Brian Beach has moved @bwbeach@qoto.org

Compelling argument, not gonna lie.

In the Netherlands the average daily electricity price decreases by 1% point for every 1% increase of solar and wind in the Dutch electricity mix (horizontal axis). Extrapolation shows always a value close to zero at 100% solar and wind.
This 'Martien price law' has proven to be (more or less) correct since my first analysis of it in 2018.

The (virtual) price at 0% solar and wind in the mix, left side of the graph, is alway close to two times the gas price.

Do you own an ".io"-domain or intend to? You might want to reconsider and find an alternative. @cariad wrote down the history and facts, and no it's not an easy read: https://www.beep.blog/io/

Thank you for sharing @RyunoKi and @grifferz.

#DomainManagement #HackingEthics #HackingEthik #ethics

“It's absolutely fantastic that as a citizen, you come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly.”

Librarian’s remark after Göteborg Main Library was accidentally left unlocked at Halloween and 400 people wandered in. ‘People sat reading newspapers. There were families in the children's section and people looking books up in the database. 200 books were borrowed and nothing was damaged.’

Thanks to @mrsostberg for sharing this. Am sharing in English as it’s so nice.

#Libraries #Bibliotek

https://antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app/

14/24. 🤣

@rayckeith Shoutout to my 2nd grade teacher. She told the class that comets’ tails pointed toward the sun. Little geek that I was, I corrected her publicly.

She was *delighted*.

What a role model! What a giving-of-permission to become who I became!

So, this very cool!

Just in time for the 2024 election cycle, Indivisible @indivisibleteam, has shuttered their Twitter account and relocated their social media presence to Mastodon.

With the goal of building a broad coalition of voters that support Democratic candidates to eliminate the filibuster, codify Roe, pass democracy reform and unrig the courts, Indivisible aligns well with Mastodon.

Indivisible had more than 250K followers on Twitter. Let's welcome them here!

#USPolitics

READ: If you care about how we’ve been “planning” our cities and suburbs, and how we need to plan them much better, this is REALLY important.

I’ve been saying this in various ways for years now, but I haven’t put it in writing very much. I don’t use these kinds of words lightly, or often. But too much patience is part of the problem.

Please share.

So my boyfriend went to a bioinformatics hackathon in Spain and his team was all people from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, built into an old church

This is TOTALLY the place to go if you want to create god

Surprising fact: no major professional scientific organization has flipped from a paywalled publishing model to 100% Open Access.

The @ACM the world's foremost professional computing organization, is going to be the first on January 1, 2026, when its entire digital library will become freely available to the public.

Always, always remember that the primary goal of disinformation isn't to get you to believe lies you read.

The goal is to get you to stop trusting ANYTHING you read.

To create an atmosphere so confusing that you stop feeling like facts are discernable.

So you give up trying.

Everyone is entitled to have an opinion, but not every opinion is informed by evidence & should be weighed equally.

“Car drivers’ rights are not more important than children’s rights to be safe on our streets. The interests of those who oppose measures such as reduced car parking or lower speed limits should not be more important than our children’s wellbeing. No benefit of a pro-car policy can be greater than the benefit of children’s active presence in public spaces, where they have a right to be imperfect and distracted.” #CarsRuinCities https://theconversation.com/our-children-are-victims-of-road-violence-we-need-to-talk-about-the-deadly-norms-of-car-use-214476

Reminder that we could frame addressing climate change as (1)deciding to leave fossil fuels in the ground and (2) taking care of each other as we figure out how to equitably meet human needs w/o fossil fuels.

Mozilla is ringing the alarm bell on a dangerous EU regulation.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org