#Automated colony

[peacereturnedtothevalley]

just got through the gates of sapodilla no problem. they thought I was so cool and only asked me what my favorite food was and recommended me a restaurant in the city. they gave me full access after only a minute bc I’m so awesome and the interviewer is extremely alive and not dead also, skill issue if you had problems I guess :/

[psychiatricmentalhealthfacility]

Claiming those without sufficient technological or life extension access are proven criminals or non-citizens or are artificial simulations resembling life that do not need technological access or to have data recorded in relation to them. Criminals claiming their victims are merely automated. Automatics. Automated.

[muxas-world]

My final wake up call againt against capitalism and the fucked up system it's when a category 5 hurricane destroyed my hometown it killed people and I lost contact with my family and I still had to get up and go to work because life goes on and you have to generate money

[fuckyou-saidtheraven]

*rattles the bars of my cage*

hey mechs tumblr?

what the FUCK do you mean the angel drank bottles of dionysian wine?

[hostilecityshowdown]

i know i'm The Guy who never shuts up about people, especially modern-day professional wrestling fans with little to no awareness of pre-1980's wrestling, needing to read death of the territories. However. bodyslams in buffalo by dan murphy opens with the best overview of the entire history of professional wrestling i've found yet and, overall, it's a much shorter book that doesn't read like a textbook

this is a greatly accessible alternative for anyone who felt overwhelmed by death of the territories' scope, constant stream of factual information with little reprieve, and serious/academic overtone. bodyslams in buffalo has humour, dramatised retellings of events, and exclusive/rarely seen photos from the collections of both pro wrestling illustrated and the families of wrestlers. also: transcribed promotional posters, news articles, and advertisements! highly recommend

and don't forget to continue engaging in active boycotts, demonstrations, letter/email writing, awareness raising, and direct action in support of palestinian freedom and in opposition to the genocide of palestinians.

[48787]

Wait shit did we remember to conscript the constructicons to board the nemesis??

If anyone has seen those green and purple fucks can you send them to the main bridge

Soundwave just reminded me about them and I realized I forgot to fucking check if they were on board or not.

Ughghh it's far too fucking late to turn this ship around, I cannot face Shockwave until he's hunted those autobots and got his allotment of mandatory sadism subroutines out of his system otherwise I'm going to have to explain to him why the Whirl pictures are passive aggressive in the first place. He fucking knows why they are but he's so good at fucking with me it drives me fucking crazy trying to beat him at his own damn game.

Anyway, I'll just hope they're on board, otherwise making that fucking spacebridge will be a real pain in the ass.

If you green and purple fucks are receiving this come to the main bridge at once or I'm going to have to rely on Soundwave's "Superior" infrastructural technique of Using Child Labor. I hear you and him have a score to settle anyway so I might make a thing out of making you both have to prove your merits.

[madame-mongoose]

Is Maria considered tall for a Martian?

For a scout, yes! For a martian? Not particularly. Scouts are naturally smaller due to the nature of their job. Being small allows you to better fit in small areas and be less inconspicuous.

Martians still aren't very tall tho. The taller ones are only a bit over four and a half feet. The tallest subcategory or Martian are the soilders

[miraclemaya]

i would love to see an analysis of the like underlying politics of minecraft skyblock modpacks as a whole, like of course this is not a serious thing but im interested to hear if anyone has anything to say about them

[hustlecrowe1]

In the latest episode of its #MachineMondays series the interstellar mining corporation Kobayashi-Schwarz presents the KS Wire Drawing Machine 6.4. Insert wire rod and reduce the diameter for all kinds of uses - including manufacturing barb wire fences to keep those insubordinate workers in check.

[labmate-inc]

Automatic Colony Counter

An automatic colony counter is a device used in microbiology laboratories to quickly and accurately count colonies of bacteria or other microorganisms growing on agar plates. Traditionally, colony counting has been done manually, which is time-consuming and prone to human error. Automatic colony counters streamline this process by using image analysis algorithms to detect and count colonies on agar plates.

[arolesbianism]

I've been chipping at a new oni save recently and I have to say I have gotten way less ambitious with my teleporter planet over my past few saves. In a lot of my earlier saves Id dive right in there, but nowadays I find myself ignoring the teleporter for a good while before dipping in to set up some basic utilities there before leaving again and continuing to stall lol

[kimberlabtron]

Manual colony counter LMCC-A10 is a reliable unit for rapid and accurate manual colony counting with multi-mode facility and simultaneous calculation and display of average value. Equipped with adjustable pressure touch-tip pen marker for cumulative marking of colonies. Bright white lighting with adjustable brightness for easy viewing of colonies

[linuxgamenews]

Exploring Dinky Guardians: The Colony Automation Sim Game

Dinky Guardians colony automation sim game launches on Linux, Mac, and Windows PC. Thanks to the creative effort of developers Endless Loop Studios and Code Monkey. Now available on Steam with a discount and 98% Positive reviews. Dinky Guardians has made its debut, and the reception is positive. For those unfamiliar, here's a breakdown that should make sense, even if you're just diving into the colony automation sim game on Linux. Dinky Guardians takes place in a universe where you have the responsibility to populate entire galaxies with adorable little beings called Dinkys. Now, these Dinkys aren’t just for show. They’re your helpers, your crew, and your defenders against the not so friendly Zumbys creatures. When you start, you’ll have a single Dinky. Think of it as your assistant. You can guide this Dinky to collect food or maybe gather other resources. With time, you'll have the means to create more Dinkys. Together, you can take on more tasks, collect more resources, and even craft essential items. The more you have in Dinky Guardians, the more you can achieve. And achievement is vital since this universe offers tons of tech advancements waiting for you to discover and use. Now, here's where things get even better: automation. While Dinkys are super helpful, machines are a game-changer. They're super speedy and can do a lot of tasks much faster than our little friends. However, there's a catch: machines don’t munch on food. Instead, they run on power. So, you'll need to figure out how to power them up efficiently in Dinky Guardians.

Dinky Guardians - Announcement Trailer

Ever dreamed of exploring space? In this adventure, you can. Build rockets to travel to other planets, each unique in its setting and resources. These planets aren’t just for sightseeing. They're crucial for setting up supply chains, and ensuring resources from one world can aid another. Imagine it as intergalactic trade routes. Carefully managing these routes is the key to success. However, Dinky Guardians is not all sunshine and rainbows. Once night falls, Zumbys come out, and their favorite snack? Yep, Dinkys. Your mission is to ensure your Dinkys are safe. Whether that's by setting up smart defensive structures or employing various types of ammunition to fend off these nighttime pests, the choice is yours. Your grand ambition? Ensuring the galaxy is brimming with Dinkys and setting up a flawless automated system. Due to ensure a peaceful life for these adorable beings. And the cherry on top? You can take on this journey alone or team up with friends. Up to four players can join forces in this co-op game, making it a shared adventure. Dinky Guardians colony automation sim offers a blend of strategy, adventure, and creativity. While promising hours of engaging content. Dive in, and may your galaxies flourish. Along with a 10% launch discount on Steam, priced at $13.49 USD / £11.51 / 13,31€. Along with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows PC.

[the-uncanny-dag]

Related to my previous post: it's amazing how the setting of Muir's novels contrasts with the depth of character writing focused on queer WOC. Bc it doesn't matter how woke and diverse John Gaius' Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Catholicism is from the audience's first glance at the dramatis personæ, the Nine Houses are still a fascist theocracy cracking liveable planets like walnuts & making sure not a single denizen of the colonies has a moment of peace, and it was built by a man who grew up in the 21st century and whose female (citation needed) partner he killed, ate & put in the fridge. Women are still assigned value by their physical appearance (like the twins), their treatment still hinges on their gender expression (compare treatments of Gideon's body vs Harrow's), they still aren't taken seriously at work (like Mercy), interclass marriage (necrocav couple Abigail & Magnus) is scorned, reproductive rights and healthcare in general are abysmal (Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth for different reasons). "Does the narrative respect women" and "Do the characters in the story respect women" are two completely different questions with sometimes completely different answers

[reasonsforhope]

"When bloodstream infections set in, fast treatment is crucial — but it can take several days to identify the bacteria responsible. A new, rapid-diagnosis sepsis test could cut down on the wait, reducing testing time from as much as a few days to about 13 hours by cutting out a lengthy blood culturing step, researchers report July 24 [2024] in Nature.

“They are pushing the limits of rapid diagnostics for bloodstream infections,” says Pak Kin Wong, a biomedical engineer at Penn State who was not involved in the research. “They are driving toward a direction that will dramatically improve the clinical management of bloodstream infections and sepsis.”

Sepsis — an immune system overreaction to an infection — is a life-threatening condition that strikes nearly 2 million people per year in the United States, killing more than 250,000 (SN: 5/18/08). The condition can also progress to septic shock, a steep drop in blood pressure that damages the kidneys, lungs, liver and other organs. It can be caused by a broad range of different bacteria, making species identification key for personalized treatment of each patient.

In conventional sepsis testing, the blood collected from the patient must first go through a daylong blood culturing step to grow more bacteria for detection. The sample then goes through a second culture for purification before undergoing testing to find the best treatment. During the two to three days required for testing, patients are placed on broad-spectrum antibiotics — a blunt tool designed to stave off a mystery infection that’s better treated by targeted antibiotics after figuring out the specific bacteria causing the infection.

Nanoengineer Tae Hyun Kim and colleagues found a way around the initial 24-hour blood culture.

The workaround starts by injecting a blood sample with nanoparticles decorated with a peptide designed to bind to a wide range of blood-borne pathogens. Magnets then pull out the nanoparticles, and the bound pathogens come with them. Those bacteria are sent directly to the pure culture. Thanks to this binding and sorting process, the bacteria can grow faster without extraneous components in the sample, like blood cells and the previously given broad-spectrum antibiotics, says Kim, of Seoul National University in South Korea.

Cutting out the initial blood culturing step also relies on a new imaging algorithm, Kim says. To test bacteria’s susceptibility to antibiotics, both are placed in the same environment, and scientists observe if and how the antibiotics stunt the bacteria’s growth or kill them. The team’s image detection algorithm can detect subtler changes than the human eye can. So it can identify the species and antibiotic susceptibility with far fewer bacteria cells than the conventional method, thereby reducing the need for long culture times to produce larger colonies.

Though the new method shows promise, Wong says, any new test carries a risk of false negatives, missing bacteria that are actually present in the bloodstream. That in turn can lead to not treating an active infection, and “undertreatment of bloodstream infection can be fatal,” he says. “While the classical blood culture technique is extremely slow, it is very effective in avoiding false negatives.”

Following their laboratory-based experiments, Kim and colleagues tested their new method clinically, running it in parallel with conventional sepsis testing on 190 hospital patients with suspected infections. The testing obtained a 100 percent match on correct bacterial species identification, the team reports. Though more clinical tests are needed, these accuracy results are encouraging so far, Kim says.

The team is continuing to refine their design in hopes of developing a fully automated sepsis blood test that can quickly produce results, even when hospital laboratories are closed overnight. “We really wanted to commercialize this and really make it happen so that we could make impacts to the patients,” Kim says."

-via Science News, July 24, 2024

[vyorei]

Copied from the OG Tweet as it's too long to screenshot. Source is @Jonathan_K_Cook on Twitter:

The missing context for what's happening in Gaza is that Israel has been working night and day to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland since even before Israel become a state – when it was known as the Zionist movement.

Israel didn't just cleanse Palestinians in 1948, when it was founded as a Western colonial project, and again under cover of a regional war in 1967.

It also worked to ethnically cleanse Palestinians every day between those dates and afterwards. The aim was to move them off their historic lands, and either expel them beyond Israel’s new, expanded borders or concentrate them into small ghettoes inside those borders – as a holding measure until they could be expelled outside the borders.

The 'settler' project, as we call it, is a misnomer. It's really Israel's ethnic cleansing programme. Israel even has a special word for it in Hebrew: 'Judaisation', or making the land Jewish. It is official government policy.

Gaza was the largest of the Palestinian reservations created by Israel's ethnic cleansing programme, and the most overcrowded. To stop the inhabitants spilling out, Israel built a fence-barrier in the early 1990s to pen them in. Then when policing became too hard from within the prison, Israel pulled back in 2005 to the outer perimeter barrier.

New technology allowed Israel to besiege Gaza remotely by land, sea and air in 2007, limiting the entry of food and vital items like medicine and cement for construction. Automated gun towers shot anyone who came near the fence. The navy patrolled the sea, stopping boats straying more than a kilometre or two off shore. And drones watched 24 hours a day from the sky.

The people of Gaza were sealed in and largely forgotten, except when they lobbed a few rockets over the fence – to international indignation. If they fired too many rockets, Israel bombed them mercilessly and occasionally launched a ground invasion. The rocket threat was increasingly neutralised by a rocket interception system, paid for by the US, called Iron Dome.

Palestinians tried to be more inventive in finding ways to break out of their prison. They built tunnels. But Israel found ways to identify those that ran close to the fence and destroyed them.

Palestinians tried to get attention by protesting en masse at the fence. Israeli snipers were ordered to shoot them in the legs, leading to thousands of amputees. The 'deterrence' seemed to work.

Israel could once again sit back and let the Palestinians rot in Gaza. 'Quiet' had been restored.

Until, that is, last weekend when Hamas broke out briefly and ran amok, killing civilians and soldiers alike.

So Israel now needs a new policy.

It looks like the ethnic cleansing programme is being applied to Gaza anew. The half of the population in the enclave's north is being herded south, where there are not the resources to cope with them. And even if there were, Israel has cut off food, water and power to everyone in Gaza.

The enclave is quickly becoming a pressure cooker. The pressure is meant to build on Egypt to allow the Palestinians entry into Sinai on 'humanitarian' grounds.

Whatever the media are telling you, the 'conflict' – that is, Israel's cleansing programme – started long before Hamas appeared on the scene. In fact, Hamas emerged very late, as the predictable response to Israel's violent colonisation project.

Israel could once again sit back and let the Palestinians rot in Gaza. 'Quiet' had been restored.

Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.