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Hey #teammassspec I hope the Twitter -> Mastodon transition goes well for you (and me).
I’m currently conducting #lipidomics, and #metabolomics to understand drug-induced liver injury.
Here’s to new adventures in #massspectrometry, great discussions in #teammassspec, alliances with #chromatography, #ionmobility and the best #software. :ablobcatrave:
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Hey Chris, I just posted a possible way to connect #TeamMassSpec here using a Google Form and Sheet to start the ball rolling.
https://fosstodon.org/@makingions/109311378275759937
Yeah, good question about hosting via #ASMS. I guess they'll want to see a reasonable community on Mastodon to justify spending to the membership. We will see :)
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@ypriverol #TeamMassSpec on Mastodon are doing great things but it probably won’t change overnight.
The engagement on Mastodon and the uncluttered, unfiltered feed is superb.
For users with large following on Twitter please note this example - 1 engagement per 114 followers on Mastodon. And 1 engagement per 10,614 followers on Twitter.
I wonder what #Shimadzu #Jeol #Waters #Sciex #Thermo #Bruker #Agilent etc are thinking?😯 https://sparktoro.com/blog/why-marketers-creators-and-brands-should-start-using-mastodon-asap/
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@ypriverol #TeamMassSpec on Mastodon are doing great things but it probably won’t change overnight.
The engagement on Mastodon and the uncluttered, unfiltered feed is superb.
For users with large following on Twitter please note this example - 1 engagement per 114 followers on Mastodon. And 1 engagement per 10,614 followers on Twitter.
I wonder what #Shimadzu #Jeol #Waters #Sciex #Thermo #Bruker #Agilent etc are thinking?😯 https://sparktoro.com/blog/why-marketers-creators-and-brands-should-start-using-mastodon-asap/
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@ypriverol #TeamMassSpec on Mastodon are doing great things but it probably won’t change overnight.
The engagement on Mastodon and the uncluttered, unfiltered feed is superb.
For users with large following on Twitter please note this example - 1 engagement per 114 followers on Mastodon. And 1 engagement per 10,614 followers on Twitter.
I wonder what #Shimadzu #Jeol #Waters #Sciex #Thermo #Bruker #Agilent etc are thinking?😯 https://sparktoro.com/blog/why-marketers-creators-and-brands-should-start-using-mastodon-asap/
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@ypriverol #TeamMassSpec on Mastodon are doing great things but it probably won’t change overnight.
The engagement on Mastodon and the uncluttered, unfiltered feed is superb.
For users with large following on Twitter please note this example - 1 engagement per 114 followers on Mastodon. And 1 engagement per 10,614 followers on Twitter.
I wonder what #Shimadzu #Jeol #Waters #Sciex #Thermo #Bruker #Agilent etc are thinking?😯 https://sparktoro.com/blog/why-marketers-creators-and-brands-should-start-using-mastodon-asap/
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@ypriverol #TeamMassSpec on Mastodon are doing great things but it probably won’t change overnight.
The engagement on Mastodon and the uncluttered, unfiltered feed is superb.
For users with large following on Twitter please note this example - 1 engagement per 114 followers on Mastodon. And 1 engagement per 10,614 followers on Twitter.
I wonder what #Shimadzu #Jeol #Waters #Sciex #Thermo #Bruker #Agilent etc are thinking?😯 https://sparktoro.com/blog/why-marketers-creators-and-brands-should-start-using-mastodon-asap/
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Why does a facial itch feel a lot different than one on your arm? Science just figured it out.
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Why does a facial itch feel a lot different than one on your arm? Science just figured it out.
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Why does a facial itch feel a lot different than one on your arm? Science just figured it out.
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The surprising best temperature for drinking water, according to experts
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If you struggle with small talk, a simple acronym can make it a lot less painful
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Scientists finally explain the real reason people ‘knock on wood’
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The Dice Are Always Loaded
Our money is evolving as debt; it represents debt, and at this late date, debt with interest. It has been evolving as debt for 5000 years, and David Graeber explained this evolution in detail.
But evolution does not confer correctness on a definition. Indeed, evolution is a process of trial and error, and the errors are eliminated without mercy.
Money is almost universally regarded as a claim on a nation’s wealth: an idea we share, and this makes sense to us because debt is an idea. Everybody knows what money is.
“It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So” – Josh Billings.
What if money really represents something else?
If a fisherman and a baker meet on a road and exchange 2 fish for 5 loaves, they are not swapping ideas. If the baker had money, not loaves, the fisherman would not go home to chew on a conjecture offered by someone he’d never met. Money as debt correctly abandons barter as an origin story, just as Graeber explains. It also incorrectly eliminates trade without trust, carelessly abandoning the simplest possible exchange of goods.
“Money is a commodity—and it can be anything—that a society agrees to accept in exchange for every other commodity or service within that society. It ultimately represents the work the holder of the money exchanged with that society to get it.”
Ideas are not subject to the Laws of Thermodynamics; work is.
And if money represents work, it must also be subject to those laws.
And it turns out that the Laws are radically anti-capitalistic.
In The Dice Are Always Loaded, I offer a different understanding of money and ownership. This connects money to the laws of the universe and overturns the money tables in the temple of Mammon. War, Inequality, Overconsumption, Environmental devastation, Planned Obsolescence, and Slavery; all the messes our human societies keep making can be found here.
Most essays about our terrible problems end there and offer no real solutions. After providing the evidence and logic for its definitions, The Dice Are Always Loaded discusses in detail how a functioning human society operates within the laws, from advertising to farming to delivering truthful news to an entire society.
I call the resulting socio-economic system “Mahinism,” because “Mahi” is te Reo Māori for “work.”
To understand better just how disruptive this understanding is, here are the Laws as they apply to money.
First Law: Ownership of anything cannot make money. Conservation of Energy applies.
Second Law: Money cannot be a lasting store of value. Entropy applies.
Consider the business model of a bank: it collects interest on the money it loans to you because it owns the money it lends to you.
Consider the business model of a Landlord, who collects rent without doing work. A society that rejects these things is possible, but it is very different from what we do today.
We are paying people who are not working for their ownership of the things we need to live. As a result, they have massive piles of money with which to purchase Members of Parliament, Senators, Congressmen, Supreme Court Justices, and Presidents. They own our laws, and when that is not sufficient, they buy our news media to ensure we never see the truth.
It needs to stop.
The people in the owning class are not all bad, but “the love of money is the root of all evil” is one of the basic truths of our major religions. The problem is not the people; it is the existence of the massive piles of money and the ease with which they corrupt even the best governments.
The Dice Are Always Loaded draws on many sources, but it was first written by an engineer using only the Laws; that was 15 years ago, and the author cites several previous efforts. It is not the first attempt to correct our error in defining money, but it may be the last chance for human civilization before nature erases our mistake.
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This is, technically, the second edition of “Making Money Real.” It exists because self-help books about money are ignored by people who might be interested in dismantling Capitalism. References on this site may include aspects of the first book. This post, however, becomes the anchor for everything else I do.
The book is to be published through “YourBooks” in New Zealand, and through “Draft2Digital” elsewhere in the world. New Zealand gets color printing. Greyscale images for everyone else. I can’t afford fancy.
The errata pages will change over shortly.
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Why some shoppers avoid self-checkout (even when it’s faster), according to psychologists
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Why some shoppers avoid self-checkout (even when it’s faster), according to psychologists
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Why some shoppers avoid self-checkout (even when it’s faster), according to psychologists
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Why some shoppers avoid self-checkout (even when it’s faster), according to psychologists
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#BTW: #IT's a #GreatComfort #ToKnow that #TheRightToBeOffended is #SoManfullyExplained by #CelebrityFatCunt, #RickyGervais... And, that #IT has #ZeroImpact on #Anything...
#Maybe... #JustMaybe, he can get #CelebrityFatCunt, #JamesCorden to #ReadITOut on #Television for him...
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We're #SoVerified... :verified_paw: :verified_flashing: :verified_paw:
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#CelebrityFatClub #BeingOffended #MakingMoney #CuntardsGonnaCuntard
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Where to Invest: The apps that make you money in your sleep
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/31/invest-apps-make-money-sleep-25412791/
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Instagram post compares Robert De Niro’s face over the years to explain why everyone’s ears change
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Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals the science of why he wants to be buried instead of cremated
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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
This new understanding undermines the old admiration of worldly success as such. We are beginning to abandon our tolerance of the abuse of power by those who betray for profit the elementary decencies of life.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #abuseofpower #admiration #decency #economicinjustice #makingmoney #power #profit #socialgood #socialill #success #worldliness #worldlysuccess
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #workingclass #contentment #disrespectability #enjoyment #enough #hardwork #idleness #industry #labor #makingmoney #recreation #rulingclass
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Capitolo 425: Parigi Mi Appartiene
Inoltrandomi nell’inverno, tra plaid, tazze d’orzo e termosifoni accesi, il bisogno di viaggiare si fa più acceso, più urgente. E quale modo migliore di partire se non quello di mettere uno o due film ambientati nella città dove ami di più viaggiare? Il nuovo capitolo comincia così con tanta Parigi, tra le scale di Montmartre e il bianco e nero della Nouvelle Vague, per poi dirigersi verso altri lidi (Corea, Nevada, Washington e… beh, Hawkins). In questi giorni c’è anche stata la prima proiezione stampa del mio 2026 e tutto sembra dunque avvolgersi intorno a una strepitosa normalità.
Dililì a Parigi (2018): Quando cercavo qualcosa da vedere su Mubi sono rimasto subito catturato dal frame di questo film d’animazione, che vedeva un gruppo di persone discendere le scale di Montmartre a bordo di un carretto per le consegne. Con me ci vuole davvero poco a vendermi qualcosa: se vedo Montmartre, schiaccio play. Mi sono trovato di fronte a un film davvero interessante, innanzitutto nella realizzazione: ogni inquadratura mescola immagini reali di, non so, un’edicola, un palazzo, una vetrina, inserite sul contesto animato del film (un po’ il contrario di quanto avvenuto ad esempio in Roger Rabbit, dove erano i personaggi animati a inserirsi nel mondo reale). Siamo a Parigi, ovviamente, nei primi anni del ventesimo secolo: è la Parigi della Belle Epoque, dove una bambina franco-canaca fa amicizia con un corriere. Attraverso questo incontro, la piccola Dililì conosce alcune delle più grandi personalità dell’epoca (Louis Pasteur, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Marie Curie, Sarah Bernhardt, Gustave Eiffel, Louise Michel e ancora, Picasso, Monet, Renoir, Proust, Matisse, Colette, Rodin, Debussy e molti altri), grazie alle quali tenta di sventare il piano di una setta segreta che sta rapendo tutte le bambine della città. Il film di Ocelot, nella sua tenera ingenuità, è ammirevole come detto per tutto l’apparato tecnico, ma anche per il modo in cui la storia scivola tra le vie di una Parigi stupenda, palpabile, impossibile da non amare. Una gemma d’animazione, dove la scoperta continua di personaggi celebri della Parigi di quei tempi è probabilmente la cosa più simpatica da seguire. Se amate la Ville Lumiere, non potete non vederlo.
•••½Parigi Ci Appartiene (1961): Come vedrete tra un paio di mesi nel film Nouvelle Vague di Linklater, verso la fine degli anni 50 tra i critici dei Cahiers du Cinema era partita una sorta di smania di voler dirigere un film. Jacques Rivette comincia a girare questo nel 1958 (quasi contemporaneamente a Truffaut, alle prese con I 400 Colpi), che però riuscirà a concludere solo tre anni più tardi. In una Parigi labirintica, lontana da quella borghese mostrata fino ad allora nel cinema francese, ma sui tetti, nei monolocali delle cameriere, tra le strade deserte, una giovane studentessa di letteratura entra nel giro di una compagnia teatrale, dove tutti non fanno che parlare del presunto suicidio di un loro amico, attivista politico. Infatuata da un esiliato statunitense amico della vittima e al tempo stesso intrigata dal mistero che c’è intorno alla storia, la ragazza indaga per scoprire la verità. Girato per le strade della città rubando immagini senza permessi, come nella tradizione dell’epoca, Rivette mette in scena una sorta di noir fuori dai canoni tradizionali, con probabilmente qualche lungaggine di troppo, ma con anche un fascino irresistibile. Rivette impreziosisce il suo film con un bellissimo cameo di Jean Luc Godard, che ai tempi ancora non aveva fatto il suo debutto dietro la macchina da presa. Non è un film facilissimo da seguire, l’intreccio si perde spesso tra le chiacchiere della banda di amici e dura forse più del necessario, ma se volete fare un salto nella Parigi nascosta di quei tempi, in una città vera, pulsante, vibrante, senza immagini da cartolina, allora aprite Mubi e dategli una chance.
•••½No Other Choice (2025): Park Chan-wook non lo devo presentare io, ci mancherebbe. Il regista di film straordinari come Old Boy, Thirst (che hanno aggiunto da poco su Prime, recuperatelo!) o del più recente Decision To Leave ha aperto i cinema del 2026 con la sua ultima fatica, una commedia nera che, sotto strati di humor nero e violenza pop, mette in scena una critica profonda al capitalismo (forse più interessante rispetto al film nel suo complesso). Il padre di una famiglia apparentemente perfetta si ritrova improvvisamente senza lavoro, a causa di diversi tagli al personale. Nei mesi successivi, per evitare che persone più qualificate vengano scelte al posto suo durante i colloqui, mette in piedi un piano per eliminarle. Il film è divertente, funziona, è girato da dio (ovviamente) e ci sono alcune scene che valgono da sole il prezzo del biglietto (ad esempio la scena del primo omicidio, con i due “litiganti” che cercano di comunicare nonostante la musica dello stereo a tutto volume), il punto è che forse da un film di Park non voglio uscire divertito, ma estasiato. Insomma, è tutta una questione di aspettative, per il resto il film è impeccabile e non posso che consigliare di vederlo.
•••½Sidney (1996): Era l’unico film della filmografia di Paul Thomas Anderson che ancora non avevo visto: il suo esordio dietro la macchina da presa. Philip Baker Hall (il Sidney del titolo) incontra un uomo distrutto, seduto su un marciapiede, senza soldi, senza speranze: è John C. Reilly, ormai un derelitto. Sidney, una sorta di Mr Wolf più anziano, gli offre un caffè e decide di aiutarlo a rimettersi in piedi. Finiranno a Reno, la “piccola Las Vegas”, dove cominciano una nuova vita, il passato però non dorme mai. Vagamente ispirato a Bob il Giocatore di Melville, quest’opera prima di PTA mette già in mostra le grandissime qualità di un regista che, nel giro di tre anni, ci avrebbe regalato film pazzeschi come Boogie Nights e Magnolia. La qualità principale di questo film è che ogni scena ti innesca molte domande e non hai idea della direzione che prenderà la storia, almeno fino al finale dove ogni cosa appare finalmente chiara. Da segnalare nel cast anche Gwyneth Paltrow e Samuel L. Jackson. Bello.
•••½Due Single a Nozze (2005): Specializzato in buddy movies (da Fred Claus a 2 Cavalieri a Londra, con l’eccezione di The Judge), il regista David Dobkin con questa commedia più o meno demenziale centra il cult della vita, il guilty pleasure per antonomasia. Vince Vaughn e Owen Wilson sono due avvocati che amano imbucarsi ai matrimoni di perfetti sconosciuti per poter conoscere qualche ragazza. Al matrimonio dell’anno, quello della figlia del potente senatore Christopher Walken, Owen Wilson si innamora dell’altra figlia di lui, Rachel McAdams, già promessa a un odioso Bradley Cooper (che ai tempi ancora non aveva girato Una Notte da Leoni). Il film è in linea di massima piuttosto sciocco, ma non posso farci niente: mi fa pisciare dalle risate. Menzione speciale per il clamoroso Chazz di Will Ferrell, che in pochi minuti ruba la scena con il suo citatissimo “Ma’, il polpettone!!”, spedendo il film nel paradiso delle commedie cult (o quanto meno in purgatorio). Scemo quanto spassoso: lo trovate su Prime.
•••½Stranger Things: Un’Ultima Avventura (2026): Un ultimo sguardo indietro prima di lasciarci alle spalle Stranger Things. Sulla serie ho già espresso alcune considerazioni nel capitolo precedente e questo backstage diretto da Martina Radwan non è nient’altro che un lungo contenuto extra di quelli che una volta si trovavano facilmente nei cofanetti in dvd, mentre ora viene spacciato per documentario su Netflix. In soldoni si tratta di un vero e proprio making of della quinta stagione dello show: mi sarebbe piaciuto trovare qualche intervista ai protagonisti, qualche vera e propria chicca, in realtà scorre tutto senza colpo ferire, dalla costruzione dei set al trucco, agli effetti speciali. Menzione a parte per la bellissima scena in cui il cast legge per la prima volta lo script dell’ultima puntata, momento emotivamente altissimo che, con tutta probabilità, vale da solo tutto il “film”. Ai fan più accaniti piacerà.
•••#Cinema #commenti #daVedere #diCheParla #dililiAParigi #dueSingleANozze #film #makingOfStrangerThings #noOtherChoice #parigiCiAppartiene #recensione #sidney #strangerThingsDocumentario #unUltimaAvventura
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A quotation from Bernard Levin
You don’t need to be a genius or a sage to realise — realise, not know, let alone work out — that there is no easy path to great wealth (or to anything useful) because if there were, the poor would be in a very small minority, and everybody else would be stinking rich.
Bernard Levin (1928-2004) British journalist, critic, broadcaster, satirist
Essay (1989-03-23), “Do You Seriously Want to Be Swindled?” The Times, LondonSourcing, notes: wist.info/levin-bernard/78545/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bernardlevin #easiness #easyanswers #makingmoney #ragstoriches #riches #scam #wealth #poor #poverty #swindle
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(@)makingsenseofscience [Instagram]: #brain #aneurysm
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Making sense of the world in 14 Maps
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Making sense of the world in 14 Maps
These maps will help you put the present state of affairs in the world into perspective.
by Mihai Andrei, January 13, 2015 – Updated on April 29, 2023
Each color has 1 billion people
This is the world divided into seven sections – each with approximately 1 billion people. That’s right, both the Americas and Australia together have just as much population as that red strip in South-East Asia or the orange bit in and around India. But if you think this is a shock…This may surprise you
Population on Earth is not distributed evenly, to put it mildly. India and South-East Asia are very densely populated, so more people live inside that circle than outside it. That’s also where most of the world’s population growth is happening. Also, it’s not just population that is divided unequally…The world’s income levels
As you can see, we still live in a segregated world — economically. The rich areas are in Europe (except for the eastern part), the US (and likely Canada), Japan, Australia and some parts of Arabia. Africa is still predominantly extremely poor, while Eastern Europe, South America and some parts of Asia are still in a transition phase. Financial and social inequality is still a problem for mankind.Countries with which England has never fought (in white)
The biggest colonial empire in the world, Great Britain has left their mark on mankind and made a lot of enemies along the way. As it turns out… they fought with almost everybody. Sweden gets an honorable mention for being so close to England and yet not fighting the Brits.Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Making sense of the world in 14 Maps
Tags: Geography, Making Sense, Map, Maps, Natural Sciences, Perspective, Seeing, The World, Understanding
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[Transcript] #Powerlands
Story by Jessica Partnow, November 2023
"On this week’s #MakingContact, we bring you a special encore of an episode that first aired in June. We’ll hear an extended interview with #IveyCamilleManybeadsTso, a #queer #Diné filmmaker and director of the award-winning #documentary Powerlands.
"Powerlands traces how #multinational energy #corporations extract resources and profits while displacing and harming #Indigenous communities around the world. The film follows #IndigenousActivists in #NavajoNation, #Colombia, #Mexico and the #Philippines who are fighting back against corporations like #PeabodyEnergy, #Glencore and #BHP."
Powerlands Documentary website:
https://powerlands.org/#&gid=1&pid=1Interview transcript:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/powerlands/ar-AA1jXelC#IndigenousActivism #WaterIsLife #Mining #ResourceColonialism #Colonialism #BigMountain #Corporatocracy #CulturalGenocide #BigOilAndGas #BigEnergy #BigUranium #McCainShame