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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

🌊🦑 The Clarion Clipperton Zone holds a surprise: metal-rich nodules surrounded by unique marine life. Scientists have found over 5,000 species there, but 90% still await formal scientific names!

From "gummy squirrel" sea cucumbers to walking #squid and carnivorous sponges with tiny hooks, this #video examines the #biodiversity in an area covering half of #Earth's surface that we've barely begun to understand.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/h

A translucent deep-sea creature with multiple appendages floats with an ocean floor background.
#tksst#animals#biology
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Andreas Sternowski

Changing our view of #nature is the only way to save our #planet from man-made destruction.
Even if all governments drastically reduced #CO2 emissions tomorrow, would that put an end to the irreversible consumption of other #natural #resources, #soil destruction, #species #extinction?
Where does this come from? It is a child of our idea of a #happy life, of viewing nature as subordinate, of assuming that the world is a pile of matter and that nature is there to satisfy our greed.

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Qualities of a Good Index
indexers.org.uk/posts/qualitie

In this blog post, Lyndsay Marshall looks at the qualities of a good index and identifies resources which discuss the topic in more depth. The post covers international standards, best practice guidelines and competition judging criteria.

www.indexers.org.ukQualities of a Good IndexIn this blog post, Lyndsay Marshall looks at the qualities of a good index and identifies resources which discuss the topic in more depth. The post covers international standards, best practice guidelines and competition judging criteria. International Standards In order to define the qualities of a good index we can turn to the international standardsRead More
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→ The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai

“#Tech giants are racing to expand with new — and larger — data centers to support #AI, consuming more #resources, including water. That only adds to concerns that #communities facing water shortages will have to compete with #datacenter operators to access clean water.”

“Data centers typically #evaporate about 80% of the #water they draw, discharging 20% back to a wastewater treatment facility […].”

Bloomberg · How AI Demand Is Draining Local Water SuppliesBy Leonardo Nicoletti
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Euripides

HECUBA:   Then no man on earth is truly free,
   All are slaves of money or necessity.
   Public opinion or fear of prosecution
   forces each one, against his conscience,
   to conform.
 
ἙΚΆΒΗ:                                        [φεῦ.
   οὐκ ἔστι θνητῶν ὅστις ἔστ’ ἐλεύθερος·
   ἢ χρημάτων γὰρ δοῦλός ἐστιν ἢ τύχης
   ἢ πλῆθος αὐτὸν πόλεος ἢ νόμων γραφαὶ
   εἴργουσι χρῆσθαι μὴ κατὰ γνώμην τρόποις.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 864ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/6979/

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Pygoscelis Papua

Is there a comparison somewhere of the resource requirements for hosting various Fediverse platforms?

I know some of them have pretty low minimum system requirements, but they can grow quickly into resource hogs the more active users you have. For example this Friendica.World instance I'm on seems to struggle handing less than 4,000 accounts but various Mastodon and Pixelfed instances have hundreds of thousands of accounts without any apparent difficulty. Though I don't know what resources they have available to them. Some platforms appear to be more scalable than others.

I've been reluctant to run a server myself for a variety of reasons, but the big ones are not knowing how much it will cost, what kind of hosting it would require, or which platform to run.

It should be obvious by now most people do not want to run their own server, they want to go sign up on the biggest server for a platform they can find and let someone else assume the expense and risks of running it. So does anybody know what the lowest resource, most scalable, most stable platform is that can handle the most active users/accounts? Is there a nifty comparison table somewhere?

#Fediverse#platform#resources
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