Brian Beach has moved @bwbeach@qoto.org

Via @emptywheel:

WOWOWOW.

It must really suck for all those people whose full time job it is to **report** on Congress who should have known better about this being an "offset."

Surely they're all crafting apologies for their subscribers right now?

Jake Sherman:

🚨 BREAKING -- CBO says the #House's #Israel aid bill is not offset at all.

Will add $12.5B to the deficit in the next decade.

Cuts to IRS will decrease revenue by $26.7B

Here’s @emoryr of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse discussing California’s Delete Act on PBS’s @newshour. (TWiL fans will remember Emory as my frequent co-host 👏 🥹.) https://youtu.be/ZZNplfjLtgY

The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife

Review of "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" (5 stars): A warm cuddle in a wicked scary world https://bookwyrm.social/user/pezmico/review/2903213

Media explainers are a cheap way to become an instant expert on everything from billionaire submarine excursions to hellaciously complex geopolitical conflicts, but @onthemedia's "#BreakingNewsConsumersHandbooks" are explainers that help you understand *other* explainers:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-israel-and-gaza-edition-on-the-media

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/#breaking-news

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I love the new "Connections" game from the New York Times, but I just realized it's not keyboard-accessible. Literally just <div>s with pointer* listeners, even though these are basically just buttons with a pressed state.

I guess I had kind of naively thought our industry was getting better at #a11y as a whole? In any case, I gave them feedback, so hopefully they'll fix it.

A grasshopper lands at a random point on a planar lawn of area one. It then jumps once, a fixed distance 𝑑, in a random direction. What shape should the lawn be to maximize the chance that the grasshopper remains on the lawn when it lands?

Surprisingly, the lawn should never be shaped like a disk! Here's what it should look like for various choices of 𝑑.

• Olga Goulko and Adrian Kent, The grasshopper problem, https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07621.

Follow @esoterica to learn more surprising results in mathematics!

Data used from bicyclists' smart watches to improve safety on streets https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/denver-using-smart-watch-data-to-identify-high-stress-spots-for-cyclists

This thread is worth reading. From Matt Blaze. https://federate.social/@mattblaze/111303991610848669

@auschwitzmuseum is at the same time the most #depressing but also the most #important social media account in existence.

Only by constantly remembering these evil cruelties done by the Nazis we as a society can ensure to never repeat these crimes again.
If you dont follow them yet, I highly recommend you to do so.

Also thanks a lot for the hard work of all the people at the #Auschwitz #Museum

The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

work with your manager to get promoted

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/work-with-manager-promoted/

It’s seriously remarkable how even in the “durable utility workwear” space the details of design end up far less than egalitarian. Like, the same line of clothing can be superficially similar between men’s and women’s cuts, but the loop for the claw hammer is loose and easy to use on the men’s pants and cut to sit flush and totally unfit for purpose on the women’s. it’s really pervasive.

Elon’s tweet disparaging the need to support the Wikipedia has stuck with me. How could anyone, even a creepy libertarian who hates government find fault with wikipedia? The wikipedia is an independent not for profit corporation. It’s the way the libertarians always assure us public goods can still exist even in their fantasy futures. And in this limited area the wikipedia largely works. A backbone for the web of human knowledge. But somehow even this is still objectionable.

“Placing HEPA air filters into classrooms in the Bradford area of the UK reduced the number of covid-19-related absences among students by more than 20 per cent”

Clean air works. Why are we not doing this more?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2398713-schools-cut-covid-19-sick-days-by-20-per-cent-using-hepa-air-filters/

It’s amazing to me that a proposal to scan *literally ever private communication in Europe* is barely making newspapers, and we’re reading about legislative progress on blogs.

Why you should sell your car and get an #ebike - it'll make you happier https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/reasons-to-get-e-bike-emissions-climate-change-benefits/675716/