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Pluvious's JournalThe indomitable positive energy of Physics Girl - her first science video in 3 years of Long Covid
She has 3.5 million subscribers, this video was posted yesterday and already has 855,000 views with 255,000 likes
As a survivor of LC myself (only 1.5 years of misery), I can only admire her courage and positivity in the face of what she's endured. Knowing of her plight from the start of my infection, gave me strength and realization of how much "better" I had it compared to her.
She's always had a beautiful energy in life, a fine soul we could use more of in our World.
Bio:
Dianna Cowern is a science communicator with a degree in physics from MIT, and creator of the YouTube channel Physics Girl, where she explores the beauty and curiosity of physics through experiments, and storytelling. She began the channel as an independent creator, later partnering with PBS Digital Studios for several years before returning to independent production. After three years away from creating videos due to severe Long COVID, Dianna returned in 2026, continuing her mission to share curiosity, resilience, and the wonder of science.
And BTW, the video is pretty darn cool, even if you don't know much about science !
This morning, on Twitter (Mar 2nd)
I try to survey the current buzz in the Xesspool, discovering and sharing a sample of the
gems which attempt to break through the noise flooding this once thriving platform
https://x.com/paulrudnickny/status/2028512220162781622
https://x.com/hqnewsnow/status/2028517225993253332
https://x.com/jkbjournalist/status/2028450620177260820
-Covie
https://x.com/gyllking/status/2028463189415883261
https://x.com/paulrudnickny/status/2028511921981239677
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1957502306498548050
https://x.com/calltoactivism/status/2028214212384673880
https://x.com/micah_erfan/status/2028509605932814356
Yesterday's survey:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221059873
The Hand Signal For Help - Learn it, Share it
This short clip is worth watching to the end
( my comments below )
https://x.com/sciencegirl/status/2019690464132350382
( definitely watch the second one to the end! )
https://x.com/matticus2218/status/2019829660025254310
AI Overview:
How to Do It: Hold your palm up, tuck your thumb in, and fold your fingers over it. It is a continuous, one-handed motion.
Purpose: It was designed as a discreet, silent signal, particularly useful during video calls, in person, or anywhere an abuser might be monitoring a victim.
Origin: The Canadian Women's Foundation developed the signal in April 2020 in response to rising domestic violence during pandemic lockdowns.
What to Do If You See It: If someone uses this signal, do not immediately call the police unless there is immediate danger. Instead, check in safely via text, email, or a phone call to ask what they need.
This signal from the Canadian Women's Foundation has garnered international recognition and is now used in over 45 countries.
I have to think that these were staged dramatizations, for the purposes of helping to spread awareness.
If so for the final interaction in the second clip, I hope he was a professional !!
A happy little ditty, live session with Daisy The Great and AJR - Record Player
You might wonder about building record players in 2014, but I was surprised to
learn that the old vinyl tech has been seeing a bit of a comeback
IMHO the Daisy Duo is an uplifting pair with their unique and creative music
I hope you enjoy this take on their song, with their special guest AJR
Astounding technical achievement - close up pan of Pluto's Icy Mountains
Aakash Gupta:
New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.
The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.
Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.
The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.
https://x.com/mastronomers/status/2005055593502179767
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"Today's science fiction becomes tomorrow's science fact"
-Isaac Asimov
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Edit to add a great comment:
It took nine years and billions of kilometers for humanity to witness a world that had never been seen before. What New Horizons revealed was not just a distant ice ball, but a living geological archive
mountains sculpted from frozen nitrogen, plains shaped by ancient forces, and a landscape that defies our assumptions about where complexity can exist.
Pluto reminds us that even at the edge of the solar system, nature is not silent or static. It evolves, it moves, it remembers. In the coldest darkness, creation still unfolds slowly, patiently, beyond our imagination. What we once called a distant dot is now a world with depth, history, and quiet majesty.
The "star corridor sequence" was an historical first...
By pure chance, I took a Fine Arts class at UCLA taught by the filmmaker responsible for that.
He told us all about the process (he was John Whitney, Sr. - a descendant of the 1700's inventor Eli Whitney - known as the "Grandfather of computer animation" - his son, John Jr. was one of the people behind the original Tron) was it was all filmed with the aid of mechanical step motors and a camera on a track. He called the process a slit-scan technique, using time exposures while the camera would slide along its track - building layers of the colored light streaks one from at a time into each frame of film.
Amazing class lol
LMFAO - George Conway: "We have the perfect social media post"
LMAO !!
I used to follow her on the old Twitter, she's been caustic and brilliant for years...
( this is a screenshot from her Blue Sky post )
A few replies...
I have been giggling along with everyone else about the jokes and memes. However, there will be no winner here. Just destruction.
Ref:
https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1930894884287676656
Edit to add AOC's response: "The girls are fighting, aren't they?"
https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1930779050626412568
Corrected - was: The FED bought $43.8 billion in U.S. treasuries this week...
I took a harder look at this "report," and concluded it was misleading at best, and exploitive and manipulative at worst.
The recent auction activities of the FED have to attributed to roll-overs, as per their official position on such actions:
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_250319
This is what I love about DU, so many keen and patient minds here, sharing and helping each other 
Sorry for the confusion friends.
Original post:
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"The buyer of last resort" has just acted, again.
Why ?
Foreign holdings (aka loans to us) of our debt is the lowest since the 90's
Domestic demand is down
Gold is at all time highs
Even bitcoin has been over $100,000 for a week now
( and Blackrock has been accumulating it non stop all month )
This is not going well
#MAGA !
Ref: https://deepnewz.com/economics/u-s-fed-buys-8-8-billion-30-year-bonds-totaling-43-6-billion-this-week-amid-qe-0ddb91b3
Today's Facepalm: Art Of The Crypto Grift
Some context...
When the one billion trumpcoins were created, 800m were allocated to two trump controlled companies, 200m were offered for purchase (bt a Trump controlled company, which received the "Initial Coin Offering" sales revenue) at $10 a token - that tranche sold out very fast (most buys went to already prepared and positioned insiders and parties unknown, ready to resell them to the expected pool of rubes who'd be excited to get in on the action at ANY price ASAP); market trading ran it up quickly to $75 (the rubes were so happy, many having drained their savings or just borrowed, not wanting to miss out on a SURE thing), then it crashed back down when the rubes ran dry of cash.
Then some time past.
Then America's President posted this (on his social media platform) :
Its trading price promptly jumped 15%
The Grift Grinds On,
The Grift Grinds On.
La dee dawdy dee,
La dee dawdy da.
#AmericaTheConned
Today's Facepalm moment - What could possibly go wrong? (Musk seeking Air Traffic Controllers after firing them)
Putin and his drinking buddies must all just sit around and take turns reading these snippets
from America out loud before taking their vodka shots
#LaughingStock
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