clew @clew@octodon.social
Math, soil, ecology, feminism, material history, literature of the long nineteenth, waltz, polka, leavened bread. Seattlite.
#seattle dancers and never-tried-it might-like-to-dancers: I'm hosting a low-key free intro to partner dance, waltz, maybe polka, this Friday the 15th. Followed by a DJd dance with the energetic travelling versions of those dances -- if you like East Bay Waltz, or Friday Night Waltz, we need you!
Not dress-up, no partner or experience needed, we aim to teach enough that you know if you'd like it before you get bored.
Getting a bit into the political philosophy these days. I keep telling everyone I know to read John Rawls’s “Justice As Fairness: A Restatement” because I think it’s the most logical way to describe how an optimized democracy works. 📖 #amreading #philosophy #democracy
renewable energy: hydroelectric
Dams mess with ecosystems. These little guys are a cool alternative.
@blackcap , @hummingrain -- there's a vigil 8-10 outside the ICED offices in downtown Seattle every weekday, and a bigger protest planned on the 30th at the airport. See you at either?
Look, Wiley E. Coyote Super Genius shell programmer, bash + awk is not the right combination for heavy duty statistical stuff, especially if you have to process a few thousand files of over 100MB each. And particularly don't fork each file's handling in an awk process inside a bash for loop. We've got languages & libraries intended for this sort of thing: octave and matlab and scipy and R and more, all installed and ready to use.
I'm seeing a bunch of posts today about how hosting a mastodon admin doesn't cost a lot of money, and first I want to say that this is true; you can run an instance on $10-20/mo entirely reasonably.
But I don't want anyone to forget that there is a labor cost in running and maintaining an instance. It's not just pushing a button and feeding in some money, it's also monitoring your server and keeping it secure and handling reports and doing upgrades and all fo that.
Anyone familiar with controlling multiple RGB LEDs with a #Raspberry Pi, where the total current probably exceeds what the GPIO can do? Any ideas what kind of extra circuits or controllers I need?
This is an interesting question about family tree software that isn't getting a lot of traction on ask.metafilter
"I have a sprawling Sudanese family, and I'm hoping to build a family tree that covers my relatives going back at least four or five generations... Sadly, I haven't had much luck with the software I've tried – everything out there seems to be really clunky and Western-oriented."
https://ask.metafilter.com/323334/Please-help-me-find-family-tree-software-that-doesnt-suck
Any #advice?
Today somebody wrote me a really nice email about how they saw some open source software I published, how they were building upon it, and thanked me for it. It made feel really great. More people should send these kind of emails (myself included), it's really validating and made my week.
Broadway Waltz tomorrow (Friday the 15th) in #Seattle; we start with a free lesson for total beginners, 7:20-8, and dance waltz, polka, foxtrot, swing, tango from 8-10. Always some energetic dances and some gentle ones. You don't need to bring a partner, everyone dances with everyone. Good taster if you wonder if you might like this kind of thing.
www.broadwaywaltz.com
A story of electronics recycling, and how the "dumping ground" of the developing countries may not be as bad as the press reports.
Did kid know it was you doing it? How did kid react?
Parental Omniscience seems fine but Learned Helplessness not, I am guessing.
«In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html
Nice things I needed which I learnt on the fediverse today:
A non-standard genus of silk worm called Eri is much more adaptable to various diets and climates.
It can be used in a more ethical way to make silk yarn - without killing the critter at cocoon harvest.
This provides people around the world with a new way to make homespun clothes, in a kinder way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa_silk
Thanks to @cathal !
This company that sells clothing says it had to stop selling to EU because of GDPR. This image IS their site now, it says: "Blame your government (no, really)".
Really though? It's that hard to sell me clothes while respecting my privacy? You only have to blame yourself on this one 😂
"Speaking fees" for retired politicians show the amazing power of human planning capacity. Humans invented the perfect crime by creating an acausal crime: one where nothing untoward has happened when the effect occurs, by predicting the subsequent existence of a cause, a motive, a bribe, in years to follow.
« Plastic plankton, the Anthropocene’s emblematic “microorganism” »
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/plastic-plankton-the-anthropocenes-emblematic-microorganism/
after some soldering and 140 lines of haskell, I have a crockpot that can be controlled by cron(1), but that otherwise runs whenever there's solar power going to waste, as a #solarpunk water heater
University of Helsinki online courses, on Geo-Python and Automating GIS-processes, open for everyone.
https://automating-gis-processes.github.io/2017/index.html
https://geo-python.github.io/2017/
