George Budd @Gbudd@social.cleverlibre.org

How an African American woman helped invent GPS. Absolutely fascinating. “GPS Only Exists Because Of Two People: Albert Einstein And Gladys West.”

https://hiddenheroes.netguru.com/gladys-west

Know what the absence of racism would look like for Black folks?

Ordinary-ness.

Just life.
Ordinary life.

I think we deserve that.

Don't you?

#BHM
#AntiRacism

Elijah McCoy was born in 1844 in Ontario to formerly-enslaved parents from Kentucky. They saved enough to send him to Scotland to study mechanical #engineering. When he returned and couldn't get work in his field, he took a job as a train oilman and invented a method of automatic lubrication that eliminated the frequent stops trains had to make to oil up axles & bearings. Railroad companies asking for his product rather than copycat devices spawned the phrase "the real McCoy." #BlackHistoryMonth

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

#BlackMastodon

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"

"Yes, I used LaTeX and couldn't fix that bit"

#caturday

The cat is not stuck.

Why do old fogey Sys Admins like me get twitchy when they see cron jobs scheduled to run between 2am and 3am? Why do modern Sys Admins not care?

#Linux #DFIR #CommandLine #Trivia

Step 1 - Open the Terminal app on your Linux, macOS, Unix, BSD, WLS, or Android

Step 2 - Type `curl wttr.in` OR `curl wttr.in/lon` (replace LON with your city's code)

Step 3 - Enjoy an excellent weather report from the CLI.

Photo: A blank white billboard on some derelict buildings in Dublin City. Someone has painted the text "Fáilte roimh theifigh"* on the billboard in black.

*"Refugees welcome"

created by drawing with my eyes. I ALS and am a quadriplegic. This drawing is done using #eyegaze camera and ArtRage app.

#als #alswarrior #alsawareness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_suy7gARps

"2001: A Space Odyssey" directed by George Lucas?

This literally had me laugh out loud...

This sailor company has my number and is going to take all of my money. MY GOD. So many cute pens.

This one isn't really around much anymore without paying "collector prices"

#fountainpens

I figured out why my office is so cold

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfInfoSec

Picked up my first hand plane this week and just starting to learn to set up and use. Stanley #4 #woodworking

Children killed annually by mass education of Black history: 0

Children killed annually by mass book reading: 0

Children killed annually by drag shows: 0

Children killed annually by mass shootings & firearms: 4400

GOP: The only way to protect our kids is ban history, ban books, ban drag, and arm more kids with guns.

@gregeganSF Actually it is a fun back-to-the-envelope calculation. About 85% of the alpha-decays of Cs-137 result in the emission of a characteristic 662 keV gamma-ray. So, for a 19 GBq source, we should have a (isotropic) photon flux of about 1.28e9 photons/s/sr. Now…(1/5)

*Creating* generational wealth is not hard for Black people. It's happened many times in US history. There have been thriving communities.

*Keeping* generational wealth has proved to be nearly impossible. Between racist pogroms, and eminent domain used to create parks, freeways, reservoirs, and shopping malls, Black folk in the US have consistently had their wealth stolen by white folks.

I still run into New Yorkers that go to Central Park every week, but have never heard of Seneca Village.

He needs those parts for his spaceship, he's going to otter space.🚀