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Weird feeling as while looking to answer to the question "how do I get the coordinates of the minimal value of a numpy.ndarray ?", found that I already asked that question ten years ago: https://laurentperrinet.github.io/sciblog/p…

United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation.
Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”
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Dolores Huerta worried her abuse by Cesar Chavez would hurt farmworker movement
The New York Times uncovered a pattern of abuse by the civil rights icon, including of young girls.

"Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind"
#Trees #Environment
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Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind
Sydney communities may be missing out on crucial tree planting projects intended to combat urban heat, leaving western and eastern parts of Greater Sydney with less protection from extreme heat, a University of Sydney-led study has revealed. In a surprising finding, the researchers found that while Greater Sydney's total tree canopy increased by 4.2% from 1.514 billion square meters to 1.578 billion square meters between 2016 and 2022, this growth was not evenly distributed.

Attention Browncoats: SHARE THIS VIDEO.
As Nathan says, they need the viewing metrics to push the Firefly animated series forward!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Js56jT3F/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Once We Were Spacemen on Instagram: "The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home. And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, even tag a Reaver. Give us some “quantifiable analytics” that we can use to convince folks that this is something people want. #BringBackFirefly"
1M likes, 122K comments - oncewewerespacemen on March 15, 2026: "The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home. And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, even tag a Reaver. Give us some “quantifiable analytics” that we can use to convince folks that this is something people want. #BringBackFirefly".

ICE agent charged with two felonies
for allegedly pointing his gun at MN motorists during Operation Metro Surge
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a "nationwide warrant" has been issued
in 💥 the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A rare daylight #fireball coming with a loud bang was seen and heard Tuesday morning over the U.S. and Ohio in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBjApk3d6w - see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-12-marz-2026/ for links to many more reports. And https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/windfall-oh says: "Signatures of falling meteorites are seen in data from three weather radars [...] NASA Meteoroid Environment Office finds that this was a 2m diameter object weighing around 6 metric tons - more of a small asteroid than a large meteoroid. [...] There are meteorites on the ground around Windfall, OH towards River Styx, OH."

As cheesy as this sounds - even if you’re failing by all the world’s metrics of success, if you can lift someone else up today - even in the smallest way - you’ve done something of weight and - for all involved - kept the darker things at bay.
And multiplied by many, a society that values this will outlast every society that doesn’t anyway.
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Study: Fox News smeared Alex Pretti dozens of times following his killing by federal agents (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/study-fox-news-smeared-alex-pretti-dozens-times-following-his-killing-federal-agents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p63#a260206p63

An Icelandair pilot on his last flight before retirement flew the Boeing 757-200 TF-ISR from Frankfurt to Keflavík with a short sightseeing tour over his hometown Heimaey.
Icelandair reported him, investigation now in progress
#Iceland #Icelandair

#MastodonPoll: Which of the following regulations regarding leaf blowers would you support? Choose as many as you like.
1. Decibel limits
2. Fuel efficiency standards (the relevant metric for cars is miles per gallon, so the corresponding one here would be what, leaves blown per gallon?)
3. Fuel type restrictions (i.e. ban gas-powered ones completely)
4. Full ban, both gas-powered ones and electric
Decibel limits
Fuel efficiency standards
Fuel type restrictions
Full ban