Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/54684

While on a deep-sea expedition in the Galapagos in 2015, scientists found a golf-ball sized, short-armed blue octopus. In a recent study, they confirmed that it’s new to science. The newly described octopus, named Microeledone galapagensis, was first sighted with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) near an underwater mountain, roughly 1,773 meters (5,800 feet) below the Pacific Ocean surface close to Darwin Island.   Expedition researchers from the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápagos National Park Directorate collected it with their ROV. They saw two more octopus individuals on video. The body of the collected specimen was preserved and sent to octopus expert Janet Voight at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.  Voight and colleagues at the museum scanned the octopus using computed tomography (CT) to create a 3D model of the individual. The researchers then used the CT model to examine its internal organs and mouth parts.    “When you describe a new species of octopus, you have to look at all the parts, including the mouth, the beak, and the teeth. And to see those things, you have to cut the specimen open. We only had the one specimen, so I didn’t want to take it apart,” Voight said in a press release.   A comparison of the blue octopus’ parts with those from other octopus species revealed that it was a new-to-science species. Unlike many octopuses, Microeledone galapagensis is small, squat, and has short, stubby arms with few arm suckers. “One of the interesting questions about…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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Tiny little alien.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/36161954

Revealed Thursday as part of Bell Media's coming screen projects, The Littlest Hobo revamp is set to be an hour-long, live-action scripted drama, with 10 episodes to start.

More images in this YouTube Community Post here:

https://m.youtube.com/post/UgkxAFfTEJCbooJevfvPMnKFCjrkfYcQh9P_

TL;DR: Big Tech steals all of human knowledge, packages it all up into models and sells it back to you, making billions off other people's work. The heist makes the Napster case look insignificant in comparison. Bernie Sanders thinks AI company should be charged for what they stole.

The video's title is terrible and it's complete gibberish to me, but the video is interesting.

Its like key and peel sketch about how a couple of guys are going to get a job at the bank and rob them blind by collecting wages.

made by yours truly after the incident that happened earlier today

Duration - 9:17 [a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Donald Trump has justified economic warfare against Cuba, including the oil blockade, in the claim that the island somehow represents a national emergency for the United States.

From drones to Chinese and Russian spy bases to Hamas and Hezbollah, Trump and Marco Rubio have thrown the kitchen sink at Cuba to portray it as a national security threat.

Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández debunks six of the reasons the Trump administration has given to claim that a small island of 10 million people is threatening the most powerful country in the world.