jackcole

Retired US Army scientist (cyber security research), father of 4, pilot. #fedi22 #cybersecurity #AI #ML #flying #music #photography #languages #chemistry #electronics

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2025-02-08 01:06:32

Nat Love, one of the people who took the fictional name "Deadwood Dick" grew up as a slave in TN, taught himself to read (illegally at the time), and became, among other things, a cowboy. He lead quite a life, and was quite a story teller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Love
#BlackHistoryMonth
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2024-12-30 23:57:35

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@nprofile…lwhf I am in favor of (A) Moving away from Adobe and (B) Killing as many subscriptions as possible.
I buy my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription at the end of the year when Adobe is offering new subscribers a hefty discount, and they are willing to cancel me and pretend that I'm a new subscriber.
For that I pay somewhat more than annual equivalent of $25/month, but still a hefty price.
Will look into Wondershare.

2024-12-26 15:46:46

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@nprofile…vdm6
And yet ... RFK Jr doesn't give the appearance of a healthy person whose very image and voice sound like. the afflictions of his "healthy" choices aren't healthy.

2024-12-23 19:10:24

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@nprofile…s2gh @nprofile…0xyd
John Kenneth Galbraith:
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/113/703/715/086/759/606/original/050a48b958332d84.jpg

2024-12-22 19:32:57

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@nprofile…taps
INFECTIOUS DISEASES KILLED 40-50% OF U.S. CHILDREN 1800-1850
In the first half of the 19th century, between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn’t live past the age of 5.
https://theconversation.com/infectious-diseases-killed-victorian-children-at-alarming-rates-their-novels-highlight-the-fragility-of-public-health-today-242273

2024-12-22 13:31:07

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@nprofile…q3dc And these drones were flown in from foreign countries!

2024-12-15 18:04:52

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@nprofile…9vf2
Madeleine Riffaud, French resistance, died age 100 November 2024.
Paywall article in English, but good recent photo, and some of article is readable:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2024/11/06/madeleine-riffaud-french-resistance-heroine-dies-aged-100_6731863_15.html

2024-11-26 14:07:11

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@nprofile…zp6v Probably a little foggy about what happened the night before.

2024-11-16 00:04:44

Has Merriam Webster been infected by a #LLM? Here MW lists phlegm as a synonym for apathy. Seems like the drunken behavior you would expect.
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/113/489/705/369/791/940/original/aa1ca1c47b994709.jpg

2024-11-03 12:52:42

"FUNGI MAY NOT THINK, BUT THEY CAN COMMUNICATE"
My Mystery Science Theater 3000 comments:
Same for people. That's what social media platforms are all about.
Betting fungi have at least one social media platform.
Perhaps they are on Mastodon.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/fungi-may-not-think-but-they-can-communicate/
#communication #fungi #mst3k @npub16mz…uzxf #SocialMedia #network

2024-10-07 13:45:51

Banana tree leaf underside. Friend gave us a single banana tree stalk. We brought the potted tree indoors for the winter until it got too tall and heavy. For roughly a decade we've very successfully left the trees to over winter in ground, cutting them back to less than a foot tall, and covering with leaves and landscape fabric and upended containers. We now have 4 locations of about 24 trees some reaching 10 feet tall. Will post broader view of trees. #nature #trees #bananas #photography
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2024-09-12 13:48:43

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Relish today. Ketchup tomorrow. Stephen King

2024-08-15 23:48:19

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@npub132h…f594 Are they sure it is Ludicrous Speed or is it not perhaps Plaid.

2024-07-15 11:32:37

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@npub1uld…xht3 good composition for photo

2024-07-12 14:16:26

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@npub1lv4…ru5g Insect dementia isn't well recognized, but this fly isn't sunning, it's trying to remember why it's on this leaf and where it meant to go next. Sad.

2024-07-10 21:07:17

#ImpeachClarenceThomas Thomas Took Free Yacht Trip to Russia, Chopper Flight to Putin’s Hometown
https://www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-thomas-accepted-yacht-trip-to-russia-chopper-flight-to-putins-hometown-democrats

2024-07-10 11:19:03

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@npub1uld…xht3
PETRICHOR
https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/students/highschool/chemistryclubs/infographics/petrichor-the-smell-of-rain.pdf

2024-06-27 00:59:32

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@npub1tps…9rmt
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2819785

2024-05-12 17:10:59

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@npub1qzc…yetl #waroncars
And Jeep sells a model named "Gladiator", suggesting mortal combat on the highway. Insurance rates for vehicles so named or bumpers so labelled should be unaffordably high.

2024-04-11 00:29:04

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
#deadder #abortion #scotus
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2023-12-13 23:44:51

"War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost."
Karl Klaus 1874-1936
#war

2023-10-31 16:08:01

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@npub1xpc…3t05 @npub1dqt…h0gl
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” Mark Twain

2023-10-29 15:40:00

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@npub1ks7…eg5u Got this?

2023-10-29 15:04:07

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@npub1ks7…eg5u Lots of good reading at PG. So many good things to read, so little time.

2023-10-27 15:47:50

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@npub1ks7…eg5u In 1938, Katharine Way identified the instability that was predictive of Hahn's 1939 discovery of fission.
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.”
― Isaac Newton (or Otto Hahn, perhaps)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Way

2023-10-27 15:37:52

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@npub1ks7…eg5u A great quote, and very true.

2023-10-27 15:34:44

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@npub1ks7…eg5u Learning Scots Gaelic is on my bucket list, a list that might turn out to be just a short work of fiction. There are not many speakers today of any flavor of Gaelic, even though it is a very interesting language. Samuel Johnson had a somewhat similar role translating (and I suspect editing) the works of Juvenal from Latin, just as Macpherson claimed for the Gaelic works. So Johnson's denial of Macpherson's work is interesting.

2023-10-22 16:36:42

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@npub1ks7…eg5u
"Hate is the poison you take expecting someone else to die."
Author of quote unknown to me, and Quote Investigator is unclear about a similar quote.

2023-10-20 15:16:15

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@npub1ks7…eg5u
FWIW
From your wording, readers unfamiliar with the area might think neutrons are a radioactive isotope, which they are not.
"As he anticipated, neutrons and other radioactive isotopes now play an important role in medicine".
Neutrons are one of several subatomic particles. Isotopes are whole atoms with a different collection of subatomic particles than usual. Not all isotopes are radioactive, and deuterium, a naturally occurring isotope of hydrogen, is an example.

2023-10-19 15:13:59

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@npub1ks7…eg5u
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022/

2023-10-18 23:32:47

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@npub1ks7…eg5u Charles Steinmetz, electrical engineer famous for contributions to alternating current and electric motors, was a talent Edison acquired when GE bought a smaller company. Steinmetz and Edison were close, and "In 1922, Thomas Edison came to visit Steinmetz. Edison was nearly deaf, and Steinmetz tapped out a message on Edison’s knee in Morse Code. Edison beamed, and the two continued their silent conversation in front of bewildered reporters." Steinmetz died October 26, 1923

2023-10-10 14:35:40

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@npub1ks7…eg5u @npub1kvn…hm73 And who were all those people 10s of thousands of years ago that set out into the unknown to explore the planet and populate it? We have footprints in White Sands NM from 23K years ago at the height of one ice age. I'm amazed by relatively modern explorers, but their spirit surely lived in their predecessors.

2023-10-06 17:07:00

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@npub1ks7…eg5u my favorite from Tennyson:
Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower --- but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Tennyson

2023-09-13 14:19:11

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@npub1ks7…eg5u @npub1kvn…hm73
Pilot here. "First in Flight" for Wrights seems at best shaky. Gustave Whitehead is a major contender. Wrights were adept at PR, the others were not. Other aviation "firsts" had good PR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead

2023-09-07 16:28:29

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@npub1ks7…eg5u I was lucky to meet him when I was taking graduate electronics courses in his department. He was an Iowa boy who served in combat in WW2, and his influence on science and the Univ of Iowa Physics Dept was enormously positive.
https://physics.uiowa.edu/about/james-van-allen

2023-08-24 00:50:33

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@npub1ks7…eg5u Counterpoint to Henley:
“By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in
this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.”
- Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"

2023-08-15 13:49:12

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@npub1ks7…eg5u @npub1kvn…hm73
I realize you are trying to draw attention to the collection of books available at PG, and I support that. But in this case people are probably more aware of the movie adapted to her novel, and that is wort mentioning to increase interest in reading the novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_(1956_film)

2023-07-18 01:28:47

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@npub16mz…uzxf Don't let them get your goatee.

2023-07-18 01:27:35

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@npub16mz…uzxf But no one could hold him accountable.

2023-07-17 17:13:39

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@npub16mz…uzxf
One plus one equals three for large values of one.

2023-07-17 11:15:46

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@npub16mz…uzxf And the word "wheel" derived from "we will go now" into the contraction "we'll" which then was corrupted into "wheel".

2023-07-11 01:16:01

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@npub16mz…uzxf Lightning bugs are pretty flashy, but it's Thunder bugs that make all the noise.

2023-07-10 14:21:32

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@npub1ks7…eg5u @npub1kvn…hm73
@npub15x5…wanc
"... We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.
Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles, and the instruments through which we shall be able to do all of this, will fit in our vest pockets."
Nikola Tesla, 1926

2023-07-09 15:24:26

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@npub1ks7…eg5u @npub1kvn…hm73
"The Avogadro number (or constant) has been defined in many different ways through its long history. Its approximate value was first determined, indirectly, by Josef Loschmidt in 1865" (Wikipedia) Some 50 years earlier than Avogadro was credited by a fellow Italian scientist.
Whoever is credited, the molecular number and volume (22.414 liters) is one of the unexplained facts of nature: that it applies to all molecules.

2023-07-07 16:26:57

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@npub1cus…6789
Mark Twain: Education is the path between cocky ignorance and miserable uncertainty.

2023-06-24 16:20:48

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@npub1jfl…ru8c #Prigozhin has already achieved a great deal by signaling others in Russia's government that there is a real alternative. And that Russian territory is now directly involved in war. The too-timid now have a leader. Yes, Prigozhin and Putin are a great deal alike, but this means they can not occupy the same space, one has to go. Whoever wins, Putin or Prigozhin, Ukraine wins.

2023-06-08 23:43:23

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@npub16mz…uzxf And a poor plan it is. Bald scalps reflect solar energy back unto space, helping to reduce global warming.

2023-06-08 23:41:14

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@npub1r9k…st4e Jack Dorsey isn't that far from being Elon. Endorsing RFK Jr ? Foretelling that Bitcoin will end world hunger? Early on saying that Musk was the best choice for Twtr CEO? All social media platforms share some of the same problems that are daunting for the best managers/operators. But for ppl like Dorsey and Musk, there is only the downhill race.

2023-06-07 23:17:03

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@npub16mz…uzxf
You could just buy a few cases of Perri-Air.
https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/Perri_Air

2023-04-23 23:45:27

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#[0]
#[1] doesn't favor the #[2] thinker:
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis,
the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion
-- these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.
But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
"The Process of Education", Jerome S. Bruener