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Bender

@Bender@ecoevo.social

Proud union member 💪 Join a union today - it's worth the cost! (ask me - we just won a 40% raise + 25% child insurance subsidy)

Ecologically-focused Master of #Landscape #Architecture Fellow at #Temple University in #Philly who loves #woodland #wetlands, #aquatic #ecosystems, #camping, #hiking, + INDOOR #cats (please keep your cats inside - they decimate indigenous animals).

Background in: Industrial Design • Exhibition Design • Educational Programs • Theatre + Puppetry

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skyfaller, to random
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Can anyone explain to me why more goods and services aren't produced by non-profits?

I understand that with planned obsolescence, companies that build long-lasting objects will tend to be driven out by cheap shitty objects that have economies of scale. It seems to me that dropping the profit motive would allow some non-competitive strategies to survive.

Of course non-profits fail and shut down all the time, but because they have different pressures on them, you'd think they'd be good hedges.

Bender,
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@skyfaller
This is how Gerry Lenfest realized he could save the Philadelphia Inquirer before he passed away - he purchased the company that owned the paper then donated that company to The Philadelphia Foundation, which administers the company with public-benefit as well as financial goals.

Sometimes the nonprofit structure is the best structure if your goals aren't 110% profit over all else.

arkadiusz, to analog

Doe deers (two soul mates as in a mirror 💛) in Nazaré, Portugal 🇵🇹

Gear:
• Smena-8 (LOMO, USSR, 1963)
• Watameter Super Rangefinder (Edmund Wateler, Braunschweig, West Germany, 1954)
• Kodak VISION3 250D (ECN2)

#35mm #35mmfilm #analog #analogcamera #analogfilm #analogphotography #analogue #analogvibes #animal #animals #animalwildlife #art #believeinfilm #blur #bokeh #dama #deer #deers #doe #filmcommunity #filmisalive #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #filmportrait #forest #fotografia #fotografiaanalogowa #grain #grainisgood #ishootfilm #iso250 #kodak #kodakvision #lomo #lomography #mastoart #mirror #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #naturephotography #nofilter #nopeople #oldcamera #outdoors #Portugal #rollfilm #shootfilmbenice #shotonfilm #silentsunday #tree #trees #vintage #vision #wanderlust #wilderness #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Bender,
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@arkadiusz
I thought that deer on the right was pointing with it's leg to the one on the left 🤣

Bender, to random
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I donated to @mozilla today because I . Join me and help fight for a better and healthier internet, for all.

*Proud and happy Firefox user since 2005

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/?form=donate

Bender,
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I also strongly recommend installing these add-on extensions to any browser:

• Decentraleyes | by Thomas Rientjes
Provides local loading of third-party assets, like fonts & scripts, to prevent your computer from leaking data to "free" service providers

• Privacy Badger | by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Blocks invisible trackers & learns to block new ones as they're deployed

• UBlock Origin | by Raymond Hill
The gold-standard of ad blockers

What others do you use?

Bender,
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@skyfaller
According to Wikipedia, Firefox is one of three+ products the Mozilla Foundation produces and maintains. Take with as many grains of salt as necessary.

Bender,
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@skyfaller
TLDR: it's confusing 🤷‍♂️

Daojoan, to random
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The issue with any tech that automates replication of a specific artist’s style is the potential for it to be done at scale and as a commodity, without direct human involvement in each creation, which will diminish the value of the original artist’s work and brand. Drawing inspiration from others is a cornerstone of creative development, but the automation of style replication - whether by AI or any other programming technique, including photoshop filters - is an IP violation.

Bender,
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@markhughes
Ah, yes - the "but you'll get free promotion (while someone else benefits)" argument has surfaced. This conversation is no longer serious.
@Daojoan

Bender,
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@markhughes
One unique example in history that was successful is the logical basis on which to build a creator economy. Got it. /s

Exposure doesn't pay my bills today. One fact I know for certain - when an artist dies the economic value of their work goes up, but they never see a penny of it. Support living artists. With actual living wages.

Exposure, unless done by the artist themselves, is theft.
@Daojoan

Bender, to random
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This site is FASCINATING! Gives real-time energy usage, source mix, and emissions for much of the globe. Current electricity cost, too! A link to this is going on my desktop.

Thanks, @Ruth_Mottram for introducing me to it!

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

LibrarianRA, to tv
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What are you watching tonight?
.
January 18, 1986. John Larroquette, Harry Anderson, and Markie Post of NBC's Night Court.
.
#MarkiePost #HarryAnderson #JohnLarroquette #tv #Television #TvGuide #Celebrities #Retro #Vintage #NightCourt

Bender,
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@LibrarianRA
@Fragglemuppet - you'll appreciate this TV Guide cover from January 18-24, 1986!

Image - cast of Night Court.

Headline at top right -
CBS News Legend:
Remembering Ed Murrow.

Text lower right -
Tony Curtis:
His Battles With Family, Friends, Drugs.

Rainbow headline mid-page left -
Lovers' Quarrel.
Kermit: We're NOT Married!
Piggy: Yes We ARE!
Page 8

Bender, to random
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Happy New Year from Philly!

Our weird New Year's day custom is the Mummers' Parade. Groups of people from all walks of life and from around the region wake up at 5am, dress up in ridiculous outfits, and strut up Broad Street while a live band of weird instruments (tubas, banjos, glockenspiels, etc.) accompany them.

This image is from the winning String Band team last year (there are 5 divisions, with the String Bands and the Fancy Brigades being the two with the best production values).

Bender, to random
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The most paradigm-shifting idea I was introduced to in 2023 was (to paraphrase):

History isn't the study of the past, it's the study of why the world is the way it is today.

And it makes me want to read more history in 2024. Geologic history. Natural History. Prehistoric history. Cultural history...

I don't know who to attribute this thought to, but it's too good not to share. If anyone knows who said this, please reply and I'll edit this post to add attribution.

Bender, to languagelearning
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Any speakers of Lenape out there who can translate the word "Wawayanda"? It's a name associated with a region near north NJ / southern NY.

It's generally understood by laypeople (white folk) in the northeast that "wawa" means "wild goose", but not sure if that's truly accurate (doesn't show up in the Lenape Nation's official online dictionary) or what the second half of the word might mean.

Boosts and leads greatly appreciated!

https://www.talk-lenape.org/

Bender, to random
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Why is something we find wonderful "AWESOME"? That implies it only contains some awe. Shouldn't things full of awe be "AWFUL"?

Bender,
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@CWilbur
😱

dafanast, to bioinformatics

position in using in New Zealand

Fully funded PhD to investigate how reproductive mode influences epigenetic inheritance using and . Open until filled.

@academicchatter

See the full job description on jobRxiv:
https://jobrxiv.org/job/plant-and-food-research-27778-phd-position-in-evolutionary-epigenomics-using-marine-invertebrates/?feed_id=68460

Bender,
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@dafanast
Can I get a PhD in Sea Monkeys?! 😍
@academicchatter

Bender,
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@dafanast
I think almost every US kid born in the 60s and 70s had them at least once.

I was an obsessive fan and had every single accessory, including the Cinema, which would project their shadows onto a white cardboard screen, and the Racetrack, where you could race them against one another against a small water current in a plastic track. I even created my own "Door to Door Salesman Kit" to sell them to other kids. Lol.

Sea Monkeys are marketing genius.
@academicchatter

Bender,
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@dafanast

@academicchatter

Bender, to random
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SCIENCE IS A POETRY

Science is a poetry.
Abstraction of the truth
Which helps our flimsy minds see
Many shadows of reality.
The universe translated
into words and numbers - but
All poetry is powerful
And gives us understanding
With which we can manipulate
The universe itself.

blogdiva, to random
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REMINDER FOR
LAID-OFF & UNEMPLOYED
AMERICANS

there is no shame to use all the social services you have paid with your taxes, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A WHITE, MID/HIGH INCOME EARNER.

welfare is racialized in this country to deprive all Americans of the social services WE PAY for.

it’s imperative y’all flood social services offices because if you don't, that's why the griftocracy keeps cutting local, state & federal budgets.

so here’s what you can do after losing your job:

/1

Bender,
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@blogdiva
Best bit of advice I received from a friend:
"If you qualify for a benefit, it was designed for you. Use it."

I've been paying $0 for my lifesaving medication for the past decade+ thanks to co-pay assistance from the manufacturer and my state (PA) really helped me out with unemployment during the pandemic. Grateful for both. And the experiences make me happy to pay taxes to support others who need those services.

Government can be amazing!

Bender, to Cats
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Letting your cats roam outside is a big threat to biodiversity. Keep your cats inside!

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218895581/cats-research-study-environment

danilo, to random
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When I got to San Francisco in 2010, I really wanted to do it all

Build a startup, create change through technology.

But the more I learned of the culture, the less I wanted to succeed according to its rubric. The turning point for me was Airbnb

Around 2011, Airbnb was REALLY taking off. All the benefits of a software business, none of the drawbacks of a real estate business. The best of all worlds.

Except…

Bender,
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@danilo
We share a life motto:

carnage4life, to random
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The idea that charging people $5-$15 a month for an app or website is morally superior to targeted online advertising has hit the roadblock that it’s too expensive for the average consumer and quite exclusionary if you aren’t rich.

Paywalls now prevent us from sharing news with each other or even talking about the same TV shows. And it’s only going get worse over time as paywalls creep even into the apps we use to communicate with each other.

Bender,
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@carnage4life
I honestly can't understand why no one hasn't created a news subscription service like cable television - pay one company a monthly fee for access to all the online newspapers. Less expensive and easier than buying access to all of them.

Bender, to random
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There is only one true form of : sky-high taxes on the wealthy to fund robust public services.

Don't let rich people trick you into thinking they're solving society's biggest problems by donating money only to their pet causes

(which earn them tax write-offs and also the ability to earn a lot more money by providing "market-based solutions")

jake4480, to history
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This interactive website called Ancient Earth made by Ian Webster for The Dinosaur Database in 2018 is wild. It has a 3D view of Earth you can manipulate - you can grab the Earth and move it in any direction, zoom, etc.

You enter a location in the search field, it marks it with a 📍 and then you can change the date to see what fossils or dinosaurs were in an area (your area!) through all different periods of history.

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth

#dinosaurs #history #fossils #paleontology #tech #InteractiveWebsites

Bender,
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@jake4480
Related is the fantastic app 'Rockd' which allows you to discover the geology of anywhere on earth, where your location was located on Earth in the past, and what fossils are likely to be found in your area.

https://rockd.org/

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