Notices by CynthesisToday (cynthesistoday@sfba.social)

@gemlog @ChrisMayLA6

This doesn't square with a recent interview between Paul Krugman and Paul Kedrosky.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-paul-kedrosky

My personal paid work life included 15 years doing new technology development for semiconductor devices-- 10 development cycles for the chemical processes making the actual silicon chips starting on a bare silicon wafer through gold plating on the back before sending off to packaging.

Given that experience and with the ways in which excessive heat 24x7 as with over-clocking damages, I'm very inclined to believe Kedrosky's take that chips burn-out before they become obsolescent. The explanation in the link starts about 3/8 down the transcript with:

"Kedrosky: Yeah that’s really important because there’s this idea that the reason why this is a warehouse of bananas—or whatever your favorite fruit is in this context—is due to the pace of change in technology."

@eliasp @jwildeboer

Very true that mammals, including humans, don't have the Shikimate pathway in their intrinsic biology, but you know what does?-- Microbes such as some of the 100 trillion ones in the human gastrointestinal tract.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11043010/pdf/nihms-1957405.pdf

@eliasp @jwildeboer

Experimental results on test species such as mice and in field exposures that farmworkers experience chronically are happening. The experimental chronic exposures are at levels established by the EPA as "safe", but when exposed over relative life cycles or in adolescent/young adult life phases, have negative effect. The farmworker exposures are the reality of diverse farm environments and fear in farmworkers.

Scholar.google search terms: chronic glyphosate exposure or chronic GBH exposure. "GBH"== glyphosate-based herbicides which include Roundup and Rodeo.

I think to the point of the OP and especially to the fact of the October 2026 "decision" of the US 47th administration's EPA regarding glyphosate-based herbicides, the possibility of increased population-wide chronic exposure is frightening. My hope is that Europe and Asia will continue their work on chronic exposure to allow for rebuttal of US research capture by US industry.

@sundogplanets

The version that made it through peer review:

https://stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40594-023-00433-8

A rough scan through the peer reviewed version compared to arxiv version appears largely the same. The recommended actions sections in the peer-reviewed version are much meatier with many references for "how to". Nice.

@SuperDicq

https://icecatbrowser.org/index.html

Is this a link to the real GNU IceCat?

If not, will you provide a link to the real GNU IceCat?

"Simply put, it means signing up for Pixelfed, Mastodon, Warpcast, Bluesky, Matrix, etc. It means choosing the discomfort of imperfect tech over the system destroying, bland perfection of billionaire-subservient tech.

Progress on any of these fronts makes progress on the others easier by disrupting the Plutocratic Power Cycle. Small wins cascade into larger changes as the system’s self-reinforcing nature works in reverse. Each victory for decentralization weakens the forces of concentration."

Another good one from Joan Westenberg this morning:

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-revolution-will-be-decentralized/

@pluralistic

Bought "Cahokia Jazz" and "A Natural History of Empty Lots" off Bookshop.org from this... thanks for the reviews.

@mastodonmigration @feditips

Is "filter" the same as "mute"?

@feditips @mastodonmigration

How do I mute conversation? Clicking the three dots in the lower right doesn't show an option specific to conversation. (Firefox browser as display app)