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Scientists' 'super banana' could save thousands of lives, reduce blindness — but it still has major opposition to overcome
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/super-banana-uganda-vitamin-a/

#Cats vs #Lizards
Solo or family activity
Where I live in Benin, we have big lizards and geckos too. The cats don't like them... And they regularly offer me their catch, sometimes only half..., usually in my bedroom
#Caturday

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19667 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The Camel-Banana Problem
A camel can carry one banana at a time on its back. It is on a diet and therefore can only have one banana at a time in its stomach. As soon as it has eaten a banana it walks a mile and then it needs a new banana (in order to be able to continue its itinerary). Let there be a stock of N bananas at the border of the desert. How far can the camel penetrate into the desert, starting at this point? (Of course it can form new stocks with transported bananas.)

Turns out the Mastodon version underlying #Trump's social media platform #TruthSocial is outdated and has a vulnerability that allows arbitrary remote code execution and DoS attacks.
In totally unrelated news: It is utterly ILLEGAL to hack into, sabotage, shutdown or destroy counter-de…

Ryan Baumann (@ryanfb@digipres.club)
I don't know who needs to hear this but #TruthSocial, which is running a forked version of Mastodon, does not from the source code appear to have appropriate mitigations in place for CVE-2023-36460, which theoretically allows attackers to create and overwrite any file Mastodon has access to, allowing Denial of Service and arbitrary Remote Code Execution https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36460 (probably other CVE's as well, but some rely on federation which Truth Social doesn't use?) #in…

Did you ever believe that Hunter Biden took a #laptop full of incriminating information into a computer repair shop and abandoned it there? That the repair shop decided to examine its contents and transmit them to Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon?
Of course not. Because you have more common sense than reporters and editors at every major news organization.
The whole thing was a Russian disinfor…

A Bigger Story Than You Can Possibly Imagine
I know that's a big headline that promises a lot. But I think it's true. David has a good rundown of the events in the Morning Memo. But I want to do my best to set them out on a larger canvas that…

If you can't try anymore, no one should blame you. I hope for all our sakes, it gets better.
#BeHuman #WellBeing #ForOurSakes

The Interaction Fidelity Model: A Taxonomy to Distinguish the Aspects of Fidelity in Virtual Reality
Michael Bonfert, Thomas Muender, Ryan P. McMahan, Frank Steinicke, Doug Bowman, Rainer Malaka, Tanja D\"oring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16665

The Interaction Fidelity Model: A Taxonomy to Distinguish the Aspects of Fidelity in Virtual Reality
Fidelity describes how closely a replication resembles the original. It can be helpful to analyze how faithful interactions in virtual reality (VR) are to a reference interaction. In prior research, fidelity has been restricted to the simulation of reality - also called realism. Our definition includes other reference interactions, such as superpowers or fiction. Interaction fidelity is a multilayered concept. Unfortunately, different aspects of fidelity have either not been distinguished in sc…

Bloody hell. If this app ever set foot on Aussie shores, you can bet i’d be making an OIAC complaint so fast it isn’t funny.
How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted - https://newrepublic.com/article/179397/evange…

How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted
The hot new thing in proselytizing is an app that allows Christian conservatives to collect data on whole neighborhoods of potential converts.

A magnetic massive star has experienced a stellar merger
A. J. Frost, H. Sana, L. Mahy, G. Wade, J. Barron, J. -B. Le Bouquin, A. M\'erand, F. R. N. Schneider, T. Shenar, R. H. Barb\'a, D. M. Bowman, M. Fabry, A. Farhang, P. Marchant, N. I. Morrell, J. V. Smoker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10167

A magnetic massive star has experienced a stellar merger
Massive stars (those larger than 8 solar masses at formation) have radiative envelopes that cannot sustain a dynamo, the mechanism that produces magnetic fields in lower-mass stars. Despite this, approximately 7\% of massive stars have observed magnetic fields, the origin of which is debated. We used multi-epoch interferometric and spectroscopic observations to characterize HD 148937, a binary system of two massive stars. We found that only one star is magnetic and that it appears younger than …

Source: Ex-All-Pro Bowman joins Chargers staff https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39498589/sources-chargers-hire-former-all-pro-navorro-bowman-lb-coach

Source - Chargers hire former All-Pro NaVorro Bowman as LB coach - ESPN
The Chargers have hired former All-Pro linebacker NaVorro Bowman as the team's linebackers coach, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.