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jmccyoung

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Live in #Berkeley, staff in the UC English Department, #Christian active at St. Columba's #Episcopal Church in West Marin Co., California. cyclist; reader of theology, science, and F/SF; BA in paleontology dating to near the K-Pg boundary; interested in classical and medieval history, historical linguistics, digital humanities and science. Also a cat guy. He/him/his.

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ai6yr, to random
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👀 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html #christiannationalism #scotus #terrorism #insurrection

jmccyoung,
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@ai6yr I'm about 2/3rds of the way through a long but savage and very readable critique of this hypocrisy by someone who hints that he's still an evangelical himself and I highly recommend it: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-kingdom-the-power-and-the-glory-tim-alberta.

ai6yr, to cycling
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Got my Saturday list done!

Bicycled to the library
Bicycled to a garage sale
Bicycled to the store (solely to buy snacks for the pet rabbits 🤔)

Saw some fitness cyclers
A few kids on bikes
No adults doing any utilitarian cycling
Eight bazillion cars (Nobody walks/bikes in LA!)
Annoyed the clerks in a store asking them where the nearest bicycle rack was (answer: nowhere nearby)

#BikeTooter

jmccyoung,
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@ai6yr Fortunately Berkeley did that, although those alternate routes aren't always really close to the arterials & since those are where destinations frequently are (e.g., my library branch) sometimes it's necessary to ride a fraction of a block on a busy street to get where you're going: https://berkeleyca.gov/city-services/getting-around/walking-and-biking/bike-boulevards. Fortunately for that library, there are enough lights on the street that there are frequent gaps in the traffic so it's usually not to hard to get there from the closest cross street.

jetton, to random
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Why was this never mentioned in school?

jmccyoung,
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@stevenray @jetton @lisamelton Cf. Flerken: https://www.marvel.com/teams-and-groups/flerken.

jmccyoung, to ai
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@JL_Lycette In case you haven't seen this:
After 17 doctors and dentists over 3 years couldn't make the diagnosis for Alex, his mother entered his symptoms and got it from ChatGPT.
The recent progress in #AI for medicine, reviewed in the new Ground Truths
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/all-eyes-on-medical-ai

https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/111075723458106290

jmccyoung, to random
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Dinosaur feathers reveal traces of ancient proteins | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230921154521.htm

jmccyoung, to random
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@ai6yr Your next project?
https://martinh.net/@m/111154132200476507
"We demonstrate how to create a radio telescope using kitchenware"

jmccyoung, to random
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Why Evangelical women are leaving the church
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/evangelical-women-deconstruction-religion-17012629.php
"After centuries submitting to the church’s patriarchy, ‘deconstruction’ has empowered Texas women to question the tenets of their faith—and it could change the face of Evangelicalism for good." With quotes from Beth Allison Barr. Cc @ulmfn h/t @lisamelton

jmccyoung, to random
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Why Does the NYPD Hate This Bike Chain
https://www.404media.co/email/1cc25606-201a-4f10-87ce-aeefa8285c3f/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

'“This is not what students bring to school,” Sheppard said, holding the chain to the camera. “These are heavy industrial chains that were locked with bike locks, and this is what we encountered on every door inside of Hamilton Hall.”

'But this is exactly what students bring to school, and it’s a bike lock chain that’s recommended to them through the Columbia University website.'

jmccyoung, to random
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@ai6yr Thought of you, of course:
‘If I drop this, I’ll kill the queen’: how I launched a veterinary practice for bees
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03001-w

jmccyoung, to random
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The Radio Squirrels of Point Reyes - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/ann-hermes-morse-code/677468/
Maritime Morse code was formally phased out in 1999, but in California, a group of enthusiasts who call themselves the “radio squirrels” keeps the tradition alive cc: @ai6yr

jmccyoung, to random
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I just began_The Gutenberg Parenthesis_ by @jeffjarvis and although I've never been a book-marker, I mentally highlighted a large proportion of the sentences in chapter 1. I think it's going to take me a while because although the pages before the notes number only about 250, the text blocks are dense & the font not particularly large & the margins on the narrow side. But I think it will be well worth my while! Semi-glad to see the publisher has run out: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/gutenberg-parenthesis-9781501394829/ Reprint soon?

jmccyoung, to random
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These Pompeii victims choked on ash while covering themselves with garments https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/how-did-the-pompeii-victims-of-vesuvius-eruption-die-let-us-count-the-ways/
"In the 1870s, archaeologists made plaster casts of those who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, pouring the plaster into the voids left by decomposed bodies...A new paper published in the journal PLoS ONE describes a multidisciplinary analysis...and concludes that these victims, at least, likely survived the early eruption and died some 20 hours later from asphyxiation"

jmccyoung, to random
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Why Middle-Aged Americans Aren’t Going Back to Church:
Americans in their 40s and 50s often identify with a religion, but they’re also in the thick of raising kids, caring for aging parents and juggling demanding jobs
https://www.wsj.com/articles/church-attendance-religion-generation-x-6ee5f11d?st=r60oghc6qgeb7mw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink (gift link)

jmccyoung, to random
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The AQI in the #sfba isn't literally off the charts, but it's been a few years since it's been this high.

jmccyoung, to random
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Reindeer can activate sleep mode while eating
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04034-x
“Reindeer can meet digestive and sleep requirements at the same time,” says Melanie Furrer, the study’s first author and a neuroscientist at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Like a cow, a reindeer has four chambers in its stomach, and it uses the first to store grass for later regurgitation and chewing — a process known as rumination.

jmccyoung, to random
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Libgloss
http://liber-glossarum.huma-num.fr/exist/apps/libgloss/TheLiberGlossarum_fr.html "The Liber Glossarum is a vast encyclopedic glossary compiled from materials that are heterogeneous in nature (patristic, exegetical, encyclopaedic, scientific, grammatical, lexicographic, etc.) and homogeneous in their origin, which is Visigothic Spain in the 7th century. It was released at the end of the 8th century century, probably in the entourage of Charlemagne..."

jmccyoung, to random
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@ai6yr They made a documentary about you! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/movies/the-beekeeper-review.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NE0.3H1c.z17sqAoP1E1p&smid=url-share (unlocked) ;-)

jmccyoung, to random
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@ai6yr Bike and bees! Thought of you:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bees/s/6Ccnn3Pbrh

jmccyoung, to random
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A Hilarious Parody Sketch About a Riderless Bicycle Inspired by Self-Driving Cars
https://laughingsquid.com/riderless-bicycles/ cc @ai6yr

jmccyoung, to random
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@futurebird Saw and immediately thought of you:
The comings and goings of ants: how are social skills shaped in an ever-changing world?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01000-z

jmccyoung, to random
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Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/caribbean-nation-of-aruba-backs-itself-up-to-internet-archive/
"The Internet Archive is now home to the Aruba Collection, which hosts digitized versions of Aruba’s National Library, National Archives, and other institutions including an archaeology museum and the University of Aruba. The collection comprises 101,376 items so far—roughly one for each person who lives on the Island—including 40,000 documents, 60,000 images, and seven 3D objects."

jmccyoung, to random
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@ai6yr "Don't do this"
https://mapstodon.space/

jmccyoung, to random
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@ai6yr DLARC Preserves “Ham Radio & More” Radio Show
https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/30/ham-radio-and-more/
Saw this and immediately thought of you.

jmccyoung, to random
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@ai6yr Are you still in the market for a bike light? I recently ran across this: https://luxebiking.com/collections/all/products/zynon (maybe via an Instagram ad?) & today was the first dark morning ride I tried it on & it is in fact bright! I've had the predecessor to https://www.serfas.com/shop/products/lights/usm-1000-e-lume-1000-headlight/ for about 6 years but the battery life has gotten a little short & when I saw the Luxe one for essentially the same price I went for it. It's huge & heavy (c.0.75lb!) but effective & seems durable. My first "see" vs. "be seen" light.

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@ai6yr Thought of you:
Who needs a smartwatch when you could have this!?

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