@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-15 16:32:39
1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/
@pre@boing.world2025-10-18 10:48:22
Apparently the US government departments are starting to join Bluesky and are getting ratioed in that the accounts are being blocked more than they are followed.
Doesn't really seem to make sense at first. The US Department Of Transportation isn't going to show up as a reply guy in your mentions and the spooks aren't going to use that account to spy on your posts.
Is the blocking then entirely performative? Because blocks are public they are votes?
I guess really it's people deliberately reading the recommended-for-you AI-driven slop feeds.
Blocked users won't show up in your machine-learning robot-recommended feeds that people apparently must be reading over there.
Just not-following would be enough for me, I don't see things I don't follow. But if you read the robot-DJ feeds then anything can show up, so you have to preemptively block it. If only to train the robot shuffle.
#blueSky #fediverse #aiSlopFeed
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-18 00:16:17
Smartmatic defamation case:
'Sold my soul to the devil’: Fox News staffers blast network in explosive court filing - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-2674206251/
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-09-17 15:57:37
I’m sad and embarrassed and angry that Canada is failing at all of these
#cdnpoli https://jawns.club/@skyfaller/115220184382251240
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social2025-07-28 18:36:27
Dinner at last. Cut down two large dead trees today as they were at risk falling uncontrollable. Was a bit of effort to lower a fence and make sure they fall into the intended direction. Lots of ropes, pulleys and chainsaws involved. #Uckermark
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-13 14:16:12
In March, Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker that he was “not joking” about considering a third term.
There are “methods” by which he could do so, he claimed,
one being if Vice President JD Vance was to win the presidency, then pass the baton to Trump.
In May, however, Trump declared to Welker that he will be “a two-term president”
—though he seemingly couldn’t help but add,
“There are ways of doing it.”
In August, he said he would “like to run” again but “pro…
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-08-01 22:00:27
N.B.: I don’t know whether Wendy can play poker, but the one thing I KNOW about poker is that you NEVER play against someone who insists that they’re lousy. https://infosec.exchange/@wendynather/114955733770668316
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-11 00:09:41
Mark Bray, a historian who has taught courses on anti-fascism at Rutgers university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport late on Wednesday when he was informed at the boarding gate that reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared’.”
Th…
@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-05 11:19:50
Ferroelectric Epsilon-WO3 Nanoparticles and Its Bipolaron Driven Opto-electronic Properties at Room Temperature
Mohammad M. Rahaman, Jose Flores, Mohamed Y. Noor, Md Mohsinur R. Adnan, Alex Blackston, Enam Chowdhury, Roberto C. Myers, Michael Newburger, Pelagia-Irene Gouma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02598
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-05 00:39:02
D.C. judge excoriates Trump policing surge, demands answers from Pirro
A federal magistrate judge overseeing a torrent of cases during President Donald Trump’s policing surge in D.C.
condemned administration officials at a hearing Thursday,
saying they were trampling people’s rights
by overcharging them with felonies and then moving slowly to dismiss the weakest cases
while the defendants languished in jail.
The blistering remarks by Magistrate Judge Zia …
