kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
As Trump touts increased production, coronavirus swabs made during his Maine factory tour will be tossed in the trash
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Good evening.
The #BlackLivesMatter movement has had protests in all 50 US states as well as 18 other countries, making it now officially the largest civil rights movement in history. 🖤
That is all.
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"Social Urbanism" approach to urban planning helped take Medellin from Pablo Escobar's most dangerous city in the world to a "model city" tourist destination. Medellin tackled crime and violence "not through more policing but through urban planning, infrastructure, and social programs."
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/post-narco-urbanism/
"At the current margin, new renewable electricity is cheaper than new nuclear electricity. But as renewables grow and grow that cost calculus will shift, because questions about storage and land consumption will become more important the more we rely on renewable energy."
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/28/21155995/jessica-lovering-nuclear-energy
Now, they left the best to the end:
"All of which suggests that additional pandemics are a question of when, rather than if"
SARS-CoV-2 is a hybrid from a Bat and a Pangolin
Radio reverse engineering - Mystery signal from a helicopter
http://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopter.html
Make note to buy in September...
> For example, one of the reasons why people have been crowded in ghettos is the fact that housing is so expensive in the suburbs, and one reason for that is that bylaws restrict the building of multi-occupancy housing. These bylaws have been very effective in keeping out moderate-income housing from the suburbs, and that has kept out working people, among whom blacks are disproportionate, from moving there and having access to good schools.
Same in UK too...
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> When I saw the expression in that officer’s face and that three other officers were around him standing by as if this was just business as usual, I thought of Hannah Arendt and her phrase “the banality of evil.” What Arendt found most horrific was that ordinary people were able to commit horrible killings, and at the end of the day, they went back home to their nice homes and their nice families, and the next day they went back and killed again.
Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
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Front page of Brazil's Folha
de São Paulo newspaper this morning: "In Brazil, one dead per minute."
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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