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RonBeavis

@RonBeavis@mastodon.social

Doing science for money since 1981.
Putting it online since 1995.
Deeply skeptical about the value to scientists of the current scientific magazine biz.
QA >> QC
I enjoy doing things I am not very good at doing.

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RonBeavis, to random
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It looks like the may be back this evening, although not as "big" as the one on Friday.

RonBeavis, to random
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The CME from sunspot AR3664 has kicked up a pretty active , stronger & earlier than predicted. It is currently rated as a G4 (out of 5) geomagnetic storm.

RonBeavis,
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From NOAA.

RonBeavis, to random
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A CME has arrived: there should be some active displays this evening in North America.

RonBeavis, to random
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A gust of solar wind has sparked up some activity, currently best seen in North-Central Asia. We'll see how this develops during the day.

RonBeavis,
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The intense activity is now over northern Scandinavia, stretching as far west as Iceland.

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A few days of a radiation storm & an unexpected CME means there may be some to see in North American this evening.

RonBeavis, to random
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Frosty is the order of the day across Turtle Island (except Florida).

RonBeavis, to random
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Today's polar vortex, bifurcated between Scandinavia and Canada. (wind, 10 hPa)

gvwilson, to random
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Unfortunately, Komaldeep Makkar's story is the norm rather than the exception: Canadian professional associations do everything they can to make life hard for newcomers in order to protect their members' privileges: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-degree-was-worthless-in-canada-1.6772923

RonBeavis,
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@gvwilson The decision to make Canadian professionals organize provincially rather than federally was a mistake that has had consequences that will persist until it is corrected.

RonBeavis, to random
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The seems to be strengthening nicely as the evening progresses.

slashdot, to random
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New York City Deploys 420-Pound RoboCop to Patrol Subway Station https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/09/24/002243/new-york-city-deploys-420-pound-robocop-to-patrol-subway-station?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

RonBeavis,
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@slashdot Someone is bound to steal the thing.

Diggler67, to random
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My wife got some bad health news last Tuesday, and she's now going through the CancerCare MB intake process.

Our healthcare capabilities in Manitoba are awful. 3 weeks for a CT scan, and 6 weeks for an "urgent" appt with a gynecologist. Multiple prov govts have taken the easy way out by promising low taxes and letting healthcare (and almost everything else) crater.

We need to demand that politicians give us the straight goods, not what we necessarily want to hear.

RonBeavis,
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@mike @Diggler67 I agree 100%. Many of the people you will run across play the role of insurance adjuster: their primary goal is to get you to accept lower cost options.

pluralistic, to Toronto
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Portraits of Queen West is 's extraordinary photo-book, a work of "sequential art" featuring time- and space-series of a single - rather glorious - stretch of 's :

https://crowdfundr.com/queenwest

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/13/spadina-to-bathurst/#dukes-cycle

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RonBeavis,
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@pluralistic Winnipeg has suffered from a similar gerrymandering nightmare from a failed municipal unification process combined with an automobile apocalypse. This image from the same vantage point (looking north up Main Street from Portage Avenue) shows a street built for people & transit taken over by cars

Elendol, to bioinformatics
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I know some vendors of mass spectrometers who could learn a lesson or 2 from ONT. Open source software running on all platforms, wow...

RonBeavis,
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@Elendol If you will forgive the cross-domain phrasing, "it is not in their DNA". MS vendors have dreamed of walled gardens for so long that everything else is dismissed out-of-hand as impractical idealism, even though their own customers spend a lot of time trying to knock holes in the fences they are sold.

slashdot, to random
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Why Are So Many People Watching TV With Subtitles? https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/23/07/02/2054221/why-are-so-many-people-watching-tv-with-subtitles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

RonBeavis,
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@slashdot I find the audio mix used by streamers to often result in muddy sounding dialogue.

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