Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

#MAGA #Trump are giving #EasternEurope to #Putin #Russia

"‘I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine’: what a JD Vance vice presidency could mean for the world "

#Biden #USA #Politics #News #Democrats #Election2024 #GOP #Republicans #MAGA #EU #NATO #Ukraine #Alliance #War #Security

https://theconversation.com/i-dont-really-care-what-happens-to-ukraine-what-a-jd-vance-vice-presidency-could-mean-for-the-world-234815

This research has come up several times at a big climate conference: A huge majority of people are worried about climate change and want governments to do more to control the crisis. BUT they think they are in a tiny minority and nobody else cares. Everybody (almost) cares! You are not alone https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-actions-are-far-more-popular-than-people-in-u-s-realize/

If, for whatever reason, you want to *really* support the Yarn Spinner team, then have I got news for you! We hgamedev #tools #narrativedev #indiedev//yarnspinner.itch.io/big-support (normal prices at the normal URL)! 💜 #gamedev #tools #narrativedev #indiedev

The crazy thing is there are so many of these quotes from so many republicans it would take hours to watch them all.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GE8k9uzyhCM

> For a vibrant consumer navigational ecosystem to emerge, society needs to invest in OpenStreetMap as a public good. … City planners should dedicate staffers to updating their roads and bridges on OpenStreetMap. Communities should submit updates with roads and hazards in their local areas

We quite agree! 😍

From @Julia's recent Op. Ed. in the #NewYorkTimes, “Your Driving App Is Leading You Astray”

📰 read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/google-maps-driving-apps-flaws.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6E0.yGok.7gErcSBb7E43&smid=url-share
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gischat #FreeMaps

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79 years ago today the United States detonated the first nuclear weapon on Earth. The Trinity Test exploded in a desert valley in New Mexico. It was a test of the weapon design used in the Nagasaki bombing, and almost all subsequent fission weapons developed by nuclear weapon states.

Trinity spread fallout across the country, contaminating many people in the immediate vicinity. Here is a map of the initial fallout cloud path.

#Trinity #MED #NuclearWeapons #fallout

@histodons @sts

#TimothySnyder : Political Violence: Reflections from the 1920s and 1930s

"Nothing in recent American political life resembles Trump’s call for “Second-Amendment people” to kill Hillary Clinton, his mockery of Paul Pelosi after an attempted murder, his belittling of Gretchen Whitmer after a kidnapping attempt, the stochastic violence he directs against critics to intimidate them and against his fellow Republicans to keep them in line..."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/political-violence

TIL Leo Szilard, when he was a grad student in Berlin, went to Einstein and said “hey I was out walking and thought of a solution to a problem you gave up on a couple of decades ago” and Einstein said “looks good, have you shown your thesis advisor” and Leo was like “no way he’ll kick my ass for working on this instead of the boring old thesis problem he gave me” and Al says no really show him, so Leo drops it off at his advisor’s office and the next morning the phone rings during breakfast and it’s his thesis advisor who says “Hey that thing you wrote? We’re giving you a PhD for it”.

TAKE BREAKS.

Build it and people will ride: “The Amtrak Borealis, a new rail line connecting Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul, has only been operating for about a month, but already thousands of passengers have taken the trip. That ridership has exceeded Amtrak’s expectations—and hints at the growing desire among Americans to travel by train.”

#Transportation #Mobility #Transit #Trains #Railways #ShortHaulTravel #UrbanPlanning #RegionalPlanning #TrainTravel #Amtrak #AmtrakBorealis

https://www.fastcompany.com/91153405/even-amtrak-was-surprised-by-the-instant-popularity-of-its-new-chicago-twin-cities-route

"What this means in plain English is that one of the largest financial institutions in the world is seeing what people who are paying attention are seeing with their eyes: Companies are acting like generative AI is going to change the world and are acting as such, while the reality is that this is a technology that is currently deeply unreliable and may not change much of anything at all."

(Original title: Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable)

https://www.404media.co/goldman-sachs-ai-is-overhyped-wildly-expensive-and-unreliable/

Il cartello Phoebus non è una teoria del complotto, ma una vera cospirazione industriale che ha plasmato il nostro modo di consumare. Dalla riduzione intenzionale della vita delle lampadine all'obsolescenza programmata moderna, ecco come un gruppo di aziende ha manipolato il mercato per decenni. Per la sezione "il futuro di ieri" vi racconto un fatto storico la cui eredità continua a influenzare l'industria.

#Obsolescenza #Industria #Cospirazione #Innovazione

https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2024/07/obsolescenza-programmata-la-cospirazione-delle-lampadine-che-illumino-il-900/

Climeworks's Orca facility in Iceland, currently the world's largest direct air capture facility, was designed to remove 4000 tonnes of CO₂ per year.

In 2023, it removed just 921 tonnes.

That's a time machine that takes us back 0.7 seconds in a year. 🥲

https://climeworks.com/news/the-reality-of-deploying-direct-air-capture-in-the-field

Добавяне на информация на Габровки села в Общомедия

Точно преди една година Жюстин Томс ни беше на гости на село и нащрака и добави супер снимки на селото. Тогава се амбицирах първо да добавя колкото може повече информация за региона в OpenStreetMap и второ - да обиколя селата в района и да им сложа по някоя снимка в Общомедия, във страниците им в Уикипедия и в Уикиданни (ако има смисъл) Към днешна дата промени има по: Костенковци Велковци Лесичарка Кметчета Ритя…

https://bogomil.info/5590

Ever think about how weird it is that purple, a mix of red and blue, looks like violet? Red and violet are at the opposite ends of the visible spectrum!

This diagram of colors sheds some light on this. It's boundary consists of two parts: a curve and a straight line:

• The curve, called the 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀, consists of pure frequencies in the spectrum, from red at left to violet at right.

• But the line, called the 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲, goes from violet to red!

Your computer screen probably uses a red-green-blue system, so it can only make colors inside the triangle here, or some nearby triangle. The colors in the triangle are called the 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝘂𝘁.

In the gamut, colors close to the purple line are made as mixtures of red and blue.

There's a huge amount more to say about this, and I don't know most of it yet. I'm afraid this post will launch an attack of color experts. Please be nice!

This diagram is called the 'CIE xy chromaticity diagram', and it's explained here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space

It was invented in 1931. A better standard came out in 1976:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space

For a readable discussion of the difference, check out this post by Jeff Yurek:

https://dot-color.com/2012/08/14/color-space-confusion/

That's where I got the picture!