ProfT @ProfT@qoto.org
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“We went awry by replacing, in effect, each horse on the crowded city streets with half a dozen or so mechanized vehicles, instead of using each mechanized vehicle to replace half a dozen or so horses.” — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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It's been two and a half years that mstdn.ca has been a thing.
If you see this, please reshare it and star it. I'm curious about the reach we have.
Consider this a research and proof of concept project!
@tunix goverments not goverments
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#OTD in 1853.
Charles Dickens gives the first of his public readings of his own works, in Birmingham Town Hall (England) to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people and including an adaptation of A Christmas Carol; these are very successful and Dickens continues public readings until the year of his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol
Christmas Carol at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46
@straphanger Funny how he basically writes about the 15 minute city in everything but the name.
@michael_w_busch More is less by Jason Hickey and Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis. Both about how our consumer habits and economies are unsustainable and damaging to nature.
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As a reminder, our Nonprofit Explorer tool has the financial details of every tax-exempt organization in the US that files annual reports with the IRS.
Check it out here: https://propub.li/41OekCs
#Nonprofit #Charity #IRS #Tax #Data #Research #Journalism #Donate #Giving
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@gleick can somebody explain what is exactly wrong with safety, diversity and inclusion?
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Banksy's Christmas card from 2005, 19 years ago:
#freepalestine
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With determination getting people onto bicycles and out of cars can reduce local pollution in a few years.
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Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.
@gboussard @Goneri so you have multiple touch screens in cars, mobile phones, advertising billboards on sides of the roads, (both traditional and giant LCD screens) and drivers are distracted by and can't judge distance to a cyclist because one 5 watt blinking light??? Come on...
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Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 
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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #MastoArt
@petergleick smells of AI generated text
@glennsills @tinkebell great point! And withholding healthcare by making it too expensive, polluting the air and water and preventing action on global warming sure caused deaths.
@sallymack I ride an E-bike and use Continental urban contact tires. (I'm in EU). You have couple of options: 1. Solid tires - no maintenance but worse ride 2. Tubeless tires - you have to check latex milk inside every 3-6 months but if you get a puncture the latex seals it without you doing anything. 3. Urban tires - you have to check the pressures- you shouldn't run them too hard (depending on the weight of bike+load+you) and they should take 99% of urban abuse. I had mine for 4000 km and got my first flat tire last week. But my rear looked had holes like this (puncture was on the front). So now I change the tires.
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El Pentágono censurará las imágenes del observatorio Vera Rubin para borrar la posición de los satélites clasificados estadounidenses (ya se hace con los Pan-STARRS). Las imágenes no censuradas se publicarán 3 días y 8 horas después. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/vera-rubin-telescope-spy-satellite/680814/
@johncarlosbaez I feel like she is falling in the same trap as do the fanboys- that is painting somebody as a 100% hero or a 100%villain. And the same mistake would be to settle and say he is 50-50.
History is messy and there are no clear narratives. He did some awful things and he did some great ones. And he shouldn't be anybody's hero, and yet he can teach us some important things.
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"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."
#NeilPostman 1985
"Amusing Ourselves To Death"
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