Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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#eBird
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
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"Poland will supply the infrastructure, equipment, and weaponry needed for the training period."
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Earlier this year, we reported on how a former employee said #Microsoft dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing #government business. #Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar.
She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star.
Funny story...
EV's are not a thing here in West Virginia, yet. I *think* I spotted a Volt one time a few years ago but am not sure. I did see a Rivian downtown about a year ago. But that's it.
Here it's RAM diesel pickups rigged for smoke, SUVs, and 1960's, early 70's muscle cars, fully tricked out, 3/4 race cams, open exhaust, being driven on the street. Doing a burnout on the street with a 60s muscle car is fine. The cops don't seem to notice. Hah. Wish I had my 'rod from the 70s again (a tricked out '67 Chevelle SS that I sold for 50 bucks because I was sick and tired of building engines and car & boat drag racing.) I'd kill to have my Chevelle again -- 10.94 in the quarter mile.
Anyway, never seen a Tesla...until a few days ago. Called for an Uber ride to escort a friend and her kid to the dentist and here rolls up a maroon colored car. Didn't pay attention to the type of car. Didn't care. Didn't seem unusual because the car was quite noisy with fan noise, etc. After riding for a minute I realized it was a Tesla.
The driver was an old guy like me and he had the heat turned up to like 90 degrees in the car. I didn't complain because the ride was just ten minutes. But there it was, a Tesla. It behaved like an ordinary car but the external noise was off-putting. I would expect silence from an EV, like the electric buses and trolleys I grew up around in Los Angeles 65 years ago. What's with all the noise? The thing sounded like the fans in a data center, which is why I didn't notice it was an EV until I got in and recognized the Tesla escutcheon plate.
Anyway, so I've finally seen a Tesla and ridden in it. I didn't have time to talk with the driver about his impressions, unfortunately. I was too busy talking with the person I was escorting and translating for. (She doesn't speak English).
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Hundreds of defunct #satellites plunge through Earth’s #atmosphere yearly, and the count is rising.
The dying satellites, it turns out, don’t just wink out into the ether. Each one leaves a bit of itself behind.
The satellites’ fiery death throes, along with a steep rise in the number of rocket launches, are adding a glut of ozone-destroying and climate-altering pollutants to the #stratosphere.
For instance, aluminum oxides are catalysts for #ozone depletion.
#space
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellite-space-junk-havoc-stratosphere
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I'm not going to lie, Trump's reelection feels like dying the death of a thousand cuts, it's endlessly, infinitely depressing. Kamala would have been fun, competent, and exciting, but instead I'll have to look at Trump's cunting face, and try to make sense of the evil vomit which spews out of the anus he calls a mouth, for four long fucking years of pain.
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In the legal system of the United States, a Brady disclosure consists of exculpatory or impeaching information and evidence that is material to the guilt or innocence or to the punishment of a defendant. The term comes from the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland, in which the Supreme Court ruled that suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to a defendant who has requested it violates due process.
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20 November 1924 | A Lithuanian Jewish girl, Sara Samilowas, was born in Žasliai. She emigrated to France.
On 20 July 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz from Angers. She did not survive.
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Today is the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble discovering that those fuzzy clouds were actually other galaxies! #lookup #space #Astronomy
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UK failing animals with just one welfare inspector for every 878 farms – report - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/uk-failing-animals-with-just-one-welfare-inspector-for-every-878-farms-report "22% of farms were found not to meet animal welfare law standards but only 1% of non-compliances were prosecuted" appalling #animalwelfare
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Thank you @karlauerbach for posting this article about an experimental surgical procedure that showed positive results, as in stabilizing and improving memory, in a woman with Alzheimer's. How amazing it would be if this were duplicated and, if successful, scalable.
https://decrypt.co/293229/chinese-scientists-novel-alzheimers-surgery
Okay. I'm very impressed. Don't know quite what to say here. Jaw-dropping.
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Conspiracy? Things were said before the election that raised serious questions. Was there a sophisticated "foolproof" scheme?
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
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The government can demand your information from a wide variety of third parties, and it can force those companies to keep the fact that it is investigating you a secret indefinitely.
https://freedom.press/issues/the-government-abuses-spying-powers-no-matter-who-the-president-is/
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
Joined Nov 2022
