Notices by David W. Jones (dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social)

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, a team of gophers were helicoptered in to bring it back to life

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/gophers-mount-st-helens

> Everything within eight miles of the huge volcanic blast was wiped out almost instantly. More than 40 years later, scientists reveal how an unorthodox experiment involving burrowing rodents brought life back to the Washington State mountain.

#volcano #environmental #restoration #gophers

@sullybiker Interesting. About 20 years ago, a large private school system I used to work for finally got around to demolishing the interior of an old building. In the process, they found a Novell Netware server, still running, that much earlier remodeling had walled up inside a storage closet.
Sounds to me like old Netware rules the reliability roost!

@sullybiker
Oh, the first real job I had in Hawaii was with a consulting service that ran their financial accounting on a very old Prime minicomputer. When they went to wipe its array of disks (spread across a wall of cabinets), they set off a wave of disk failure messages. I guess the hardware had been on the edge of failure for years, as disk controllers silently corrected errors until forced to wipe disk sectors they'd left alone for years.

@br00t4c
Cat (and dog) bombs on video meetings were always fun! We all loved them.
@DeborahLeagueFineArt

A gathering of assorted small birds sits on the roof line of a small building roofed with solar panels. They're all about the same size. Some are dark, almost silhouettes. Some in the center are lit by a beam of setting sunlight. All the birds are reflected below in the solar panels. The sky behind them is light blue with four fluffy white clouds forming a smile-like arc above the birds.
#birds #Hawaii #sky

@evan
False dichotomy. Why can't it be for both?
@RMiddleton

@dansup @pixelfed Cool!

@dansup
Will the app be in F-Droid in any version?
@pixelfed

@scalzi Of course! The American automatic reaction is, "WE HAVE TONS OF MONEY FOR GUNS AND BOMBS AND KILLING! Healthcare, housing, that other stuff? Sorry, nope that's too expensive, we don't have any money for that."
Stupid USA!

@MaybeMyMonkeys
I think the first people to be in the frontlines should be the political leaders that start wars. And not esconced in safe shelters, but out front with weapons in hand, doing the fighting themselves.
@scalzi

All humans are complex: partly real, and partly imaginary.
#mathematics #psychology

@dansup
Hmmm. Possible to have both a Mastodon and Pixelfed account? I have a small, old Deviant Art site.
@pixelfed

@dogweapon
Hmmm. Because the USA's religious roots come from the Puritans, opposed to "worldly pleasures" and obsessed with keeping everyone "pure" by erecting religious laws and forcing others to abide by them?

Thus, opposition to sex and support for fascisim. This also fuels oppression of women and those they considered "impure" (nonwhites, adherents of other religions, people from other cultures).

Sometimes I think the bad parts of American culture are due to fear of strangers.
@RMiddleton

@Gargron
I always read "AI" in the news as "Artificial Idiocy." Although the terms "Augmented Idiocy" or "Amplified Idiocy" just came to mind.
@etherdiver

"Which witch is the rich witch, that's what I want to know!" - An October Halloween golddigger addressing the three witches in Shakespeare's play.
#badjokes

@feditips
And yet, for many people, the process of finding and following people on other servers is confusing and cumbersome.

@WillRobinson
As a child whose mother was a teacher, and 3 of my 4 grandparents were teachers, I agree. It's not fair, it's just our cheap society: Always discounting the value of the future!
@deirdresm

@AndStatus No, *you* didn't post the same link twice. *I* posted the link a couple of days ago using the AndStatus Android app. That post showed up on Mastodon.
Then, the next time I opened AndStatus on Android, the original link was sitting there, unsent, in what looked like a new post.
This has happened a couple of times. It's like the app forgets it posted the item.
Simply deleting the link in the post just leaves me with an empty post that never goes away.
Maybe a bug in the app. Oh, well!

https://www.fastcompany.com/90933648/venture-backed-startups-are-failing-at-record-rates
Okay, @AndStatus - why are you bringing up this link *that I already tooted days ago*? I'm just about deciding to remove you...