since making the move up north… these Sheffield hills don’t seem to get any easier…

The Light cinema, Sheffield

Freaky Sheffield skyline tonight #Photography #Sheffield #Cityscape

The fact that Disney bought Star Wars and bought the Muppets and haven’t done a Muppets Star Wars is a crime.

New genre just dropped: ‘pumpkin spice permanent wave’ #spotifywrapped