@paularmstrong.bsky.social
Read, SCUBA, climb, code, hike, cook, cycle, run, board and computer games. I may have too many hobbies.
Steven Spielberg’s iconic film Jaws first hit theaters 50 years ago this month.
Since then, sharks have experienced the worst declines in their 450-million-year history. Can we trace that decline to their villainous portrayal in this influential movie?
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Adding voter ID requirements severely limits people's ability to vote and is driven entirely on the basis of disenfranchisement advantaging the Republicans.
Here's some info on it and being heard. Must be done by midnight on the 23rd US/Eastern time.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@amysundberg.bsky.social
I see there's an automated fingerprint identification levy on the ballot. Seems like an obvious no to me. Is my intuition wrong here?
Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
A lot of them seem to be enamored of a techbro philosopher called Curtis Yarvin who, wait for it, promotes tech feudalism!
12.02.2025 03:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Any Ruby folks open to a 3-12 month gig? GraphQL migration to the latest Apollo Router, remote, quick start, and sounds like a fairly well known shop with good eng.
Will forward interest to a friend who was looking.
What distinction are you making between a "self-coup"/autogolpe and coup?
I'm hard pressed to call it anything other than a coup regardless of whether it's internally or externally driven.
For those still wondering how a country becomes autocratic, a quick read of Heather Cox Richardson's latest post is a sobering read: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28...
#USPol #Autocracy #trump
Well, that's a rather scathing indictment: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Confirmation bias and all that. It certainly reinforces pretty much every expectation I've had of the man based on what he's done and what I've seen of friends who made the mistake of working for Musk.
#musk
“Researchers found that the most active commuters, who averaged more than 30 kilometres of cycling or walking per week, had an 8–18% lower risk of sickness absence.” momentummag.com/study-shows-...
24.01.2025 00:12 — 👍 102 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2And the sad thing is, there are many places in the US where there is no car dependency. They're behind a paywall of stupidly expensive housing though as they're invariably incredibly popular places to live. :-(
24.01.2025 01:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Still got a Facebook account?
Want to get rid of it, get a copy of your data or lock it down a bit harder?
deletefacebook.com
#Facebook #DeleteFacebook #SocialMedia
Literally talked about this on our Ocean Science Podcast - podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
22.01.2025 03:52 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0For those who need hormone replacement therapy and are now concerned about availability, you might find this discussion useful: nebula.tv/videos/lilya...
#trans #HRT #DIYHRT #HormoneTherapy
"Estimates from small diverse subsets of this size outperformed most estimates from homogenous groups; sufficiently diverse small crowds are just as effective as large crowds in estimating ecological state."
21.01.2025 22:31 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We're tracking the ocean policy issues that matter and helping filter the signal from the noise.
How Donald Trump’s Day 1 Executive Actions Impact the Ocean
www.southernfriedscience.com/how-donald-t...
I also did a Tv interview about this piece that the journalist later told me was the most delightfully sarcastic interview she’d ever heard
youtu.be/DovtqgnFXL4?...
Using MSFT as your primary IT supplier? Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that.
18.01.2025 07:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0White Facebook is taking down their moderation team, Bluesky is celebrating their teams work.
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After performing a media content and discourse analysis of how the popular press covers shark conservation and determining that it's a dumpster fire of misinformation, I often wonder what topics where I'm *not* an expert get similarly bad media coverage.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Well this is pretty nuts: Microsoft got majorly hacked due to a crash dump in one of their servers containing a private key inside it.
msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09...
So, while the approach taken at the time seemed reasonable, once we were out of the water and able to think about it clearly (i.e. without the pressure to continue the dive), it became clear that it wasn't the best idea and I really should have aborted the dive.
While we were very close to the surface and we likely would have gotten to safety without issue, other factors may have changed the dive profile and safety margin (e.g. there was kelp in the water, which could have tangled either of us up and slowed our ascent).
12.01.2025 06:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 03. Yes. If we'd had out of gas emergency, the feathering of the long hose cylinder would have created significant extra task loading for an already stressed diver.
12.01.2025 06:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'll go first:
Yes. I had a 1st stage regulator partial failure on a sidemount dive.
1. Mine, I was the dive leader
2. We were in 3 metres of water, 20 metres off a sandy beach. It seemed reasonable that we would easily be able to get to the shore if anything further went wrong.
Divers: Have you ever continued a dive after a serious equipment malfunction (BCD/Regulator failure, lost one or both fins etc)?
If so:
1. Was the decision yours or the dive leader?
2. What lead you to decide to continue?
3. Did you do a debrief after the dive and discuss the safety ramifications?
It's a weird one. There's apparently a pact that the US will defend Greenland, maybe Trump believes that is justification for taking over. avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century...
If that's hist justification, then many countries should start looking for ways to dump US pacts and bases.
It was a great day. Great conversation, even if the water wasn't on our side.
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