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2025-02-07

#NASA may have to take things off the web. But I don’t.

Poster of “Women of NASA” - full text for eight names presented in comments by heroic helpers, as my server choked on all 8 bios.
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2025-02-07

GovWayback: access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" govwayback.com/

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Laura Manach :bongoCat:cmconseils
2025-01-28

i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-28

@cmconseils

I don't think it works by doing it just once. The process needs to be repeated until the trash collection people start referring to you as "the pizza lady."

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Laura Manach :bongoCat:cmconseils
2025-01-28

"Do what you love and the money will follow."
I ate a whole pizza, had a nap and watched TV.
Now we wait.

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-24

@BimboBaggins

Reminds me of the $11 medium size cauliflower crust frozen pizza my local grocery store is selling. It's not a pizza, it's a stanky vegetable frisbee. Frozen pizzas are death on a platter so I applaud the thought, but... that just can't be good. Just can't... nope... nope...

Still from the 1978 Life Cereal commercial in which a young boy and his friend are sitting at a dining room table and one is saying "I'm not going to try it, you try it." In the next scene the other boy says "Let's get Mikey! He'll try it! He'll eat anything."
✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-21

@ElleGray
Nothing wrong with allowing oneself to feel bad when the situation calls for it. Never give up hope.🌼

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-14

@gregc

Never heard of that problem before, wow! Bessie Smith's lyrics could get a little saucy sometimes but I didn't know they still had the power to corrupt the youth!

I'll have to stop listening to her music so as to not get morally compromised.😁

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-14

@gregc

Or go to archive dot org and put:

st louis blues bessie smith louis armstrong

into search. I just did it and this recording was the first one on the list of results. I'm sorry for the trouble you're having. I think I shouldn't use Internet Archive for my posts anymore. Thanks for letting me know.

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-14

@gregc

Sounds like the security settings on your browser are blocking Internet Archive. I just tried it with Firefox and then with Seamonkey (on a desktop Linux) and it worked with them. You may wish to try another browser if you have one handy.

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-14

@gregc
Yeah, Internet Archive isn't the best for embedding in posts. Just click on the text below their squiggly image, go to their original page, and download the song. It's definitely worth having a copy of this fine tune.

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-14

@distrustful_dinos

That's lovely, that is!

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-14

🧵 And here is the actual version of St. Louis Blues which was recorded by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong 100 years ago today (Jan, 14, 1925). #music #blues #jazz #history #blackhistory
archive.org/details/JV-1426-19

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-14

100 years ago today, on Jan. 14, 1925, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong made one of the landmark recordings in music history. Many have recorded St. Louis Blues yet none have ever surpassed their version.

Here Smith sings it four years later in 1929. This is from her short film "St. Louis Blues" (her only movie appearance). #music #film #history #blackhistory #blues #jazz 🧵
archive.org/details/St_Louis_B

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2025-01-11
✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-11

@Natasha_Jay

It just needs to break up with that floppy that only wants to seek failure. It's not the drive's fault, it's a disk error.

CRT computer monitor with the words "Disk error: Seek failure!" on the screen.
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Corey S Powellcoreyspowell
2025-01-10

Catchy news stories often report bold claims like "new theory overturns cosmology," which then seem to vanish without a trace.

Here's a peek behind the scenes. A recent study allegedly debunked dark energy -- but it has its own big problems when examined closely.

bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban

We can look arbitrarily far back in the Universe if our telescopes allow, and the clustering of galaxies should reveal a specific distance scale – the acoustic scale – that should evolve with time in a particular fashion, just as the acoustic “peaks and valleys” in the cosmic microwave background reveal this scale as well. The evolution of this scale, over time, is an early relic that reveals a low expansion rate of ~67 km/s/Mpc, and is consistent from CMB features to BAO features.
✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-10

@Venta
Yes, it was! The sun should be very active for another year so hopefully there will be more great auroras in 2025.

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-08

@ivor
I always thought that Lexmark couldn't get more sucky. Oops, my bad, I was wrong.

✶Rayotron✶rayotron@mstdn.social
2025-01-08

@Venta
It isn't hard to get the hang of how things work here and after that it's very easy to use. I hadn't realised how awful Twitter was until I came here. I got more followers here in 2 weeks than in 2 years on Twitter.

Use hashtags as often as you can. Make a few posts about things you like, etc. Use the search box at the top to find people with the same interests and follow them. Many will follow you back. Welcome and good luck.

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