@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-24 07:30:11
Hosted a BiCon pre-meet yesterday, online. Conveniently there were exactly 12 people there for most of it (not counting me), perfect for dividing into threes! I kept switching the groups so that people could meet different people.
We talked about how we'd each like BiCon to be, and how we could make it more likely to turn out that way.
Top tips: get enough sleep, eat enough food, and don't try to do everything!
Then we also talked about what contribution we might like to make - though I also said, just being there and being friendly and making BiCon more varied is a contribution in itself :-)
Several of the people who'd come along turned out to be already signed up to offer workshop sessions, so we heard a little bit about those.
Two tasks currently available if you want one are (a) keeping an eye on the Zoom setup for the hybrid events, (b) leafleting at Pride on Saturday, so that more people know about BiCon for Sunday. There's usually also opportunities to assist with being welcoming at reception.
In-person BiCon starts tomorrow, and runs Friday till Sunday. The venue is a couple of buildings belonging to the girls' high school, in between the Forest and the Arboretum. I tagged along for a site visit the other day and I think it's pretty good for air quality.
Apparently about 70 people have booked so far. It's also possible to buy a ticket on the day, so that might not be the final total.
As I reminded people last night, you don't have to be bi to come to BiCon! And if you _are_ bi, you don't have to be any particular amount of bi :-)
#BiCon #Nottingham
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2025-06-25 20:11:57
Walging, walging en nog eens walging, dat roepen deze beelden bij mij op.
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/video/c275b611-c
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-06-15 14:19:43
Y'all were wondering which way the army would break. This is as clear an answer as you're going to get.
This isn't a mistake. It's a message.
Edit: cut out "During drills they were perfectly in time" because I don't have receipts to show. Linking to a longer video in a threads post that shows a bit more intense of a juxtaposition between themselves and the division in front of them. This thread makes the same claim about drills, but I also don't see video.
https://www.threads.com/@davidmorehouse/post/DK7ExrKs5iw?xmt=AQF0w52awa66lUQeIuolzDaz8uSFcMmJLHALm9RZc4P75w
Edit: to clarify a bit, this is one division. The division in front of them in the longer video is in step. This isn't "the whole army is going to refuse" but this may be, "some units are fed up enough to make it clear they don't want to play, which is saying a lot."
Any division that exists needs to be cultivated. The way you cultivate that is absolutely not by lumping them all together. Some of the military voted for Trump, some don't care, some hate him. All of them are being treated like shit right now. All of them swore an oath to defend the constitution. Some of them probably know what that means.
I'm absolutely not a fan of the military, but I will take every opportunity I can to humanize these folks. Look for every opportunity you can to remind them that they are welcome on our side whenever they're ready to actually fulfill their oath, and we will appreciate every subtle bit of resistance they give to those who are violating it in the meantime.
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-07-21 21:42:46
Car Free Days return to Metro Vancouver with expanded lineup
Car Free Days are back and bigger than ever with nine events across the region. From Maple Ridge to North Vancouver, streets will transform into pedestrian-only spaces, filled with art, music, food trucks, and local vendors.
Car Free Days invite residents to experience their vibrant neighbourhoods without cars — encouraging walking, cycling, and transit as greener, more sustainable ways to get around.
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@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-06-20 19:41:21
«If a robot told you that walking off a cliff was your fastest route home, how close would you get to the edge before turning it off?»
Judging from how many people crashed their cars and trucks at bridges too low for them to fit under, my guess is plenty people will walk themselves off those cliffs.
@… another "AI is doing great" story waiting to happen 😅
https://archive.is/20250618045009/https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/17/news/alltrails-ai-tool-search-rescue-members
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-13 17:23:28
Interval Walking Training
or “Japanese walking,”
is getting renewed attention after going viral on TikTok.
Nearly 20 years ago a team led by Hiroshi Nose and other researchers from Japan published a study that found that
middle-aged and older people who did high-intensity interval walking had lower blood pressure, stronger thigh muscles, and better aerobic capacity than walkers the same age who kept a more moderate, continuous pace.
In the study, the volunteers…
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-11 08:19:25
Noise Analysis and Hierarchical Adaptive Body State Estimator For Biped Robot Walking With ESVC Foot
Boyang Chen, Xizhe Zang, Chao Song, Yue Zhang, Xuehe Zhang, Jie Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08578
@joe@toot.works2025-07-01 17:04:31
I'm up to 109,977 CSP points, 87,182 United Miles, 30,000 Hyatt Bonus Rewards, and 102,218 Venture X miles. (It's the power of the Welcome Bonus.) By the end of the year, I want to get Hyatt up to 60,000 and then I should be able to cover hotels on the CSP and Hyatt points and cover airfare on the other two for two weeks in Japan. I'm travel-hacking the shit out of my 2026 trip. 
#Travel #TravelHacking #CreditCardPoints
@groupnebula563@mastodon.social2025-07-15 19:21:56
CHALLENGE: if you can find a browser that the home page of http://bluepixelcomputing.com:8141/ does not display half decently in, you get your name and a link to your fedi profile on the page! let me know if you find one, I am yet undefeated.
@gla@mastodon.social2025-08-13 09:40:19