This is possibly one of the best overviews I've seen on the United States' multiple problems with handling the pandemic. theatlantic.com/health/archive… (boffosocko.com/2020/09/10/ame…)
The week where BLM is temporarily back to being used to describe a government agency and not dismantling white supremacy in govt agencies.
UC-wide GIS Week on November 17th – 19th, 2020. We will celebrate all things mapping and geospatial. Share your accomplishments and inspire others through your mapping. Please submit your application by October 13th! #GIS forms.gle/fRzVMcHswbAoXy…
The ability to follow people who talk about the things you’re personally interested in is a feature, not a bug, of social networks. I don’t worry about “echo chambers”. What I *do* worry about is misinformation, propaganda and lies. Yet those existed *long* before the internet!
When this week started, I did not think I would be coordinating a foster home for a llama and two turkeys.
Everything is terrible, but at least there is a new episode of Remote Ruby! 🥳
★ Just published a new episode of Remote Ruby: Ruby 3 adds Ractor, Hook Relay, ZSH and more. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/72dd2363

What shapes are you making during eternal Caturday?

Quick reminder: We're hosting A Domain of One’s Own Meetup: "Domains and the Cloud" in about 2 weeks 📅Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 at 9:00 AM Pacific #DoOO #edtech #ds106 #IndieWeb [more...] boffosocko.com/2020/09/04/dom…
When Françoise Brougher sued Pinterest, she specifically called out the CFO for mistreatment. It turns out, the problems on the finance team go deeper:
Inside Pinterest, more tales of workplace discrimination theverge.com/2020/9/11/2142…
Hard words to bear. But it’s true. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Tiny heartbreak of the day: passed a local middle school. For 2 weeks its billboard has advertised pandemic distance learning laptop distribution scheduled for today. Now canceled due to the air being unbreathable.
Two PM2.5 filter masks, gaffer’s tape and a bullet fan against an AQI of 150 in my office. I want to thank @NASA for the inspiration. Hope this helps until the air purifiers arrive.
A gyepet robotfűnyíró-pajtás tartja karban 😏 (@ Kadriorg Park in Tallinn, Harjumaa) swarmapp.com/slsoftworks/ch…
My view as someone who grew up in wildfire country and had their house burn to the ground in ‘09 is that the insurance industry is and always has been pretty exploitative and the moratorium on them not dropping people should last forever thank you!!
On today's Daily: the self-perpetuating cycle of home building and re-buildng that has made the annual wildfires so destructive. What will it take to break that cycle? @...
2020 rom com: fell in love over tindr during quarantine, and suddenly become roommates during the widespread fire evacuations after never meeting in person.
If you have Pacific Northwest people on your team, please give them grace this week. 1/8th of Oregon has had to evacuate their homes. If we haven’t had to, we’re checking to make sure we or our families don’t. The air quality is so bad it smells like campfire inside our apts.
Prisons are likely going to have to contend with COVID-19 and the flu this fall 😞
Prisons battling COVID-19 face another disease threat this fall theverge.com/2020/9/11/2143…
But that job is already done by “the algorithm”
thinking about creating a new type of job, 'content destroyer', i firmly believe we need less content and we should destroy most of the existing content
That good good daddy energy emanating from the federal government:
A new coronavirus scam targets people who’ve "violated quarantine" theverge.com/2020/9/11/2143…
Full daylight, streetlight is on and illuminating an inverted cone of smoke.