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The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across all of California.
Two Inland Empire lawmakers are urging state officials to take action to save a hospital in Blythe.
Last spring, Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe was on the brink of closure,
after a series of financial mishaps left it bleeding cash.
In May, the hospital announced that it would not accept new patients, “for the foreseeable future,”
although its emergency room and clinic remained open, th…

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-08-20 16:36:27

The #CPB cuts are likely to be the first obvious impacts to rural communities - the Medicaid, etc cuts will probably take longer to impact the rural areas. It's a painful way for voters to discover how much the Federal budget provided critical services to them, and that perhaps they are not as self-sufficient as they thought.
This is just the first in a chain of unpleasant hits to rural life,…

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-08-20 16:36:27

The #CPB cuts are likely to be the first obvious impacts to rural communities - the Medicaid, etc cuts will probably take longer to impact the rural areas. It's a painful way for voters to discover how much the Federal budget provided critical services to them, and that perhaps they are not as self-sufficient as they thought.
This is just the first in a chain of unpleasant hits to rural life,…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-19 20:32:39

♨️ A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-07-15 09:22:04
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-07-22 04:00:03

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 124 nodes and 603 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013). 124 nodes, 603 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/ugandan_village#friendship-14
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-19 10:07:20

Artificial Intelligence in Rural Healthcare Delivery: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Equity through Innovation
Kiruthika Balakrishnan, Durgadevi Velusamy, Hana E. Hinkle, Zhi Li, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Hikmat Khan, Srini Ramaswamy, Pir Masoom Shah
arxiv.org/abs/2508.11738

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-07-21 12:25:33

Epstein shit and adjacent, Rural America, Poverty, Abuse
Fyi, the Legal Eagle video on Epstein
youtu.be/4Xuu7Jtt-ik

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-07-18 17:15:42

Scotland, it seems, does not like the #OnlineSafetyAct. I've long been interested in opinion maps on which the England/Scotland border is clearly defined, but this one surprises even me.
#ScotPol

A heat-map of the UK, showing support for a petition to Repeal the Online Safety Act by parliamentary constituency. Scotland is notably more opposed than England, and, in particular, come Scottish rural and remote rural constituencies are more opposed than any English rural constituencies.
@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-19 23:24:21

Republicans’ food aid cuts will hit grocers in many towns that backed Trump - POLITICO
politico.com/news/2025/07/19/t

@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-19 08:29:21

Comprehensive indicators and fine granularity refine density scaling laws in rural-urban systems
Jack Sutton, Quentin S. Hanley, Gerri Mortimore, Ovidiu Bagdasar, Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Thomas Peron, Golnaz Shahtahmassebi, Peter Scriven
arxiv.org/abs/2509.14258

@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2025-09-16 19:09:03

Ontario is investing $400 million to help small, rural and Northern communities as part of the government’s more than $200 billion capital plan investing in key public infrastructure. That's 0.2%
Had they instead paid all their 99.8% bills with a MasterCard, the 0.5% cash-back would have given a full billion dollars to rural communities for free!
news.ontario.ca/en/release/100

Inyo County, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, has two hospitals.
In a matter of weeks it may be down to one, local and state officials say.
Southern Inyo Healthcare District -- a 37-bed hospital in Lone Pine -- had eight days of cash on hand as of Sept.12, chief executive Dr. Kevin Flanigan told CalMatters.
Local officials have sent a letter asking Gov. Gavin Newsom for an emergency $3 million to stabilize its finances through the end of the year,
but absent s…

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-07-21 01:50:28

Epstein shit and adjacent, Rural America, Poverty, Abuse
Everyone who's not a pedophile thinks pedophiles are bad, but there's this special obsessed hatred you'll find among poor rural Americans. The whole QAnon/Epstein obsession may not really make sense to folks raised in cities. Like, why do these people think *so much* about pedophiles? Why do they think that everyone in power is a pedophile? Why would the Pizzagate thing make sense to anyone? What is this unhinged shit? A lot of folks (who aren't anarchists) might be inclined to ask "why can't these people just let the cops take care of it?"
I was watching Legal Eagle's run down on the Trump Epstein thing earlier today and I woke up thinking about something I don't know if I've ever talked about. Now that I'm not in the US, I'm not at any risk of talking about it. I don't know how much I would have been before, but that's not something I'm gonna dig into right now. So let me tell you a story that might explain a few things.
I'm like 16, maybe 17. I have my license, so this girl I was dating/not dating/just friends with/whatever would regularly convince me to drive her and her friends around. I think she's like 15 at the time. Her friends are younger than her.
She tells me that there's a party we can go to where they have beer. She was told to invite her friends, so I can come too. We're going to pick her friends up (we regularly fill the VW Golf well beyond the legal limit and drive places) and head to the party.
So I take these girls, at least is 13 years old, down to this party. I'm already a bit sketched out bringing a 13 year old to a party. We drive out for a while. It's in the country. We drive down a long dark road. Three are some barrel fires and a shack. This is all a bit strange, but not too abnormal for this area. We're a little ways outside of a place called Mill City (in Oregon).
We park and walk towards the shack. This dude who looks like a rat comes up and offers us beer. He laughs and talks to the girl who invited me, "What's he doing here? You're supposed to bring your girl friends." She's like, "He's our ride." I don't remember if he offered me a beer or not.
We go over to this shed and everyone starts smoking, except me because I didn't smoke until I turned 18. The other girls start talking about the rat face dude, who's wandered over by the fire with some other guys. They're mainly teasing one of the 13 year old girls about having sex with him a bunch of times. They say he's like, 32 or something. The other girls joke about him only having sex with 13 year olds because he's too ugly to have sex with anyone closer to his own age.
Somewhere along the line it comes out that he's a cop. I never forgot that, it's absolutely seared in to my memory. I can picture his face perfectly still, decades later, and them talking about how he's a deputy, he was in his 30's, and he was having sex with a 13 year old girl. I was the only boy there, but there were a few older men. This was a chunk of the good ol' boys club of the town. I think there were a couple of cops besides the one deputy, and a judge or the mayor or some kind of big local VIP.
I kept trying to get my friend to leave, but she wanted to stay. Turns out under age drinking with cops seems like a great deal if you're a kid because you know you won't get busted. I left alone, creeped the fuck out.
I was told later that I wasn't invited and that I couldn't talk about it, I've always been good at compartmentalization, so I never did.
Decades later it occurred to me what was actually happening. I'm pretty sure that cop was giving meth he'd seized as evidence to these kids. This wasn't some one-off thing. It was regular. Who knows how many decades it went on after I left, or how many decades it had been going on before I found out. I knew this type of thing had happened at least a few times before because that's how that 13 year old girl and that 32 year old cop had hooked up in the first place.
Hearing about Epstein's MO, targeting these teenage girls from fucked up backgrounds, it's right there for me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in sex trafficking of minors or some shit like that... but who would you call if you found out? Half the sheriff's department was there and the other half would cover for them.
You live in the city and shit like that doesn't happen, or at least you don't think it happens. But rural poor folks have this intuition about power and abuse. It's right there and you know it.
Trump is such a familiar character for me, because he's exactly that small town mayor or sheriff. He'll will talk about being tough on crime and hunting down pedophiles, while hanging out at a party that exists so people can fuck 8th graders.
The problem with the whole thing is that rural folks will never break the cognitive dissonance between "kill the peods" and "back the blue." They'll never go kill those cops. No, the pedos must be somewhere else. It must be the elites. It must be outsiders. It can't be the cops and good ol' boys everyone respects. It can't be the mayor who rigs the election to win every time. It can't be the "good upstanding" sheriff. Nah, it's the Clintons.
To be fair, it's probably also the Clitnons, a bunch of other politicians, billionaires, etc. Epstein was exactly who everyone thought he was, and he didn't get away with it for so long without a whole lot of really powerful help.
There are still powerful people who got away with involvement with #Epstein. #Trump is one of them, but I don't really believe that he's the only one.
#USPol #ACAB

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-07-03 21:54:53

First of many Hospitals to close.
Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts
klkntv.com/rural-southwest-neb

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-14 00:23:30

🤕 Medicaid cuts are likely to worsen mental health care in rural America
#mentalhealth

@rae@bne.social
2025-09-12 07:22:03

In an earlier life I grew peanuts at Tolga so happy to see a good news story. #peanuts
abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-09-

@kctipton@mas.to
2025-07-12 10:53:37

The Rapid Rise of Killings by Police in Rural America - WSJ wsj.com/us-news/police-killing

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-09-03 10:10:43

High Plains Public Radio plans to expand rural coverage with a "contributors network" of part-time and volunteer community members after receiving a $750K grant (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
nie…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-08-18 07:00:03

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 221 nodes and 579 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013). 221 nodes, 579 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/ugandan_village#health-advice_12
@spamless@mastodon.social
2025-07-08 18:12:52

I will try to use "Demon Copperhead" in my book club next spring here in Wiesbaden, Germany.
#books #acitivism

@mszll@datasci.social
2025-07-16 11:54:47

Looking forward to #IC2S2 next week! On tuesday we'll have a talk on our "Urban highways" PNAS paper, and a poster (ID 94) on 3 bike network papers. See you there!

Scientific poster with the headlines:
Denmark's bike network is great in cities, but not outside of cities.
Can we also create a great bike network in rural areas?
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-24 14:01:17

Amazon says it plans to bring same-day and next-day delivery to "tens of millions" of people who live in "more than 4,000" smaller US towns by the end of 2026 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/691877/amazo

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-08-25 04:33:36

Meta builds giant datacenter in rural Louisiana. Utility to add 2.3 GW of gas turbines to power it, if they can source the turbines in a sold-out global market.
And just to be sure, the Louisiana Legislature passed a new law that adds natural gas to the definition of green energy...
Climate anyone?

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-06 03:04:57

Mayor of Kansas City Quinton Lucas: "what they did this time has undermined, destabilized health care in rural Missouri and rural middle America and rural parts of our entire country. You are going to see more hospitals closed in rural parts of America. You are going to see more people die and more people die earlier in rural America."
Trump move seen as 'astonishing' attack on red states and rural voters - Raw Story
rawstory.com/trump-astonishing

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-08-24 20:34:47

Spain wildfires: Decades of rural decline made the blazes worse, but local economies can prevent further destruction phys.org/news/2025-08-spain-wi

@JSkier@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-17 01:40:10

One highlight of 4 runs this week. My goal was 5 runs of at least 5 miles; I just got in 4, though (definitely not going out at night tonight, lol).
These were in rural western Wisconsin. Health has been a bit all over the map this week, and things have been hectic with family stuff. Yet, it was good to take time off work for vacation 😎
Note, this is running on beta blockers; a whole new world to me, and I don't know if I like it.

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-08-22 21:59:45

Rural Masterminds - Bush Inspiration
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Rural Masterminds - Bush Inspiration
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-07-17 07:09:13

Yesterday we received Auchencairn Climate Transition's new hand-cycle (ours is the yellow one), and I got shown around the key points of maintaining it and adapting it to fit riders. This extends our hire bike fleet so that we can now support riders with leg function impairments.
In practice we'll be sharing this with other 'try a bike' projects locally.
#BikeTooter

Two hand-cycles, two people sitting in wheelchairs, and various other people standing around in a parking area.
The people from the wheelchairs riding the handcycles (quite fast) down a narrow rural road.
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2025-07-14 11:00:05

Ever wondered how Kubernetes runs on a tractor? At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Wieneke Keller & Sebastian Lenartowicz from Aurea Imaging presented their innovative AgTech journey! Discover how they built an edge device with Python microservices and K3s for precision farming, tackling unique rural challenges.
Watch the full session:

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-09-12 16:24:04

Republicans have abandoned their promise to protect rural America
thehill.com/opinion/healthcare

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-08-18 02:00:04

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 117 nodes and 210 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013). 117 nodes, 210 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/ugandan_village#health-advice_15
@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-09-09 23:12:47

As someone who grew up in India when many people were still begging for vaccines (I helped in rural vax clinics, saw sights I won't ever forget), I never thought in 2025 it would be hard to get vaxed in a "developed" country. Glad to live in RI, where I still can.

Madre fire in rural San Luis Obispo County grows to nearly 80,000 acres
The bulk of the fire is threatening the
Carrizo Plain National Monument,
which is home to several endangered and threatened wildlife and plant species

@saraislet@infosec.exchange
2025-08-09 00:35:48

Legit question for rural South Americans — how do I kill the 30-50 feral hippos that run into the yard while my kittens play?

@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-01 07:33:22

From Drone Imagery to Livability Mapping: AI-powered Environment Perception in Rural China
Weihuan Deng, Yaofu Huang, Luan Chen, Xun Li, Yao Yao
arxiv.org/abs/2508.21738

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-14 13:55:35

A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some experts say will likely remain complementary to existing networks, focusing on rural coverage (Washington Post)

@kctipton@mas.to
2025-08-31 01:01:45

West Texas Congressman's 'Big Beautiful' Cuts Could Harm Rural Hospitals in His District texasobserver.org/jodey-arring

@arXiv_statAP_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-14 09:01:52

Capturing Road-Level Heterogeneity in Crash Severity on Two-Lane Rural Highways: A Multilevel Mixed-Effects Approach
Mahdi Azhdari, Ali Tavakoli Kashani, Saeideh Amirifar, Amirhossein Taheri, Gerd M\"uller
arxiv.org/abs/2508.09941

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-09-11 19:18:35

Cleaning up some construction debris and leftover materials, left by the previous homeowner. Thanks.
There are a few polystyrene insulation panels that I'm thinking of making into gravestones, for #Halloween decorations. Coming from a rural area, that had zero trick or treaters, we are now planning how to participate in Halloween and welcome costumed kiddies.
So I'm looking for input and please boost to assist in my research. Who should I put on the gravestone? Trump is an obvious candidate but likely overdone (if not overdue). Maybe Common Sense? Or the guy who followed health advice from an AI chatbot.
Anyway I'm looking for ideas. Who would you like to see virtually buried on my front lawn?
#LookingForAnswers

@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-16 08:56:31

Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides
Thomas Robiglio, Martina Contisciani, M\'arton Karsai, Tiago P. Peixoto
arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503

@arXiv_csCE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-28 07:31:30

Infrastructure-enabled risk assessment of hazardous road conditions on rural roads during inclement weather
Suhala Rabab Saba, Ph. D. Student, Sagar Dasgupta, Ph. D., Mizanur Rahman, Ph. D., Nathan Huynh, Ph. D., Li Zhao, Ph. D, Mehmet C. Vuran, Ph. D., Qiang Liu, Ph. D., Eren Erman Ozguven, Ph. D
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19444

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-12 09:58:19

Identifying Key Features for Establishing Sustainable Agro-Tourism Centre: A Data Driven Approach
Alka Gadakh, Vidya Kumbhar, Sonal Khosla, Kumar Karunendra
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09214

@JSkier@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-17 01:40:10

One highlight of 4 runs this week. My goal was 5 runs of at least 5 miles; I just got in 4, though (definitely not going out at night tonight, lol).
These were in rural western Wisconsin. Health has been a bit all over the map this week, and things have been hectic with family stuff. Yet, it was good to take time off work for vacation 😎
Note, this is running on beta blockers; a whole new world to me, and I don't know if I like it.

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-07-25 18:56:07

Another #hiking story is online! No mountains this time but along the shores of the river #Mangfall .
Tough to photograph on such a day. In autumn - with some fog - it must be great. But we really had a great day there!
See more of it:

A charming scene of a white house with green shutters, nestled in a rural area. The house is surrounded by a wooden fence, with a lush tree standing tall in the yard. The sky above is a vibrant blue with fluffy white clouds. The grass is a vivid green, creating a picturesque landscape. In the background, another tree can be seen, adding to the natural beauty of the setting. This peaceful and idyllic scene evokes a sense of tranquility and rural charm, making it a perfect retreat from the hustle…
A serene scene of a path cutting through a lush forest is depicted in this image. The forest is dense with green vegetation, including tall trees and grassy areas. The dominant colors are shades of green and black, creating a tranquil and natural atmosphere. The image showcases the beauty of nature, with tags indicating it may be a nature reserve or woodland area. The composition includes a tree in the foreground, emphasizing the natural environment. This peaceful setting evokes a sense of calm…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2025-08-29 00:35:19

"'We can and will continue to pursue the same goal we have had from the outset — for each member of Congress to represent both urban and rural voices,' Schultz and Adams said."
Objecting to this reasoning is how Proposition 4 passed with the majority of #Utah voters in 2018.
We know this because of how many rural Republican constituents showed up at public meetings th…

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-28 09:16:31

Improving Hypertension and Diabetes Outcomes with Digital Care Coordination and Remote Monitoring in Rural Health
K. K. Kim, S. P. McGrath, D. Lindeman
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19378

@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2025-07-08 15:44:56

Despite the country's financial straits, this is a wonderful time to be a technologist in government, according to Paul Mukherjee, CTO of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/g

@arXiv_csNI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-22 08:34:40

A Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Urban and Rural Digital Connectivity: Synergizing SDWMN, Direct-to-Mobile Broadcasting, and Hybrid Cloud Streaming
Pavel Malinovskiy
arxiv.org/abs/2507.14205

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-08-04 20:55:40

Driving around rural #Ontario this weekend we happened on a damn fine French bakery (when you marry a Gaul, you learn about such things). The place is nowhere near much of anything. If you ever end up on Highway 89 in Mono, do yourself a favour and stop by Bistro Dupain.

@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-11 10:09:23

An End-to-End Deep Learning Framework for Arsenicosis Diagnosis Using Mobile-Captured Skin Images
Asif Newaz, Asif Ur Rahman Adib, Rajit Sahil, Mashfique Mehzad
arxiv.org/abs/2509.08780

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-06 17:00:35

"Solar farms and sheep grazing show how farming and clean energy can share land"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-05 07:14:32

omfg
havent seen this many stars in ages
thank u wheat fields of rural maryland

@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-14 08:38:42

Two-Level Distributed Interference Management for Large-Scale HAPS-Empowered vHetNets
Afsoon Alidadi Shamsabadi, Animesh Yadav, Halim Yanikomeroglu
arxiv.org/abs/2507.08299

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-14 08:05:40

How thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a government-backed AI chatbot, designed by the nonprofit Opportunity International, for farming advice (Gregory Gondwe/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/malawi-ai-f

@arXiv_mathDS_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-06 08:23:10

Decomposition of Symmetrical Classes of Central Configurations
Marcelo P. Santos (Federal Rural University of Pernambuco), Leon D. da Silva (Federal Rural University of Pernambuco)
arxiv.org/abs/2508.02918

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2025-09-02 08:05:27

September first is TelemetryDeckiversary! Five years ago me and my bestie @… started working on TelemetryDeck in earnest, and I still love it.
Most of the early code was written in the south of Italy, where I was successfully hiding from COVID while Lisa was back in Augsburg

A laptop with Xcode running on a rural Mediterranean terrace
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-07-01 00:02:02

Call your Senators now. @… can make it easy, or just dial 202-224-3121 and ask the Capitol switchboard to connect you.
#USpol #bbb

Congresswoman Gwen Moore
@repgwenmoore.bsky.social
Let's be very clear: even if you are not a Medicaid recipient, cuts to the program will impact you.
Without Medicaid funds, rural hospitals, maternity wards, and nursing homes will be shuttered.
Having private health insurance won't do you much good when there's nowhere to 90.
June 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-07-01 01:40:54

Fun fact: people with "Nazi tendencies" are known as "Nazis."
the-more-you-know.gif
journa.host/@w7voa/11477541632

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-08-22 17:06:11

After News Media Corporation announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states on August 6, a publishing group bought 8 papers in WY and another bought 4 in SD (Sarah Raza/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/rural-newsp

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-07-04 20:14:31

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
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All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Alpine County, perched like an emerald on the crest of the Sierra Nevada, is as rural as rural California gets.
Vast distance separates its sparse settlements, tucked among forests and crystalline streams. The views, unobstructed by city clutter, go on forever.
There is no hospital,
no supermarket, fast-food restaurant or shopping mall anywhere in its 743 square miles.
The only stoplight is temporary,
put in place for a bridge repair.
And yet if all goes …

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-08-31 10:14:49

I was walking for over an hour on rural roads of asphalt before I saw the first car. And now I wonder: where are all these homegrown economy experts, always ready to criticize any investment in public transport, for "nobody will use it". Well, I have a whole *grid* of roads that clearly aren't used by anybody.
#CarFree

@jake4480@c.im
2025-08-01 19:06:25

I'm not even putting a politics warning here, the shitheads in the U.S. government made The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) shut down due to lack of funding and NPR will face similar cuts, etc, really making some rural areas in the USA lose access to news. I grew up loving Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, and this is beyond fucked.
I hope the useless garbage assholes who allowed this to happen are happy with themselves. Fuck everything that led to this.

@arXiv_mathOC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-11 09:31:31

Complexity Analysis of a Bicriteria Directed Multimodal Transportation Network Design Problem
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@servelan@newsie.social
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Amazon builds a shadow postal service in rural America
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-13 19:00:04

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
networks.skewed.…

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012). 47 nodes, 32643 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_kenyan_households
@servelan@newsie.social
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Medicaid cuts threaten services for pregnant people in rural America
19thnews.org/2025/08/pregnancy

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-14 01:56:15

🧑🏾‍⚕️ Primary care shortage affects 44% of Virginia's neighborhoods, almost 3.8 million residents, study finds
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07

@arXiv_statAP_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-19 11:27:15

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.AP. arxiv.org/list/stat.AP/new
[1/1]:
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Sutton, Hanley, Mortimore, Bagdasar, Ribeiro, Peron, Shahtahmassebi, Scriven

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-14 01:00:04

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
networks.skewed.…

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012). 47 nodes, 32643 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_kenyan_households
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-07-13 10:00:04

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
networks.skewed.…

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012). 47 nodes, 32643 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_kenyan_households
@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-07-02 18:06:01

A little afterwork walk after a short rain shower.
It has cooled off!
#gaißach #badtoelz
#walking

A serene and picturesque scene unfolds in this image, showcasing a large grassy field stretching out under a clear blue sky. In the distance, a cluster of houses can be seen nestled amongst the lush greenery. A solitary tree stands tall in the foreground, adding a touch of natural beauty to the landscape. The atmosphere is peaceful and inviting, with fluffy white clouds drifting lazily overhead. This idyllic rural setting is the epitome of tranquility, offering a glimpse into the harmony of nat…

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– and the initials “AFN,”
short for "Aryan Freedom Network",
the neo-Nazi group Stout leads with his partner.
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the couple oversee a network
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@servelan@newsie.social
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I hope he's wrong: "It's going to spread from city to city, and then to the suburbs, and then to rural areas, until Trump feels like he has complete authority over local law enforcement"
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rawstory.com/these-are-dangero

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-07-10 08:00:04

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
networks.skewed.…

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012). 47 nodes, 32643 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_kenyan_households

Those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
bsky.app/profile/themerl.bsky.

@servelan@newsie.social
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GOP Medicaid cuts would shutter third of rural hospitals as some lawmakers shrug: ‘Hold your nose’ - Washington Examiner
washingtonexaminer.com/policy/

As pesticide leaches into residents’ wells
EPA said grant to provide clean water was a ‘wasteful DEI program’
White House rescinds $20m for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural California
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-08-07 03:00:04

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 65 nodes and 300 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013). 65 nodes, 300 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/ugandan_village#friendship-17
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-06 02:00:04

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
networks.skewed.…

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012). 47 nodes, 32643 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_kenyan_households
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-08-05 23:00:04

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
networks.skewed.…

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012). 47 nodes, 32643 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_kenyan_households
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-07-05 18:00:03

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
networks.skewed.…

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012). 47 nodes, 32643 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_kenyan_households
@servelan@newsie.social
2025-08-31 05:57:02

Trump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that's a lifeline for many rural communities | The Independent
independent.co.uk/news/world/a

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-03 23:00:04

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 183 nodes and 873 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013). 183 nodes, 873 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/ugandan_village#friendship-13
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-07-30 20:00:03

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
networks.skewed.…

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012). 47 nodes, 32643 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_kenyan_households
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-06-29 20:00:04

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 170 nodes and 432 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013). 170 nodes, 432 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/ugandan_village#health-advice_2