Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Working from home….. in the AD 50s

#WFH @yellowbrickc

Who wants to use Prolog instead of pl/pgsql?

Welcome to the new blog, very nearly the same as the old blog!

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/06/welcome-to-the-new-blog

The layout is slightly nicer (I think). I’ve finally ditched Google/Blogger, is the main thing. Also, comments are now Mastodon.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/ is one of the most active projects on GitHub, with a PR merged around every 10 minutes.

#Nix #NixOS

#Aspartame, used to sweeten Diet Coke, some Snapple drinks and Mars' Extra chewing gum, to be designated as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" by the WHO cancer research division. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/

🚨BIG SCIENCE NEWS 🚨

And our results (along with our international colleagues) have dropped!

Our team (and others) have started to see the strongest evidence as yet of the stochastic gravitational wave background - ripples in space-time cause by ALL the supermassive black holes in the history of the Universe colliding!

We use pulsars to study these riplles and we needed almost 20 years of data to even get the first hints! It's the long game!

I'm a co-author on the Aussie papers (as part of my work) but I also wrote about it here in my latest feature article on #SpaceAustralia

This is why I have been going on about pulsars for a few weeks now - this was coming!

Check it out here: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/australian-scientists-help-uncover-cosmic-gravitational-rumblings

📸 Shanika Galaudage

#Astrodon #Astrophysics #RadioAstronomy #GravitationalWaves #Science #Pulsars

Soon I will launch the 2023 edition of the Interactive Fiction Top 50. But for now, let's play a game. I give you the first sentences of classic works of IF, you guess which ones! Answers behind CW-tags, please; or you can just post 'I know'! Let's start with three games. (The third one might be quite difficult.)

Sentence 1: My dear child, listen, and I'll feed you a tale.

Sentence 2: It must be the warlock Krill.

Sentence 3: "Sir? Sir, wake up."

#InteractiveFiction

New #introduction with more recent work!

My name is Léa, in my 30s, i've been on the fediverse for a year now and loving it!

I'm drawing and sharing my imaginary world with #fountainPen and #watercolours, mostly OCs and airplanes, clouds, flying creatures and machines 🛩️
I love comics a lot, working on some!

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*