If you're a fan of Isochrone maps and US census data (and who isn't?) Dan Snow just released opentimes.org/ and it's spectacular - I published some notes about it here, there's some very clever data engineering going on under the hood simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/…
Spectacular new open geospatial project by [Dan Snow](https://sno.ws/): > OpenTimes is a database of pre-computed, point-to-point travel times between United States Census geographies. It lets you download bulk travel time …
Ok…so despite the senile rantings and ravings by #Trump about acquiring Greenland either by purchase or force, I had not clocked the name of the bill on it…
‘Introduced in House (02/10/2025)
Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025
This bill authorizes…
"Red, White and Blue land" I'm sorry, the Netherlands already called dibs on that name. Closely followed by Luxembourg, France, and... *drumroll* Russia?
More than 100,000 protesters gathered in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, on Saturday in one of the largest rallies in decades, as students and workers faced riot...
@markrsmith We did that in Oregon, which is about the size of Serbia, is it not? This country is HUGE with gigantic information barriers. How would we organize this? How would it end any differently than the huge occupy protests? The huge Black Lives Matter protests? Let our leaders know. All they know how to do is gripe at the courts and drink with their "colleagues," our enemies.
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Federal funding for mRNA vaccine research in jeopardy under RFK Jr. "Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started," one researcher said. arstechnica.com/health/2025/03…
It would be a big step forward if not only women are "allowed" to look "like men" (trousers, suits, and so on) but the other way around as well. We still walk around in "gender uniforms". What a weird society we are living in.
And here is one of the many reasons why I’ve never latched onto the idea of #AutonomousVehicles as being the revolutionary game-changer so many of my #blind friends think it is. There’s just way, way too much out of your control, and even now there are times when manual override is required. Really sorry but I will die on this hill if necessary. mas.to/@JorgeStolfi/1141794508…
The biggest problem with self-driving cars is that the driving itself is completely controlled by software, that can be updated through the net without knowledge of the owner.
Fully agree. There are some things I will never be able to do. Driving a car, flying an aircraft, many things. I'm 100% ok with that. Believe it or not abled people can't do everything, either. Ugh. I also couldn't live with myself if my car killed someone's dog or their grandma. So... I won't be partaking in self driving cars.
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I was already concerned when Health Secretary, Wes #Streeting was proclaiming that mental illness was ‘over diagnosed’ this morning (based on what medical evidence?!)…but I now suspect he’s riding the current ripple in the culture wars against neurodivergents.
While reactionary dinosaurs like Hitchens seem to wonder why life didn’t just stay caught in the aspic of their blinkered 1950’s childhood…Cambridge researchers believe that #dyslexia actually played a key part in human survival, exploration, invention and creativity.
Having worked with many innovative dyslexics I know where my money is. And yes, one of those is my partner, a librarian.
Researchers say people with Developmental Dyslexia have specific strengths relating to exploring the unknown that have contributed to the successful adaptation
A friend who has dyslexia described to me how she experiences reading. She can read, but it takes a lot of concentration, and the letters seems to “jump around”.
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NEW YORK—Millions of eyewitnesses watched in stunned horror Tuesday as light emptied from the sky, plunging the U.S. and neighboring countries into darkness. As the hours progressed, conditions only worsened.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “are very good friends” who are focused on ways to strengthen the bonds between the United States and Russia.
It might be me, but does it seem like Duolingo has kind of lost its tiny fucking mind recently? Is it "AI" or do they think it's a solid decision to give their customers a dose of freakish body horror whenever they finish a lesson? I couldn't get a picture of it, but the last time I opened the app, there was a brief flash of Duo the owl screaming and looking like this emoji 😱 . I wish I were joking.
@secretsloth They updated the app literally as I was talking to you, and when I logged back in to do my daily lesson, now you can't practice to earn hearts at all anymore, you have to watch ads. I am not down with this. I've got a 3000+ day streak like an anchor but I need to give up the habit and figure out some other way to learn I guess.
I mean, all the varieties of torture and death when you're not using the app are disturbing too. (I had another where he looked like he was screaming, but I appear to have deleted it.)
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