Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Conservationist, marine biologist, and science writer Rachel Carson was born OTD in 1907.

Carson challenged the widespread use of pesticides in her book “Silent Spring,” and testified before Congress on environmental policy and human health.

Image: Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE/Getty

Accelerator physicist Helen Edwards was born #OTD in 1936. She was the lead scientist overseeing the design, construction, and operation of the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab.

Image: Fermilab

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There are only a few more items we still need, but given the chatter about nuclear weapons usage we need to stock up on CBRN.
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3FMAKTUV6B7YU?type=wishlist&filter=unpurchased&sort=priority&viewType=list

Apple just now announced they're shutting down Photo Stream, directing people to iCloud Photos. Unlike Photo Stream, iCloud Photos is not a viable option for folks without ~fiber-grade broadband. I was never able to use iCloud Photos until a few weeks ago, when gigabit became an option in my life.

I understand why companies like Apple are shifting to cloud everything, but for folks without omnipresent LTE and gigabit, this shift is building a wall that they cannot climb.

Born in India in 1962, Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman in #space in 1997.

In 2003, she was on the Columbia, when insulation broke off, depressurizing the shuttle. All 7 crew members died.

7 asteroids + 7 hills on Mars were named after them.
https://www.space.com/17056-kalpana-chawla-biography.html #HistoryRemix #science

“When you look at the stars & the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system." - Chawla, 1997

Does anybody know if there is an R package to implement Conley, Hansen, & Rossi 2012 "Plausibly Exogenous"? I know in Stata there is plausexog

Great news, the #NationalPopularVote is now law in yet another state: #Minnesota! Slow and steady progress toward a fairer and more representative democracy. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/National-Popular-Vote-signed-into-law-in-Minnesota.html #NPVIC #ElectoralCollege

📢 NEW ARTICLE!!!

In which I connect Charles Babbage & his 19th c. blueprints for digital computation to industrial labor control & the creation of a regime of denigrated, disciplined "free" labor.

All of which has its roots in plantation slavery. 1/

https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

Ford EVs will get access to Tesla’s Supercharger network in 2024

Current Ford EVs will be able to use more than 12,000 chargers with an adapter.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/ford-evs-will-get-access-to-teslas-supercharger-network-in-2024/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

In a just world she'd be known solely
For her truly execrable poetry
But Florida's amazing ability
To fuse evil with imbecility
Means doggerel is upended
Into something that actually needs to be defended

Let’s just say that I’m beginning to have my doubts.

Instagram Import and Account Migration isn't that far away either!

- Import your IG account
- Migrate your account between Pixelfed instances
- Migrate your Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey accounts to Pixelfed

Special thanks to @NGIZero for funding Account Migrations in @pixelfed

Yale Law Professor appearing in NYT for actually interesting reasons, ideas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/opinion/cybersecurity-hacking.html?unlocked_article_code=LQnZFiW2OGrW76WV225g4Igxu6kWzVee91T6Mrcu-ecjVN8WjRpFl5RzD3NQi2xUE59G6QYXTlwDdHN-dei6UmMwGOPgs8KQtEE2sVFe7ap5oro-vyfFrsDTpTgekZPQ_OOgboZrZSqPI7MLoJKAk8uvExqIUsR4JfY4kp2gLUsjVtF9Vb2-Agq8e5x9rsVn-gWZD3KjBOihbwdKEIVViswLPw6OmwIgqGMICsDNA77uTQI6cr92mD2VU3brmzDuSr3tFh5h0gzDbcgy5U2u4PLBGUuoWfBM5dyvtCskKS3_yziNPf6yYRzeC1N9rCPNCuodCKhTWZqtqvj4qpGH&smid=url-share

In 2009, Esther Conwell was awarded the National Medal of Science for her contributions to understanding electron transport in semiconductors.

She narrates most of this lovely little video about her career and contributions:

https://youtu.be/AtUZsj-AfBs

Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for The Detective, of course, but he also wrote many non-Holmes stories.

A lesser-known fave is “The Doctors of Hoyland,” in which a man can’t wrap his head around a woman being a better doctor than him. All he can think to do is propose marriage, and she laughs him off to go do more Science. It holds up!

You can read it here: https://web.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/doctorsofhoyland.html

“Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.”
— Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born #OTD in 1859

Today's special edition of The Counteroffensive is focused on Daniel Montano, a pseudonym for a former US military servicemember currently fighting for Ukrainian forces.

He took this photo in Donbas on May 11, 2023, just a week and a half ago.

now this is french toast 🙃

Happy 20th anniversary to the Streisand Effect, courtesy of @mmasnick and Techdirt.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/20/twenty-years-ago-today-barbra-streisand-sued-a-photographer-and-the-streisand-effect-was-born/

PBS interviewed Michael J. Fox tonight and I just wept at how amazing a person he is. And this one sentence he said just riveted me…