Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

If you're into #maps or #geography, this #FollowFriday is for you.

@coreyspowell — Award-winning science writer, co-founder of OpenMind magazine

@floledermann — Researching & teaching interactive maps at TU Wien

@GIS_Bandit — Product manager at #GIS software company Esri

@GregCocks — Researcher & spatial data scientist at U.S. Geological Survey

@History_of_Geology — A channel dedicated to the history of #earth sciences

@opencage — Provider of geocoding and geo-search using open data

Old timey Seinfeld. Stuff like this is about the only thing AI is good for.

Worth celebration. 322 days ago we created our Mastodon account.

https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/109366891835800997

Today, we're at 10.5k followers. Not half bad. We could not have accomplished this without you all.

When I first pitched the importance of doing this, I KNEW the community here would step up.

From me personally ( @matthartley) Linux Support Lead) to you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

#Cities & #UrbanLife picks of the day (continued):

➡️ @TheWarOnCars - Podcast about damage done to cities by car culture

➡️ @JasonThorne - General manager of planning & economic development in Hamilton, Canada

➡️ @AmiW - Photos of street art from around world

➡️ @karlchristiankrumpholz - American cartoonist, often on social issues & urban life

➡️ @thisismyglasgow - Photographic project documenting Glasgow, Scotland

➡️ @citypairs - Satellite photos of cities which share same name

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A 360-degree view of the Moon's surface in high resolution captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Credit: LRO/ASU/NASA

Twitter / X is serving users with a new ad format that can't be blocked or reported

the ads aren't even actual X posts & aren't connected to any X accounts. they do not disclose that they are ads

it appears the ads are connected to clickbait ad networks

read more: https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-format

2) #economics #historyofecon

Below is one longstanding pillars of how to interpret time-discounting in econ models

Has any econ written models relying on assumption that future generations are likely to be less wealthy (not as a policy, as in degrowth, as a fact. Not just in env research, maybe war related?)

(and no, I'm not a millenarist for asking this. these are serious research questions)

New in Public Notice: An interview with Yoel Roth on his falling out with Elon, why Twitter gutting its election team is bad news, and more.

"Lessons the company learned robustly after 2016 are no longer part of its playbook for dealing with elections. That’s a major risk" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/yoel-roth-interview-twitter-elon-musk-elections

**Bloomberg** of all places—you know, a major business publication—is now making a *moral* case for getting off #Twitter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/the-moral-case-for-no-longer-engaging-with-elon-musk-s-x#xj4y7vzkg

Mastodon FTW! https://techstory.in/bbc-gives-up-on-instagram-threads-opts-for-mastodon/

elementary OS 7.1 is available as a pay-what-you-can purchase at https://elementary.io today. Localized direct downloads and a torrent magnet link are provided.

If you’re already on elementary OS 7, you’ll get the update to OS 7.1 alongside regular operating system updates. If you haven’t already, open AppCenter and select Update All to be upgraded!

And our hardware retailers Laptop with Linux and Star Labs are offering elementary OS 7.1 out of the box starting today! https://store.elementary.io/

The University of Pennsylvani is acting proud of Katalin Karikó now that she's won a Nobel Prize. But they kicked her out of her tenure track job when she insisted on doing the work that won her that prize:

"She recalls spending one Christmas and New Year’s Eve conducting experiments and writing grant applications. But many other scientists were turning away from the field, and her bosses at UPenn felt mRNA had shown itself to be impractical and she was wasting her time. They issued an ultimatum: if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, and face a substantial pay cut.

”It was particularly horrible as that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer,” said Karikó. “I was facing two operations, and my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card, had got stranded there because of some visa issue, meaning he couldn’t come back for six months. I was really struggling, and then they told me this."

"While undergoing surgery, Karikó assessed her options. She decided to stay, accept the humiliation of being demoted, and continue to doggedly pursue the problem. This led to a chance meeting which would both change the course of her career, and that of science."

Elsewhere she recalled:

“I thought of going somewhere else, or doing something else. I also thought maybe I’m not good enough, not smart enough."

She's now an adjunct in UPenn's neurosurgery department. Will they make her tenure-track now? Luckily she also has a good job at BioNTech.

Both quotes here come from interesting stories. The first is from here:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

The second is from here:

https://billypenn.com/2020/12/29/university-pennsylvania-covid-vaccine-mrna-kariko-demoted-biontech-pfizer/

I do have one small quibble with the NYT piece. The headline calls Meitner the “Mother of the Atomic Bomb.”

No. Meitner helped discover nuclear fission & foresaw its dangerous potential. BUT she refused to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, famously declaring, “I will have nothing to do with a bomb!”

Her gravestone reads, “Lise Meitner: a physicist who never lost her humanity.” /2

Anyway, you can read more about the discovery of penicillin in this fun article from Science Vision. Enjoy, and happy Mould Juice Day!

https://www.sciencevision.org/storage/journal-articles/June2020/8Z8EkQYx4R0eKmiBJanG.pdf

A milestone: Tonight, the fedi was my best source for U.S. political updates.

Thanks especially to @w7voa and @samlitzinger

Latest comic on a certain pundit's infamous $78 airport meal

(For those outside the US, the commentator David Brooks has made a career out of piously trolling liberals for their supposed decadence and lack of morals.)

#uspol #economy #journalism #media #socialmedia

Burt Mustin made his debut as Mr. Quigley on ALL IN THE FAMILY on this day in 1973 — at age 89!

He started acting in his 60s after retiring as a salesman and worked constantly for 25 years.