@kernellogger@fosstodon.org2024-05-01 05:12:44
The Kernel Report - Jonathan Corbet (@…), @…
The recording of this recent talk is now available on the #ossna2024 schedule page:
@kernellogger@fosstodon.org2024-05-01 05:12:44
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2024-03-02 14:42:09
Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best infosec-related long (and longish) reads of the week.
This week's selection covers
--Secret network of CIA-funded spy bases in Ukraine,
--The Pentagon uses ad networks to find targets,
--A Morris worm for the AI-era,
--The last Morse-code station in North America,
--How the Internet was indexed,
--AI warfare threatens humanity,
--AI warfare is already here
https://www.metacurity.com/p/best-infosecrelated-long-reads-week-22424
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-03-01 15:05:34
FuboTV reports a $71M Q4 net loss, down 26% YoY, global revenue up 28% YoY to $410.2M, $370M from subscriptions, 1.61M subscribers in North America, up 12% YoY (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@UP8@mastodon.social2024-04-02 19:06:36
🐳 Study suggests starvation decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast: Can the giants ever recover?
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-starvation-decimated-gray-whales-pacific.html
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-31 04:50:32
Special Weather Statement
At 901 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong thunderstorms over southwestern San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, southern Ventura, and southern Los Angeles counties. Storms were moving north to northeast at 10 to 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 55 mph, half inch size hail, brief heavy downpours, and cloud to ground lightning. Some rotation is being detected with storms, with a slight chance of these storms spinning up a brief tornado over…
@kernellogger@fosstodon.org2024-04-30 15:44:26
How to Start Contributing to the #Linux #Kernel – Kelsey Steele & Allen Pais, Microsoft
Recording and the slides for this recent #ossna2024 talk are now available on the schedule page:
@primonatura@mstdn.social2024-02-29 11:00:01
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2024-03-25 10:47:38
[And as far east as the North Pole? 😉]
Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms;
Spectacular aurora borealis caused by geomagnetic storms on sun’s surface may be visible in North America as far south as the midwest
htt…
@atthenius@fediscience.org2024-03-29 20:07:27
Okay #BlueMoon beer — I liked you better when you were an independent brewery.
But props for your coaster telling the people how to make their own #PinholeCamera for the #SolarEclipse…
@arXiv_astrophEP_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-01 06:59:33
Satellite Visibility During the April 2024 Total Eclipse
Samantha M. Lawler, Hanno Rein, Aaron C. Boley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19722 https://
@carloshr@lile.cl2024-02-20 17:31:54
Albert Mayol is indignated
https://flipboard.com/@pitchfork/latest-news-pqu92e91z/-/a-zG4Y1y02Q6eRELODfWORig:a:910329480-/0
@fluxed@ieji.de2024-03-29 21:10:58
"Places where people have lived for millennia will become increasingly inhospitable, and #climate impacts will be accompanied by economic ones...At the same time, more ideal climates for life and farming in North America will move northward...Regions known for harsh winters will become more temperate and verdant...tens of millions of Americans...will pack up and move...If climate
@grumpybozo@toad.social2024-04-28 19:51:24
I’ve reached the point in my decades-long slog towards the repurposing of my ingredients that I am starting to recognize things I’ve never done as things I’ll never do. The venality of some of these epiphanic moments is unflattering, but among the more profound recognitions is that I will almost certainly never leave North America.
It's not that I have any aversion to travel or to 'foreign' places, it’s just that I think I’ve missed my window and don’t see much chance of it…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2024-04-26 17:03:30
“For evidence of that look no further than Tesla. “
Yes... because apparently the failing car company run by a “mercurial” Nazi-buffoon and the companies who bet on him (Hertz) are the best measures…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ev-sales-
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-03-26 12:25:43
Internal Tesla memo: Elon Musk tells staff to perform a "short test ride" with customers to demonstrate Full Self-Driving, a "hard requirement" from now on (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-20 23:25:04
Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago
A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago,
raising the possibility that hominins could have reached North America much earlier than we thought
https://www.
@servelan@newsie.social2024-03-27 16:24:09
👍 An eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can "get a feel for" eclipses | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/27/an-eclipse-for-everyone--how-visually-impaired-students-can…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2024-02-26 22:35:04
I just added my first family tree member born in the UK, in Cambridgeshire. Everyone I'd added before was born in Continental Europe or North America.
#genealogy #familyhistory
@UP8@mastodon.social2024-03-18 17:07:00
🐺 Coywolves are prospering in Eastern North America
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coywolves-are-taking-over-eastern-north-america-180957141/
@Migurski@mastodon.social2024-02-24 18:05:20
“This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Euoplocephalu s. Euoplocephalus was found in 1897 in Alberta.” Via
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-29 15:10:34
I tired of the sanctimonious whining about alleged put-downs of White rural residents.
Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea offer a three-pronged argument intended to excuse these voters and shift blame to others.
🔹First, they suggest that these residents are victims of
“economic policies that have devastated local industries,”
an idea they support with only a glancing reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement,
which has a history and impact more c…
@todbot@mastodon.social2024-04-24 16:30:01
Never forget about Starbucks’ “Phase Two”
#starbucks
@atthenius@fediscience.org2024-03-29 20:07:27
Okay #BlueMoon beer — I liked you better when you were an independent brewery.
But props for your coaster telling the people how to make their own #PinholeCamera for the #SolarEclipse…
@drahardja@sfba.social2024-04-21 19:47:16
Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America
by Matthew Olzmann
Tell me what it’s like to live without
curiosity, without awe. To sail
on clear water, rolling your eyes
at the kelp reefs swaying
beneath you, ignoring the flicker
of mermaid scales in the mist,
looking at the world and feeling
only boredom. To stand
on the precipice of some wild valley,
the eagles circling, a herd of…
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-02-29 07:20:21
In-Person, Hybrid or Remote? Employers' Perspectives on the Future of Work Post-Pandemic
Divyakant Tahlyan, Hani Mahmassani, Amanda Stathopoulos, Maher Said, Susan Shaheen, Joan Walker, Breton Johnson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18459
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-04-04 13:30:30
GB News hires Steven Edginton as its first US-based correspondent, part of its plan to expand to the US, after launching a GBN America section in 2023 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/gb-news…
@leodurruti@puntarella.party2024-03-21 07:11:58
FACS - North America Endless (Official Video)
#FediRadio
@adrianriskin@kolektiva.social2024-04-24 15:26:05
Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2024-02-08 13:14:55
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2024-04-10 07:26:14
Gaza: Open letter from academics in North America
"We are academics based at North American institutions who have come together based on a shared sense of collegial obligation and respect for humanity to condemn Israel’s systematic attacks on educational life in Gaza."
Opportunity to sign if that's you.
#academia #Gaza #scholasticide
@UP8@mastodon.social2024-02-08 20:13:30
🏘️ Why we can’t build family-sized apartments in North America
https://www.centerforbuilding.org/blog/we-we-cant-build-family-sized-apartments-in-north-america
@richardtol@mastodon.social2024-04-10 17:28:35
The social cost of carbon, as preferred by scholars from the Global North, is too high https://ideas.repec.org/p/arx/papers/2404.04989.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-04-04 13:30:30
GB News hires Steven Edginton as its first US-based correspondent, part of its plan to expand to the US, after launching a GBN America section in 2023 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/gb-news…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2024-03-17 12:22:02
@… I was (of course) aware that there are differences in cutlery use across Europe and between Europe and North America, but I ha no idea to what extent the styles were codified… Wow! htt…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2024-03-17 12:22:02
@… I was (of course) aware that there are differences in cutlery use across Europe and between Europe and North America, but I ha no idea to what extent the styles were codified… Wow! htt…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-04-20 06:30:46
An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more (David Cassel/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/linus-torvalds-on-security-ai-open-source-and-trust/
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2024-02-17 18:08:51
What's a good pair of glasses to buy to watch a solar eclipse?
Safety is primary. Cost is next.
🔗 💬 🔃 🙏
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-what-the-solar-eclipse-will-look-like-across-most-of…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2024-02-10 12:58:33
Good Morning #Canada
Canada’s origin as a country could be traced back to February 10th 1763, when the Treaty of Paris was signed. Europe's colonial powers traded territory like hockey cards, and France gave up any future plans for North America. The treaty also sowed the seeds for the American Revolution, as Britain levied heavy taxes on their colonies to pay for the past decade of war.
@brian_gettler@mas.to2024-03-13 14:21:12
A real use for AI: removing from search results scholarly works on "North America" that are actually only about the US.
@johl@mastodon.xyz2024-04-08 17:57:16
I don’t even live in North America and still through the magic of online conversations my brain won’t stop playing „Turn around… Every now and then I get a little bit lonely 🎶🎵“
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2024-03-06 22:30:38
Mark Robinson: 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn't Vote' (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-women-vote_n_65e7d899e4b0f9d26cacc002
http://www.memeorandum.com/240306/p84#a240306p84
@mguhlin@mastodon.education2024-03-10 04:14:10
Solar Eclipse Activities, Resources, and Safety Information • TechNotes Blog #tceajmg
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2024-03-07 19:53:29
February 2024 was the warmest February on record globally, with an average surface air temperature 0.81°C above the already warmed 1991-2020 average for February. The month was 1.77°C warmer than an estimate of the February average for 1850-1900.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange
@lacouvee@mastodon.online2024-04-08 14:47:20
it may be an eclipse morning for those in the East of North America but here on the West Coast it's cold, raining and windy. #wx #PNW #VancouverIsland
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2024-04-08 14:16:17
Yo! Logged in, and the post at the very top is this one, from @… - https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/112236016816937513
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2024-02-18 21:22:38
Neue #Studie zeigt: Die Effektivität von #Glyphosat in der #Unkrautbekämpfung hat durch einseitige Nutzung in glyphosatresistenten Kulturen abgenommen.
@juandesant@astrodon.social2024-02-06 12:20:25
Brains have the alpha waves, computers have their clocks... and radio telescopes have hydrogen masers (essentially, radio-wavelength lasers) to keep both accurate timing and frequency, which are essential for radio inteferometers such as ALMA to work.
This masers live at 5000 m high at the Chajnator plateau, so the work itself is challenging!
@bunnyhero@mstdn.ca2024-03-04 02:15:56
iirc the japanese version wasn't easily available in north america for a long time? i'd only ever watched the US version until the early 2000s when there was a limited theatrical run of the original. maybe someone can jog my memory or fill in the details #monsterdon
@arnie_dxer@mastodon.radio2024-04-08 15:56:49
LMAO
I'm testing different antenna options to try & look for any possible effects of #solareclipse in North America.
I removed the terminating resistor from my 15x4.5m SuperLoop, making it bi-directional on MW, roughly NNW-SSE.
And... I have a good copy on Radio Caroline
IN BROAD FUCKIN DAYLIGHT 🤯🤯🤯
@nemobis@mamot.fr2024-04-04 16:57:51
A mixed bag, but not too shabby: 20 G$ to non-profits for #ClimateChange work.
@chiraag@mastodon.online2024-02-05 17:57:23
@keithjgrant@front-end.social2024-04-03 17:16:26
When we saw the eclipse in 2017, we swore we‘d travel to catch the next one. Maine sounds like a fun place to visit!
However, the timing of things turned this into a big travel year for other reasons and we just couldn’t cram in one more trip. Really bummed I’m going to miss it. The next one in North America is decades away. Catch this one if at all possible!
@BraxtonDK@social.linux.pizza2024-04-08 21:23:01
This is happening in north America now.
#Amiga
@grumpybozo@toad.social2024-03-17 20:33:17
I am planning on a short road trip south into Ohio to witness totality.
“Planning” may be a strong word. I’m an adult, it’s a few hours, what takes planning? Obviously I’ll scrub if the weather sucks bad enough, but I’m willing to chase a break in the clouds a few hundred miles. A bucket list item. Might never come back if I miss it. …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-03-25 01:15:29
Film buffs who love physical media have established "Free Blockbuster" sites, which lend DVDs, similar to little free libraries, in the US, Canada, and Britain (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2024-02-10 12:58:33
Good Morning #Canada
Canada’s origin as a country could be traced back to February 10th 1763, when the Treaty of Paris was signed. Europe's colonial powers traded territory like hockey cards, and France gave up any future plans for North America. The treaty also sowed the seeds for the American Revolution, as Britain levied heavy taxes on their colonies to pay for the past decade of war.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2024-04-13 15:00:03
"Peregrine falcons expose lasting harms of flame retardant use"
#PeregrineFalcons #Birds
https://
@mguhlin@mastodon.education2024-03-10 04:14:10
Solar Eclipse Activities, Resources, and Safety Information • TechNotes Blog #tceajmg
@brian_gettler@mas.to2024-04-07 19:59:47
Among other things, I study political history. In places like North America that have had long-lasting, relatively stable states, we default to the national narrative that traces a country's origins and development to the present, while implicitly imagining it existing indefinitely. We need to think more deeply about the end of states. Otherwise, we're not studying them, we're legitimizing them, taking their ideological work as our own. Historical actors don't know how things…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-03-04 12:40:28
Semafor launches a Global Election Hub; Ben Smith says the hub will feel like what Twitter "used to do well" as readers look for "human editorial judgment" (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/semaf…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-04-08 09:45:33
Lime plans to spend $55M in 2024 to expand its e-bike fleet, adding 30K bikes in North America and elsewhere, and reports 2023 gross bookings up 32% to $616M (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@drewmcmanus@hachyderm.io2024-03-25 15:49:25
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2024-04-24 12:05:07
Good Morning #Canada
One of my favourite sayings that my mother used was, "There's not enough room in here to swing a cat..." And that provides the perfect segue to today's post about bragging rights for the smallest jail in North America. The smallest in the world, according to the Google, is on the island of Sark in the United Kingdom, but Canada has its fair share of contestants in this weird competition.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Prison #LockEmUp
https://militarybruce.com/who-has-the-smallest-jail-in-north-america/
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-20 01:45:49
Mexico will not accept deportations made by Texas “under any circumstances,” the country’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas to arrest migrants who cross into the state without authorization.
The ministry condemned the state law, known as Senate Bill 4, saying it would separate families, violate the human rights of migrants and generate “hostile environments” for the more than 10 million people of Mexican origin living in T…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-02-04 17:33:24
Possibility of wildlife-to-human crossover heightens concern about chronic wasting disease - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/possibility-of-wildlife-to-human-crossover-heightens-concern-about-chr…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2024-04-13 15:00:03
"Peregrine falcons expose lasting harms of flame retardant use"
#PeregrineFalcons #Birds
https://
@mguhlin@mastodon.education2024-03-08 12:12:33
Take advantage of cosmic phenomena to teach science? Let’s take a look at a few available resources. Safety concerns and safety precautions appear below, as well as instructional activities, apps, and music playlists. https://blog.tcea.org/solar-eclipse-activities-resou…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-16 04:52:26
Undersea attacks on cables and pipelines threatens security of billion people, Nato commander warns
The security of nearly 1 billion people across Europe and North America is under threat from Russian attempts to target the extensive vulnerabilities of underwater infrastructure including windfarms, pipelines and power cables, a Nato commander has warned.
V Adm Didier Maleterre, the deputy commander of Nato’s Allied Maritime Command (Marcom), said the network of underwater cables…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2024-04-06 10:22:51
I watched "Let the River Flow" (2023) yesterday. I know very little about Sšmi or Norwegian history, so I can't speak to its accuracy. Still, its themes of discrimination, resource extraction, language, culture, and relation to the land and community strongly resonate with the recent history of colonialism in North America. Plus, it's a visually beautiful film.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2024-03-14 11:00:04
"April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids"
#Solar #SolarPower #Energy
@primonatura@mstdn.social2024-03-14 11:00:04
"April's eclipse will mean interruptions in solar power generation, which could strain electrical grids"
#Solar #SolarPower #Energy
@arXiv_physicsedph_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-03-13 07:13:11
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies
Purwoko Haryadi Santoso, Bayu Setiaji, Wahyudi, Johan Syahbrudin, Syamsul Bahri, Fathurrahman, A. Suci Rizky Ananda, Yusuf Sodhiqin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07190…
@arXiv_physicsgeoph_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-02-12 07:13:58
The Jalisco Seismic Accelerometric Telemetric Network (RESAJ)
Francisco Javier Nunez Cornu, Juan Manuel Sandoval, Edgar Alarcon, Adan Gomez, Carlos Suarez Plascencia, Diana Nunez, Elizabeth Trejo Gomez, Oscar Sanchez Mariscal, J. Guadalupe Candelas Ortiz, Luz Maria Zuniga Medina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06467
@UP8@mastodon.social2024-02-06 16:19:34
🪚 Our New Cities Can Be Born in the Ashes of the Old
#housing
@adrianriskin@kolektiva.social2024-03-12 00:59:50
Since it came up in another thread I thought it'd be useful to quote W.E.B. Du Bois on the American Dream. This is from Black Reconstruction in America:
"Behind this extraordinary industrial development, as justification in the minds of men, lay what we may call the great American Assumption, which up to the time of the Civil War, was held more or less explicitly by practically all Americans. The American Assumption was that wealth is mainly the result of its owner’s effort and that any average worker can by thrift become a capitalist. The curious thing about this assumption was that while it was not true, it was undoubtedly more nearly true in America from 1820 to 1860 than in any other contemporary land. It was not true and not recognized as true during Colonial times; but with the opening of the West and the expanding industry of the twenties, and coincident with the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, it was a fact that often a poor white man in America by thrift and saving could obtain land and capital; and by intelligence and good luck he could become a small capitalist and even a rich man; and conversely a careless spendthrift though rich might become a pauper, since hereditary safeguards for property had little legal sanction.
Thus arose the philosophy of “shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves,” on which the American theory of compensated democracy was built. It asked simply, in eighteenth century accents, freedom from government interference with individual ventures, and a voice in the selection of government officials. The continued freedom of economic opportunity and ever possible increase of industrial income, it took for granted. This attitude was back of the adoption of universal suffrage, the disappearance of compulsory military service and imprisonment for debt, which characterized Jacksonian democracy. The American Assumption was contemporary with the Cotton Kingdom, which was its most sinister contradiction. The new captains of industry in the North were largely risen from the laboring class and thus living proof of the ease of capitalistic accumulation. The validity of the American Assumption ceased with the Civil War, but its tradition lasted down to the day of the Great Depression, when it died with a great wail of despair, not so much from bread lines and soup kitchens, as from poor and thrifty bank depositors and small investors."
#AmericanDream #WEBDuBois #Reconstruction #BlackReconstructionInAmerica
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-05 20:45:22
Unlike pollen in Europe or North America, pollen from Japanese cedar disperses over several dozens of kilometers
https://c.im/@cdarwin/112217070305855525#.
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2024-03-27 12:27:09
Good Morning #Canada
In March of 1906, Canada's oldest outdoor club was established in Winnipeg. The Alpine Club of Canada has grown to 10,000 members and maintains the largest network of back country huts and shelters in North America. The original founders, A.O. Wheeler and Elizabeth Parker, allowed women to join and treated them as equals, both as members and climbers.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Hiking #mountaineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Club_of_Canada
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-09 06:10:15
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-06 01:33:26
Measuring #methane from space only began in 2009 with the launch of the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, or #GOSAT, by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Previously, most of the world’s methane detectors were on the ground in North America.
GOSAT enabled scientists to develop a more geographically div…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-06 01:33:26
Measuring #methane from space only began in 2009 with the launch of the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, or #GOSAT, by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Previously, most of the world’s methane detectors were on the ground in North America.
GOSAT enabled scientists to develop a more geographically div…
@arXiv_physicsgeoph_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-02-12 07:13:59
Seismic structure of the southern Rivera plate and Jalisco block subduction zone
D Nunez, F J Nunez Cornu, F de J Escalona-Alcazar, D Cordoba, J Y Lopez Ortiz, J L Carrillo de la Cruz, J J Danobeitia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06508
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2024-04-06 12:15:53
Good Morning #Canada
And Happy Fresh Tomato Day. An appropriate day to share a likely little known fact that Canada is the main producer of greenhouse tomatoes in North America. Annually, more than 250 000 tons of tomatoes are produced in greenhouses, with a value of around $500 million, mostly from Ontario. This old article calls Canada a greenhouse superpower, an advantage that has slipped slightly but still true today.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Tomatoes #Gardening
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/16/473526920/how-canada-became-a-greenhouse-superpower