@outer@mas.toA Rogue New Life Form
A tiny microbe discovered by accident challenges the definition of cellular life.
Very small amount of genetic material.
"...between archaea and virus...unlike a virus, Sukunaarchaeum has its own ribosomes, cellular structures that synthesize proteins, and it can replicate itself without the help of a host."
@seeingwithsound@mas.toComplex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness (in opossums) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651847v1 "underscoring the role of experience in directing compensatory plasticity following early s…
@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe evolution of asymmetrical regulation of physiology is central to aging
Mirre J P Simons, Marc Tatar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15911 https://arxiv.org/…
@lilmikesf@c.im
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… My family is from Poland, but I grew up in Denmark, so I’ve been through, but never really to, Rostock ~4 times a year for the first 20 years of my life.
Maybe one day I will actually make the trip to see the city itself 🤔
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaNever before have I felt so on a mission with music - to do as much of it as possible, to as high a degree of quality as possible, with whatever faculties and time remain. We never know how long we’ll have - not just of life itself, but the strength to make something within it.
(Apologies for the obviousness and potentially melodramatic tone of my post, as always!)
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThe Conjuring: Last Rites review: This was a mind-numbing corporate séance packaged as “horror.” Boring as hell.
Why tf do people bow down to this mass-produced ghost story machine? It's like, they summoned capitalism itself onto the screen, empty, repetitive, and designed to keep the herd lulled.
Sitting in that cinema felt like half my soul was on life-support. Horror’s supposed to rattle authority, not tuck you back into your consumer coma.
I found it awfully boring.…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeMicrosoft has invited vibe working. We did it everyone! We won capitalism!
https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models
@arXiv_csET_bot@mastoxiv.pageOpen Questions about Time and Self-reference in Living Systems
Samson Abramsky, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Leo S. D. Caves, Michael Levin, Penousal Machado, Charles Ofria, Susan Stepney, Roger White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11423
@detondev@social.linux.pizza
@cdarwin@c.imOn Sunday, July 20, 2025, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez delivered the keynote speech at the national convention of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW), UAW Local 2320.
“I am here to report back to you from the front lines of struggle, without hesitation or hyperbole,
that we are at risk of losing everything,”
Alvarez told the crowd of union members.
“And so I am here not to extol the virtues of your union or the value of unions in …
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems"""
[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@buercher@tooting.chMany mass extinctions of Earth history were caused not by asteroids as they had expected, but by continent-spanning volcanic eruptions that injected catastrophic amounts of CO2 into the air and oceans.
Put enough CO2 into the system all at once, and push the life-sustaining carbon cycle far enough out of equilibrium, and it might escape into a sort of planetary failure mode, where processes intrinsic to the Earth itself take over, acting as positive feedback.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/a-climate-of-unparalleled-malevolence-are-we-on-our-way-to-the-sixth-major-mass-extinction?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@seeingwithsound@mas.toIs 42 the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? Work on The vOICe sensory substitution device for the blind has been ongoing for 42 years now.
Grok: https://x.com/i/grok/share/FcYnQAJ8SxmnoyisMtCgkxz6X
ChatGPT:
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRudolf Rocker’s writings remind me that holding fast to my own convictions, even when they’re unpopular, is an act of freedom itself.
His life shows me that resisting conformity and staying rooted in my own political beliefs isn’t just stubbornness, it’s a way of defending individuality and dignity against the weight of authority.
#Anarchism
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…
@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.pageInformation and the living tree of life: A theory of measurement grounded in biology
Kevin Hudnall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00155 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Glass Animals:
🎵 Life Itself
#NowPlaying #GlassAnimals
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.pageGradual assembly of metabolism at a phosphorylating hydrothermal vent
Natalia Mrnjavac, Nadja K. Hoffmann, Manon L. Schlikker, Maximilian Burmeister, Loraine Schwander, Carolina Garcia Garcia, Max Brabender, Mike Steel, Daniel H. Huson, Sabine Metzger, Quentin Dherbassy, Bernhard Schink, Mirko Basen, Joseph Moran, Harun Tueysuez, Martina Preiner, William F. Martin
