The women of Team USA LOVE winning gold at the Summer and Winter Olympics 🥇
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The women of Team USA LOVE winning gold at the Summer and Winter Olympics 🥇
The future of the internet is in its past.
In 2011, @moi-a.bsky.social gave one hell of a talk about the greatest phone ever designed, the Nokia N9. In it, he laid out a vision for the future of the internet. This talk has shaped how I personally think about the potential of the DID/AT ecosystem.
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
Despite everything, we are planning for and building a better world.
There's a new toolkit out to help people move forward shutting down the (explosive) gas system in their neighborhoods from @sonalj.bsky.social, a fellow @cplusc.bsky.social Fellow.
climateandcommunity.org/research/nei...
Public digital services need to be *so much better* than anything the market offers. You can't switch. You can't get fed up and choose to pay a bit more at Ocado than Sainsbury's because the UX is better. You can't opt out of public services because you're digitally excluded.
Yup, real networks of real people without a ton of bs in between. The technical difference is more than just ownership tho, you can literally carry your account data in your pocket. Opportunities to expand the concept of social media. Otherwise we're just giving bound books of memes to each other 😂
There's also networked but decentralized (bluesky! atproto!) Lots of ways to leverage information technology for hyper local applications! Just need a critical mass of nerds.
Math showing that 1/2 of 1/3 of a cup is 8tsp
Got bored, did it the hard way
Did you eyeball or math or google?
At that point I'd just fill the cup about halfway and hope for the best!
An unimpeachable argument for the metric system.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
+1 on this! I came across leaflet.pub looking into this type of use case - essentially a rich thread unroller for folks who live-post events and want to have a separate discoverable home for their threads with the ability to add additional context.
Not so bendy now, are you
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Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o'-lantern images. trick OR treat trick AND treat trick XOR treat trick NOR treat trick NAND treat trick XNOR treat
Space is a lot closer than most people realise
by u/Many-Excitement3246
So come out to Newport City Hall at 5:30pm tomorrow, 10/29, or stream us online, to learn more about why I just took 40min of my life to write a 20 post thread about an initial discussion on the concept of a potential moratorium on new natural gas hookups. This is truly the tiniest first step.
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
rock'n'roll lore goes, Van Halen requesting that a bowl of M&Ms in their dressing room have absolute-ly no brown ones is legendary. Ce-lebrity excess perhaps, but also a lesson to sweat the small stuff sometimes. While there's debate around the reason, frontman David Lee Roth said it was a test. When Van Halen rolled into town witha complex stage show full ofhigh-voltage, heavyitems, their contract stipulat-ed technical specifications along with the M&M demand. If the brown ones were present, it was a sign of sloppiness andreason to check every other detail, some of which could be calamitous if over-looked. Ithought ofthose brown M&Ms while reading the response Toronto Parks and Recreation recently sent to city council, answering a request to look into the practice of driving trucks and large vehicles in Anybody who travels this city knows large vehicles are routinely in parks Sometimes contractors other times the city itself cleaning washrooms or trimming shrubs, of-ten with a supersized crew cab pickup truck worthy of the Alberta Landscaping that costs Toronto- nians substantial money to create and maintain is destroyed or dam-aged by the city itself. There's also less immediately visible damage to city infrastructure and tree roots. It's disrespectful to Torontonians, ascandalous waste ofmoney, but theres alo a human ande Parks are as essential as water and elec-tricity for urban life, the yards
I’ve had this conversation with @alexbozikovic.bsky.social Should E-Cargo Bikes replace trucks in Toronto Parks?
Opinion | How Toronto can take a lesson from Van Halen, and learn to sweat the small stuff - @shawnmicallef.bsky.social
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
PWHL HOCKEY IS BACK ON NOVEMBER 21! 🤩
The countdown to Season 3 has begun. Don't miss a moment. Grab your season tickets!
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An Open Letter to @npr.org: Our Streets Are No Accident
medium.com/@lanrickbenn...
h/t @howdoyou.guide @jessiesinger.bsky.social @poolontheruf.gg @tomflood.bsky.social #BikeTO #WalkTO
A photo of a marshy coastline
A photo of a big gnarly tree
A photo of a beach
A closeup of a pile of small shells
It was nice out this morning
This is 110% my jam and I can't even go! 😭😭😭
Five rescaled maps of Minnesota on a Mercator projection map, covering 1) a large part of northern Greenland, 2) a large part of northern Scandinavia, 3) a part of central Europe, 4) a region of southern India, 5) a region of southeastern Australia.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Resharing this smart and widely relevant argument from @erincollins.bsky.social about how we urgently need to break free from the desire to depend on statistics to make moral arguments about an immoral system. inquest.org/the-evidence...
What happens in our cities following big disasters is the raw expression of what society truly is. It can either be a period of deep recommitment to a life worth living together or it can be the efficient execution of abandoning anyone deemed undesirable. It's up to us.
