Brian Beach @bwbeach@qoto.org

oh yeah sure I'm solid with the scientific Python stack

*scoots 50 open pandas/numpy/scipy documentation browser tabs behind a door*

"Poverty can produce the most deadly kind of violence in this society; violence against poor people and minority groups is routine. I remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her child is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical needs is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. Even the lack of willpower to help humanity is a sick and Sinister form of violence."
— Coretta Scott King, 1968

I maintain that the tiktok stuff is mostly about Facebook lobbyists using xenophobic natsec scares to gin up geriatrics into banning a competitor they couldn't out-compete

but it's also a wonderful way to distract everyone from the fact congress is too corrupt to pass a privacy law

resulting in a parade of stuff like...this

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/general-motors-spying-driver-data-consent.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE0.Zl7w.Krk5d0NsEab-&smid=url-share

Hats off:

"Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.

The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform"

https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elon-musk-dead-at-52-misinformation-laws/

The back-woods, working class, remote rural community near where I live, whose primary employers are a zinc/lead smelter and a pulp mill, just elected amazing queer hero, Birkley Valks, to the local school board of trustees. He soundly won the election against a hate-mongering anti-trans bully. Love wins! 🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️

You shouldn’t have to go to a second-rate online “reading room” just to read the laws we live by. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/congress-no-one-should-own-law

Let's dispel a myth: Universal Basic Income isn't about funding idleness; it's about funding potential. We can have a world where every mind has the means to chase their bliss. That's not simple charity; that's an investment in human capital at its finest. Imagine more Einsteins! And da Vincis.

READ: It’s a pretty big deal when this KEY MESSAGE is in Scientific American. It suggests a bigger tipping point. “We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent: Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/

Every vendor booth at RSA this year:

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Hard agree here:

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

The case for making journalism free—at least during the 2024 election

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/paywall-problems-media-trust-democracy/678032/

We are finding out that Twitter worked well as a marketing channel for our free newsletter on #JavaScript and tooling.

I’m hoping that Mastodon can help replace it there, too. Boosts appreciated!

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you shouldn't be concerned about the #Uncommitted protest vote happening in PRIMARIES not a general election.

on the contrary, if you are truly against fascism, encourage it. look at the turn around that’s happening in the party since almost half a million protests votes been casted.

white americans have been taught to be meek and cowardly to keep the violent status quo that harms people like me.

don't give in to the cowardice. learn to fight like people do in real democracies.

@kcanales02

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Welcome news for #IndoorAQI:

The Biden-Harris Admin has prioritized improving indoor air quality as an effective tool for keeping ppl healthy.

ARPA-H launches BREATHE to create next-gen. building systems that monitor & improve indoor air quality
The program aims to reduce harmful pathogens & allergens in buildings nationwide to ensure indoor air is always safe & healthy. Poor #IndoorAQI is a leading cause of preventable diseases like the flu & other respiratory ill-.

https://arpa-h.gov/news-and-events/arpa-h-launches-breathe-monitor-and-improve-indoor-air-quality

Even with all the eclipse photos circulating right now, this one made my eyes pop. Great shot of jet contrails breaking up the edge of the eclipsed Sun. Quick calculation: The Sun is about 30,000,000 times wider than the jet.

(Photo by Bobby Goddin, Bloomington, IN) #eclipse #nature #science #photography

Not only does the colander trick work, the quality of the light is definitely strange out there #eclipse #SoCal

Another all too barren spring in NYC. There should be so many insects, so many ants, so many tiny creatures filling the parks, hitting the windshields of cars.

Remember when bugs used to hit the windshields of cars because the air was so full of life?

I guess most people think this is 'improvement' but they are wrong. There is a campaign to put the American bumblebee on the endangered species list!

We are living in an eerie lifeless netherworld and I don't know why more can't see it!