Brian Beach has moved @bwbeach@qoto.org
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Now at: @haiku_brian
Proud papa/dad/husband. Choral singer. Aspiring linguist. CTO at Backblaze. Usually in Indiana, sometimes on Maui. He/him.
Joined Nov 2022
@trinsec Sorry about that. I had tried it in an incognito tab and it worked. It does have some annoying scrolling before you get to the content, though.
There's a lake in Ontario that has unusual chemistry that leaves a year-by-year sedimentary record of what's happening: pollen, ash, carbon dioxide levels, plutonium from nuclear tests, etc.
It's not news that humans have effected the Earth, but this article (gift link below) paints a clear picture.
@nazgul Based on the allergy warnings, I guess it’s rare to have an allergy to aperiodic tiling? 🤣
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I went to a party today and someone brought cutting edge cookies.
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One of our most popular cartoons of all time is the "Who can work in science" pie chart. We felt that it was long overdue a small update. Happy #PrideMonth everyone #LGBTQ
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By they way, if you haven't discovered it yet, the hash tag #bloomscrolling can be very refreshing and lovely.
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If you hear people casually referring to bribery accusations against Biden as though they are credible (if not outright proven), send them this free link to disabuse them of that. https://wapo.st/3oZkX3A
... and thanks to @marick and @jessitron for the recommendation for Team Topologies in the latest episode of Oddly Influenced.
https://podcast.oddly-influenced.dev/episodes/interview-jessica-kerr-on-games-agency-as-art
Life is especially good today. Living in the Eastern time zone, and working for a company in the Pacific time zone means having time in the morning to read and think before everybody else gets on Slack.
The weather is perfect today in Indiana for reading outside at the co-working space.
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Greetings, Mastodon! My name is Liz Landau and I love learning about space and science. I make podcasts and videos at NASA and write about other areas of science for newspapers and magazines. In my spare time, I play board games and write songs about space.
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Be the person that both Mr. Rogers and George Carlin would be proud of.
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@trinsec 99% Invisible did a very interesting episode on that history.
From the summary: "in the 1960s and 70s, it looked like the Netherlands would follow the same path as the United States. The Dutch had fallen in love with cars and they were rebuilding their cities to make room for them. It was only because of a multi-decade pro-cycling movement that cars didn’t take over the country entirely."
@Alice Not sure what's different about my setup, but I see posts from @Talia_christine and @donmelton on Ivory all the time. (I switched to Ivory a couple weeks ago and really like it.)
@trinsec I rode my bike to school here in the US in the 1970s, and it was perfectly normal. Since then, we have ceded the streets to the cars, and people walking and biking have to fend for themselves.
We need to redesign our infrastructure to prioritize people and bikes, so kids biking to school don't need chaperones and a bunch of protective gear.
Amid all of the bad news and strife today, the NY Times had this good news about kids biking to school.
It's a shame we don't have better cycling infrastructure that makes it safe for kids to just bike to school. This is a step in the right direction, though: biking together, with adults to help deal with cars on the road.
(This is a "gift" link that goes around the paywall.)
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Since this article mentions "Anthropocene" I thought it would be a good time to boost this piece again to clarify were the real blame lies:
"To date, researchers have mentioned the Anthropocene Epoch as the latest geological period in more than 1,300 scientific papers. While the scientific community has been debating over which year the Anthropocene Epoch began, several Indigenous and Black scholars have shot back against the term.
"The problem, some scholars say, is that the term assumes the climate crisis is caused by universal human nature, rather than the actions of a minority of colonialists, capitalists, and patriarchs. And the implication that the Earth was stable until around 1950, when the ‘Anthropocene’ supposedly began, denies the history of people who have been exploited by those systems for centuries.
"Indigenous scholars have further addressed how the term stands for colonialist ideologies that sever the deep ties and interconnections between humans, plants, animals, and the soil.
“Instead of treating the Earth like a precious entity that gives us life, Western colonial legacies operate within a paradigm that assumes they can extract its natural resources as much as they want, and the Earth will regenerate itself,” said Hadeel Assali, a lecturer and postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Science and Society, a Columbia Climate School affiliate."
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected in 2019 on a pledge to put “the state in a smartphone.” Today, many citizens are using the same app to track Russian troops, seek evacuation assistance — even file their taxes. Axios has more on Diia.
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/26/ukraine-diia-app-fedorov-russian-troops
#Ukraine #Zelensky #Apps #CyberSecurity
- GitHub
- https://github.com/bwbeach
- Lame website
- https://www.beachfamily.net
Now at: @haiku_brian
Proud papa/dad/husband. Choral singer. Aspiring linguist. CTO at Backblaze. Usually in Indiana, sometimes on Maui. He/him.
Joined Nov 2022
