Compton Scatterbrained

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Bad hearing, bad sight, scattered brain. Full of PFAS, but a true believer in radiation hormesis. Why isn't rutile rutilant? I like valence electrons (but K shell too) & deep time.

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Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· 28d

oh look. ice cream. for dogs. ice cream for dogs.

Box of "Jude's ice cream for dogs" in a supermarkt freezer.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jul 11

lol I may steal automangle

distracted boyfriend meme where he's autocorrect, girlfriend is trying to type "fuck" and the distraction is a duck

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jul 4

but but

Three major problems of grain size
measurements:
(1) grain, (2) size, and (3) measurement
by György Varga et al

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 28

had to whip up a quick berfdee card 🧪

Yellow card with seratonin molecule and the text "happy birthday"

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 27

Folks posting images in order to convey some kind of meaning... use alt text. It is essential for blind/low viz folks BUT ALSO ORDINARY LIE-FI.

Two Bsky posts trying to say something, but their gifs are just Black Balls of Loading.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 26

Yeah this is all there is.

both layer separation and ink detectability, especially
in the most compressed regions. More robust tracing networks and hybrid neural trac-
ers that predict or refine sheet trajectories while enforcing local surface continuity and
neighbouring-wrap consistency should reduce the manual burden of correction and neigh-
bour transfer[8, 24]. The latter could be achieved by improving the accuracy of annotations
used to train the machine learning models or relying on self-supervised methods. Additional
fragment-to-scroll supervision, together with conservative pseudo-label expansion on intact
rolls, should strengthen ink models across a wider range of ink recipes without sacrificing
trustworthiness.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 26

best one today was "Hottest heatwave ever for EU" and my brain was like

Simpsons meme with Homer telling Bart things will get worse

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 26

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 25

Temperature graph showing 1976 on the left (earlier) and "You are here" on the far right for the current temps. Almost everything on the right is much, much higher than 1976.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 24

(it gets turned off now, going to bed) But I just read this, and laughed. During the peak of the day, the room is over 40°. We only get down to 32° by opening windows right before bed IF it's lower outside, like 26°.

Volgens Milieu Centraal werken een goede dak- en muurisolatie en zonwering buiten het beste tegen hitte in huis. "Die combinatie geeft 80 procent minder kans op oververhitting", zegt De Jongh. "Dan heb je geen airco meer nodig."

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 24

Tell me again how unethical this picture is?

People sitting in a shelter against the heat.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 24

Also, most of us consider news photos a component of journalism (not decoration), and this for example would not be acceptable either.

Headline "ROAD FATALITIES HIGHEST IN TEN YEARS" accompanied by photo of laughing young white people driving a car.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 20

Hey #bug people what is this bug? Someone posted it somewhere without context. It looks like a baby.

Long bug. I only see 4 legs. Antlike head. Abdomen has cool ridges like an ankylosaur with lil pseudopods. Butt looks large and hard, with two pinchers or butt decorations at the end.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 6

Huh we have this in NL, they call it "begrijpend lezen" (reading to understand).

"...the students arriving in my classroom today are the first cohort to have experienced Common Core-influenced reading instruction across the entirety of their K–12 schooling. Whatever the standards’ original intent, the on-the-ground implementation in many districts replaced sustained reading with the practice of pulling “evidence” from disconnected short passages, the same format used on the standardized tests that increasingly determine school funding. The education scholar Natalie Wexler, among others, has documented this pivot in detail: Students drilled on “finding the main idea” in two-paragraph excerpts never build the stamina or background knowledge that longform reading requires..."

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Jun 4

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 29

oh yes I could use an engineer

Brunel standing like Wolverine in a top hat on a rushing black engine saying "You look like you could use an engineer."
From Padua's Lovelace and Babbage.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 25

This article made me cough. In a bad way.

Farmers, for example, understand well the role of biodiversity. The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s led to a million starvation deaths and more than million people displaced. This was due in large part to the monoculture crop at time, the Irish Lumper potato, and an ensuing mold, Phytophthora infestans, which devastated the crop. This harsh lesson about resilience, or lack thereof, taught future farmers the importance of genetic diversity and crop rotation.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 16

old religious lady down the street gives me christian ww2 emotional-woman novels and even though she says "you don't have to read them if they're not your thing" she keeps giving me them as if they're my thing

Suuuper thick novel with airbrushed Young White Female face.
Het Lied Van Het Leven (with Lifetime-Channel flourishes) bt Margreet & Reina Crispijn.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 15

"You listened to RFK" instead of "You died of dysentery" from Oregon Trail.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 14

Wait, are you both talking about cites at the end of a sentence?

End of a sentence with a string of superscripted numbers.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 13

So, like, I'm not allowed to watch a video in my country (who the heck is LDS?), but I guess if I walk across a border or something, I'm suddenly human enough to deserve seeing it? Fucking geo-ip bullshit. Don't put it on the internet if it's not for the world.

"This video contains content from LDS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." (youtube)

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 11

Tanuki-San. Goes swish-swish in the wind.

Randy Marsh of South Park wheelbarrowing his testicles past shocked residents.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 3

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 3

new avatar: "surrounded by cat people"

Rawr sitting on a red bench with a pair of see-through sibling-cat-people on each side.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 3

srsly why can't I hit Enter to activate this (poorly-coded) button? ...srsly who thought <button role="button" tabindex="0" aria-label="the text already inside the button"> with a manually-coded event listener for "clicks" was a good idea? LLM must've coded it.

Screenshot of BlueSky's login modal (which, by the way, cannot be scrolled vertically and one must either be lucky enough to have a tall enough viewport OR decrease the font size until the focussed element is onscreen), with devtools open to show the button, its bad code and a click listener... which *should* be triggered by the Enter key.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 1

Pontiac Vibe with a gazillion HONK stickers. None of them say *when* or *why* to honk.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· May 1

Our findings reveal that during boreal summer, the Northern hemisphere (NH) experiences overall mean cooling, most pronounced in the North Atlantic region. Therefore, the extreme warm events in Europe identified by using a fixed threshold tend to be less frequent. However, the cooling pattern reduces the meridional gradient of near-surface air temperature at high latitudes of the NH. As a result, the speed of the summer jet stream decreases, while the frequency of Ural atmospheric blocking events increases. Atmospheric blocking in summer is closely linked to heatwaves, primarily through subsidence warming and enhanced downward shortwave radiation under clear sky conditions. Consequently, the weakening of the AMOC leads to an increased frequency of heatwaves in Eastern Europe, the only region that presents this opposite trend.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Apr 28

what this

Chemical diagrams with lines along O and N atoms in molecules like nitrobenzene and benzoic acid

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Apr 24

JFC LinkedIn. The man's dead.

Cropped LinkedIn notification: Wish Ari Goldstein a happy birthday.

Compton Scatterbrained@comptonscatter· Apr 13

As I attempted to follow the story, I was greeted repeatedly by The Most Interesting Man in the World, buffed up from... cat-isthenics.