@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-07-26 05:50:04
NASA: Providing Active Fire Data for Near-Real Time Monitoring and Applications
The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard S-NPP, NOAA 20 and NOAA 21 (formally known as JPSS-1 and JPSS-2).
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@Speckdaene@nrw.social2026-09-27 09:33:40
#Environment I just signed a petition to stop polluters and their political allies from dismantling Europe's environmental laws. Our water, air, and health are literally on the line. It takes 1 min to sign - would mean a lot if you did too 🌍 #HandsOffNature
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-25 17:06:52
Near-total lunar eclipse expected Thursday night with the Americas in prime position
A near-total lunar eclipse Thursday night will see Earth’s shadow cover 96% of the moon,
casting a reddish-orange glow as the show peaks just after 9 p.m. Pacific time.
Skywatchers across North and South America, including nearly 1 billion people in the U.S., Canada and Latin America,
will have prime, hours-long views if clouds cooperate.
The deep partial eclipse comes after A…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-24 17:20:54
Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-opus-5-near-fable-performance-at-half-the…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-07-26 19:41:42
Spain's PM Sšnchez, speaking at a firefighters’ command post near Madrid, connects the dots:
"Spain and Portugal are experiencing the consequences of the climate emergency, from fires and storms to heavy snowfalls."
https://www.…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-09-25 18:03:14
Nepal and China are still struggling to recover after the massive high-altitude glacier collapse that killed thousands https://www.earth.com/environment/nepal-and-china-are-struggling-to-recover-after-glacier-breaks-at-their-border/…
@yetiinabox@todon.nl2026-09-26 20:28:30
It was Indra Jatra in Kathmandu yesterday and it's यंलाथ्व पूह्नी tonight. So many ancient, brilliantly vivacious, and dynamic collective rituals!
Here is an article that pitches into the debate currently dividing scholars of Nepal, and Newa culture in particular, about how a famous art historian stole rather a lot of Newar art.
https://
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-07-26 02:06:59
Zero days since I've discovered a random #CPython bug that triggers in very specific circumstances and I don't really have time to report it, nor can expect anyone to do it for me.
This time it's a test failure and refcounts being broken while running fastjsonschema's test suite on #Python 3.15 freethreading with pytest's --junit-xml option enabled 😱. And of course removing --junit-xml makes all tests pass.
EDIT: and of course I cannot reproduce outside Portage. Yet inside, it reliably crashes every single time.
@Carwil@mastodon.online2026-08-25 16:54:38
Roja collective in 2025: "Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us."
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/23/women-life-freedom-…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-08-25 15:34:05
Mapping and modulating brain dynamics in aging and neurodegeneration with electroencephalography and integrated neurotechnologies in primates https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1689222/full
