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Cecilily discusses the financialisation of Pokemon cards as an investment vehicle.

It's one thing that makes me pause in teaching my niece how to play, I don't want her to get caught up in the abstraction of the cards as anything other than pieces of cardboard with funny pictures of animals

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Picked up this beautiful sansui 27" the other day!

I have a question for y'all though. I was a complete idiot, and had this in my hatch back. I was on a hill and started off and I did not have the TV as stable as I should have and it tipped face forward and hit my back window pretty hard at about 45 degree angle (amazingly nothing broke). I was terrified I broke it but thankfully it works fine, except that when its a cold startup it has horizontal Lines on the top 4" or so. After about 5 minutes they Go away . I'm almost positive this is my fault although maybe it was already doing that, previous owner didn't say ofc. I'm wondering, is there a fix for this or should I leave it? Will it get worse overtime ? I'm not new to electronic work (guitar tube amps, tape machines etc) but in this situation I'm not sure the best way. (Pic is when warmed up)

I can post a pic of the lines tomorrow. Really hope I didn't fuck this thing up :(

par Jo

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43180649

Archive link: https://archive.is/20260215161339/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/join-the-great-backyard-bird-count-for-science/

The count, organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society and Birds Canada, is held for four days each February to take stock of global bird populations before they undertake seasonal migration starting in March. This year’s event runs from February 13 through February 16. During this time, participants are encouraged to observe birds in a location of their choosing for 15 minutes or more at least once and to identify and count all of the birds they encounter in that interval. People can report their findings—and share any photographs—via the eBird or Merlin Bird ID apps, which are available for iOS and Android smartphones.

There are a lot of buzzword sounding bits in this article, but this is still a cool (incremental) step from what I understand. This seems to be the key bit:

Similar quantum teleportation was achieved by researchers at Northwestern University in 2024, when they found a way to guide particles of light through 30 kilometres of fibre optic cable. However, Photonic says it has taken this a step further by successfully transferring information to a “remote processing node.”

Think of sending a letter by mail. Previous demonstrations of quantum teleportation were like successfully delivering a letter written in disappearing ink: if delivery was successful, its content couldn’t be used, a Photonic spokesperson explained. Photonic’s transmission would be the equivalent of successfully sending a letter written in permanent ink, so the information is permanently available on the other end.

The start of the article:

One of Canada’s top quantum companies is claiming a breakthrough in transmitting information over a fibre optic network, in a step towards using quantum tech in everyday communications.

Vancouver-based Photonic announced today that it had successfully transmitted quantum information—encoded as qubits, which can exist in two states at once—across 30 kilometres of telecom giant Telus’s commercial fibre network. The company is levelling up its partnership with Telus, who is also an investor, to pursue quantum-safe networking projects together.

“This is just the beginning of real-world impacts we will jointly deliver,” Photonic CEO Paul Terry said in a statement.

Founded in 2016, Photonic has now raised $375 million CAD in its pursuit to develop a useful quantum computer and sell its services at scale. Terry previously told BetaKit that the company is “commercializing a new branch of physics,” by using a property of quantum physics called entanglement to network quantum computers together.

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