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Mark A. Rayner<p>Plato's dog.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/dog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dog</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dogs</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dogstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dogstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dogsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dogsofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plato</span></a></p>
andylancelot<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.wales/@druid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>druid</span></a></span> …we need fewer criminal psychopaths in politics and more kind sensible people. How can that be sorted? Pay them nothing but look after them better maybe? (See <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> ) 🤔</p>
Brewminate<p>Is your AI assistant thinking...<br>or just echoing a billion borrowed thoughts?</p><p>A sharp ride through philosophy, consciousness, and code.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brewminate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brewminate</span></a></p><p>🔗 <a href="https://brewminate.com/can-ai-think-should-it-what-it-means-to-think-from-plato-to-chatgpt/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">brewminate.com/can-ai-think-sh</span><span class="invisible">ould-it-what-it-means-to-think-from-plato-to-chatgpt/</span></a></p>
Pete<p>Found online</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Socrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Socrates</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Aristotle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aristotle</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Aquinas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aquinas</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Descartes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Descartes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Locke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Locke</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Kant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kant</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Hegel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegel</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Schopenhauer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Schopenhauer</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marx</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Nietzsche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nietzsche</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Heidegger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heidegger</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Arendt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arendt</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Adorno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adorno</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Derrida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Derrida</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Wittgenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wittgenstein</span></a></p>
formuchdeliberation<p>Plato’s Ion ~ Of art and divine inspiration – philosophy indefinitely…</p><p>This dialogue expounds on artistic ability and divine inspiration, it begins with Socrates meeting Ion in Athens. Ion says that he just won the first prize at a recital competition in Epidaurus, and hopes to win again at the Panathenaea in Athens soon... continue reading at philosophy indefinitely: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plato</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metaphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/socrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socrates</span></a></p><p><a href="https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/platos-ion-of-art-and-divine-inspiration-philosophy-indefinitely-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">formuchdeliberation.wordpress.</span><span class="invisible">com/2025/07/21/platos-ion-of-art-and-divine-inspiration-philosophy-indefinitely-2/</span></a></p>
SPQR<p>For Plato, the difference between a deplorable tyrant and a worthy king is not a matter of the structure of governance — much less a matter of the centralization of power — but rather a matter of character. Both kings and tyrants exercise absolute control, but tyrants are beholden to their appetites, while kings obey the dictates of reason.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookreview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliSci</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greece</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/13/plato-tyrant-james-romm-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/books/2025/</span><span class="invisible">06/13/plato-tyrant-james-romm-review/</span></a></p>
Faraiwe<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarWars</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Diogenes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Diogenes</span></a></p>
Colin-Roy Hunter<p>“<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Opinion</span></a> is the lowest form of human <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledge</span></a>. It requires no <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a>, no <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>understanding</span></a>. The highest form of knowledge is <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a>, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self.” <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> in ‘Phaedrus’</p>
Gary Ackerman<p>Plato criticized writing, seeing it as "an elixir not of memory, but of reminding" that offered the "appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom". This ancient debate on technology's impact still resonates today. <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/EdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdTech</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
Paul Healey<p>‘An intelligent tutor and practice simulation, the Meta-being prototype, has been developed at Western Sydney University by the PGx team to immerse learners in real-life scenarios using conversational AI technology.’ <a href="https://pgx.westernsydney.edu.au/metahuman/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pgx.westernsydney.edu.au/metah</span><span class="invisible">uman/</span></a></p><p>The road to the promised land of transhumanist meta-beings, is not paved with good intentions! Coding language to mimic intelligence to sucker weak, damaged, spoilt and cowardly boys, is all to preserve the ever expanding crisis of the imagination: exchanging the possibility of an ethically sustainable world for a toxic tech. no go space dump, is not a future any should care for. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MetaBeings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaBeings</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/transhumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transhumanism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AiScam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AiScam</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AllegoryOfTheCave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AllegoryOfTheCave</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IPTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPTheft</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NonRenewableWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonRenewableWars</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/PromisedLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PromisedLand</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DroneAmaggeddon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DroneAmaggeddon</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ApartheidGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ApartheidGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ToxicEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicEarth</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NonRenewableTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonRenewableTerror</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UltrasEcocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UltrasEcocide</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UltrasIdeologicalCults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UltrasIdeologicalCults</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UltrasBeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UltrasBeing</span></a> ?</p>
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research<p>The <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23PLATO" target="_blank">#PLATO</a> mission has reached an important milestone: The optical bench with all 26 cameras as been assembled. Read more here: <a href="https://www.mps.mpg.de/plato-fully-equipped-with-cameras-to-search-for-habitable-worlds?c=6775" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.mps.mpg.de/plato-fully-...</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23PLATODataCenter" target="_blank">#PLATODataCenter</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23exoplanet" target="_blank">#exoplanet</a> <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/uni-goettingen.de" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@uni-goettingen.de</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e2ernzka7reuaiorc5v2tgsr/post/3lst7ybxko22z" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e2ernzka7reuaiorc5v2tgsr/post/3lst7ybxko22z</a></span><br><br><a href="https://www.mps.mpg.de/plato-fully-equipped-with-cameras-to-search-for-habitable-worlds?c=6775" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">PLATO Fully Equipped with Came...</a></p>
RTN<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DLR</span></a>:<br>"<br>ESA-Weltraumteleskop PLATO zusammengefügt<br>"<br>"Das Weltraumteleskop PLATO der ESA soll Ende 2026 starten und ab 2027 mit der Suche nach erdähnlichen Planeten beginnen, die sonnenähnliche Sterne umkreisen.<br>Die optische Bank des Teleskops mit ihren 26 Kameras ist nun in das Servicemodul des Raumfahrzeugs integriert worden .."</p><p><a href="https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2025/esa-weltraumteleskop-plato-zusammengefuegt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichte</span><span class="invisible">n/2025/esa-weltraumteleskop-plato-zusammengefuegt</span></a></p><p>30.6.2025</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Astronomie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomie</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ESA</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Oberpfaffenhofen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oberpfaffenhofen</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Milchstra%C3%9Fe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Milchstraße</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OHB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OHB</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Raumfahrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Raumfahrt</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SpaceFlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceFlight</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Transitmethode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transitmethode</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Weltraumteleskop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weltraumteleskop</span></a></p>
Freie Universität Berlin<p>Auf der Suche nach erdähnlichen Planeten: Das Weltraumteleskop <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/PLATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PLATO</span></a> der European Space Agency @esa wurde erfolgreich zusammengefügt. Damit soll es ab 2027 ins All gehen. Das Zusammensetzen der zwei Hauptkomponenten "ist ein bedeutender Schritt für die gesamte Mission" betont Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer von der <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/FUBerlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FUBerlin</span></a> und dem Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt @DLR</p><p>Mehr dazu ➡️ <a href="https://tinyurl.com/mission-plato" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/mission-plato</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>FrankPasquale</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@1br0wn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>1br0wn</span></a></span> </p><p>Both <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> *and* <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Socrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Socrates</span></a> have entered the chat.</p>
Dr Pen<p>So I saw this online debate on ideas about the future and someone said that ai chatbots could never instigate any future because they're fixated on the past. And that made me remember the Socratic/Plato thing about dialogic learning and that writing is essentially dead words on a page because the writer (if they are dead) cannot argue or develop new ideas. </p><p>And they really had a point didn't they? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plato</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dialogism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dialogism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> </p><p>Plato's Argument Against Writing<br><a href="https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fs.blog/an-old-argument-agains</span><span class="invisible">t-writing/</span></a></p>
formuchdeliberation<p>Plato’s Ion ~ Of art and divine inspiration – philosophy indefinitely…</p><p>This dialogue expounds on artistic ability and divine inspiration, it begins with Socrates meeting Ion in Athens. Ion says that he just won the first prize at a recital competition in Epidaurus, and hopes to win again at the Panathenaea in Athens soon... continue reading at philosophy indefinitely: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plato</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metaphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/socrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socrates</span></a></p><p><a href="https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/platos-ion-of-art-and-divine-inspiration-philosophy-indefinitely/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">formuchdeliberation.wordpress.</span><span class="invisible">com/2025/06/24/platos-ion-of-art-and-divine-inspiration-philosophy-indefinitely/</span></a></p>
Ted Johnson<p>New Song! "The Price" — About that loudly uninformed, cynical guy who rants about politics but refuses to learn anything. Or all of those guys.</p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/28hpkh9f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/28hpkh9f</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Cynicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cynicism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Songwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Songwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HalfHeartedFanatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HalfHeartedFanatic</span></a></p>
Scott Rochester<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 8 Jun</p><p>4 books - which have you read?</p><p>here's my non fiction edition</p><p>I'm an avid non fiction reader with a history of non fiction publishing as an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indieauthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieauthor</span></a><br> <br>they are hard work</p><p>excepting Descartes’ short book, they each took me two years<br> <br>375 BC - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> Republic - Aristocles, son of Ariston, of Colytus</p><p>1637 - A Discourse on the Method - René <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Descartes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Descartes</span></a></p><p>1776 - On the Wealth of Nations - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdamSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdamSmith</span></a></p><p>1859 - On the Origin of Species - Charles <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a></p>
Revesdespace<p>🛰️✨ Le télescope spatial <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plato</span></a> de l’ESA, qui recherchera les exoplanètes, a désormais 24 de ses 26 caméras installées chez OHB en Allemagne.<br>Le module de service est de son côté en cours d’assemblage également.<br>📷 ESA – P. Sebirot</p>
Stargeezer Smith<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Ruth_Mottram</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://linuxmom.net/@vkc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vkc</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@kde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kde</span></a></span> <br>Linux has a lot of image and video libraries and apps. I've used some of them a lot to take and process lunar and planetary images like the one below of the <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plato</span></a> Crater region. </p><p>A Linux app operated the video camera that took the images, a Linux app stripped out the frames for processing, a Linux program that I wrote aligned and stacked the frames, and a Linux app provideed the tools to sharpen the resulting image.</p>