Why Tampa Bay is at such high risk for hurricane damage
The area has not taken a direct hit from a hurricane in over 100 years. But its topography and dense population make it especially susceptible to severe damage from storm surges.
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A Secret Sculpture Built for John F. Kennedy's Grave Vanished in the 1970s. Half a Century Later, the Mystery Has Been Solved
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-secret-sculpture-built-for-john-f-kennedys-grave-vanished-in-the-1970s-half-a-century-later-the-mystery-has-been-solved-180985235/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This morning there was a beautiful blue in the moss...
Green Wood Cup (Chlorociboria aeruginascens)
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Conference dates: April 11 - 13, 2025
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Open-source AI definition finally gets its first release candidate - and a compromise zdnet.com/article/open-source-… by @sjvn
We're getting closer to an #opensource #AI definition that many--but not everyone--can agree on.
Creating Excel spreadsheets with #Python is easy if you use OpenPyXL.
Here's an example of creating a spreadsheet and summing up a couple of columns programmatically:
Interested in learning more about business models and governance in free software?
Check out the English translation of the 2023 podcast episode featuring @goneri and Raphaël Semeteys, released in 2023 !
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#Jaeger V2 is here!🎉
The popular open source #DistributedTracing tool under the #CNCF, is introducing a new architecture with deep #OpenTelemetry integration, which promises more flexibility, performance, extensibility and ease of use.
Next week I'll hold a live stream of 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 🎙 with Jaeger's creator and core maintainer Yuri Shkuro.
Join us October 14th at 11 AM PT / 20:00 CET:
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I know how I would make these noises on a Macintosh with Logic Audio in the year 2002 but some of them are honestly startling to hear coming out of electrical oscillators in 1969
Trump Isn't Offering Free Lodging to Displaced Supporters During Hurricane Milton
The story said, "BREAKING: Trump offers free lodging at any of his timeshares (including Mar-a-Lago) to all displaced Trumpers as Milton approaches."
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"It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans."
-@kenshirriff, Wealth distribution in the United States
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Climate change isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime.
In the 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted global warming with “shocking accuracy,” but the company went on to spend millions lobbying against climate action.
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #warming #climate #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Republicans only bestir themselves when their megadonors want something.
Musk is upset about his military contracts.
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Elon Musk is in violation of the Logan Act & poses a national security risk. It's a mystery why he still has military contracts at all.
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He meddled in Ukraine's defense of itself.
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So he buys politicians.
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in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •You've heard of companies that are too big to fail. We've got criminals who are too rich to jail.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •What money? Twitter is now worth half of its net worth (and banned in several companies) and he had to borrow most of the money to afford it. He has about 12 lawsuits against him and he had to pay for several illegitimate lawsuits, such as suing the lawyers who helped him buy Twitter.
He demanded millions to leave Tesla, after ruining the stock several times (one of the many lawsuits against him)
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I don't know what's wrong with us...
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