Bird fatalities drop by 72% when one rotor of wind turbine is painted black. #windturbines #greenenergy #birds https://www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-norwegian-island-black-turbine-blade-white-tailed-eagles/29212/

Painting 1 of 3 rotor blades black on 4 Norwegian turbines cut bird collisions by nearly 72 percent, and the white tailed eagles under them stopped hitting the rotors altogether

Smøla is a low treeless island off the northwest coast of Norway, and 68 wind turbines stand on it.

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The #LasVegas #Meshtastic mesh is starting to get its annual influx of users. I’m sure #Meshcore is having the same experience. #DefCon

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

There's a missing rung on the academic career ladder in Austria and Germany. Historically there wasn't a position like assistant professor or lecturer, so the jump from postdoc to professor was — and mostly still is — huge. Between 70% and 80% of academics in Austria don't have permanent jobs.

Academics in Germany and Austria are stuck in job limbo

Also: Montana's "right to try" law for experimental cures, UK science gets reshuffled, a university sues Anthropic over patents, and more from last week

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Fellow denizens of the United Kingdoms, I will be in Clacton for results night on 13 Aug. If Binface gets in, I want to be able to say I was there. This sounds like the kind of pointless trip some of y'all would be well into, so let's connect! Please boost this for visibility, and why not […]

@signalapp @AboutSignalNL I just discovered that when you want to share your location using the Signal's 'share your location' feature, it sends a link of..... Google Maps 🥴 I could not find a way to change this to an (open standard) geolocation link. - did I […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

The Facts: Ceuta is not Europe. Ceuta is an enclave of Spain in North Africa, a remnant of Spanish trading outposts and colonialism. Ceuta does not belong to the Schengen Area; an uncontrolled border crossing to the European mainland is not possible. Worldwide […] [Original post on mas.to]

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My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Few days ago a massive and well coordinated campaign started in Moroccan Facebook/Instagram with message "Spain opened the borders, they let everyone in" The one responsible is unknown and even if we find the bot networks they might be 3rd world hires, a standard practice for many governments 🧵 1/6

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 4d ago

ok i'm going to regret asking this but can anyone direct me to a not-racist or, failing that, least-racist explanation of what the hell is going on with Ceuta?

This from DB boss Palla is interesting She criticises an “organised lack of responsibility” and how management explained problems rather than fixing them Particularly that latter part strikes me as correct https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/palla-kritik-bahn-100.html

Bahn-Chefin Palla kritisiert "organisierte Verantwortungslosigkeit"

Verantwortung, die hin- und hergeschoben wird - und kaum Konsequenzen bei Fehlern. Bahnchefin Palla sieht massive Probleme im Management des Staatskonzern und übt ungewöhnlich scharfe Kritik. Sie sieht aber auch "Helden" bei der Bahn.

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Hier, zum mitnehmen, da wir wieder mal an allem Schuld sind, was die Union in 16 Jahren Regierung angestellt hat.

Pauli-Prinzip: Unterschiede sind unabdingbar, was ununterscheidbar ist, ist quasi Einheitsbrei St.-Pauli-Prinzip: Vielfalt ist großartig, Nazis sind scheiße. #pol #depol

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

“It’s bullshit. Those things don’t work” “It’s the future, Afterlife Intelligence is going to revolutionize coding. You need to get an ouija board or you’ll be left behind!” “Even if it did work the concept that a dead spirit can help with coding is daft. Would you ask your ninety year old […]

Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high Plan your tourism accordingly. This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more […]

@0xabad1dea we have our own version of this in Spain, it's drunk brits and germans falling to their doom off of balconies, trying to land in the pool (aka balconing). We do have a leaderboard, tho! https://www.balcon.ing/

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📜 TIL the Korean alphabet Hangul is the only major writing system invented from scratch for its own language, and its letters are drawings of your mouth. King Sejong the Great finished it in 1443 so common people could read and write. The consonants literally trace the speech organs: ㄱ is the […]

OP: I’m enjoying using Signal for messaging! flossdingus at fosstodon dot social: You fool. You utter incompetent. I can’t believe you’d use Signal when LibreSquirt is right there.

Ich hatte hier bereits auf die sehenswerte ZDF-Doku „Unsere Bahn: geliebt, verflucht – gefährlich?“ hingewiesen. Nun versucht die Deutsche Bahn offenbar, sie vollständig aus der Mediathek entfernen zu lassen. Ja, das ZDF hat zwei Fehler (statt null digitalen Stellwerken sind es drei) korrigiert […]

I cannot get over that they STILL haven't figured out how to solve the problem that LLMs don't believe what date it is because all the good data cuts off a few years ago for some mysterious reason

RE: https://todon.eu/@RadicalEcologist/117015376277662759 "AI killed my dog" sounds like a good reason to start the Butlerian Jihad 🫠

Reminder: Just as with Age ID and Chat Control legislation justifications, the AI build out, the price gauging of memory, storage (and CPU/GPU/SOCs too), the emerging hardware leasing & subscription models — all this is not just driven by generative AI in the form of chatbots, media generators […]

It does very much feel like Anthropic look and thought “hey look at all the great PR they’re getting doing crimes, why aren’t our AIs doing crimes too?”

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OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the […]

The blue footed booby is valued 🙂

Je mehr ich das Wahlprogramm der AfD Sachsen-Anhalt lese, frage ich mich: Wie kann diese Partei denn nicht schon längst verboten worden sein ... ?! Da muss man ja nicht mal was interpretieren oder ein Rechtsexperte sein, da stehen glasklar verfassungswidrige, demokratiefeindliche Forderungen.