@e_i_s_f_u_c_h_s Watched it a few days ago; I had thoughts.
Very good, though, and I was glad to see Alec stepping outside of a "nonpartisan" stance, and laying it all out very unmistakably.
I searched jmail.world for "bitcoin" and got more than one screen, but searching for "bitcoin russia" didn't get anything. I don't know if that's because of how the search function works or what.
I just have to say, compared to 5 yrs ago when I first joined the Fediverse, there is so much creativity and expression on here now, it is a pleasure to watch this space bloom. All the ideas and innovation, the artistic interpretation, the science and education, and what’s my favorite part, people *helping* and *supporting* each other, especially in these challenging times.
You help redeem my faith in humankind.
Thank you all for being there.
Keep being you.
Keep sharing.
Even if nobody responds, someone out there appreciates what you post, even if they scroll past. (I need to remember my own words, here).
Thank you all, wherever you are.
🌏🌍🌎🪐💫✨
-Onigiri 🍙
Here's a tale of how nature triumphs in the end.
Steel mills dumped molten slag in parts of Chicago and nearby areas. The slag hardened in layers up to 5 meters deep. These places became barren wastelands. Other industries dumped hot ash and cinders there.
But eventually the steel mills closed.
The deep layers of hard, toxic material were not friendly to plants. Cottonwoods are usually 30 meters tall or more. In the slag fields, stunted cottonwoods grow to just 2 meters.
But rare species that could handle these conditions began to thrive. The lakeside daisy, a federally threatened species lost to Illinois for decades, turned out to grow taller on slag than on topsoil! The capitate spike-rush, last recorded in Illinois in 1894 and considered locally extinct, was rediscovered growing on slag.
And more! Native prairie grasses like little bluestem. Native milkweeds. Even tiny white orchids called sphinx ladies' tresses.
A team of women ecologists began studying these unusual landscapes. They call themselves the Slag Queens.
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Happy first birthday, #DataRescueProject (@datarescueproject.org)!
https://www.datarescueproject.org/a-year-in-data-rescue/
"In a single year, we have rescued over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies. This work was supported by over 900 volunteers."
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
@aud @AnarchoNinaWrites @artemis
"Not thinking it through" seems to be kinda the foundation of "conservative" philosophy.
(philosophy? Maybe sophiphobia would be more appropriate...)
@cmccullough @brooke it's actually "q" for quantum because you can't tell what gender a program is until you run it (Turing's Law) but that's basically the same thing, I guess. #LowQualityOpinion
@Catvalente It's almost like Epstein was a major cause of everything shitty that has happened in the past couple of decades.
I'm sure he wasn't alone in that, but ye gods -- so much of the worst of the worst seems traceable back to his billion-dollar doorstep. >.<
I built my wife a tool to survive her PhD and thought other researchers might want it too. Zotero's essential for citations, but she was struggling to know what to read next versus what she'd already read.
Paperstack is basically Goodreads for academic papers. Import from Zotero, sort by stack and tag, achieve calm.
@mloxton @androcat I want to say that all his revelations about the way the system works ("manufactured consent" and such) were kinda cheating because he was right there when they were doing it (and never bothered to mention).
...but that's probably not technically true. Maybe.
@androcat Wondering if "in the Epstein files" will be this generation's "between the sheets" -- as in:
Never meet your heroes (in the Epstein files).
The problem is that all the money to feed the developers is going to plutocrats who just want to find more ways to extract more billions from us, rather than having good software written (and improved instead of enshittified).
@eryn What's sadfunny is that I see it on eBay for about 50% more than our local bookstore is offering it (brand new). :blobcatthinking:
Let me know if nothing else turns up.
Edit: Okay, they apparently don't have it in stock and may not be able to restock it ("hard to find, give us a call"). I guess that explains eBay.
Anybody got an old copy of "Land of Lisp" that they'd be willing to send me?
And before you ask, online copies just aren't doing it for me, I need the kinesthetic feel of a physical book in my hands, the flipping between dog-eared pages, and marking up the text with an actual pencil to learn effectively.
I can't really even pay postage right now, but I plan to live-toot my unhinged thoughts while I ingest and digest the information if that sort of thing pleases or amuses you.
