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aweatherall

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Father of 3; Husband; Physics Teacher at MountainView school in New Zealand; was Digital Curriculum @XPTrust; Tech Co-founder @TeacherTapp;
Humanist; Woke; Green.
Was on twitter... @a_weatherall.

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iangriffin, to NewZealand
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So it’s the 112th anniversary of Titanic sinking. As lights are turned off in Museums across Aotearoa let’s remember history is important. Let’s not sink our Museums..: #museums #newzealand

aweatherall,
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@iangriffin Visiting Tūhura tomorrow. #museums are vital curations of humanity.

aweatherall,
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@iangriffin Of course, the animal attic is where they all wanted to head to.

aweatherall,
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@iangriffin We didnt get that far. Kids ruled.

sarahjelm, to education Swedish
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It’s Sunday & 1 post was added to this searchable & translatable collection of links to free access content
It’s about false & ingrained concepts, hard to avoid & get rid of in schoolbooks, teaching or politics
https://saraslistofedresources.wordpress.com

Thanks to @david Perry & Matthew Gabriele

Please spread here or in networks elsewhere- website is meant to be used
Have a restful midterm/“sportlov”, rest and reflect on the above… @education @edutooters @edutooter @socialsciences

aweatherall,
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@sarahjelm @david @education @edutooters @edutooter @socialsciences Oh that looks interesting. I'll have a read. Theres loads of zombie "facts" in school books.

anathema_device, to random
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I want to upgrade our TV from the existing 1080 x 720p, and I have 2 questions:

  1. Does anyone want a 1080 x 720p Sony Bravia TV (No stand, currently wall mounted)? Free to collect, can drop off if you have limited transport, and might pay for a stand if you need one and are cash poor :)

  2. Can anyone advise me what brand and model (50” max prolly, limited space) we should get? Not looking to spend $1000s. Choice seems to be between LG, Samsung, and Sony. All opinions gratefully received :)

aweatherall,
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@anathema_device @thomasbeagle Panasonic and LG sometimes share the same screen tech. Our Panasonic is good.

arstechnica, to random
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Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay plan voided as shareholders beat Tesla in court

Judge: Tesla board members "were beholden to Musk or had compromising conflicts."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/elon-musks-56-billion-pay-plan-voided-as-shareholders-beat-tesla-in-court/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

aweatherall,
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@arstechnica No one on the planet should be able to pay themselves $55 billion ever.
It's grossly obscene.

zachleat, to random
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The first release of Internet Explorer (1995) is closer in time to the Apollo 11 moon landing (1969) than now.

aweatherall,
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@zachleat This has been true for at least a year.

Edent, to foss
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Is there a version of FourSquare / Swarm for the Fediverse?

I want to check in to a specific location and share that online. Not looking for badges and mayors etc.

Just a geotagged post saying "I am here".

aweatherall,
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@Edent Pretty sure @slowe has built a client side location lookup that doesn't send your exact location to the server. Could perhaps build something with that to then post an openmaps link to a mastodon instance?

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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This is absolutely, 100% correct.

(Shamelessly stolen from Lemmy: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3115440a-e4b1-4b4f-8224-92912ab1f7a3.png)

aweatherall,
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@ParadeGrotesque Except it's Jacob Collier.

glynmoody, to random
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Changing climate casts a shadow over the future of the Panama Canal – and global trade - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/22/changing-climate-casts-a-shadow-over-the-future-of-the-panama-canal-and-global-trade "Facing a near unprecedented ‘rainfall deficit’, the Panama Canal has been forced to restrict the number of vessels passing through it"

aweatherall,
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@glynmoody When it closes the canals and weakens global trade perhaps the oil hungry capitalists will start to take notice.

iangriffin, to random
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One more picture from this evening. I did an 8 minute exposure of the sky tonight "just for fun" and recorded green gravity wave airglow, the aurora australis, and star trails and their reflections showing the pointers and the southern cross. Not bad eh?

aweatherall,
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@iangriffin What's the green glow?

ross, to random
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A while ago I made a little web app that re-presents a very static website in an app-like interface. This is private because it’s technically using copyrighted content (I own the book, FWIW, and the website version of the content is free to view).

I made this by scraping the content using the WordPress REST API and storing/serving the resulting JSON statically.

It’s effectively a simple headless content app! …

aweatherall,
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@ross Why are you saving the content as json? Are you not having to convert it to html to display it anyway?

level98, to random
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I like spinach.

aweatherall,
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@level98 Brussel sprouts changed. They were bred to be less bitter. This means that it's a less controversial take than 40 years ago.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo

iangriffin, to Astronomy
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Exciting news..... I've just realised that the moon is occulting The Pleiades/Matariki on the morning of Halloween (as seen from Dunedin!) Over a couple of hours you will be able to see at least 4 bright stars disappear and reappear from behind the moon.

aweatherall,
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@iangriffin That is indeed exciting news!

iangriffin, to NewZealand
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Decided to take the high road into Dunedin today. Packed my Infrared camera just for larks. Here's a view looking down the harbour. i love how trees look in the IR! #NewZealand #DunedinNZ

aweatherall,
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@iangriffin Have you seen the latest Minute Earth video. All about species spectral identification. Each plant species absorbs and reflects its own spectrum. And perhaps every organism.
Fascinating.
https://youtu.be/m69_zJTfmbs?si=TCc1uv1zF5wvVBJN

helenczerski, to climate
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I think I'm still in recovery from learning a few weeks ago that Canadian fossil fuel companies tell people that because it's "natural" gas that they produce, burning it can't hurt the environment. And people believe them. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, remember that and 🤯🤯🤯🤯

aweatherall,
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@helenczerski We've fallen for that "Natural gas" rubbish in the UK too. It's the whole greenwashing marketing strategy of the gas companies.
"Cleaner than coal", "less CO2", "greener", "cooking on natural gas" etc.

The curtain needs to be pulled down.

helenczerski, to ocean
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It's publication day for The Blue Machine in the US and Canada. Same book, with a different subtitle and miles in some places instead of km (but still mostly SI units, yay!).

If you're an ocean scientist and your family don't understand what you do and why, this might help.

"I love Helen Czerski’s writing, and this is her richest work yet—as clear as springwater, yet as filled with fascinating things as the ocean itself."- Sarah Bakewell

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324006718/about-the-book/reviews

#ocean #books #BlueMachine

aweatherall,
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@helenczerski Can they really not cope with km in a science book?!

aweatherall,
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@helenczerski I suppose thats a fun/tedious calculation exercise if nothing else.
They've remained incredibly stubborn on it. Although all their units are based on SI now anyway aren't they.
E.g. one inch = 0.0254 m

ross, to random
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🙄 I've been hanging out on other social medias today. There was ONE interesting post from... my kids secondary school!!! And one REALLY good interaction with someone that I know.

But mostly is was boring, aimless scrolling with occasional conspiracy theorists.

I get back onto Mastodon.

Two amazing, funny, interesting posts shared in the first few minutes.

I genuinely appreciate the good stuff on other socials, but gosh it's impossible to curate.

aweatherall,
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@ross Yeah, i see more stuff that wrankles over there but more stuff thats interesting over here.

aweatherall,
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@ross The weird thing is. Its more addictive over there. Outrage does stupid things to the brain. Its why ive removed it from my phone. And i log out each time so theres a slight barrier to entry.

aweatherall,
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@ross Its never ending.

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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It warms my heart to see so many lighthouses beaming out into the chilly night in the far north of the British Isles, near Orkney and the Shetlands.

But what are those two lighthouses due west of Orkney? I know of no land there. They're well north of the Hebrides.

It's also fun to see there's a lighthouse in the middle of Scotland! I think that one is on Loch Ness. But where, exactly?

None are shown on the west coast of Ireland, because that's not part of the UK. Alas, this map makes that region look dark and foresaken.

So you can see the details, I'm only showing you the top of this beautiful map made by @terence, The whole thing is here:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@terence@fosstodon.org/111132853426508413

aweatherall,
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@johncarlosbaez @Qazm To the west of that little bit is land not sea, hence no lighthouses.
That map shows Northern Ireland a province of the United Kingdom. The Republic of Ireland is not part of the UK and goes way west and south (down past Wales) of that bit on the map.

CatherineFlick, to Futurology
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Ah lovely, Meta did exactly what @anthropunk and I predicted and used their responsible innovation team as a smokescreen for completely irresponsible technology https://nypost.com/2023/09/28/meta-sparks-privacy-fears-with-smart-glasses-hidden-cameras/

Our original paper about Project Aria, the prototype: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666659621000032?via%3Dihub

aweatherall,
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@CatherineFlick @anthropunk I suspect they'll be embraced by the "document the public" rights bros.

Edent, to maps
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South Up Equal Earth Projection in R

Yup - I'm still banging on about this! This time, in R

Result

The colours are wrong, and the labels need adjustment - but not bad for a few lines of code!

Code

library(tidyverse)
library(rnaturalearth)
library(rnaturalearthdata)
library(sf)

centre

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/south-up-equal-earth-projection-in-r/

#/etc/

aweatherall,
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@Edent @csaetre You can print an A4 section yourself to check.

aweatherall,
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@Edent My theory was that a non-commerical grade colour printer will do a worse job... So if its good enough then yay.

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