We're an independent, community-focused organization that wants to figure out how to keep #Flickr around for 100 years, preserving our shared visual #commons for future generations.
“It is about governments paying the bills that have been long past due.”
An out-of-court settlement has been reached in the 1850 Robinson Huron Treaty annuities litigation.
The proposed settlement will see $10 billion covering past annuities paid to the 21 Robinson Huron First Nations in northern Ontario. The federal and provincial governments will split the bill evenly.
Meta is not gonna buy Mastodon or any server, this is based on absolutely nothing and untrue.
Yes, some of us indeed got contacted by Meta/Insta because they are working on a new social platform (this was in the news) and they are looking into joining the Fediverse (Mark Zuckerberg also told this in the recent podcast)
SO.
This contact was about a "heads-up" for a potential big platform to join the network and not for a "take over".
Could be like the schism of the Southern Baptists...
Limiting federation with #ExtractiveSocialNetworks as a choice breaks the covenant and banishes the limiting servers. Allowing #actors to vote with their #resources by moving to servers that don't take extractive resources has a value equal to or greater than the choice of allowing federation with extractive social networks because the choice to move acts as an evolutionary force.
"Drinking" from the "sugar-water" of easy extractive-sourced money allows the #Ecosystem to develop a dependence on and organizing force around the sugar-water and quenches the #Evolutionary forces for creating the elements of an alternative #SocialEcosystems or #FederatedEcosystems that don't require "sugar-water" (#Extractive sources).
One useful resource is the website opengameart. You can also do a search on duckduckgo for images and there will be an option to look for just public domain works / creative commons, although note this doesn't work properly 100% of the time. Clipart sites are often a good place to find creative commons art.
I’m gonna shoutout the Divine Intervention podcast for shelf studying! While primarily geared towards USMLE exam prep, I’ve found this podcast really helpful for reviewing some of the high yield topics for my upcoming surgery shelf....
An #offset program — backed by the World Bank — that is meant to promote #conservation is actually devastating communities and the ecosystem in #Guinea, where villages have been torn apart and residents and endangered #chimps fight for the same #resources.
...that #environmental groups (and like-minded young people, e.g. the #FridaysForFuture movement could look for its reasoning even abroad.
This makes sense, b/c in the end, there is only one earth and the non-renewable #resources that have not been consumed by past #generations can only be utilized by the present OR future generations.
This is a universal concept.
1/34 This started out as a much shorter thread about a related topic, but Something Happened and now it's a #LifeHack#instructional thread on keeping your house comfortable and saving #money and the #environment, through the magic of air movement. It's also timely, what with it being the start of the northern-hemisphere summer and southern-hemisphere winter.
17/34 The marketers then convince those unhappy people to buy their hocus-pocus product that, by sheer happenstance, "cures" their problem that they didn't have in the first place.
They also exist to convince you to buy disposable products instead of long-lasting, repairable ones, helping to destroy the environment and use more natural #resources.
Embracing Diversity: Supporting Trans and Gender-Diverse Children
In a rapidly evolving world that increasingly recognizes and embraces the diversity of human experiences, it is crucial for parents to deeply understand and actively support transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse children.
Seeking guidance from #gender#therapists and #LGBTQ+ organizations can provide valuable #support and #resources throughout this journey, including assistance in navigating challenges and accessing appropriate care.
Today I'm remembering one of the coolest space things ever: Voyager 2's S-band radio receiver has been broken for 44 years, and yet we can still talk to it.
Back in 1978 the primary receiver failed, and the team discovered the backup receiver had a faulty capacitor in the PLL circuit that adjusted for Doppler shift. Since then, Voyager 2's receive bandwidth has been much narrower, and the band-pass window wanders back and forth by a few hundred Hz with temp changes.
@danderson The JPL team over the entire span of the voyager project deserve accolades. But what stands out is the philosophy of of making use of limited resources. Back here on earth, continuous improvement bloats software, which obsoletes hardware, which drives sales and creates e-waste. If only we treated the earth as a limited resource? #earth#resources#software#bloatware#e-waste
Hello, my fellow frugal, low-budget or no-budget podcasters. What are your sources for free public domain music, sound effects or images to use in your podcasts? I'll list some of my favorites attached to this post.
The Modern World Can't Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels
Four materials rank highest on the scale of necessity, forming what I have called the four pillars of modern civilization: cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia are needed in larger quantities than are other essential inputs. The world now produces annually about 4.5 billion tons of cement, 1.8 billion tons of steel, nearly 400 million tons of plastics, and 180 million tons of ammonia. But it is ammonia that deserves the top position as our most important material: its synthesis is the basis of all nitrogen fertilizers, and without their applications it would be impossible to feed, at current levels, nearly half of today’s nearly 8 billion people.
Useful resources [licenses variable]
One useful resource is the website opengameart. You can also do a search on duckduckgo for images and there will be an option to look for just public domain works / creative commons, although note this doesn't work properly 100% of the time. Clipart sites are often a good place to find creative commons art.
Piggybacking on the other post, another must-have topic on a med school forum should probably be some podcast recs
I’m gonna shoutout the Divine Intervention podcast for shelf studying! While primarily geared towards USMLE exam prep, I’ve found this podcast really helpful for reviewing some of the high yield topics for my upcoming surgery shelf....
Useful Links
Temple of Elemental Evil Discord...