@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-05-22 15:00:03
edit_wikiquote: Wikiquote edits (2010)
A bipartite user-page network extracted from Wikiquotes. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 93 nodes and 130 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-20 21:48:16
The Trump administration does not plan to seek approval from Congress for Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot arch,
arguing that they do not need it because lawmakers a century ago authorized a somewhat similar project that was never built.
Trump has targeted Memorial Circle
— a traffic roundabout on Columbia Island, a man-made island tucked inside the edge of Washington
— for his planned arch.
Teams of workers conducting surveys and geophysical testing began work …
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-05-20 12:31:49
A starter pack of questions to help think about "discovery" and "knowledge":
1. When was X discovered?
2. Once it was discovered, who knew X?
3. 1000 years later, who knew/knows/will know X?
4. Is X true?
5. Which groups of people would say it's true vs. false?
When X is "a² b² = c² in a right triangle" we think there are nice clean answers to these questions. But when X is "COVID-19 transmits via small airborne aerosols and a mask is needed to reduce the risk of infection" things get more interesting, particularly the answer to question 1. Does something count as "discovered" if many/most people would say it's false?
People love to answer this question by appeal to "scientific consensus" but the scientific consensus on aerosol transmission is still shaky if you consider certain big institutions, and even if it's mostly settled now, there was definitely a period between "experts on transmission know it" and "there's a scientific consensus." So which counts as discovery? What if knowledge is held secret, like many military technologies? What about historical facts that become censored?
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-05-19 00:55:58
NWS in Des Moines issued a tornado warning without the area already being in a tornado watch. Beware!
The National Weather Service in Des Moines has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Southeastern Polk County in central Iowa...
Northwestern Marion County in south central Iowa...
Southwestern Jasper County in central Iowa...
Northern Warren County in south central Iowa...
* Until 830 PM CDT.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-03 05:56:16
Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/0
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-14 19:43:55
Ensitrelvir, an oral inhibitor of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 3C-like protease,
is approved in Japan for the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Previously, no antiviral agents were approved for postexposure prophylaxis in household contacts of patients with Covid-19.
The study was conducted from June 2023 to September 2024 in Argentina, Japan, South Africa, the U.S., and Vietnam. About 9% of people who receiv…
@usul@piaille.fr2026-05-31 18:45:45
Seul(e) dans Moscou : comment la résistance russe tente de survivre sous Poutine
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/05/31/seul-e-dans-moscou-comment-la-resistance-russe-tente…
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-07-10 07:00:07
Looks like the 11th of June was a significant outlier in Covid patients.
Either that or someone typo'ed? I'd tell UKSA, but they don't provide contact details on https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-viruses/covid-19
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-07-12 18:52:30
Looks like NESO are trying to prevent the kind of issue (high solar input causing overvoltage) that led to Spain's grid collapse. In Spain this was in the critical context of nuclear centrales being off-line. In Britain the availability of French interconnector supply is impacted by their nuclear shutting down as cooling water too hot.
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears | Solar power | The Guardian
@usul@piaille.fr2026-06-02 03:53:01
Seul(e) dans Pékin : comment les dissidents chinois contestent le régime
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/06/01/seul-e-dans-pekin-comment-les-dissidents-chinois-contestent-le-regim…
