Help a journalist out? I'm looking to talk to researchers, engineers, students or entrepreneurs who are considering leaving the U.S. because they lost funding or are worried about visas or anything like that. I'm at mimsical.94 on Signal
Twitter / X is being flooded with clips from video games being passed off as footage from Gaza.
With the gutting of its trust and safety team, and payouts to accounts based on engagement, Twitter / X now rewarding trolls, clout-chasers and their clueless enablers -- with what looks like less oversight than ever from anyone inside the company.
This is bonkers:
Only 4 in 10 Americans know that "filling up" an EV is cheaper than filling up a gas-powered vehicle.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/09/15/ev-tipping-point-electric-poll/
10,000 steps a day is made-up b.s.
It turns out that ANY amount of additional walking per day is good.
And also that if you want to max out the benefits, 7,500 is where it actually tops out
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/10000-steps-rule/590785/
nostr:npub193tcg6vh07cz08thkpuandx9jz3k2ks45c8474y0rdcsej9rykmsaagd0r I mean let's not get TOO crazy
"Is it covid or is it modernity?" feels like the most popular game in America right now
https://mastodon.social/@lzg/111070943184472731
nostr:npub1hn5k6kkqvw008ay9xvmel92hd9k2cyrt7ayccfr2qgxz3e6zf8ysa8mzl8 "Is it covid or is it modernity?" feels like the most popular game in America right now
the way arm-based laptops can get two days' worth of life out of a single charge is low-key a game changer
nostr:npub1c7svnqtej92j5faskycdp64mkqdrqxz9rfxdw06ejux38e9c2k4qwf7p0y one thing I didn’t get to: open standards like this could lead to privacy-protecting versions of this tech
nostr:npub124v7wc20fmjnzzngndw60s7fvknhhy5yute7jv04eanw9fxlxt3qq6r54v meanwhile the pigs are just like "whatever" which I also love :)
dream portable keyboard just dropped
(true story, this costs more than the laptop I use as my every day driver)
https://www.zsa.io/voyager/buy/
nostr:npub1vh3taefvn3mpd0n3fahq3yg2mkku9hl5np3vsmchq9426sd23gtszg8mkp yes! great story, good addition to this thread
New to Mastodon? Bookmark this handy glossary:
"toot" - post
"down the toot hole" - delete a post
"tootsday" - what we call Tuesday on here
"tootally" - self explanatory
"tickle the ivory" - post a toot
"miocene mastodonian" - old hand at tooting
"pliocene mastodonian" - just showed up, doesn't know it's called "tootsday"
nostr:npub1j46f9va5qdrmamcwmncew7g8mwekgma386dhws6k04fsnlkqpcpsj23gm7 no but I do like to shout into the void about it
https://www.wsj.com/articles/annoying-password-rules-actually-make-us-less-secure-a05edb70
The biggest determinant of your health, on average?
Where you live, and the deeply historical reasons that public policy there is what it is.
"“Your health is only 10 percent influenced by the medical environment and maybe 20 or 30 percent in behavioral choices. The social and political determinants of health are overwhelmingly what you’re seeing in these maps.”"
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-life-expectancy-regions-00113369
a beautiful, if somber, meditation by nostr:npub1sfe9rpgzxg6rmq9hhht5rpz5c6f54zhh8v27569vlc9rcgs3mwqsq9yp3x on the way the climate crisis has become the primary, underlying threat to us all, whether we acknowledge it or not
"We certainly have been (and still are) transforming the Earth on vast and pitiless scales, in ways that will go on unfolding for millennia. But what is far more pressingly true for us is by altering the planet, we have made our lives no longer what they were."
https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/coming-back-to-when-we-are
"Most jarringly, we will have to admit that we have left behind the [the idea] that, through collective action we could bring on an orderly transition to a sustainable society, using adaptation and solidarity to make whole the harms unleashed in the meantime.
That’s over.
We are now in a catastrophe of broken continuity that we cannot resolve (even if we limit its further severity) and that will not be made whole by any action within our power. There is no going back."
https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/coming-back-to-when-we-are
a beautiful, if somber, meditation by nostr:npub1sfe9rpgzxg6rmq9hhht5rpz5c6f54zhh8v27569vlc9rcgs3mwqsq9yp3x on the way the climate crisis has become the primary, underlying threat to us all, whether we acknowledge it or not
"We certainly have been (and still are) transforming the Earth on vast and pitiless scales, in ways that will go on unfolding for millennia. But what is far more pressingly true for us is by altering the planet, we have made our lives no longer what they were."
https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/coming-back-to-when-we-are
whatever happened to thinkbois?
nostr:npub1sc08qgzm9x7chc83gl57l7nq76cxy23r9qt0w0yfxzrj59t3x2hsu8duc3 lol, it's the thinkfluencer arc of life