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Economist for non-profits, NGOs, governments, some private cos. Projects—public #policy, #evaluation, #innovation, #tech, job creation, #privacy, #health, #equity, #climate, #sustainability

Ex: The Economist, Bloomberg

Love #data & democracy, hate disinformation

I boost #jobs!

Free time: family, #cooking, #baking, #running, #biking, #camping, #rowing, #photography, #nature, #books, #writing, #haiku, bad #jokes, #pets—often many (≠all!) @ 1x!

Find me: https://linktr.ee/richstein #tfr #fedi22

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RunRichRun, to photography
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RunRichRun, to philadelphia
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Welcome to #Philadelphia — where apparently there's not even a need to DIY you own sovereign citizen license plate on a piece of cardboard with a crayon 🤪 Nope, no license plate required at all. 😜

mattblaze, to photography
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Vacant Store, BZ Corner, WA, 2011.

Extra pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/6110374799

RunRichRun,
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@mattblaze
I thought the sign looked "ambitiously-sized" as you describe it because of perspective and the angle at which you shot the photo.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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Well, this is a transcendent level of evil: Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its competitor's users.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

It's a reminder that VPNs have their own risks, beyond technical ones if operated incompetently -- namely, that you have to trust the VPN company itself.

UPDATED to reflect which users were being spied on.

RunRichRun,
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@dangillmor
About time that one of these "you are the product" data selling tech cos. adopts the mission statement: "Be evil," rather than advertising just the opposite.

No panacea but I wld like to see a C-suite level Office of #ChiefEthicist in all of these companies (and in many more, as well) — to function independently, much like USG's Inspector General offices. It could help if developed wisely (lots of details to work out.)

fulelo, to random
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The #disinformation war has taken a toll, but researchers feel a shift

Researchers who study and combat disinformation have faced years of attacks. Recently, they've also achieved some quiet but significant victories.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/disinformation-researchers-2024-election-attacks-shift-rcna144330

RunRichRun,
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@fulelo
Unfortunate that NBC chooses to cover disinformation while also hiring a purveyor of disinformation and giving her a platform from which she may spread it. It's a confusing move. Via @samlitzinger
https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/112141048731487465

samlitzinger, to random
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A nauseating move by NBC News.

“NBC hires former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who has demonized the press and refused to acknowledge Biden was fairly elected”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/media/ronna-mcdaniel-nbc/index.html

RunRichRun,
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@bryanhansel @samlitzinger 👆Attn: @tanyatussing
That's NBC, supposedly the "good guys." Can't imagine what Mnuchin & Co. operating with tainted money would do to weaponize TikTok.

But a buck is a buck, right. 🙃🤢

ai6yr, to random
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And now you know why my parents (immigrants to the US who have been here since the 60's) started carrying their US Passports when traveling around the US around 2016.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-texas-plan-to-arrest-migrants-for-illegal-entry-would-work

RunRichRun,
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@mcnado @ai6yr @glightly
"... Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations, according to a [Los Angeles] Times review of federal lawsuits, internal ICE documents and interviews." https://www.latimes.com/archives/story/2018-04-27/ice-held-an-american-man-in-custody-for-1273-days (from 2018)

Nearly 1,500 such mistakes btwn 2012 & 2018. No one has better info than ICE — federal agency. Local authorities can't do better.

RunRichRun, to california
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#California giant sequoias under threat from #ClimateChange: "...more frequent... extreme droughts & fires. ... > 10% of the remaining population of ~80k wild trees... killed in a single fire in 2020...

...less well-known... ~half a million sequoias (wild and planted) [live] in #England..."
https://theconversation.com/redwood-trees-are-growing-almost-as-fast-in-the-uk-as-their-californian-cousins-new-study-225475 v @arstechnica @TheConversationUK

Giant #sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the #UK: #carbon storage potential & growth rates https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230603 #trees #CarbonSequestration

GottaLaff, to random
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“At least 157 people were killed and 270 were injured last year in unintentional #shootings by children…

The children who pulled the trigger were most often teenagers ages 14-17 or children ages 5 & under, according to Everytown’s data. Roughly half of the incidents involved children who shot themselves. In the other half, someone else was injured or killed — usually another child.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unintentional-shootings-children-everytown-gun-safety-rcna143411

RunRichRun,
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RunRichRun, to random
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Nothing lasts forever — lovely writing:
"NASA Communicates with Ailing Voyager 1 Spacecraft"

"... nearly a half-century [currently 46 years] later... [#Voyager1 & 2] have become the longest-lived and farthest-flung probes ever dispatched by humankind...

Traveling at the speed of light, the radio signals used to command the spacecraft take 22.5 hours to travel 15 billion miles—and 22.5 hours to come back..." (NB: Only took a day for results in my first computer lab.)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-restores-communications-with-ailing-voyager-1-spacecraft/

RunRichRun,
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Right now is probably not the right time to write #Voyager1's obituary —
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/world/voyager-1-communication-issue-poke-scn/index.html
It's not just the technology that has proved incredibly durable. It's the fortitude, tenacity and resilience of the engineers in troubleshooting challenges.
#GoodNews

RunRichRun, to animals
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RunRichRun, to solar
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of sand... are surprisingly roomy when it comes to energy storage —

"Capable of storing 100 MWh of from and sources, it will enable residents to eliminate oil from their district heating network, helping to cut emissions by nearly 70[%]."

💡💡💡‼️
"Launched... as cut off gas supplies in retaliation for joining ..."
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/10/sand-batteries-could-be-key-breakthrough-in-storing-solar-and-wind-energy-year-round v @euronews
h/t @FaithfullJohn

RunRichRun, to China
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" has expanded the use of boarding schools - for children as young as four - and replaced as the main language... with ...

... to undermine the Tibetan identity, by targeting the very youngest in society...

... estimate... 80% of Tibetan children - perhaps one million pupils - are now [affected]..."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-68492043 v @BBCWorld

RunRichRun, to histodons
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"'Both my great grandfathers had cancer, my two grandmothers had cancer, my father had three different cancers, my sister has cancer,' Tina Cordova says mournfully as she flicks through an old family photo album in her living room."

"Downwinders" — untold #Oppenheimer story with no winners.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68515779 via @BBCWorld

Downwinders still fighting for compensation https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1198910685 (listen/read)
https://www.ucsusa.org/about/news/senate-passes-reca
@histodons
#RECA #PublicHealth #AtomicBomb

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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Lost in the depths of an abandoned power plant

See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/gould-street-power-station

RunRichRun,
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@AbandonedAmerica
You should see exterior compositions by @mattblaze and vice versa, if both of you haven't already. Several intertwined stories there — technical composition as well as content. I enjoy both.

chrischirp, to random

Another International Women's Day post - this time on why girls avoid Physics A-Level - and it isn't cos the maths is too hard.

https://open.substack.com/pub/christinapagel/p/girls-do-not-avoid-physics-cos-the?r=8zv6v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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@chrischirp
Not sure if you've seen work by Alex Eble (et al.) Sadly on on this site yet. http://www.alexeble.com/ If it's bad in the developed world, it is worse for girls in the developing world. He has been looking at educational challenges and opportunities there.
#GirlsOpportunities become #WomensOpportunities. Or not.
#InternationalWomensDay

RunRichRun, to random
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"This year, is on the ballot. Over 60 countries... home to nearly 4 billion people — half the globe’s population — will hold national elections, meaning more people will vote in 2024 than ever before in history.
...
Proton VPN will make servers available for free two weeks before elections in several countries with histories of and . These servers will... be free for a week after the elections as well."
https://protonvpn.com/blog/free-servers-before-elections/ v @protonmail

RunRichRun,
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@protonmail
Sure! 👍

RunRichRun, to random
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Tragedy: "English Channel: Girl, 7, dies after boat capsizes near Dunkirk in France" — People make these dangerous trips in so many places around the world seeking better opportunities, whether that is economic opportunity or just the ability to live in safety. That should not be considered a criminal act, and the #refugees making these attempts should not be considered criminals. Where is the humanity in that?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68461794 v @BBCWorld #migration

RunRichRun, to Israel
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Existential angst as reality —

"... two tortured peoples: ...Israelis and Palestinians... neither side is capable of viewing the other’s tragedy with a shred of understanding — not to mention compassion.

One more shameful phenomenon... Israel is the one country in the world whose elimination is most openly called for.

The coming months will determine the fate of two peoples. ...[is] the conflict... ripe for a reasonable, moral, human resolution[?]" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-hostages.html

RunRichRun,
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Unlikely to me that #Israel sees another Nobel Prize in Lit. — most subjective of subjective prizes — anytime soon. Why not? #Antisemitism is more prevalent than many believe — in places of power & more populist threads (tho' not always). I didn't always believe that; came to the sad conclusion over time — well before the most recent upswelling of antipathy in the US & 🌍.

Many worthy to consider for that Nobel, David Grossman among them. #ParisReview interview (2007) https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5794/the-art-of-fiction-no-194-david-grossman

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RunRichRun, to WX
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Gray day with on & off showers — rains every time I step out, ends as soon as I'm back in. 🤨 Unseasonably warm — this week it's reached ~60°F/16°C +/- and hasn't dipped below freezing. Note the fog/mist rising from the lake (near center of photo). Even cooler #wx coming tonight won't lower temperatures to seasonal averages.

Have a good day.

#photography #photo #fotografia #fotografie #foto #winter #trees #running #TrailRunning #AlmostSpring #Waterfall #WaterfallWednesday #ClimateDiary

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail.

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@pvonhellermannn
Of relevance: "Penn administrator hiring far outpaces faculty growth, raising concerns of 'bloat'"
https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/02/penn-hires-more-administration-than-academic-faculty

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