It uses "a major comparative study of water beings in diverse cultural and historical contexts, and considers the central importance of water beings such as Māori taniwha and the Australian Rainbow Serpent in such legal conflicts, and in broader debates about human and non-human rights. Like other water deities around the world, these beings personify the generative (and potentially punitive) powers of water and its co-creative role in shaping human and non-human lives. They are resurfacing today with an important representational role in contemporary conflicts over land and water." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5375
MediaEvolution are launching the book which is the result of their latest community foresight cycle (on #futures of digital work), which contains five fictions by yours truly!
Why not come along if you're in the area? I'll be reading from one of the stories, experts will be pontificating... and if I know the Media Evolution crew, there'll be good coffee and pastries.
I'm using the #reqwest crate to call two different APIs. One is working fine, the other I had working intermittently but not sure what fixed/unfixed it.
The issue is that the await doesn't return even though using curl works fine.
Why would await not return after a few seconds when the curl request returns immediately?
As suspected the issue was not in the code I created to use remote web APIs.
The issue was that using the async function which polls the web APIs as a tokio::future was preventing the await on the web request from ever returning, even though the remote web API was responding correctly.
I fixed this by doing the polling of the my async function manually alongside the select! macro which handles the other two futures, all within a loop.
Congratulations to
Lisette van Beek (@Utrechtuniversity ) for successfully defending her thesis "Persuasive Pathways" by telling us models create mental lock-in and we need to open #futures#thinking beyond techno-economic analysis.