Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Mapping the coastal erosian in California caused by January's heavy rain, using aerial imagery and photogrammetry.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2023/01/californian-coastal-erosion.html

The Long Fight for the King Holiday

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 brought a rude re-awakening to Americans that their country’s commitment to racial equality was threadbare.

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#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackExcellence #BlackTwitter #History #MlKDay #histodons #Holiday #CivilRights #BlackHistory #News

As DeSantis tries to impose an ideology of violent white supremacy on the University of Florida, accreditation agencies, collegiate athletic conferences, and national funding bodies should start thinking about their response.

Doing nothing is an endorsement of white supremacy and greenlights more extreme measures to come.

#Florida #academia

It's 2023 and Black people in the USA still don't have equal voting access. Like I said, the civil rights era didn't end. You are still in it.

People just pretended that the civil rights era ended once they had assassinated enough of the major civil rights leaders. But the objectives of the civil rights era have not yet been achieved.

Now we have to listen to racists that misquote MLK, and then disrespect modern day civil rights leaders like Kaepernick and Stacey Abrams the very next breathe.

Ron DeSantis is spearheading the red-state assault on the 1960s civil rights revolution - he has been the most effective champion of a white reactionary counter-mobilization against whatever racial and social progress has been achieved in America. It simply does not get any more shameless than this.

For those among us with an aversion to waking up before dawn (🙋🏻‍♂️), #comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will be well-positioned in the northern hemisphere evening sky beginning in the last few days of January. Visual brightness is expected to peak on about1st February. #astronomy

📷: Stellarium simulation

Richest 1% took home nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years.

Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

The tech companies laying off developers in Silicon Valley are hiring them in Latin America, where salaries are much lower. https://restofworld.org/2023/cheap-developers-latin-america-tech-crunch-scarcity/

Did you know that the 13,000 Native Americans that fought in World War I were not even U.S. citizens? Natives were not granted citizenship (of our own country) — until June 2, 1924.

You would’ve known this. Had they taught it to you in school.

@futurebird An insect hotel is a box filled with cut, hollow plant stems. But you can also use paper straws pushed into holes drilled in wood. Species of tunnel-nesting bees and wasps will move in and provision the nests with whatever their young need: pollen, spiders, caterpillars, tree crickets, etc. It's fun to watch, and a great way to learn about insects that you might not know are in your yard. https://colinpurrington.com/2019/05/guide-to-diy-mason-bee-houses/

Booklouse (Liposcelis sp.) found inside a stem used by Trypoxylon at my insect hotel. It's approximately 1 mm long. The spiders were still present in the cell so I'm assuming the booklice (they were breeding) caused the death of the developing wasp larva. The wasp's mud cell partitions kept them from spreading to the rest of the brood, luckily. A good reminder of why it's important to clean an insect hotel yearly. I.e., if you have one of those cute but un-cleanable bamboo units, the resident pests will take over. #insect #wasp #entomology #nature #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #Psocoptera

Who wants to see my insect hotel? It has three levels, an observation wing, and external add-ons with vertically-oriented stems. #bee #wasp #insect #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #entomology #Hymenoptera

https://colinpurrington.com/2022/03/photo-tour-of-my-insect-hotel-2022-edition/

Here we are in the 20s, and an auto manufacturer has bought a media outlet to promote his far right ideas that he thought were being "suppressed" by the "controlled press." Is it the 1920s and the Dearborn Independent, or the 2020s and Twitter? Hard to tell sometimes. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/

@MarkRuffalo Here’s a gift link to The New York Times Magazine article — The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare — by Nathaniel Rich on which the movie Dark Waters was based.

https://tinyurl.com/4k4p7up7

BREAKING: After nearly a year wait, I obtained the autopsy for Samuel Nunez, a fleeing 26-year-old Hispanic man fatally shot by Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy Chad Melton last year. Deputies later admitted Nunez wasn't the suspect for the call they were on.

Six shots were fired at Samuel Nunez with a 9mm handgun by Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy Chad Melton. Nunez's head, scalp, brain, neck, facial bones, tongue, and upper left extremities were ravaged in the burst of gunfire that came only seconds after deputies addressed Nunez.

Full story: https://www.vpsreports.com/post/los-angeles-sheriffs-trap-fatally-shoot-fleeing-hispanic-man-who-wasn-t-a-suspect

A nice poster on the applications of Mathematics in Manufacturing, produced by the USA National Academy of Sciences, can be found here: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/other/deps/illustrating-math/interactive/

And if you want more details on the topic, you may take a look to this book: https://www.routledge.com/Formal-Methods-in-Manufacturing/Campos-Seatzu-Xie/p/book/9781138074293#