Interesting article on preparation for tech careers summarizing rural/urban differences. Access differences are trivial, but school-based experiences are important. https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4052251-tech-majors-are-booming-but-rural-students-stuck-in-the-digital-divide/
He's always been brilliant but #RedMeansRecording is now easily my fave tech #YouTuber
Why?
Because he actually fucking cares about people.
Every comments page, every forum is stuffed with Clarksons, gammons, flagshaggers, TERFs and outright Nazis.
So this video is like a glass of cold, superfuckingtasty water in a desert of fucknuts:
Go give him a follow: @jjbbllkk
#TransRights #SynthesizersAreTrans #ComputersAreGay #WendyCarlos #MutableInstruments
Vijg (Ficus carica), bast-bark-rinde-ecorse-corteza https://www.bomengids.nl/2022/species/Vijg__Ficus_carica__Common_fig__Feigenbaum__Figuier.html
posted by #bomengidsnlbot #trees #botany #nature
Welcome to European treeguide bomengids.nl https://www.bomengids.nl
Bienvenido a guia #arbol europea https://www.bomengids.nl
Willkommen bei European #Baum Guide https://www.bomengids.nl
Bienvenue dans le guide des #arbres européen https://www.bomengids.nl
Should we put MDMA into the water?? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230614-how-a-dose-of-mdma-transformed-a-white-supremacist
Today I discovered https://www.whocanuse.com and I wanted to yell it to the world, but 55 people will have to do.
Hidden in plain sight. I took this a couple of weeks ago, and didn’t think it was exciting enough to post. Now I look at it again though, I really like how unexciting it is. For the frog, that’s kind of the point. #frogs #MacroPhotography
Question for the hive-mind:
What do you call growing a garden under a fully mature forest canopy?
It's not really a #forestgarden as the word is generally used today. Those seem to be intentionally planted bottom up.
It's a form of #permaculture, but so are so many other things, and the word has been so abused I'd rather stay away.
#agroforestry seems to have been taken over by 'small patch farming with trees nearby'.
There has to be a better word for this:
@jeffjarvis
The actual writing of code is one of the most infrequent and relatively simpler aspects of my job. The most difficult and time consuming task is trying to understand the poorly written legacy code and having the alleged Subject Matter Experts answer domain questions. I don't see how an LLM AI could be able to do this. In fact, nothing short of waterboarding certain people will help with this.
long post: thank you letter to the Fediverse and its people
Happy Father’s Day!
Most insect dads don’t do much, but male Belostomatid water bugs carry the eggs on his back after the female leaves, guarding them and making sure they have the right conditions until they hatch.
Zakaz aborcji zabija❗️
🔵 24 maja zakaz aborcji wprowadzony przez PiS doprowadził do śmierci Doroty w Podhalańskim Szpitalu Specjalistycznym im. Jana Pawła II w Nowym Targu. Szpital od lat nie przeprowadza aborcji. Chwali się relikwiami Karola Wojtyły - katolickiego ideologa znanego z atakowania kobiet, osób LGBT+, fotografowania się z dyktatorami, ochrony pedofilów.
🤬 Placówką kieruje Marek Wierzba członek partii Suwerenna Polska Zbigniewa Ziobry. Czy Marek Wierzba został już zwolniony dyscyplinarnie z pracy? Nie. Czy jest wciąż członkiem partii Zera? Jest.
📣 14 czerwca w Warszawie protestowałem przeciwko barbarzyńskiemu prawu.
🤡 Po protestach w całej Polsce zabrał głos prezes PiS Jarosław Kaczyński mówiąc o śmierci Doroty nazywając ją “sprawą wymyśloną przez propagandę” i “częścią urojonej rzeczywistości”.
🤡 Następnie posłanka PiS Ewa Szymańska stwierdziła, że „ludzie w różnych sprawach protestują”. Odpowiadając dziennikarzowi na pytanie o śmierć Doroty śmiała się mówiąc “Pan tak mówi, jakby tych kobiet umierały codziennie dziesiątki, setki tysięcy”. Na koniec dodała “A gdzie są faceci, czemu nie protestują? Kobiety z powietrza nie zachodzą w ciążę”.
🤡 Wczoraj na pytanie o prawo aborcyjne prezydent Andrzej Duda z uśmiechem odpowiedział “A co to ma wspólnego z pucharem Tymbarku? Ja jestem na pucharze Tymbarku i rozumiem, że państwo oczekujecie rozmowy ze mną na temat pucharu Tymbarku”.
👉 To nie tylko antologia cytatów pełnych pogardy do kobiet. To obraz władzy bez moralności i sumienia. Władzy dla władzy.
💚 Gdy prawicowa władza po zakazaniu aborcji w Polsce odpoczywa na pucharze Tymbarku Posłanki Lewicy walczą na ulicach i w Sejmie o legalną, bezpieczną i darmową aborcję do 12 tygodnia ciąży. Walczą o likwidację klauzuli sumienia i dekryminalizację aborcji.
🗳️W październiku stawką wyborów będą fundamentalne prawa kobiet.
#anijednejwięcej #legalnaaborcja #legalnaaborcjabezkompromisów #klauzulasumieniadokosza‼️ #warszawa
It is stunning to think of all the people who were paid money to design & build this office, all to have the company kicked out of the space without anyone ever even using it.
There have been so few people to ever step foot in that building that I would imagine everything is still in absolutely pristine condition, but branded with Twitter design that now has to be ripped out by a landlord who constructed the building just for Twitter, and never collected a dime.
Last year, I shared that my wife Ellen had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare and incurable form of brain cancer. It's been a while since I've updated on her condition. Unfortunately, her cancer has progressed significantly in the past couple of months. We recently decided to forgo further treatment and pursue hospice care as she enters her final weeks.
As you might imagine, I'm working a lot less right now as I care for her, support our 4-year-old son, and spend time with the many visitors we've been thankful to have.
I'm still around, but I'm checking here and posting less frequently. Please forgive me if my responses to DMs and emails are slower than normal. That said, folks are making sure the wheels at RTF and AND are still turning 👍
My family and I appreciate all y'alls support.
I was interviewed by The Hill about the education challenges facing rural students interested in technology and some of the work we're doing at the Rural Tech Fund.
Article here: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4052251-tech-majors-are-booming-but-rural-students-stuck-in-the-digital-divide/
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.