Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org

Happy to see my latest feature for the brilliant Great Outdoors magazine, a joint writing and photography effort with @alex_roddie after a trip to Wasdale. Here is Lakeland history, a remote hostel and the spirit of George Mallory stalking the fells.

#hiking #hikingadventures #magazine #greatoutdoors #freelance

Commemorate the victims & learn about the tragic human history of #Auschwitz.

Follow & support @auschwitzmuseum

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In the picture: Auschwitz II-Birkenau site (unloading & selection platform and remains of wooden barracks of the BII sector)

UPDATED: 2022-12-20 M6.4 #earthquake near Ferndale, CA: Seismicity since M6.4 (red), the past year (cyan) and back to 1982 (blue-purple). 2022-12-20 M6.4 events may be in upper part of down-going, Gorda plate or in lower part of over-riding North American plate.

Hawai'i earthquake swarm caused by magma moving through 'sills' https://youtu.be/e2lT7_8Ew7g

There's a map going around that shows counts of venomous species by country. In addition to being interesting to look at, it highlights the problems that arise when you use political boundaries for geospatial data. Country size and range obscures biogeographical pattern. We see this with Russia, but the silliest example is the coloration of Alaska.

Just something worth keeping in mind when thinking about geographic data.

https://brilliantmaps.com/venomous-animals/

Hey friends, I saw a toot on here about a simulation by physicists and economists .... something about testing the role of luck vs. genius in market success.... i lost the link! Does anyone remember this? I tried to share it and failed

A wonderful write up of the finding: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/12/22/hawaii-volcanoes-magma-chambers/

One of the benefits of #Mastodon being #OpenSource: The EU can help make it more secure.

"Awards of up to EUR 5000 are available for finding security vulnerabilities in LibreOffice, LEOS, Mastodon, Odoo and CryptPad, open source solutions used by public services across the European Union. There is a 20% bonus for providing a code fix for the bugs they discover."
https://commission.europa.eu/news/european-commissions-open-source-programme-office-starts-bug-bounties-2022-01-19_en

Bad!! https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/?sh=28ed334e7da5

I am so excited to share our discovery of a massive sill complex in the upper mantle beneath Hawai’i https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade5755#.Y6S4deBdUS0.twitter

Wowww: ByteDance employees used TikTok data to try to find reporters' sources. Really, really bad stuff https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/byte-dance-tik-tok-internal-investigation.html

The Inigo Montoya method of greeting people.
Step 1: Polite greeting.
Step 2: Your name.
Step 3: Relevant personal link.
Step 4: Manage Expectations.

I know that facts don't matter so much during a moral panic, but I'll just say that I teach a class every year at Stanford that tackles hate speech, violence, terrorism, child exploitation, suicide and other really difficult topics and use a lot of these words with no difficulties.

I do give my students a talk up front about the content of the course and the need to be resilient if you want to make a positive impact in this field, but so far no complaints.

https://reason.com/2022/12/21/stanford-elimination-harmful-language-speech-karen-american/