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Ed Wiebe

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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23m

@ceascape.bsky.social

A dark-themed mobile interface for the Bsky app showing a lock icon and a message stating "You must sign in to view this post."

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Golden-crowned sparrow #borb
#birds #saanich

A golden-crowned sparrow on a cedar branch. Its feathers are puffed into a sphere.

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Moonset over #pkols this morning.

#saanich #moon

The pale white moon is barely visible in the blue morning sky, and half-obscured behind a shrub and grass covered hilltop.

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23h

"Although dark matter makes up about 25% of the universe, its nature has eluded scientists."

This is not a fact. It's a model.

https://scitechdaily.com/jwst-may-have-discovered-a-new-kind-of-star-powered-by-dark-matter/

#darkmatter

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23h

"I’m personally not a big fan of physics, but my work relies on their intuition."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-discover-prime-number-pattern-in-fractal-chaos/

Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Modular construction of standard industrial equipment, all open source.

https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

Global Village Construction Set

Comments

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Hello Torment Nexus

(reposted with AltText)

| Am Devloper @

@iamdevloper
the dumbest person you know is being told
"You're absolutely right!" by ChatGPT

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

This goes for Canada as well.
Clinging stubbornly to the fossil resource economy is killing Canadian the future competitiveness of this country.

#canpoli #cdnpoli
https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115338694969299974

Sean Casten (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The good news is global. The bad news is domestic as the US is increasingly failing to keep up with the cheap energy transition. Committing to run an economy based on resource extraction is a proven way to get your ass kicked. We need to do better.

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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I'm preparing material for a lab on weather next week and I found this image. People will do anything to avoid using units.

#meteorology #metrology #weather #uvic

A TV weather broadcaster is pointing to a list of wind speeds called, "Trash Can Wind Meter". The speeds are:

Lid flipped over
Tipped over
In the neighbour's yard
Down the Street
I've lost my trash can

Tipped over is highlighted.

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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Like definitive claims that #darkmatter exists because math we can see that it also doesn't exist because math.

https://scitechdaily.com/dark-matter-and-dark-energy-dont-exist-new-study-claims/

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The headline made me sputter and swear but the text is sane.

“At the end of the day, does it really matter much if the start of the next ice age is 50, 100, or 200 thousand years into the future? We need to focus now on limiting ongoing warming. That the Earth will naturally cool back down is […]

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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@climate.skyfleet.blue “A fusion firm that’s already making money — but not from selling power”

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/a-fusion-firm-thats-already-making-money-but-not-from-selling-power

A fusion firm that's already making money — but not from selling power

Wisconsin’s Shine Technologies is “practicing fusion” with imaging and medical products before moving on to (hopefully) producing grid electricity.

www.canarymedia.com

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@dx

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@chris … lived in what is now called Alberta.

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Spy on your neighbourhood birds all of the time!

https://hannahilea.com/blog/birdnet-intro/

Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends (and how you can, too!)

Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy.

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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@dx Move it into next year. Repeat forever.

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@chad The only thing that is reliably true about cats is they are unpredictable.

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5d

We're grading the first midterm in a first year science course that has no university prerequisites. It's taken by students from everywhere on campus and it's among the first university exams that most of the students will have written. I find this helps me to stay calm.

"Here’s how this […]

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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@glassdelusion We definitely need more Farm Film Celebrity Blowup these days.

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@quaff @chris Make sure you’re backing it up to another one. 20 TB is a lot lose.

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@dx Generally true, but my suburban neighbourhood has a flock of 30. Some kept them as ‘pets’ but left 15 years ago. The house was demolished, a new built. They still hang out there..

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 8d

This #cycling outfit made me smile today.

The back of a woman’s cycling jersey showing Munch’s Painting “Scream” modified so the central figure is on a bicycle.

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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Today I learned that The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man is being shown in #victoriabc in October.

https://www.queensjournal.ca/the-pee-pee-poo-poo-man-brings-torontos-weirdest-legend-to-life-at-the-screening-room/

That’s it.

www.queensjournal.ca

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Listening to mutual strangers at the doctor’s office tell each other different medical conspiracies is frustrating and unbearable. Should I let them have it?

Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@davidsuculum He tried a bunch of stuff but failed them so he did math.