Flutterby™! From 2022-03-01 to 2022-03-31

August 1914 all over again: Franz Ferdinand pulls Russian tour dates

also Louis Tomlinson and Yungblud....

August 1914 all over again: Franz Ferdinand* pulls Russian tour dates

• also Louis Tomlinson and Yungblud....

RT Kate (Kate fan account)@thingskatedid

do you know why boolean values are represented as the positive integers 0 and 1? and why negative non-zero values are also considered true in languages like C. it turns out there's an interesting historic reason behind it! i will explain! 🧵 1/n

Kate (Kate fan account) @thingskatedid

it's because they've played us for absolute bools

(I am seeing some reports about "fund the police" idiocy, so, you know, the United States is doomed either way.)'

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You know that thing where, because of the rumor mill and being host of a local forum, you know more than the local paper's article on a topic, and you don't know if you can say that thing publicly? Yeah, soooo many times that....

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It was a pleasant walk home...

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Just using up scraps and replacing a cutting board that fell apart after two decades. Maple, cherry, and walnut.

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RT Einstein’s Twink Paradox @ddfreyne

C is a bad language. It’s memory-unsafe and there is no concept of ownership. Luckily with blockchain technology we can mint NFTs for each pointer and

And, of course, some crazy bastard has done it for C++: https://github.com/zhuowei/nft_ptr

Projects like this are kinda silly. I'm sure that for few hundred bucks I could buy something in plastic. But the hardware needed organizing and the scrap bin was full.

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Thinking about how the way that my grade school teachers told me I should phrase correspondence is an instant tell for scams.

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Guardian: Transport noise linked to increased risk of dementia, study finds

BMJ: Residential exposure to transportation noise in Denmark and incidence of dementia: national cohort study

Results The study population included 103 500 participants with incident dementia, and of those, 31 219 received a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, 8664 of vascular dementia, and 2192 of Parkinson’s disease related dementia. Using Cox regression models, 10 year mean exposure to road traffic and railway noise at the most (L_denmax) and least (L_denmin) exposed façades of buildings were associated with a higher risk of all cause dementia. These associations showed a general pattern of higher hazard ratios with higher noise exposure, but with a levelling off or even small declines in risk at higher noise levels. In subtype analyses, both road traffic noise and railway noise were associated with a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease, with hazard ratios of 1.16 (95% confidence interval 1.11 to 1.22) for road L_denmax ≥65 dB compared with <45 dB, 1.27 (1.22 to 1.34) for road L_denmin ≥55 dB compared with <40 dB, 1.16 (1.10 to 1.23) for railway L_denmax ≥60 dB compared with <40 dB, and 1.24 (1.17 to 1.30) for railway L_denmin ≥50 dB compared with <40 dB. Road traffic, but not railway, noise was associated with an increased risk of vascular dementia. Results indicated associations between road traffic L_denmin and Parkinson’s disease related dementia.

Via this Twitter thread which has a bunch of other studies linking transport and traffic noise to negative health effects.

[ related topics: Health Architecture Databases Public Transportation ]

Soooo many thoughts that I'm not ready to put down yet, all completely unrelated to the specific personalities mentioned here, but the discussion here is well presented and has helped me flesh out some of those ideas, even if just slightly. I listened to this between yesterday, walking home, and walking back in and while I waited for other folks to show up at the office, and... I found it worthwhile.

Mainely Mandy — Abuse in Polyamory: Franklin Veaux and Polyamorous Protectionism

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Washington Post: The hidden billion-dollar cost of repeated police misconduct.

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Sure, it's not black magic, and it's timing out because I'm stopped in the debugger, but why is this Apple code trying to contact the "spell server" anyway?

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I'm trying various web sites to see if their search gives a reasonable "no meaningful results" sort of flag, and I have to say that "desultory discussion" is the best article header I've yet seen...

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RT Naqiy Mcmullen @NaqiyFL

For everyone saying we have to sympathize with drivers dealing with high gas prices, when have drivers ever cared about transit riders dealing with terrible service, or bikers and walkers getting killed on high speed streets?

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“Jan 6th is gonna be crazy. … lol”: DHS Officials Expected Violence at the Capitol, Kept It to Themselves

A new report from the DHS Office of Inspector General documents intelligence officials joking about Democrats being hanged.

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For the purposes of manual labor, I have spent many consecutive hours wearing a respirator. I've spent time in Hong Kong and China. So I really didn't get the aversion to mask wearing until I ate some smoked almonds and put on a mask. Wow was that an intense sensory experience!

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I have been on a gojuchang kick recently.

I have been on a gojuchang kick recently. (Now with picture. Sigh.)

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Just noting for my records, escaped Jury Duty this week, my group never got called (in fact, from the web site, no groups got called)

libsm64-blender - Blender client for LibSM64

This add-on integrates libsm64 into Blender and provides various additional integrations with Fast64. Practically, this means if you're making levels with Fast64 in Blender, you can use this add-on to drop a controller-playable Mario into your scene to run around and test your terrain layout.

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/laz...alker/status/1502654626654531589 which has a demo video...

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NPR: Doctors' worst fears about the Texas abortion law are coming true, in which a woman in the middle of a miscarriage is put on a flight to save her life, and NPR quotes the forced-birthers as still being pro-killing women.

The next day, Anna's OB-GYN needed a plan to get Anna to a place where she could get the procedure as quickly as possible. They ruled out some nearby states, including Oklahoma and Arkansas, with mandatory waiting periods as long as three days.

"So there's two options," says Scott. "There's New Mexico and there's Colorado. Would we rather have her go into labor on a plane or, like, out by Midland in a car?"

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/Mad...nMars/status/1502744599802036225

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University of Wisconsin — Madison: Study calls for curbing congestion by building fewer roads

SSTI and the UW–Madison-based Mayors Innovation Project recently released a new report arguing for a different approach that incentivizes diverse ways to travel to and from new developments. By funding public transportation, limiting parking and preserving the walkability of neighborhoods, Sundquist’s team argues, cities and states can reduce congestion better than if they only plan for cars.

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Really good introduction to text encoding. I've done a lot of this stuff and I learned things: Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Oslo 2021 (YouTube video)

Via MeFi

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It's okay, XCode, it's not like you could have possibly seen that those header files changed and therefore you should probably have tried to rebuild the C files that included them.

I would love to be able to use `-gestureRecognizer:shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:`, but it's not getting called with the one I want to filter the others out by... Sigh.

Today's wall o'sms text disintegrating into incomprehensibility, like the descent into insanity driven by all the unsolicited messages...

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I'm engaged in this Cool City Challenge thing. Petaluma got a large grant to be in the second round of cities implementing it, and being active in my neighborhood I figured I ought to participate. And it's a mixed bag, I'm glad to meet a few more of my neighbors, I'm still skeptical about the overall program.

The current project is calculating carbon load for your home, which has sent me down the usual rabbit holes. This Twitter thread talks about the value of rooftop solar in Seattle, and handwaves over some issues about time of day of generation (peak use does correspond to peak sun, so more solar can help smooth demand that might go to higher carbon sources), but does point out that the IPCC figures that, given that so much solar capacity is built in China using coal fired plants, rooftop solar is working out to 41 g CO2eq/kWh, 90 lbs/MWh. Sonoma Clean Power's two options work out to 80 and 64. So rooftop residential photovoltaic likely increases our CO2 emissions.

But the other issue is that my going lower carbon on my electricity just makes the high carbon electricity cheaper for other people. Which brings us to:

An Appalachian town was told a bitcoin mine would bring an economic boom. It got noise pollution and an eyesore.

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Seeing a reference to "steam friends" on social media, and taking a moment to figure out if the person is referring to bathhouses, or gaming.

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PVC recycling pilot project at Construction Junction (Pittsburgh PA)

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Normally Google seems to be able to do unit conversions just fine, but when I typed in ".5 giraffe in grand pianos" it didn't seem to know those. https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...xactly-where-and-when-says-nasa/

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Charlene and I have been talking about some accents for our back yard gates, so I'm playing around with some ideas. And using the gorgeous carving knife that @DaveP made for me.

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Waiting for the wax to dry, whence the white flecks. Think the idea was to put a butterfly above it. Not completely in love with it, this may end up on the less-traveled gate if we decided to go another direction...

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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: SUVs, other large vehicles more likely to hit pedestrians while turning

“We already know that larger vehicles cause more severe injuries when they strike pedestrians,” says IIHS Vice President of Research Jessica Cicchino, one of the study’s authors. “The link between these vehicle types and certain common pedestrian crashes points to another way that the increase in SUVs on the roads might be changing the crash picture.”

Pedestrian crash deaths have increased nearly every year since hitting a low point in 2009, rising 59 percent to top 6,500 fatalities in 2020, the latest year for which data are available. The same year, another 54,700 pedestrians were injured in motor vehicle crashes. One suspected factor is the growing prevalence of larger vehicles.

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Vox: The surprising link between Covid-19 deaths and ... internet access. Via https://mobile.twitter.com/actualham/status/1504275239202693120

JAMA Network Open: Assessment of Structural Barriers and Racial Group Disparities of COVID-19 Mortality With Spatial Analysis doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0984

Across all community types, places with limited internet access had higher mortality rates, especially in urban areas

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/elf...nberg/status/1504460819924283393

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Yikes: North Coast Psychiatrist Loses Medical License for Allegedly Drugging Female Patients, Sexually Assaulting Them and Raping One Woman. Dude had a clinic in Santa Rosa.

Three years later, Sequoia Mind Health would be closed, and accusations against Goodwin would come to light in front of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California alleging sexual indiscretions during his time at Sequoia Mind Health.

While those accusations were investigated, he gained employment as a psychiatrist in the Mendocino County Jail, the Lake County jail, in Ukiah’s Redwood Quality Management Company, Sonoma County Behavioral Health, and John George Psychiatric Pavilion in San Leandro.</bnlockquote>

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While I was howling and exercising my vocal cords this evening I decided I needed a mid-sized compass for Somme layout stuff.

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Facebook post from our local PD talking about an officer going into a school to talk about "drug awareness, prevention, and safety in our community" makes me wonder why we have police doing public health work. Hmmmm....

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Private automobiles as dangerous illness? I'll allow it.

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“You Selling?”: Snack Sales and the Construction of Deviance in a High School Karlyn J. Gorski

Abstract Youths’ affinity for snack foods is well-documented; in various contexts, they sell chips, candy, and other goods. Adults may frame such sales as either entrepreneurial or deviant, which can contribute to positive youth development (on one hand) or cycles of disengagement and criminalization (on the other). Drawing on ethnographic and interview data from Hamilton High School, I show how adults’ criminalization of snack sales led the activity to more closely resemble that which they feared: drug sales. Snack sales constitute one way in which youth exercise agency in the face of broad institutional control, leading some to challenge the legitimacy of the school overall. These findings represent a case of how youth experience “criminalized childhoods” in a school context.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X221082980

Via this Tweet thread from the author.

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Making pedestrian crossings safer, one intersection at a time...

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Yesterday afternoon, representatives from various different Petaluma civic action organizations met to form a coalition to work on traffic safety in Petaluma. We knew that there had been an initiative named that in Sonoma County...

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Discussing battery charging strategies:

"My laptop is almost as smart as my car."

"Yes, but can your car run XCode?"

"No, and my point stands."

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Ya know, if I entered the crosswalk before you left the stop sign and I slow in the middle and can smack the side of your minivan without reaching, you are lucky I didn't break your fucking windows.

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Live oak and eucalyptus, on our walk around the block

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Just finished Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, by Charles Marohn. Most of it is stuff I already knew, but dang it's good to see someone else saying it. When he pointed out that "...traffic congestion accelerates ...positive outcomes", I stood up and cheered. When he called for closing the USDOT, I hollered a "hellyeah". I definitely don't agree with all of his conclusions, but the book is a fantastic look at how our transportation system is bleeding us dry, and not serving our human needs.

A few weeks ago when we had Chuck on Know Before You Grow, in the pre-show I commented that I was feeling kinda bogged down in details and facts, I needed a revival, a sermon, a chance to shout "hallelujah!" and "amen". That session, and the subsequent few, Leah Shahum of Vision Zero, Mike McGinn, have me fired up and believing that we can improve our environment. That we can have infrastructure that works for us, and that actually has a return on investment, rather than simply sucking more and more value out of our communities.

Recommended.

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It was a neat visit, but, yeah, the story didn't stand up to a lot of scrutiny. And though it probably makes a good tourist attraction, the actual story is more humanizing and heartwarming. Demystifying the Winchester Mystery House

The unfortunate false narrative of the Winchester Mystery House obscures a wonderful story of one of California's great women pioneers.

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Turmoil at CBS News over Trump aide Mick Mulvaney’s punditry gig

A network executive said they want to hire more Republicans to gain ‘access’ ahead of a ‘likely’ Democratic midterm wipeout

You'll remember Mulvaney as the guy who orchestrated Trump's attempt to extort false information out of Zelensky.

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You know what I really love about the GMail web interface? Randomly splitting mailing list threads across the "Primary" and "Promotions" tab. Need to get another Linux laptop so I can go back to using Claws-Mail.

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RT Chuck Tingle @ChuckTingle

sometimes if you trot hard enough your unique way does not have to bend for your timeline, but instead your timeline will bend to accept YOU. this is the buckaroo way. ONWARD INTO THE TINGLEVERSE. LOVE IS REAL

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OH: "We need to coalesce all of our CSS into a single consistent CSS pool." (It works when you say it out loud)

There's a lesson here about making sure your car's entertainment system is fairly open and generic... BMW and VW are missing out in the Chinese market because their cars don't run karaoke apps

Customers in the world’s biggest auto market are demanding that sing-along apps such as Changba work in new vehicles. Local manufacturers XPeng Inc., Nio Inc. and BYD Co. are at the forefront of this trend, besting Western rivals by offering models with karaoke microphones. The push extends beyond music, with Chinese buyers expecting seamless access to features like in-car payment and social-media connectivity.

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Help. I'm trapped under a cat.

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It's dawning on me that our sidewalks are narrow and obstructed (sign & utility poles, etc) enough that if you want to chat with someone while you go to a destination, our infrastructure encourages driving...

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Wondering if this is a good investment because we're unlikely to stop throwing public subsidy at it, or car-only retail in the era of Amazon...

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Holy shit: Facebook has deactivated the accounts of *all* of the admins of the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs FB group. Any media contact I've got want to run a story about this?

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It's not that we don't like documentation, it's that we've been led astray by it so many times that we're extremely cynical about it actually reflecting reality.