DecaturNature @DecaturNature@social.cleverlibre.org

Doubtless you've heard that "we all get the same 24 hours in the day." Of course it's not true: rich people and poor people experience very different demands on their time. The richer you are, the more your time is your own - not only are many systems arranged with your convenience in mind, but you also command the social power to do something about systems that abuse your time.

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Cyclists are portrayed in debates about bike lanes as younger, athletic people. Berkeley's Commission on Aging recommended against supporting the city's current bike lane project (#Hopkins), apparently thinking bike lanes were not for older people.

And yet, over the past eleven years, the median age of the six cyclists and pedestrians severely injured or killed on Hopkins is 69. Only one of those people was under 50. The oldest was 78.

The stereotypes are wrong.

#Berkeley #BikeTooter

A new real-world effectiveness study documents 85% reduction of deaths and 55% reduction of hospitalizations for Paxlovid, independent of vaccination status, age, variants https://thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00011-7/fulltext…
@TheLancetInfDis

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Kudos to the New York Public Library (#NYPL) for mining this vein of gold beneath our feet.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyde/librarians-are-finding-thousands-of-books-no-longer-protected-by-copyright-law

"NYPL has been reviewing the US #Copyright Office’s official…records for [books] whose copyrights haven’t been renewed…The books in question were published between 1923 & 1964, before changes to US copyright law removed the requirement for rights holders to renew their copyrights…Around 65 -75% of rights holders opted not to renew their copyrights."

#PublicDomain

Major development in Mastodon/fediverse ecosystem: Cloudflare is launching a project that will, if it works as promised, make it simple to launch Mastodon (and related) sites. Aimed at individuals and smaller communities. Hugely promising move. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/10/23593966/cloudflare-mastodon-server-wildebeest-instance-fediverse

(Note: I own a small number of shares in Cloudflare.)

Not a great sign of health when the obituaries start being rolled out… #twitter

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/10/opinion/twitter-all-time-tweets.html?unlocked_article_code=vXu6xL7MK3Zra0-rHDU0eIEfb-cYkROdbQbZj4Ejm0ZoESSSWDp0pdAtKjkdBZnz8GkiW5rsP3DE5VIN1aJLxTf2dQ9l4GgbaDDrR9gnlPtTAl1q2ADDmcVnz_Lfo-s-oBbJQ_TCSVxcexHQmeCnBgREtUk_flTSBIzwJZVSAlybcVB8xQ_7CxIokAp_SfE1jQ1FdzlN1Om75tOzRp1S9CYhb5L1ikFjWo2QpSmVMuLDeg_LovmwM-6AeuzCVQzCZn8HRQ-XE4m4Dzd0dCjBAFt0JHF6LolVLDxu6LGVnCU95MCnbdxl43DdJeIvQRC8ty9MLULLoJE8FgrIk7GiMps0l5H2XRrwveTWVazDeFf-&smid=share-url

It is amazing how much of a difference one day of rest can yield.

The inside of a cello looks like a place where something whimsically unspeakable happened in a Guillermo del Toro movie

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the right-wing backlash to teaching Black history

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ta-nehisi-coates-on-the-right-wing-backlash-to-teaching-black-history-162520645808

People tell me they're afraid of AI and computers taking over the world but if it helps: I'm really not.

For the last few decades since Terminator came out, we've been hard at work building in a dead man's switch to every major system on Earth to prevent this from happening. I guarantee you that if computers try to take over the world, somewhere, within a month, a certificate for some critical dependency no one ever considered will expire and take all the machines out at once. We've done a few dozen trial runs of this to make sure the system works. 100% success rate so far.

The idea that you need to be constantly busy just to justify being alive is utterly corrosive. It eats away at simply enjoying being alive, and turns the point of living into an endless list of tasks and duties.

#JoinIn #burnout #Productivity #mindfulness

I can't get over this New York Times headline saying Ron DeSantis is "building his brand" by wrecking public education in Florida. It reminds me of NYT’s first mention of Hitler in 1922, which claimed his anti-Semitism wasn’t “genuine” or “violent” but was just “bait” to attract followers. From 1922 to 2023, NYT is still covering fascists from a marketing perspective rather than a moral perspective.

Well, that didn't take long. We're starting to see almost-believable autogenerated text being used so spam our issue tracker.

There's a legitimate chance that ChatGPT and their ilk are going to kill participatory open source. How can you keep any forums open to the public, when anyone can just pour an arbitrary amount of generated garbage into them?

How do you tell a smart but green contributor who's still learning the language from a thousand bots spewing averacitous trash?

Hi I'm Joe,

Refugee from defederated mstdn.plus, re-establishing my beloved connections and looking for new ones.

For now, looking to connect on these topics:
#gardening
#SciFi #ScienceFiction
#AllStarTrek
#reading
#travel
#ClassicMovies #Cinemastodon
#culture
#positivity
#humanism

#introductions #introduction #mastodon

Huge forest fires are spreading rapidly in #Chile. In only 3 days, tens of thousands of acres have burned. Air quality is extremely poor. Temperatures have surpassed 40°C / 104°F. #IncendioForestales

Satellite imagery + detected heat over the past 3 days, Feb 2-4:

Imagine being terrified by a Chinese spy balloon but ignoring a virus which is killing thousands of Americans a week and creating chronic disease and shortening the life expectancy of many others.

#COVID