currently reading:

„blue machine: how the ocean shapes our world“ by helen czerski

https://amzn.eu/d/12oh0JN

#reading #science #ocean

The speed of light visualized on a cosmic scale.

Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue

#science #space

@TimHarford has already covered the story in the most recent episode of his podcast „cautionary tales“

https://timharford.com/2025/05/cautionary-tales-doves-press/

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #design #typography #art #mastoart #podcast #listening

the typeface „doves type“ has such an interesting backstory, certainly good enough for a podcast but it could easily be a movie as well

http://cogmodo.com/dovestype

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #design #typography #art #mastoart

Imagine a publishing house with the mission of making knowledge and insights available to everybody for free, while ensuring high standards.

Well, the three universities of Berlin and the Charité have now joined forces to do just that.

They founded "Berlin Universities Publishing". Neither authors not readers pay. The pdf of books are freely available under a Creative Commons licence.

It's called "Diamond Open Access". They're just starting up. Much more to come.

https://www.berlin-universities-publishing.de/en/index.html

i’ve created a new automation with the hazel app to resize my images that i want to post on social media, strip away all unnecessary metatags and include my personal iptc tags. all in on go, no fiddling anymore. behind the scenes i’m using the mac’s sips command as well as the glorious exiftool

http://cogmodo.com/resizeimageswithhazel

#writing #writingcommunity #blog #automation #hazel #sips #exiftool

no entry #photography #art #mastoart #door #pattern #architecture #window #windowfriday #fensterfreitag

@ilyess some of the earlier versions seemed to be very generous in terms of battery consumption. my phone even got hot while browsing through my feeds. but i haven’t used it for a while

my first post on my new website is all about some connections between #ai and #consciousness

i’ve recently read the book „gödel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid“ by douglas hofstadter and had some tidbits from it in mind while listening to one of the recent episodes of the mindscape podcast by sean carroll. that‘s where the ideas for this post came from

http://cogmodo.com/aiandconsciousness

#writing #writingcommunity #science

#introduction hi there! 👋 i’ve joined mastodon quite a while ago with my art, design and photography related account @aboutgrau

now i‘m starting here with a new account to focus more on my interests around #science #apple #automation #writing #reading and personal knowledge management or #pkm

expect some low volume posts here that circle around one topic in more depth

the new website http://cogmodo.com is also more or less live already. so have a look if you’re curious