szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

The Internet is at a point where I trust the geocities-ass page that looks like a child made it more than any slickly produced modern web experience.

I crave your shitty blogs. Give me your UNDER CONSTRUCTION gifs.

To może i my rozważymy #pixelfed I będziemy tam prostować jeszcze więcej psiego kontentu? 🤔 #dogsofmastodon #rowerem #rower #cargobike #cycling @rower

A German court has just declared a "Do Not Track" #DNT signal from your browser as legally binding, pursuant to Article 21(5) #GDPR. https://www.vzbv.de/urteile/gericht-untersagt-datenschutzverstoesse-von-linkedin

Making room for wildlife - only part of Holt, UK's churchyard is mowed, leaving space for wildlife to flourish

Lac-Mégantic’s electricity microgrid makes the town a pioneer in energy transition with a “sustainable and replicable governance model” that other rural communities can adopt.
https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/11/02/lac-megantic-microgrid-to-become-model-for-local-communities/

@tdverstynen Yes your last paragraph captures it I think - if people who specialise in understanding subjects often end up with a so-called liberal bias, then maybe reality has a liberal bias not matter how much culture warriors want to fight that.
Or, perhaps the people who end up doing researching and teaching others are likely to be altruistic. If altruism predisposes you towards certain beliefs and a willingness to teach them... culture warriors maybe ought to develop their own altriusm...

I am sick of this genre of “we must correct the liberal bias in academia” opinion pieces.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/opinion/liberal-universities-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

So I’m supposed to teach that climate change isn’t happening or isn’t being caused by human activity despite the overwhelming evidence that it is happening and we are responsible?

I’m supposed to teach that homosexual behavior is abnormal and unnatural, despite it being observed across many species (including other primates) and having a well documented prevalence in human history?

I’m supposed to teach that Reaganomics allows for uplifting everyone despite the overwhelming evidence that it only increases income inequality?

I’m supposed to teach that our history of systemic racism either did not exist or does not persist in causing social harm to this day, despite the overwhelming evidence for the generational impacts of practices like redlining and race biases in healthcare and the criminal justice system?

I’m supposed to teach that Trump won the 2020 election and was disenfranchised because of some deep state plot, despite the complete lack of evidence (and the counter evidence that he and his supporters knew they lost the election)?

Maybe the reason that conservative positions do not get traction in academia (and gets consistently flagged by fact-checking services) isn’t some nefarious conspiracy to suppress conservative voices. Maybe it’s just because most of what counts as conservative ideologies today are premised on non-empirical assumptions or flat out lies.

And here it is in situ.

Easy to glance at to see what the electricity prices are now, and what they'll be at during the day.

All housed in a neat wood frame.

Today marks one year since I walked away from 360,000 followers on that other site joined this incredible community here!

That was easily one of the most positive moves I've ever made, and I frankly haven't looked back. Thank you to @jerry and everyone else who keeps this place humming. Come to think of it, it's time to renew our annual support!

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

What is this? This is a GPS receiver made by Trimble, one of the biggest GPS companies. Why is it shaped like an ambulance? Good question. This is a 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993, which was relatively early for consumer GPS tech. On the back is a Motorola 68HC000 and 64k of RAM. Look it even has a little red light on top. And a silk screened steering wheel.

Wind generation just broke 5 GW for the first time.

"The police told me I can't be a doctor, but whenever they show up I just go into the Google Maps settings page I found and change the house to 'Police Headquarters' and then they have to do what I say."
https://xkcd.com/2850/

Penn Jillette (Penn and Teller): "The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping ram[pages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine." #atheism

The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up using Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.

It is a period of great productivity.

The date of lent is calculated using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

“The Literary Style of Alt-Text”

For years, I didn’t add alt-text to my online images

But I’ve started doing it all the time now — being on Mastodon is what showed me how important it is!

Along the way, I’ve started noticing …

…. what an oddly *literary* activity it is

Here’s an image I wrote alt-text for when I blogged a few weeks ago, below

My essay on alt-texting: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-literary-style-of-alt-text-9f1595cd8f0c

A free “friend” link in case you don’t subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-literary-style-of-alt-text-9f1595cd8f0c?sk=1d9cd685997cb08d8909da687a2d03cf

@KeithDJohnson

mind was blown by this 1987 paper by Jerry Franklin, H.H. Shugart and Mark Harmon, who noted that the mass of organisms inhabiting a decaying log may render it more "alive" than a living tree (in conifers, only ~10% of plant cells are actually alive)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Herman-Shugart/publication/238341891_Tree_Death_as_an_Ecological_Process/links/0deec52d5d2a5798bf000000/Tree-Death-as-an-Ecological-Process.pdf?origin=publication_detail

Moim znajomym prowadzącym kanał na YouTube zamknęli kanał. Mają już dość przepychanek i szukają innej platformy. To jest fundacja zajmująca się dostępnością kultury, czyli tłumaczenia na język migowy, napisy, audiodeskrypcja, ale także nagrania wydarzeń. Filmów jest około 300 i publikują dość często. Podpowiecie coś?

It's time to limit how often we can travel abroad – 'carbon passports' may be the answer

https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-limit-how-often-we-can-travel-abroad-carbon-passports-may-be-the-answer-216503

> The article says that increasing jet travel "may be great news economically", but "showing dire environmental and social consequences."

In other words, our measures of the economy are disastrously wrong.