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Youtuber baut Arduino-Roboter Turtle Bot in siebenfacher Größe
Der Turtle Bot gehört zu den Klassikern beim Arduino-Basteln. Der Youtuber UncleStem hat ihn siebenmal so groß aufgebaut – und er funktioniert.

Youtuber baut Arduino-Roboter Turtle Bot in siebenfacher Größe
Der Turtle Bot gehört zu den Klassikern beim Arduino-Basteln. Der Youtuber UncleStem hat ihn siebenmal so groß aufgebaut – und er funktioniert.

"This sea turtle was rescued with a missing flipper and a crushed shell. A special procedure saved his life"
#Turtles #Animals

This special 'vacuum' procedure saved a sea turtle's life after a boat propeller crushed its shell
Kraken, a green sea turtle, is in recovery after a harrowing boat strike in Abu Dhabi.

"By 1985, the world's rarest sea turtle had declined by 99%. Their comeback has been 30 years in the making"
#Turtles #Animals

By 1985, the world's rarest sea turtle had declined by 99%. Their comeback has been 30 years in the making
Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were nearly wiped off the planet. Here’s what kept them from going extinct.

"Researchers celebrate record leatherback sea turtle hatchling season"
#Turtles #Animals
https://www.

Endangered sea turtle hatchlings are having a record-breaking season in Florida
The endangered leatherback sea turtles are flocking to Palm Beach County for nesting season.

Dream turtle

Interesting article about "turtle tanks"
#military

Turtle Tanks: A Dead End in Modern Warfare
Turtle tanks have become a familiar sight on the Ukrainian battlefield, but are they a dead end in modern warfare?

"A rare sea turtle was found 'lifeless' on a beach. Now, it's flying 1500 miles to be released back into the ocean"
#Turtles #Animals

Rare sea turtle flies 1500 miles to be released back into the ocean after being found 'lifeless' on a beach
The patient is named Crush, after the beloved “Finding Nemo” character.

Turtle Beach: Gaming-Maus mit Touchscreen und Wechselakku
In das 160 Euro teure Gaming-Maus-Experiment Command Series MC7 hat Turtle Beach einen Touchscreen eingebaut. Wer will, kann auch eine passende Tastatur kaufen.

The classic metaphor for introductory computer graphics is the turtle -- the point on the screen is thought of as a turtle, and you tell the turtle to turn, move, and so on.
My understanding is that the turtle metaphor was the one used by folks who worked on teaching basic computer programming to children in the late 60s and early 70s (Seymour Papert and others).
But why *turtles*?
I read about Elmer and Elsie the other day:

Another related demo, but this time using Grok as the AI Agent that generates RDF-Turtle from its own description of my session with Scoble.
Naturally, the RDF-Turtle could easily have been JSON-LD etc..

how i read your posts

"This 'turtle-sniffing dog' searches miles of New York woods to save endangered species"
#Turtles #Animals #NewYork

'Turtle-sniffing dog' traverses NY woods to save endangered species
April, the 16-month-old Labrador retriever, is becoming a pro at finding the Eastern box turtle.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Turtle Giant:
🎵 Germany I & II
#TurtleGiant
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZyiIIjFA4m6O3BUITSaNP

Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon
Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/mona-kha…

Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon
Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country

"Hawaiians set sea turtle hatchlings free on the 4th of July: 'It's Turtle Independence Day'"
#Hawaii #Turtles #Animals

Hawaiians set sea turtle hatchlings free on the 4th of July: 'It's Turtle Independence Day'
The program has been a staple for conservationists since 1989.

A demo based on post about the session. In this case, how AI Agent generated RDF-Turtle notes end up in a public Knowledge Graph that showcases the power of a Semantic Web.

🤔 Don't pick up trash, throw it in the ocean.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Beach House:
🎵 Turtle Island
#BeachHouse
https://beachhouse.bandcamp.com/track/turtle-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Qy1eRka08FJ0Bhz7ZenYS

"A sea turtle washed ashore with a stingray barb lodged in his tongue. After an incredible 8-month recovery, he's returning to the ocean"
#Turtles #Animals

A sea turtle washed ashore with a stingray barb lodged in its tongue. He has a happy ending
Diamond the loggerhead sea turtle was on the verge of death when locals called the Virginia Aquarium's Stranding Response Team.

I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.

"Scientists fit tracking device onto 2,000-pound sea turtle to protect rare species"
#Turtles #Animals
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Scientists fit tracking device onto 2,000-pound sea turtle to protect rare species
Fewer than 1,000 leatherback sea turtles remain in the Eastern Pacific. Lucero is one of them.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116624984637125627
ARE YOU A TURTLE?

"Endangered sea turtle makes full recovery after being covered in algae and barnacles: 'She’s unrecognizable now in the best way'"
#Turtles #Animals

This sea turtle was covered head to toe in algae and barnacles. See her dramatic transformation
Chlorophyllis required over sixty days of rehabilitation after she was rescued from the Pensacola Beach Fishing Pier in Florida.

"This sea turtle hatchling was barely a pound when he was rescued. 6 years later, the 220-pound loggerhead is ready to swim free"
#Turtles #Animals

A 1-pound sea turtle hatchling was rescued in 2020. Now, he's finally swimming free at 220 pounds
Kai the sea turtle was barely hanging on when he was rescued in 2020 on the coast of South Africa.

"This sea turtle nest would have washed away without intervention. Thanks to a conservation team, hundreds of sea turtle hatchlings were saved"
#Turtles #Animals #Conservation

Hundreds of sea turtle hatchlings race towards the ocean: 'They would not have survived without intervention'
“Turtle Eggsplorer” Alessia Lavigne shared a video of a hawksbill sea turtle release, wowing millions of viewers.

Small painted electric box in downtown Ithaca
#photo #photography #ithaca #art

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Beach House:
🎵 Turtle Island
#BeachHouse
https://beachhouse.bandcamp.com/track/turtle-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Qy1eRka08FJ0Bhz7ZenYS

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Boogey the Beat:
🎵 Yellow Turtle
#BoogeytheBeat
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BptPjDh75wCVzugnXWPqn

"An endangered sea turtle just laid the 300th nest of the season. She's been visiting Florida beaches since 2001"
#US #USA #America

A sea turtle just laid the 300th nest of the season. She's been visiting Florida beaches since 2001
Juno the leatherback sea turtle recently marked a new milestone for her species.

"This national park site is training volunteers to become 'sea turtle nest sitters'"
#Turtles #Animals

Cape Hatteras National Seashore is training volunteers to become 'sea turtle nest sitters'
As turtle nesting season comes to a head, volunteers are needed to keep the endangered eggs safe.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Anonymous & Ian Bostridge:
🎵 The Little Turtle Dove
#Anonymous #IanBostridge

"Experts celebrate record-breaking start for sea turtle nesting season"
#Turtles #Animals
https://www.

Florida sea turtles are off to a record-breaking start for nesting season
A devastating hurricane season in 2024 meant low nest counts for sea turtles across Florida. So far, 2026 is proving to be a banner year for the endangered species.

"After a fisherman accidentally hooked one of the world's most endangered sea turtles, these rescuers stepped in to save it"
#Turtles #Animals

Emerald Isle rescue team steps in after fisherman accidentally hooked one of the world's rarest sea turtles
On May 20, a fisherman hooked a sea turtle from a fishing pier in North Carolina. That’s when the Emerald Isle Sea Turtle Patrol leapt into action.

"Samudra Mathana" scene from #Hindu lore. In the foreground is "Koorma" (turtle, Wishnu's 2nd incarnation) carrying the "Meru" mountain on his back as gods and demons tug on "Shesha" the serpent to churn the "Indoo" ocean for "amrita" (elixir). #ama
This portrait hangs at Adamaru Matha, #Udupi #India. Its odd dimension and narrow location made it hard to photograph, but several tries and some digital lifting produced decent result, I think. (Shot on Feb. 21, 2025)
PS: This Friday was (is) "Koorma Jayanthi", the birthday of Koorma.
#photography #amateur #portrait #art

"Maine's first 'turtle tunnels' help endangered reptiles cross a 'highway of death'"
#US #USA #America #Maine

Maine's 'turtle tunnels' help save endangered reptiles from 'highway of death'
Installed in 2021, local officials now say that there has been a “substantial reduction” in casualties for the endangered species.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Boogey The Beat, Ila Barker:
🎵 Yellow Turtle
#BoogeyTheBeat #IlaBarker
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BptPjDh75wCVzugnXWPqn