@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-07 04:12:43
Hollywood Burbank Airport’s air traffic control tower is temporarily unmanned due to staffing shortages during the government shutdown.
Air traffic controllers are working without pay during the shutdown,
leading to an uptick in workers calling out sick.
Outgoing flights have been delayed an average of two hours and 31 minutes,
with several flights canceled.
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-11-06 00:42:29
India’s Ganga River drying at unprecedented levels #India
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-05 10:41:07
"""
In the sixteenth century, lunacy was a constant theme that was never questioned. It was still frequent in the seventeenth century, but started to disappear, and by 1707, the year in which Le François asked the question ‘Estne aliquod lunae in corpora humana imperium?’ (Does the moon have any influence over the human body?), after lengthy discussions, the university decided that their reply was in the negative. In the course of the eighteenth century the moon was rarely cited among the causes of madness, even as a possible factor or an aggravation. But right at the end of the century the idea reappears, perhaps under the influence of English medicine, which had never entirely forgotten the moon, and Daquin, followed by Leuret and Guislain, all admitted the influence of the moon on the phases of maniacal excitement, or at the least on the agitation of their patients. But what is important here is not so much the return of the theme as the possibility and conditions necessary for its reappearance. It reappears entirely transformed, filled with a new significance that it did not formerly possess. In its traditional form, it designated an immediate influence, a direct coincidence in time and intersection in space, whose mode of action was entirely situated in the power of the stars. But in Daquin by contrast, the influence of the moon acts through a whole series of mediations, in a kind of hierarchy, surrounding man. The moon acts on the atmosphere with such intensity that it can set in motion a mass as heavy as the ocean. The nervous system, of all the parts that make up the human organism, is the part most sensitive to atmospheric variations, as the slightest variation in temperature, humidity or dryness can have serious effects upon it. The moon therefore, given the important power that its trajectory exerts on the atmosphere, is likely to act most on people whose nervous fibres are particularly delicate:
“Madness is an exclusively nervous condition, and the brain of a madman must therefore be infinitely more susceptible to the influence of the atmosphere, which itself undergoes considerable changes of intensity as a result of the different positions of the moon relative to the earth.” [Daquin, Philosophie de la folie, Paris, 1792]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@benb@osintua.eu2025-09-05 18:33:53
Ukrainian drones strike Ryazan oil refinery and oil depot in occupied Luhansk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/05/ukrainian-drones-strike-ryazan-oil.html
@adulau@infosec.exchange2025-11-06 16:44:55
The MISP Galaxy now includes an updated knowledge base of UAVs and drones covering both civilian and military models.
It comes with detailed attributes such as manufacturer, cost, and technical specs.
You can now easily classify, model, and share UAV-related observations directly in MISP.
🔗 MISP UAVs overview - https://www.misp-galaxy…
@smashtie@mas.to2025-10-05 12:55:59
Here are my favourites from the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award 2025. It's a fantastic selection this year, and free to see as always.
#art #portraits #painting
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2025-11-05 22:50:11
If you really want to crush "good old" Christian Capitalism, don't buy anything other than basic food and toiletries between November 1st and the end of February.
This will also hurt Chinese Capitalism, as so much plastic tatt which is consumed during those four months is made there.
And you and your family? You'll be richer, slimmer and 100% more relaxed than all the people around you.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-05 12:00:03
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-10-05 18:29:06
Just wrote two more ministers with the request to vote AGAINS #chatcontrol .
Imagine a world where antidemocratics gain power—and want to “cleanse” the country. What better tool than access to all private chats?
My grandma experienced denunciations during WW2. I don’t want to relive that. And backdoors can and WILL be exploited by enemies of the country.
And once it's …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-05 21:28:39
One of the Republican talking points during this shutdown is that Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has been pulled left by the far left of his party,
but that is bullshit.
The force that is moving Democrats to fight is coming from the party itself,
and this is a reality that Republicans are loath to admit.
Democrats who are committed to fighting for healthcare in Congress
Include the centerists and moderates that Republicans have traditionally counted on …
