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@loewe @pluralistic

It's proper live now at https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

The relive-link will die after the congress.

@pluralistic
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
#39c3

Ja, liebe @EUCommission und @Bundesregierung. Ihr solltet euch alle den #39c3 Vortrag von @pluralistic zu Gemüte führen:
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

Wir haben Zölle und die beste Antwort darauf, ist das Free Trade Agreement zu kündigen. Das einseitige Übervorteilen mit dem "Intellectual Property" muss aufhören! Wir haben nichts davon außer großes Elend.

The presentation of @pluralistic - ah, let's call it a Brandrede - at the #39c3 is really good. And, congratulations on that, is a rather positive one amidst rather dark times. In this speech we find recipes that should absolutely be tried out.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

@loewe @pluralistic

It's proper live now at https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

The relive-link will die after the congress.

@loewe @pluralistic

It's proper live now at https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

The relive-link will die after the congress.

The #enshittification talk of @pluralistic at the #39c3 is online: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

Really good #39c3 talk by @pluralistic

If you watch one talk let it be this one

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

Ja, liebe @EUCommission und @Bundesregierung. Ihr solltet euch alle den #39c3 Vortrag von @pluralistic zu Gemüte führen:
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

Wir haben Zölle und die beste Antwort darauf, ist das Free Trade Agreement zu kündigen. Das einseitige Übervorteilen mit dem "Intellectual Property" muss aufhören! Wir haben nichts davon außer großes Elend.

I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, merely meeting them, even worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard.

But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are doing their honest best are just avant-garde.

If despite it all, you keep going and try your best.
I'm here for it and thank you.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, merely meeting them, even worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard.

But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are doing their honest best are just avant-garde.

If despite it all, you keep going and try your best.
I'm here for it and thank you.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, merely meeting them, even worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard.

But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are doing their honest best are just avant-garde.

If despite it all, you keep going and try your best.
I'm here for it and thank you.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, merely meeting them, even worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard.

But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are doing their honest best are just avant-garde.

If despite it all, you keep going and try your best.
I'm here for it and thank you.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, merely meeting them, even worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard.

But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are doing their honest best are just avant-garde.

If despite it all, you keep going and try your best.
I'm here for it and thank you.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, merely meeting them, even worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard.

But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are doing their honest best are just avant-garde.

If despite it all, you keep going and try your best.
I'm here for it and thank you.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, merely meeting them, even worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard.

But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are doing their honest best are just avant-garde.

If despite it all, you keep going and try your best.
I'm here for it and thank you.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, merely meeting them, even worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard.

But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are doing their honest best are just avant-garde.

If despite it all, you keep going and try your best.
I'm here for it and thank you.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

I've had the growing impression, in recent years, that it has become thoroughly uncool to do your best. Exceeding expectations is embarrassing, merely meeting them, even worthy of ridicule. I see it all the time. You're caught rehearsing, or journaling in public? how performative. It kept you up at night, did it? you poured sweat into it? such a try-hard.

But I don’t think this is new. It’s that ol' familiar cynicism, one we’ve cycled through before. It usually precedes a moment when people grow tired of poorly made things, and what is done carefully and thoughtfully can once again be appreciated without shame. I'm hopeful that we're about to emerge into a renaissance, and convinced that my friends who are doing their honest best are just avant-garde.

If despite it all, you keep going and try your best.
I'm here for it and thank you.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

"So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world."

https://poets.org/poem/choir-invisible

Heatpump install

In June 2025 I got a heat pump installed in my 3 bedroom semi-detached house built in 1900. I thought I'd document the process as it may be of interest to others, particularly some aspects of the heat pump sizing and installation of the underfloor heating, which on discussing with some people they found quite interesting and useful. I started the discussion with the local installer, …

https://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2025/12/heatpump-install/

Heatpump install

In June 2025 I got a heat pump installed in my 3 bedroom semi-detached house built in 1900. I thought I'd document the process as it may be of interest to others, particularly some aspects of the heat pump sizing and installation of the underfloor heating, which on discussing with some people they found quite interesting and useful. I started the discussion with the local installer, …

https://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2025/12/heatpump-install/

Heatpump install

In June 2025 I got a heat pump installed in my 3 bedroom semi-detached house built in 1900. I thought I'd document the process as it may be of interest to others, particularly some aspects of the heat pump sizing and installation of the underfloor heating, which on discussing with some people they found quite interesting and useful. I started the discussion with the local installer, …

https://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2025/12/heatpump-install/

Heatpump install

In June 2025 I got a heat pump installed in my 3 bedroom semi-detached house built in 1900. I thought I'd document the process as it may be of interest to others, particularly some aspects of the heat pump sizing and installation of the underfloor heating, which on discussing with some people they found quite interesting and useful. I started the discussion with the local installer, …

https://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2025/12/heatpump-install/

Heatpump install

In June 2025 I got a heat pump installed in my 3 bedroom semi-detached house built in 1900. I thought I'd document the process as it may be of interest to others, particularly some aspects of the heat pump sizing and installation of the underfloor heating, which on discussing with some people they found quite interesting and useful. I started the discussion with the local installer, …

https://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2025/12/heatpump-install/

Heatpump install

In June 2025 I got a heat pump installed in my 3 bedroom semi-detached house built in 1900. I thought I'd document the process as it may be of interest to others, particularly some aspects of the heat pump sizing and installation of the underfloor heating, which on discussing with some people they found quite interesting and useful. I started the discussion with the local installer, …

https://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2025/12/heatpump-install/

Heatpump install

In June 2025 I got a heat pump installed in my 3 bedroom semi-detached house built in 1900. I thought I'd document the process as it may be of interest to others, particularly some aspects of the heat pump sizing and installation of the underfloor heating, which on discussing with some people they found quite interesting and useful. I started the discussion with the local installer, …

https://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2025/12/heatpump-install/

Heatpump install

In June 2025 I got a heat pump installed in my 3 bedroom semi-detached house built in 1900. I thought I'd document the process as it may be of interest to others, particularly some aspects of the heat pump sizing and installation of the underfloor heating, which on discussing with some people they found quite interesting and useful. I started the discussion with the local installer, …

https://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2025/12/heatpump-install/

Heatpump install

In June 2025 I got a heat pump installed in my 3 bedroom semi-detached house built in 1900. I thought I'd document the process as it may be of interest to others, particularly some aspects of the heat pump sizing and installation of the underfloor heating, which on discussing with some people they found quite interesting and useful. I started the discussion with the local installer, …

https://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2025/12/heatpump-install/

https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list

#HackerNews #tada #list #productivity #personal #growth #reflection #journaling

One year of keeping a tada list
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- 5 days ago | 19 points | 0 comments
- URL: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list
- Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354282
- Summary: Aditya Bhargava kept a “tada list” for a year—daily notes of completed tasks plus a monthly illustrated summary. The practice highlighted long chains of incremental work, such as a 2024–25 watercolor journey: studying greens, value exercises, 50 plein-air scenes, and finally four polished Minnesota-landscape greeting cards. Similarly, an earlier parser-combinator library enabled a new statically-typed Mustache clone later used in personal projects. Seeing these layers proved motivating, but the ritual also added pressure to log something every day and became harder to sustain; handwriting and artwork deteriorated toward year-end. He may repeat the exercise, valuing the tangible record of forgotten accomplishments.

https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list

One year of keeping a tada list
L: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354282
posted on 2025.12.22 at 09:16:40 (c=0, p=6)

I first heard about the concept of a 'tada list' earlier this year. I thought it was a cool idea, and I am glad this person has made it work for them. I think for me, it would just be one more thing I'll have tried and given up on :) https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list

Perhaps keep it in a public place?

Anyone here keep a tada (or to-done) list? What are your experiences?

I first heard about the concept of a 'tada list' earlier this year. I thought it was a cool idea, and I am glad this person has made it work for them. I think for me, it would just be one more thing I'll have tried and given up on :) https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list

Perhaps keep it in a public place?

Anyone here keep a tada (or to-done) list? What are your experiences?

I first heard about the concept of a 'tada list' earlier this year. I thought it was a cool idea, and I am glad this person has made it work for them. I think for me, it would just be one more thing I'll have tried and given up on :) https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list

Perhaps keep it in a public place?

Anyone here keep a tada (or to-done) list? What are your experiences?

Link: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354282

Link: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354282

One year of keeping a tada list
Link: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354282

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/

Dad's Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA - https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/

#hackernews

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/

#HackerNews #DadsFitness #SpermRNA #GeneticInheritance #HealthResearch #QuantaMagazine

How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/

Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407502

Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/

Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407502

Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/
#ycombinator

Dad's Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA
L: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407502
posted on 2025.12.27 at 20:33:10 (c=1, p=6)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-for-country

#climatechange #environment #brazil #plants #heat

#Brazil

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country

The Caatinga in the north-east has been transformed by the heating climate in just a generation and could become the country’s first desert

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-for-country

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country | Climate crisis | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-for-country

#Brazil #climatechange
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-for-country

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-for-country #ClimateCrisis #Drought #Desertification #ExtremeHeat #Water #Brazil #Environment #GreenhouseGasEmissions #WorldNews

#Brazil

‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country

The Caatinga in the north-east has been transformed by the heating climate in just a generation and could become the country’s first desert

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-for-country

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

While the negotiations are ongoing, here is a series from #TheGlobalJigsaw where we looked into what it feels like living under Russian occupation and how did it come to it:
Crimea https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7mw0
Donbas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7mw1
The regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7nf1
#UkraineWar

While the negotiations are ongoing, here is a series from #TheGlobalJigsaw where we looked into what it feels like living under Russian occupation and how did it come to it:
Crimea https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7mw0
Donbas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7mw1
The regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7nf1
#UkraineWar

While the negotiations are ongoing, here is a series from #TheGlobalJigsaw where we looked into what it feels like living under Russian occupation and how did it come to it:
Crimea https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7mw0
Donbas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7mw1
The regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7nf1
#UkraineWar

While the negotiations are ongoing, here is a series from #TheGlobalJigsaw where we looked into what it feels like living under Russian occupation and how did it come to it:
Crimea https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7mw0
Donbas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7mw1
The regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct7nf1
#UkraineWar

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

#Scientists found the key to accurate #Maya #eclipse tables
Eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on #lunar tables and, rather than being created solely for eclipse prediction, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances. They also figured out the mechanism by which the Maya ensured that table would be accurate over a very long time period.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/