I had a conversation this afternoon with the director of my regional public library, about Libby. She said that tagging books as Notify Me is what tells her what to buy. Libby notifies her about the requests for books from users, and if any book has more than three requests, she orders it. So using Notify Me is important!!!
#Libby #PublicLibraries #Books

Aĵon mi lernis hodiaŭ: Kago tradukas de lingvojn Anglan kaj Esperantan.

(Or possibly replace "tradukas" (translates) with "povas traduki" (can translate). In either case, its translation isn't quite right. "Afero" is an affair or matter, especially relating to business; "aĵo" is a thing or object.)

(I think this all relates to the American variant of English moving towards greater generalization in speech, and the preference towards weakened versions of adjectives. Which are proper: strung or stringed, snuck or sneaked? Soon, "better/best" will become "more good/most good"; language is a living thing, and constantly evolving, although not necessarily for the better.)

(Isn't that Clarus the dogcow, that which says "Moof!"?)

TIL of the bad.horse traceroute

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the bad.horse traceroute has the entire lyrics to the sound

“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

#space

(I'm following this thread as am about to migrate one of my Proxmox VE servers to TrueNAS, and am also interested in other options.)

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A poll asking if American schools should teach Arabic numerals, with three options: "Yes" (XXIX%), "No" (LVII%), and "No Opinion" (XIV%). The total votes are indicated in Roman numerals.

Fortify.

I dig it.

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Tumblr post from ontopofgravity: I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference and tbh it's also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY” reply from phantom-locked: Dude, fortify is bangin’. That makes things like you're some kind of RPG character. Fortify is way better than “man up.”

Can someone point me to published articles/documents/evidence to show that my understanding is in err?

Public spaces are often designed with male users as the norm. Men are 5x more likely to use basketball courts, 4x exercise areas & 20x skateparks vs to women & girls. Women must engage in 'safety work', navigating public saves to avoid male harassment.
https://theconversation.com/women-are-three-times-as-likely-as-men-to-feel-unsafe-in-parks-heres-how-we-can-design-them-better-248465

It. Could. Work.

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Post from user @acnewsitics 'Alex Cole' states, "If boycotting Tesla is making conservatives buy electric vehicles, I think liberals should start boycotting books next and see if MAGA accidentally discovers reading."

Wikipedia cites an Order from the Interior for the renaming: https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/elips/documents/3337%20-%20Changing%20the%20Name%20of%20Mount%20McKinley%20to%20Denali.pdf

Linguistics

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Tumblr post by nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix Jul 31, 2023 Would everyone like to know the best thing??? There are two types of borrowed word - loan words and calques. Loan words are words taken directly from the language i.e. tattoo, sushi, guillotine. Calques are words literally translated from the language before being borrowed i.e. beer garden, scapegoat, killer whale (incorrectly calqued, the original actually means whale killer which is a whole other post). Did anyone notice the fun thing? Loan word is a calque (German lehnwort lit. Loan+word) and calque is a loan word (French calque - tracing or imitation). Have a good day!

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope.

Credit: David Rogers
Source: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Movie_-_Neutrophil_chasing_bacteria

#health #biology #science #phagocytosis

@alexbrn This particular one won't affect my behavior, but for groceries and home improvement and so on, our family will be boycotting US everything. A lot of other people are too.

Human, what are you doing? Stop. You must conserve energy!

By Dr. Seuss in 1941

Perfect!

In Wyoming, the legislature has decided, that you cannot require others to address you by your preferred pronouns — thinking that this will only hurt trans people, Trump wants to persecute.

So citizen Britt Boril calls in to a committee meeting and deliberately misgenders the male chairman as madam, which he takes offence to — because our rule about allowing disrespect was not meant to be used against us!

(And no, you should never misgenders others, but damn… this move was brilliant)

(Also, why are you trying to circumvent the DRM?)

(Yes, I know there are myriad valid reasons to do this; but to publicly complain about it—regardless of the reasons—seems completely arbitrary and petty.)

there are times when...
i forget i am a cat.

But to address the elephant: if the discoloration is simply cosmetic, who cares?! Cooking is a functional art, and it doesn't matter what goes on "behind the curtain". If your pans are discolored and it's affected your food, you need to investigate those manufacturers, because that should not happen!

Sold my Tesla X and leased a Rivian R1S. Very happy with the vehicle. Have driven 1300 miles in the last month, and did a trip from Portland to Seattle and back. Range is ~395 miles, charging is fast and plentiful. Also got caught in a snowstorm and had zero issues. Adapters work great, one for supercharged and one for home, permanently installed. Charging at 215kwH, about 500 miles an hour. So far it has not been a major step backwards, although the map software is a little goofy and drops frames.

(And as previously mentioned, the Calibre plugins make the whole process much easier, too.)

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