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Is There a Fediverse Equivalent to platforms like Podchaser?


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in reply to Teknevra (She/Her)

Not that I know of. I haven't gone through every Fediverse project but you can check them out here, here, and here.


Our paper on "Hydroclimate volatility on a Warming Earth" is out in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. We assess existing scientific literature & conduct new analysis--concluding that "#HydroclimateWhiplash" is increasing due to #ClimateChange. [Thread] nature.com/articles/s43017-024…
in reply to Daniel Swain

How are consequences of hydroclimate volatility different from wet and dry extremes (e.g., floods & droughts) in isolation? Well, sometimes the temporal sequencing matters a great deal for widely ranging reasons, from public health to geohazards. nature.com/articles/s43017-024…
in reply to Daniel Swain

A particularly stark & timely example of consequences of a "wet-to-dry" whiplash episode is unfolding this week in Southern California, where devastating wildfires followed two wet winters (w/abundant vegetation growth) & a record dry period subsequently. x.com/Weather_West/status/1877…


[Testing Update] 2025-01-10 - Kernels, Firefox, Gnome, Systemd, Mesa, KDE Gear

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Bernard Hayot : un empire ultramarin qui prospère sur la pauvreté et l'exploitation

#UltraMarin #Hayot #VieChere

Le Groupe Bernard Hayot (GBH) profite de son monopole en Outre-mer pour imposer des marges indécentes sur les produits de première nécessité. Une enquête dévoile des pratiques frauduleuses qui enrichissent le groupe tout en creusant la précarité dans ces territoires.

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in reply to Le Père Peinard

C'est marrant le nom de ce groupe. Il contient en lui-même un truc scabreux...
Groupe Hayot Bernard...


Never tried #VoiceOver on Mac? Here's a great intro from @bas! basbroek.nl/macos-voiceover-fi…


“That’s not ______, it’s just capitalism” has kinda dissolved into a thought-terminating cliché.

Like yes, corrupt systems operate within other larger corrupt systems, but contempt for specifics seems dangerous to me. If you want to fight something oppressive, seems worth trying to understand its machinery?

Take “Enshittification”: sure, it’s “just capitalism,” but it’s also a pretty specific manifestation, and so gave a lot of people a new way into thinking about the way capital moves.

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I feel the same way about "enshittification" though. That can also be a kind of thought terminating cliche. It's not some inevitable process that just kind of happens. It's the result of deliberate choices by specific people.


Do severe climatic events move public opinion? Apparently, not! blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2... Is this a given or can this be affected by how climate advocates organise? Are there places where it has had a lasting impact? @rupertread.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Mehr Glück als Verstand apollo-news.net/mehr-glueck-al… Er will Kanzler werden – und wird es wahrscheinlich auch. Friedrich Merz ist fast 70, zweimal gescheiterter Kandidat und eigentlich ...
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The West Philly WIC office has Luigi decals all over its walls. The revolution is coming

in reply to schizoidman

Not very common for both recorders to stop abruptly before a crash. Unless they lost all power, which means both engines.

This particular plane seems to have been manufactured before backup batteries were required, so without main AC power the recorders would have stopped, standby power doesn't connect to the recorders.

in reply to ryannathans

I don't know, but aiming for a short runway with a wall at the end doesn't seem to work.
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in reply to halcyoncmdr

They should have been required to be installed in all previous ones as well.


It's crazy that they weren't. Unusually so (at least the perception so) for the aviation industry.

The last few minutes is the most valuable data!

in reply to halcyoncmdr

Shouldn't the RAT automatically deploy with a power loss? Can the APU be turned on if there's a total power loss?

I imagine with four minutes and already at task saturation they may have just forgotten to deploy the gear. I also wonder if they had a single engine when they decided to go around, and then lost power and decided to loop back to runway 19. I also wonder if they decided to keep the gear stowed until final to improve performance, then lost power and forgot to deploy the gear.

I guess some of these things we might never know, especially without the CVR

in reply to halcyoncmdr

If both engines failed, that means they would have lost hydraulic power too, which is probably the reason they couldn't extend the landing gear or try to go around a second time.

One of the theories floating around is that a bird strike caused one engine to flame out and the pilots pulled the cutoff switch on the wrong engine. It wouldn't be the first time something like that happened.

in reply to Yardy Sardley

IIRC the emergency landing gear deployment relies solely on gravity to drop and lock them into place, it's a passive system. Not 100% effective, but something that doesn't require a powered system of any kind for emergencies. Even if they didn't lock into place, they would at least deploy, which doesn't seem to have been the case here.

The cutoff to the wrong engine is sadly the most likely given the rest of the context like altitude and already aborting one attempt due to the strike. Lots of things to track that low to the ground, easy to forget you didn't deploy the landing gear the first time when your focus was trying to keep it in the air at that point and then going around and realigning for another attempt while also shutting down an engine.



Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face byteseu.com/641535/ #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews



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It's not about free speech. Zuck has always hated trans people, he was just waiting until it was socially acceptable to act on it like a coward. [contains quote post or other embedded content]



Pharmacy benefit managers, organizations that negotiate access to medicines for most US patients, steer patients to use their own pharmacies. They are part of conglomerates (CVS, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Humana) that own insurance companies and pharmacies, which may create conflicts of interest. byteseu.com/641533/ #Science


Following up yesterday's post: here is the same view of Varick Street by the Holland Tunnel, as seen today (Friday) at 5pm. Normally at this time my office is filled with a symphony of horns honking and traffic managers screaming at drivers. To see this and hear mostly silence at 5pm on a Friday would have been unthinkable even a week ago.

Needless to say, I am 100% sold on congestion pricing in New York City.

#nyc #CongestionPricing

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“Over 60 German-speaking universities and research institutions have decided to take a stand and collectively announce their decision to cease activities in the social network X (formerly Twitter). This withdrawal comes in response to the platform's current direction, which is incompatible with the core values of the participating institutions: openness to the world, scientific integrity, transparency, and democratic discourse.”

This is how you do it.

#fuckElon #Xitter #Germany

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Amazon to halt some of its DEI programs: Internal memo byteseu.com/641528/ #Technology


I mean, we know, because Matt Taibbi and crew spent the last four years pretending that happened, even though it didn't.

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Zuckerberg Talks About Apple With Joe Rogan: ‘They Haven’t Invented Anything Great in a While’
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