bicmay, to food
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com avatar

"Robert Califf’s warning, summarized by three people with knowledge of the conversations, boiled down to this:

Americans’ life expectancy is going the wrong way. We’re the top health officials in the country. If we don’t fix this, who will?

A year after Califf’s dire warnings, Americans’ life expectancy decline remains a pressing public health problem — but not a political priority."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/12/28/life-expectancy-no-political-response/

#publichealth #gunviolence #opioids #food #healthcare #USpol #longread

heliomass, to Canada

📖 “Is VIA HFR the Canadian Brightline?” https://johnnyrenton.substack.com/p/is-via-hfr-the-canadian-brightline

This is an impressive (but very long!) read with some great analysis and tonnes of photos along the proposed alignment. Very much worth your time to digest over the Christmas break if you’re following along with high frequency rail developments in Canada.

#Canada #transit #HighSpeedRail #HighFrequencyRail #Montreal #Ottawa #Toronto #LongRead

lonrec, to UKpolitics

The spectre of Dr Beeching looms all over the cancellation of HS2's Phase 2 : https://www.londonreconnections.com/2023/hs2-a-high-speed-beeching/

henkdeligt, to vegan Dutch

Iedereen in Nederland gaat plantaardig eten. Grond wordt niet meer gebruikt om vee op te houden of veevoer te verbouwen. Hoe zou de inrichting en gezondheid van ons land er dan uitzien? NEMO Kennislink buigt zich komende maanden over dit gedachte-experiment.

Het is mogelijk om heel Nederland te voeden met plantaardige voedingsmiddelen van eigen bodem, zo berekenden onderzoekers. En we hebben er slechts de helft van de huidige landbouwgrond voor nodig... #vegan #longread

https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/plantaardig-menu-van-eigen-bodem-voor-heel-nederland/

bicmay, to ukteachers
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com avatar

"And yet, I somehow feel compelled to not only write about libraries but to ask you to ride shotgun while I explore and—spoiler alert—sort of gaze in wonder at what they do. Because where else, I ask, can you not only borrow a book or get an answer to a question that plagues you but also get help with your taxes? Or take a cooking class? Or meet up with people who like Legos? Or get married?"

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2023/11/12/public-libraries-boston/

#publichealth #education #libraries #longread

annette, to fediverse German
@annette@bonn.social avatar

Der liebe @Sascha hat sich mit mir in einem #Bloggespräch über das #fediverse unterhalten: https://www.annetteschwindt.de/2023/11/11/fediverse-bloggespraech-sascha-foerster/ Vielen lieben Dank dafür, Sascha! :-) #longread #linktipps

mjgardner, to Ethics
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org avatar
adwright, to random
@adwright@mastodon.social avatar

Today's #longread

San Francisco, infamous for its struggles over the homeless, especially in right wing media.

Viral video. Citizen attacked by homeless person wielding a pole picked up from the trash. Covered in blood they run, hit repeatedly. Hospitalized.

San Francisco is a city of video surveillance. Ring doorcams, car cams, passersby, citizens on patrol, merchants.

The pole-wielder's caught. The videos tell about what happened before the pole came out.

https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-doom-loop-citizen-surveillance/

caos, to RadioControl German

@ulf@pod.thing.org:> ### Wie ein Vogel

Ich habe für die "wochentaz" einen Text über den Gender-Gap in der technologischen Selbstermächtigung am Beispiel von FPV geschrieben; ein Gespräch mit Lexie Janson. War mächtig viel Arbeit und das Gespräch wurde stark gekürzt. Beachtet deshalb auch den Link am Ende des Textes, da gibt es in englicher Sprache ein bisschen zusätzliches Material, das Transkript und den O-Ton des fast einstündigen Gespräches.

Wenn euch der Text gefällt, wäre es hilfreich, wenn ihr ihn in den sopzialen Medien teilt.

Hier der Link: taz.de/Drohnen-Pilotin-ueber-d…

#FPV #Drohnen #Feminismus #taz #longread #mywork

feb, to RadioControl German

@ulf@pod.thing.org:> ### Wie ein Vogel

Ich habe für die "wochentaz" einen Text über den Gender-Gap in der technologischen Selbstermächtigung am Beispiel von FPV geschrieben; ein Gespräch mit Lexie Janson. War mächtig viel Arbeit und das Gespräch wurde stark gekürzt. Beachtet deshalb auch den Link am Ende des Textes, da gibt es in englicher Sprache ein bisschen zusätzliches Material, das Transkript und den O-Ton des fast einstündigen Gespräches.

Wenn euch der Text gefällt, wäre es hilfreich, wenn ihr ihn in den sopzialen Medien teilt.

Hier der Link: taz.de/Drohnen-Pilotin-ueber-d…

#FPV #Drohnen #Feminismus #taz #longread #mywork

kurt, to RadioControl en-us

@ulf@pod.thing.org:> ### Wie ein Vogel

Ich habe für die "wochentaz" einen Text über den Gender-Gap in der technologischen Selbstermächtigung am Beispiel von FPV geschrieben; ein Gespräch mit Lexie Janson. War mächtig viel Arbeit und das Gespräch wurde stark gekürzt. Beachtet deshalb auch den Link am Ende des Textes, da gibt es in englicher Sprache ein bisschen zusätzliches Material, das Transkript und den O-Ton des fast einstündigen Gespräches.

Wenn euch der Text gefällt, wäre es hilfreich, wenn ihr ihn in den sopzialen Medien teilt.

Hier der Link: taz.de/Drohnen-Pilotin-ueber-d…

RunRichRun, to climate
@RunRichRun@mastodon.social avatar

"Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real." Layperson's on . https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/the-great-cash-for-carbon-hustle

Takeaways IMO —

Offsets:

≠ answer;

Most likely = part of the problem;

Industry (yes, offsets are an industry) = commercial boondoggle, ripe with problems & fraud;

= "feel good," have little if any benefit.

keen456, to edge

Holy crap- this is a deeply extensive look into the Edge trademark - looks to be a lot less clear than it was 10 years or so.
https://venturebeat.com/games/a-14-year-trademark-battle-over-edge-and-edge-games-comes-to-a-close/

bicmay, to music
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com avatar

"You could say that Eras is cynical; you of course would discourage disavowing your past if you needed to remarket it to your audience. But look around this stadium. You don’t enrapture an audience like this unless you’re saying something real — something these legions of girls and women have been waiting to hear: that we are more than the moment on the balcony, where romance awaits."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/magazine/taylor-swift-eras-tour.html

#music #concerts #popculture #taylorswift #erastour #longread

Egghat, to random German

SCIENCE: Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries | Science Advances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458 #longread

garius, to history
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 would die. 340 would be injured.

That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since.

Because that disaster would help lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60PgAjh0E&t=7s

garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

I won't o go into the mechanics of the crash. For that, my #longread's below.

The basics are that at 8am, during rush hour, an express train running south slammed full steam into the back of a packed commuter train at Harrow & Wealdstone.

The wreckage was from both then hit by ANOTHER express flying north on the adjacent line. /2 https://www.londonreconnections.com/2012/angels-and-errors-how-the-harrow-wealdstone-disaster-helped-shape-modern-britain/

bkeegan, to random
@bkeegan@hci.social avatar
thgroh, to random German

Fantastisches, sehr melancholisches Porträt von . Der Mann wird demnächst 81 und ums Abschiednehmen drehen sich auch weite Teile des Textes. Hoffentlich bleibt er uns noch lange erhalten.

https://www.gq.com/story/martin-scorsese-profile

heliomass, to iOS

📖 “iOS and iPadOS 17: The MacStories Review” – In case you’ve not read it yet, @viticci has once again written what is probably the best iOS review out there. (Oh, and I’m one of those dozens who still misses 3D Touch!) https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-17-the-macstories-review/ #longread #iOS #iOS17 #iPadOS #iPadOS17 #iPhone #iPad

ChrisMayLA6, to breakfast
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

If you're interested in the shadowy world of shipments of sanctioned #oil, here a good #longread from The Guardian this morning.

for specialists, while offering new examples, it will reveal little unknown about the illicit international oil market.... but if you're relatively new to this issue, it will be a major eye-opener.

Something to muse over while having #breakfast today, perhaps?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/18/how-a-burnt-out-abandoned-ship-reveals-the-secrets-of-a-shadow-tanker-network

Tattooed_mummy, to internet
@Tattooed_mummy@wandering.shop avatar

‘At first I tried to be polite, not to hurt his feelings’: how a regular ‘liker’ on social media became my stalker.
#LongRead #article #stalking #SocialMedia #ReplyGuys
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/16/laura-barton-stalker-nfbntw

keen456, to random

If you have not previously seen this mind blowing effort to reverse engineer and then bring to a new device, it's a fantastic
http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm#_TOC_e797f665d200ef27bdbf6f28bf3f764c

bicmay, to Futurology
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com avatar

"...new CDC data showed Hispanics in the Northeast had much higher rates of the disease. The senior researchers couldn’t figure out what was going on.

It took Burchard... about five minutes to figure it out: The Hispanic population in the northeastern U.S. wasn’t primarily Mexican American, like it was on the West Coast. It was Puerto Rican."

☝️ Why data disaggregation is important

https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/14/hispanic-paradox-life-expectancy-research/

#disparities #diversity #research #science #publichealth #latino #longread

Krysalia, to Autism French
@Krysalia@mastodon.social avatar

un ensemble de témoignages intéressants pour répondre à la question : que peut faire une personne qui n'est pas autiste, pour mieux comprendre et aider ses amis autistes ?

https://thinkingautismguide.com/2022/10/how-non-autistics-can-be-good-friends-to-autistic-people.html

BethGMS, to ConspiracyTheories

With pieces like this, I keep coming back to an essay I read years ago by @pluralistic about anti-vaxxers. Their conclusions about the dangers of vaccines may be nonsensical, but their general mistrust of medical, scientific and government institutions is not necessarily misplaced. This #longread makes a very similar point about #conspiracytheories and government secrecy, especially as the internet makes such secrecy impossible to maintain indefinitely.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/an-america-of-secrets

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • megavids
  • mdbf
  • ngwrru68w68
  • tester
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • khanakhh
  • InstantRegret
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • Durango
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • JUstTest
  • tacticalgear
  • osvaldo12
  • normalnudes
  • cubers
  • cisconetworking
  • everett
  • GTA5RPClips
  • ethstaker
  • Leos
  • provamag3
  • anitta
  • modclub
  • lostlight
  • All magazines