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Twoowls Elt @twoowls73.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 4h

#doorsday #france

A brick wall with three garage doors, each featuring graffiti. The words "LIBERTÉ," "ÉGALITÉ," and "BEYONCÉ" are spray-painted on the doors, with "FRATERNITÉ" displayed above

Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 42m

@mntmn Hey, congrats on the successful funding! How are you thinking about hardware for CAD and rendering tasks? I fear NVIDIA no longer loves us like they did.

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

MNT Reform Next

A new 12.5" open hardware laptop that is future-proof, modular, and highly performant

www.crowdsupply.com

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 46m

I got a full night’s sleep last night for the first time since school started. I am hungry for more. #parenting

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 1h

@jcrabapple 👋 🧊 ☕️ (might be switching to hot soon!)

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 14h

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state-senate-democrats-tell-uva-to-not-consider-education-compact/article_7c3554f1-c6ca-4a20-9222-dfbf8ebb2ff4.html #uva #virginia #highered #uspolitics

State Senate Democrats tell UVA to not consider education compact

Democrats in the state Senate write that if UVA signs the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, “there will be significant consequences in future Virginia budget cycles.”

www.cbs19news.com

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 21h

https://www.nfpa.org/news-blogs-and-articles/blogs/2025/10/07/nfpa-president-responds-to-pew-trusts-report “Everyone deserves a safe place to live, regardless of income, zip code, or building height.” #nfpa #firesafety #housing #buildingcode #shortage #housingfirst #design

What the Pew Trusts Report Gets Right—and Wrong—About Fire Protection in Modern Multifamily Buildings

A recent Pew Trusts report uses data from big cities to argue for allowing single exit stairs in buildings as tall as six stories. Learn why this is dangerous.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22h

WaPo - Dozens of Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to help American public television stations following sweeping cuts to federal funding. https://wapo.st/3L18abq

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

*Curing Alzheimer's in mice

*Skeptics will go, "heyn that's in mice," and rightly so, but curing it at all, that's a big deal

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-025-02426-1

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

When talking about the history of land use regulations in North America, I always tell the story of George W. F. McMechen's 1910 efforts to challenge informal housing segregation in Baltimore in the context of the birth of formal racial zoning there. But what happened later? He continued to […]

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PepperTheVixen ΘΔ @pepperthevixen.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me
#accessibility #alttext #blind

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po “Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation.” #energy #climate

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Renewables overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year, a think tank analysis shows.

www.bbc.com

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@costasamaras.com This would of course raise costs, but costs are already outrageous, even with vast public subsidy

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

My colleagues at the White House developed an AI Bill of Rights in 2022, shown on the left, which outlined principles to protect people and communities. A lot of the work I’m doing now is defining my principles and analysis for a climate amendment to the AI Bill of Rights, as shown on the right.

My slides with the title Principles for Ethical AI Include Energy and Climate. Left side show the icons from the AI Bill of Rights. Right side bullets are:

Doesn’t raise people’s energy bills

Adds more clean power to the grid than it uses

Invests in distribution system infrastructure

Increases reliability, flexibility, and resilience

Open data and rising efficiency targets

Doesn’t add local pollution and is net-zero emissions

Develops clean data center community benefits agreements

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Dr. Ferrous @drferrous.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Set up the telescope for tonight's #supermoon and was not a bit disappointed. Thank the stars I bought a neutral density filter.

#backyardastronomy #chuseok #chuseok2025

Picture of the full moon on Monday 6 October 2025. Clear image of impact craters and dark valleys. The bumpy edges? Those aren't blur, they are MOUNTAINS. Taken from my backyard in Northern Virginia.

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@qagggy.bsky.social This was the original intent going back to Stuyvesant

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 2d

After a few days in New York City, I’m beginning to feel that cars should not be sold with horns.

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@mattblaze this seems like the kind of thing that EXIF is for

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I like the spooky decor at the Dairy Market #cville #photography

Color photo of the interior of a large space, showing a white ceiling with red sound baffle bars suspended from it and black witch hats suspended from that with the points pointing up towards the ceiling

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Today I have Bauhaus on the mind. It was shut down and bombed, but it has been restored and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site you can visit, if it is safe for you to travel. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/729/ #Bauhaus #design #unesco #preservation #education

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/shared-governance/2025/08/22/tex-boards-abolish-faculty-senates-create #highered #uspolitics #tx

Tex. Boards Abolish Faculty Senates, Create Toothless Councils

Two Houston professors have responded to Texas lawmakers’ assault on independent faculty governance by creating their own faux faculty senate.

www.insidehighered.com

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

"boosting housing availability isn’t just about affordability — it’s about economic growth. More housing means attracting and retaining workers, strengthening local economies, and bolstering tax revenues." #housing #virginia #valeg #buildingcode #zoning […]

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Remember blogs? Jim does! He continues to post valuable content about #crozet and regional issues here https://www.realcrozetva.com/

RealCrozetVA

Crozet's community blog

www.realcrozetva.com

Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Questions about #cville real estate? Realtor Jim Duncan is doing a reddit AMA right now! #realestate #ama #housing https://www.reddit.com/r/Charlottesville/comments/1nzhdoh/charlottesville_real_estate_ama_october_2025/

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