#linked data

[ourwitching]

For the past few months, Silvia Gutiérrez and Giovanna Fontenelle (from the Culture and Heritage te...

[aibafiles]

metaphor prologue

[stxss-art]

And then he ran back to his Uncle and cried

(mysteriously the next day, the local blacksmith received a resume)

[omg-snakes]

Help Us Do Real Science!

@talesfromtreatment and I have an ask for our fellow corn snake keepers and breeders.

We're gathering information on corn snake size by age and we need community scientists like you to provide the largest possible body of data.

@talesfromtreatment will be using the information gathered to build an accurate, statistics-supported corn snake growth and feeding guide based on ACTUAL data from ACTUAL corn snake keepers like you! I'm just the numbers gal.

Here's what we need:

Your snake's age (in years)

Your snake's weight (in grams)

A top-down photo of your snake's entire body with an inch or centimeter reference. (see photo below)

All of this information entered in our online form, linked below or copy/pasta: https://forms.gle/QtAwmiFa6fpBewFs8

https://forms.gle/QtAwmiFa6fpBewFs8

We'd love to get data on older snakes, younger snakes, fatter snakes, skinnier snakes. If you've got a corn snake we want their age, weight, and a photo of them with a measuring device.

Photos don't need to be fancy, just give us a top-down view of your snake and a ruler/tape measure/yardstick on a flat surface.

The survey is anonymous and we won't share your photos with anyone nor use them for any purpose beyond collecting morphometric data for this specific study.

Please please please help us collect as much data as possible. Share with your reptile-keeping friends, signal boost, submit your metrics, and stay tuned for updates!

https://forms.gle/QtAwmiFa6fpBewFs8

[scruncheduppaper]

like just use your gut to answer this one

[sainz100]

via this 2017 article covering Daniel's thoughts on routines & coaching & more ahead of the 2017 Singapore GP

[aether-link]

Amir if he was a Pokemon trainer, or scientist/researcher.

But when I was doodling this, This could be a close idea/thought of Amir before the infection/techrot. Anyways plain background undercut.

[glitterbuns]

The fact that Nintendo will let TOTK die (just like ACNH) when they could've released a DLC: it could've contained memories between BOTW and TOTK explaining the reconstruction plans, and it could've given us missions to reconstruct parts of Hyrule...

It will never sit right with me.

[musashi]

i am begging the other leftists on my fucking dash to stop reblogging anti-voting stuff until the election is over. there are so many doomers on this website who do not have the critical thinking skills to fucking use their brains and tons of them will be genuinely swayed by what they see online.

for the love of god, queue it for after november 5th. queue all your criticism for then. unleash the fucking beast after the election is over. but it is so fucking irresponsible to be reblogging that shit now.

[icewindandboringhorror]

indeed my exact process once every 8 months or so

[ourwitching]

For the past few months, Silvia Gutiérrez and Giovanna Fontenelle (from the Culture and Heritage te...

[neomedievalist]

very good paragraph basically describing neomedievalism in its most trite and least inspired form. brief reductive definition for probably a significant amt of you who dont know what it is, neomedievalism is a fictional medieval setting inspired by other fictional medieval settings rather than the actual middle ages

i like neomedievalism (In the highly specific instances that define it for ME) which is why . its my url. but like the term was kind of invented as like. Well if it was invented today by a twitter user they'd call it fantasyslop. And like admittedly the reason the term needs to exist is bc of derivative shit like this.

the entire reason a medieval setting can be safe and cozy for some ppl is basically bc the fantasy genre has certain tropes and beats that are expected and unsurprising for people. it's escapism and wish fulfillment to the maximum. it reminds me of one of the introductions to neomedievalism that i read that i tend to dislike for being overly negative but i feel is relevant from the paper neomedievalism, hyperrealism, and simulation by brent and kevin moberly:

this is really relevant for this book because it tries to be escapism, "turn-your-brain-off" type of fiction but you can't help but wonder hey how the fuck does this function? i thought this was supposed to be a medieval society? like they said in the article:

this is really the "staging its own death" that they were talking about

[queerstarpeople]

Wowza, self promo time!!

I finally finished this DaForge fic! After way too much time procrastinating, I present you this:

Rating: Teens and up

Category: M/M

Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation

Relationship: Data/Geordi LaForge

Tags: Holodecks & Holosuites (Star Trek), POV Geordi LaForge, Angst with a Happy Ending, Pining, Canon Sherlock Holmes roleplay, Many references to Sherlock Holmes, author ships JohnLock, Misunderstandings, Data Has Android Emotions (Star Trek), Data glows in Geordi's eyes, sappy at times (okay most times), Closets, Getting Together, Friends to Lovers, Mild Hurt/Comfort

Summary: Data and Geordi are best friends, however, Data has started acting weirdly. Geordi isn't sure how to react, especially because it is all somehow related to Sherlock Holmes.

Thank you so so much if you're gonna give this fic a try, I really did have a lot of fun writing this<3333

[flying-cat]

no need to ban tiktok if meta is buying it. i'll just delete it myself lmfao

[mystic-vibeszz]

been a little bit artblocked atm, heres some misc stuff :3

[girderednerve]

The archivists I spoke to were confident that much less government data will be permanently lost than was initially feared. But they also saw little reason for complacency. “What we don’t know is how much material has been changed,” Mark Graham, the director of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, told me. His team is tabulating how many dot-gov pages with certain keywords have been modified or deleted; in the lead are “health policy,” “World Health Organization,” and “systemic racism.” Their backups are foundational to many of the more recent efforts to archive the federal web. But they’re also closer to “snapshots” than functional substitutes: What use is an archived F.D.A. finding aid if it’s been disconnected from back-end data, and doctors without coding skills can’t use it to research clinical trials?

“It’s a lot easier for the archival community to say, ‘Yeah, we have a bunch of data,’ than it is to say, ‘Yeah, we’re hosting a bunch of server-side applications that will help you navigate the data,’ ” Jack Cushman, the director of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, told me. Last month, his organization released a backup of the more than three hundred thousand data sets hosted by data.gov. (At least three thousand of the originals have been removed.) They’re also working on open-source tools to make all this data navigable.

Last week, the guerrilla archiving movement reached an important milestone, when restoredCDC.org went online. It’s a replica of the health agency’s pre-Trump website based on backups from r/DataHoarder—one that’s fully functional, with a reconstructed back end and interactive tools. But fresh challenges loom. Librarians and data hoarders have been able to save only publicly available records; restricted ones, such as the D.O.J.’s National Database of Police Misconduct—or the internal records being shredded by employees of U.S.A.I.D.—may be gone for good.