Tootfinder

If you know me, you know I've always thought that leaving twitter was 1) an absolutely fine personal individual choice but also 2) NOT something you should *insist* others do because it was *possible* that the good of speaking with others etc might outweigh the bad
Saying this because in the past few days, the feed got REAL bad. Anyone else noticing this?
#fediverse

Started reading "More and more and more" by Fressoz, and in the intro he writes "Getting out of carbon will be far more difficult than getting out of capitalism, a condition that is probably necessary but certainly not sufficient." - welp, that will be easy then 😢
Looks like a great book so far, but not for the faint-hearted..

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sufjan Stevens:
🎵 Chicago
#SufjanStevens
https://stephenshero.bandcamp.com/track/sufjan-stevens-chicago-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yupbrI7ROhigIHpQBevPh

Zum heutigen #SchiffsSamstag die schwedische Brigantine BALTIC BEAUTY auf der unteren Warnow, von mir fotografiert.

The #AgaveSpike that started last April is getting a bit sad at the base now. However it has a cousin that has just started to shoot up its own spike. #Photography #FlowersOfMastodon

Stephen Miller suggested Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard,
before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment
While plenary authority suggests absolute power,
the U.S. system of separation of powers uses checks and balances to ensure that no branch, including the president, can exercise complete control.
Just before Miller turned silent,
he referred to “Title 10 of the U.S. code”,
which sets out the co…

What is plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking during CNN interview
Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in awkward interview moment

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

A “made for TV” series about everything that’s going down these days. How long until it drops? Is it a comedy? Straight drama? Or fan favorite, dramedy? Who plays who?
I know it’s considered uncool around here to even think it, but what would an AI come up with for a script?
Speaking of which, has anybody thought to ask any of these AIs what their prediction is for how it’s all gonna play out? Anybody know what they’re saying?

(2015) "Visual" cortex responds to spoken language in blind children https://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/33/11674 Now what will the "visual" cortex of blind children do once trained with live imagery (camera views) encoded in sound by The vOICe?

“Visual” Cortex Responds to Spoken Language in Blind Children
Plasticity in the visual cortex of blind individuals provides a rare window into the mechanisms of cortical specialization. In the absence of visual input, occipital (“visual”) brain regions respond to sound and spoken language. Here, we examined the time course and developmental mechanism of this plasticity in blind children. Nineteen blind and 40 sighted children and adolescents (4–17 years old) listened to stories and two auditory control conditions (unfamiliar foreign speech, and musi…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Sufjan Stevens:
🎵 Should Have Known Better
#SufjanStevens
https://thehallsproject.bandcamp.com/track/sufjan-stevens-should-have-known-better-h-lls-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AyuigFWbuirWHvidbMz8O