Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Love this headline:
“Turtles the size of a car once roamed the Earth. Scientists just found their fossils.”
“The hulking reptile was about 100 times the size of its closest living relative, the Amazon river turtle, and twice the size of the largest living turtle, the marine leatherback, the researchers estimated.”
Finland’s approach to teaching how to spot disinformation starts in elementary school. Spotting statistics misuse in math, image manipulation in art, studying propaganda campaigns in history, etc.
Being next to Russia has put them on the front lines.
Link: The new coronavirus is not an excuse to be racist
Link: Choosing to be a citizen, not merely a profit-seeking agent or partisan.
“leaving things better than you found them is a powerful step forward, because you’ll probably be back this way again one day soon.”
New geothermal plants in the works in California, including one near the Salton Sea that plans to extract lithium from the brine.
Turns out there are still people making web browsers that aren’t based on WebKit or Gecko. Here’s an article about a browser called Flow: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2020/01/new_browser_on.html
Link: Long-lasting Lithium-Sulfur Battery Promises to Double EV Range – IEEE Spectrum
Photos from a rare Los Angeles snowfall, way back in 1949.
“Easter Island’s Monoliths Made the Crops Grow” – literally. Dust and fragments from the quarry added much-needed minerals to the soil around it, making it the most fertile area of the isolated island.
“Every day, millions of people rely on independent websites that are mostly created by regular people, weren’t designed as mobile apps, connect deeply to culture, and aren’t run by the giant tech companies.”
– via @anildash
Some of us are stubbornly trying to keep at least our own corners of the old internet alive, but overall, this tracks.
Hong Kong theater troupe performs outdoor Les Misérables production, audiences sing along in catharsis.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-11/les-miserables-soothes-breaks-hong-kong-hearts
Another example of Instagram’s hostility toward the open web: “Link In Bio” is a slow knife via @anildash