bsmall2

@bsmall2@mstdn.jp

Born in USA, PA. Living in Kyushu, Miyazaki. Graded Direct Method(GDM) teacher. DrRacket (Racket-Language) hobbyist. GNU/Linux Debian Gnome and emacs user. Learning from the 公害(Catastrophic Polluting of the Commons) in Minamata 水俣 and Toroku 土呂久.

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onepict, to random
@onepict@chaos.social avatar

"I'm more concerned with the prevailing attitude in tech that it can do what it likes with our data and it doesn't feel it has to ask us. If anything the default is that you have to opt out of their processing of your data. Which is predatory behaviour as people need to know that they can opt out and the procedure for it needs to be simple, clear and concise. "

https://onepict.com/20240315-barn.html

bsmall2,

@otfrom @dusnm @onepict
Paul Farmer in Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains does something similar to "asking for forgiveness rather than permission"... But in his case.of getting top of the line medical equipment from Boston on Haiti, it easy a vase of asking Harvard ot a big hospital for permission after they had already taken the equipment to Haiti...

bsmall2, to boardgames

I've been exposed to board games for two months. It's not just Monopoly and checkers anymore!?!? I've never really had the patience for board-games and tended to either just be talking or doing something outside with people, for quiet sit-still time I just read on my own. But I'm learning to appreciate the ability to switch your mode of concentration or attendance. There must be something subtle going on with it. These photos the university club's games.

Digital Camera photo of 3 board games. The bigger box says "Gobblet Gobbers" and the other two boxes feature their names in Japanese.
A digital camera photo of two board games boxes "Scythe" and "Team3".
A digital camera photo (cropped) of 4 board games, "Patchwork"(in Japanese), "Ark Nova", "Dobble", and "quarto."

sundogplanets, to random
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social avatar

There are chicks hatching in the incubator! There are V's of geese migrating overhead! It's supposed to be in the double digit (celsius) temps today!

Spring is exploding and I'm so excited!!!

bsmall2,

@sundogplanets
What kind are they? It looks like you have a variety.

bojacobs, to nuclear
@bojacobs@hcommons.social avatar

I was interviewed along with other scholars and activists about the film “" in today's edition of the Chugoku Shimbun, our local newspaper here in Hiroshima.

My general take as reported here is that the film essentially repeats the decades old American narrative of the attacks on & . It tells a story about Americans and not Japanese people. It is a story about great scientists, great technology and great industrial capacity. It is a story about American exceptionalism, and not about the use of weapons of mass destruction against a civilian population.

1/2

@sts
@histodons

bsmall2,

Good Work! I was hoping to find a higher resolution at the link for the HIroshima Peace Media Center.. Or maybe text to copy-paste... The closest thing I was able to find didn't have the same people.. If I can cut five or six sections out of a higher resolution image all the sweet old local anti-nuke people in my FB feed might find it easier to read..

https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=140125

@bojacobs @sts @histodons

bsmall2, to random

> .. what would healthy eldering look like?.. What if age and experience were granted an appropriate role – neither wielding too much power, nor hoarding resources on one hand, or ignored, erased, abandoned, treated as a burden on the other?.. Where do I look to find the examples I am yearning to live-up to?
https://www.whatashrinkthinks.com/essays/not-age-but-eldering

/HT @shrinkthinks via @bojacobs

bsmall2, to random

> The spillover to the South Georgia mammals is “a reflection of what’s going on globally”, said Ashley Banyard, an APHA virologist. Banyard’s team diagnosed the samples brought back from the island in mid-December.
> Spillovers occurred, Banyard said, “when too many birds have bird flu [and] mammals come into close contact with sick birds’ poo or when the mammals eat [an] infected bird carcass”.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/11/mass-seal-deaths-antarctic-southern-atlantic-south-georgia-bird-flu-aoe
/HT @sarahdalgulls via
@onepict

bsmall2, to climate

> "Every dollar invested in nuclear energy is therefore a dollar diverted from true urgent In that sense, nuclear power is not climate-friendly,".. itself has been affected by .. have already had to be .. shut down or taken off the grid.. plants depend on nearby water sources to cool.. reactors.. with many rivers drying up, those sources of water are no longer guaranteed.
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-nuclear-energy-good-for-the-climate/a-59853315

/HT @grillchen

bsmall2,

> .. said the nuclear industry has been shrinking for years.. "In the last 20 years, 95 have gone online and 98 have been shut down. If you take China out of the equation, the number of nuclear power plants has shrunk by 50 reactors in the last two decades," Schneider added. "The is not thriving."
Let's hurry it up..

bsmall2, to random

In one eyespan we see the sites for two planned nuclear reactors right next to the USGS ShakeMap for the 2024 . Thanks to the citizen's movements of the 1970s plans Shiromaru and Togi Nuclear plants were not implemented. Luckily the nearest Shiga nuclear plant had not yet passed the application process to re-start. The assures me that my nearest nuke, Satsuma Sendai is not over a fault line. Core samples may have been falsified to uphold the assurance.

bsmall2, to random

> "As the People’s Republic of China has imposed bans of Japanese fish exports, the USA has supported the Japanese market by increasing fish purchases..
> Embassy and Consulate in Japan explained that in Japan will carry as a way to buoy up seafood markets and undermine the PRC’s ban..
> .. other U.S. agencies, like the National Association of question whether accurate research was conducted..
https://universe.byu.edu/2023/11/14/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-starts-third-round-of-wastewater-release-potentially-impacting-seafood-quality-in-u-s/
/HT @DoomsdaysCW

bsmall2, to random

We owe thanks to the citizens of the Noto Peninsula's Suzu City in Ishikawa Prefecture. For 28 years they opposed the construction of two nuclear plants right there where the recent earthquake was most intense.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/02/japan/noto-peninsula-quake-damage/

A Japanese Greenpeace page mentions the two nuclear plants, ShiroMaru and Togi that were opposed in Suzu city. Two of 50: it's good we have fewer chances for another Fukushima-like catastrophe.
https://www.greenpeace.org/japan/campaigns/story/2023/08/08/59816/#heading1

bsmall2, to microsoft

> thinks next-generation nuclear reactors can power its data centers and AI.. according to a job listing for a principal program manager who’ll lead the company’s strategy.
> already use a hell of a lot of electricity.. Energy-hungry AI makes that an even bigger challenge..
> .. has been the world’s major supplier of . There’s a push in the US to build up a domestic supply chain
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-generation-nuclear-energy-smr-job-hiring
/HT @doomscroller

bsmall2, to Japan

> Shootings are rare in Japan. The country has strict gun ownership rules, and only allows civilians to own hunting rifles and airguns.
> Owners must undergo a strict exam and mental health tests.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67270472
#Shootings #GunViolence #Japan
/HT @bojacobs

bsmall2, to random

> The collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is one of nine global climate 'tipping points' scientists identified in 2009. The passing of these environmental red lines would be catastrophic for life on Earth.
> An international team of scientists said in 2022 we may already have passed the point of no return for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at just 1.1 Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/meltdown-west-antarctic-ice-sheet-unavoidable-study-says-2023-10-23/

/HT @DoomsdaysCW @CharlieMcHenry

bsmall2, (edited ) to random

> The research helps to solidify an understanding that humans have probably already pushed some polar ice systems past a tipping point and into escalating decline.

... the analysis could mean scientists were too conservative in predicting about one to three feet of sea level rise by 2100.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/23/sea-live-rise-antarctic-ice-loss/


/HT @DoomsdaysCW @pitchaya

bsmall2, to climate

> With a sepia hue and the smell of a campfire engulfing the East Coast, the immediate effects of human-caused climate change seemed as concrete as they had ever been. But on US TV news, viewers were more likely to hear climate denial than reporting that made the essential connection between fossil fuel consumption and worsening wildfires—if they heard mention of at all.

https://fair.org/home/as-skies-turn-orange-media-still-hesitate-to-mention-whats-changing-climate/

bsmall2, to random

"Step Right Up! Bargains Galore.."
--- Tom Waits
comes to mind:

> where prices go up as quality goes down

> It’s hard to remember that the internet was originally supposed to connect producers and shoppers, artists and audiences, and members of communities with one another without permission or control by third parties.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/opinion/amazon-ftc-antitrust-monopoly.html
/HT @JamesGleick @pluralistic

https://zirk.us/@JamesGleick/111137441022093910

bsmall2, to random

> If we’re not going to voluntarily enter an era of planned, controlled degrowth, what are we going to do instead?
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-04-26/its-getting-to-look-a-lot-like-degrowth-part-3/?

bsmall2, to random Japanese

> やれ打つな蝿が手をすり足をする

As for the fly Don't
Strike her She washes her hands
She washes her legs

Strike not the fly As
She too likes to wash her hands
She washes her legs

> やれ打つな
蝿が手をすり
足をする

小林一茶

特集形式のテキストファイルから同じような画像を作るためのスクリプト：
https://codeberg.org/bsmall2/quiz-slide-racket/src/branch/main/japanese/poetry

bsmall2, to kpop

> At a 2002 concert.. in opposition to 37,000 U.S. troops stationed on the , Mediaite reports, PSY took to the stage in gold-face paint and a glittery red outfit, then lifted a model U.S. tank over his head before smashing it to pieces on the ground. The performance was a response to the death of two Korean schoolgirls killed in an accident with an American military vehicle, according to Korean website BusanHaps.com.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kill-f-ing-yankees-psys-399245/

bsmall2, to chile

> Indonesia and Chile are two countries that went through a fascist hell; but there are two totally different stories, at the end of that hell.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chilean-socialism-1-indonesian-fascism-0-by-andre-vltchek/

bsmall2, to workersrights

> The nearly intolerable irony in our dissatisfaction is that we have removed pleasure from our work in order to remove “drudgery” from our lives. If I could pick any rule of industrial economics to receive a thorough re-examination by our people, it would be the one that says that all hard physical work is “drudgery” and not worth doing.
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/mayjune/feature/excerpts-the-writings-wendell-berry

bsmall2, to random

> A Black-led urban agriculture effort coincided with—and even preceded—the explosion of farmers’ markets in posh white enclaves, but these rumblings received little notice from the broader food world.
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/11/joel-salatin-chris-newman-farming-rotational-grazing-agriculture/
in

bsmall2, to random

> ... this peasant tradition..[is] often heretical and subversive. “Don’t run away from anything,” says the Russian peasant proverb, “but don’t do anything.”.... the peasantry everywhere can be defined as a class of survivors. For a century and a half now the tenacious ability of peasants to survive has confounded administrators and theorists...

1979!!! in the Introduction to and the other two books in the

bsmall2, to random

> In 1972, the United Nations held its first-ever environmental summit in Stockholm.. The Limits to Growth, a report for the Club of Rome that became an unlikely bestseller... finite natural resources could not support ever-increasing consumption, and warned of likely ecological overshoot and societal collapse.. by the middle of the twenty-first century.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/club-of-rome-report-sustainable-wellbeing-five-shifts-by-jayati-ghosh-2022-07
on and , sounds like 2014 and 1981

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