Feels like I keep hearing about new FOSS tools and services interfacing with Mastodon every day.
I need some place to keep track of them.

• https://github.com/toelke/mastodon2rss - Serve your mastodon home feed to RSS (including boosts!)
• https://rstockm.github.io/mastothread - split your long text into bitesize posts. Via @vicgrinberg.
• https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends
• https://streetpass.social a browser extension that helps you find Mastodon users as you browse
• https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon - a collection of various lists of academics on Mastodon servers.
• https://lemmyverse.net - search Lemmy instances or communities
• https://mastogizmos.com - a collection of JavaScript apps to search and explore the Mastodon universe. By https://www.calishat.com. Via https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/114372841943284024

This is an academic seminar, so not much razzle-dazzle, but the subject matter is certainly cool!
Space-based solar power is the idea to put PV panels on satellites in orbit and beam the power down to the surface.

Do you think that sounds outlandish? Well, there is nothing technical stopping us - just a matter of financing and politics. Not like fusion which is still an unsolved problem. In my book space-based solar would be smarter, cheaper, and more sustainable than even nuclear power.

I have archived a copy of the seminar recording on my Nextcloud (in case you have any problems using the Zoom-provided recording).

• Due to rules severely limiting the allowed sulfur content in fossil fuels for (see, acid rain) over 80% of all sulfur produced globally is a side-product of fossil oil and fossil gas refinement. Unless we find another way to produce sulfur (sulfuric acid is a critical industrial feedstock), the change to renewables could seriously hamper our access to sulfur. Maslin & Day, The Conversation (2022).
• Shell got a lot of good PR a few years ago on the back of news that they would install hydrogen filling stations across California in cooperation with Toyota. Now they have announced their complete withdrawal from light-duty (read: private cars) hydrogen filling stations in the state.