#gardening failure so far this year: invested in #AntPro bait stations in an attempt to reduce ant damage to fruit trees/etc. (and the occasional bee swarm that lands here). The #ArgentineAnts here refuse to take the bait... I think too many other food sources in my yard. #pest#control#ant#ants
I came upon this interesting scene today: a ladybug had found an ant "aphid farm" and was about to deliver a whole world of pain. The ant fell down the plant while trying to block the ladybug.
(Some species of ants have a mutualistic relationship with aphids. They herd the aphids to collect honeydew, and protect them from predators.)
Having now gone through some of the algorithms in the #JsonLD spec in a lot more detail and done more diagramming than is probably healthy, I think part of the problem I (and others) have here is that the @/context object is not (deliberately) typed.
Not as in "it doesn't represent the type," but rather "it has no type of its own to speak of."
It's series of processing directives and almost representing an internal, intermediate state in its own right for the data representation.
The (frustrating) exception to this is how it has a linear-order precedence and the ability to unset things in later contexts, but that aside
If you think of it this way, then it isn't a type and you can't really load it as one productively per se, but it may be a series of typed statements (yes, that has a type, but so does a maven build file in that sense, here have a cookie)
Kuhn pretty well demonstrated that social and political factors have substantial influence on what science is produced. #ANT doesn't disagree with this, but says that, effectively, if you're studying the scallops of a bay in Belgium, the scallops themselves along with the nets and the local fishermen will have to go along with what you're trying to demonstrate or you're going not going to get the result you're looking for.
I created this Chi Ant Mr. Happy Bug 10 years ago. I was doing some splicing and mirror work with original paintings and this guy showed up. I knew it was quirky. I listed anyway. If it "speaks" to only one person that makes me feel pretty AWESOME!
Let's say you are an Evil Corporation in a modern-day urban fantasy #ttrpg setting. And you managed to gain magical control over a group of #ant swarms.
One of the thinkers who has influenced me most is the sociologist John Law, one of the creators of Actor-network theory, along with Bruno Latour, among others. I especially like his book "After Method" (2004), very influenced by the amazing work of Annemarie Mol (especially her "The Body Multiple"). For those who want to know more about Law, I recommend his website http://heterogeneities.net/ There is a lot of very interesting material (papers, projects, etc.).
How to study the messiness of social realities? ➡️ "I want to argue that while standard methods are often extremely good at what they do, they are badly adapted
to the study of the ephemeral, the indefinite and the irregular".
One of my favourite flowers. It seems the ants and I have something in common. I have been informed elsewhere that this is a 'mountain bluett' although these images were not taken anywhere near a mountain.
China ends crackdown on web giants with colossal fines for Ant Group, Tencent (www.theregister.com)
Alibaba's valuation of its fintech outfit now way below numbers touted ahead of cancelled 2020 IPO
Making new friends as an adult is hard...
Especially when you don't want them