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Clive Thompson hometown (AP)
Apparently citydwellers in the US are walking 15% faster than they did in 1980

that's the result of some cool research ...

... by academics who acquired video from four major pedestrian areas in big cities, taken in 1979-80 ...

... then compared it to video from the same precise spots in 2008-2010

Other findings:
- people *linger* less
- they're more likely to be alone

Item #3 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, read/subscribe here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-28-neolithic-octopuses-weeping-trees-and/
A grid of photos showing four different city intersections, with the photos taken in the 1920s and in the 1980s. The locations are: chestnut St., Bryant Park, MET, downtown Crossing.
#3
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joël mastodon (AP)
there is this older study which shows the connection between higher car frequency/speed and lower human connections. Could be a similar effect.

https://onthelevelblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/no-friends-blame-the-traffic/

Intel Terminates X86S Initiative After Formation of New Industry Group


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#news #x86 #x86s #hackaday
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UFW mastodon (AP)
Fer shared this picture of his coworkers laboring to remove water from strawberry fields in Castroville CA after recent rain. #WeFeedYou
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Farm workers laboring to remove water from a strawberry field

openSUSE en Español mastodon (AP)
New Package Management Tool Debuts YQPkg, a promising new package management tool for openSUSE, is preparing to make waves in the Linux community. Designed as a standalone GUI, the software package offers a lightweight, intuitive alternative to traditional tools like YaST for users of openSUSE distributions. YQPkg provides a glimpse into the future of package... https://news.opensuse.org/2024/12/20/new-pkg-mgmt-tool-debuts/


David Bisset mastodon (AP)
Interesting. Apparently at least for now, you can query #Apple FindMy Network with #python

https://github.com/malmeloo/FindMy.py

Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
A letter from my medical insurance company welcoming me to its dental plan includes a helpful notice in 65 languages, including Cherokee, Karen, Pennsylvanian-Dutch, Samoan and Yiddish. Sadly, Esperanto and Klingon didn’t make the cut.
Kat O’Brien mastodon (AP)
that’s fascinating. There are a couple languages there I’d never heard of.
Bill Forbes mastodon (AP)
So 65 ways to tell you they won't cover any necessary procedures?

HAPPY SOLSTICE! Whether you celebrate it or not, it's happening! So why not celebrate it?

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration | Far right (US) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
Thank you for sharing

Super important people know about behind other scenes villain Yarvin and his "Red Ceasar" plan.

billionaires have no right to exist because their "billions" aren’t actual billions.

i hope every union is gearing up for a general strike against the unelected b̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶a̶i̶r̶e̶s̶ milliardaires demanding USGOV smash unemployment benefits, plunder Medicare & Medicaid, eliminate minimum wage and the 40-hour week and, more pointedly, smash them & make unions illegal.

but more importantly: are you ready to go to the streets, with your neighbors, and be the wrench in the machine, from wherever you are?
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Cat Lady Kydia Music mastodon (AP)
That’s why I call them villainaires™️

Allen meinen Quietscheenten einen schönen Samstagmorgen!
🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆

Tagesmotto: "Wenn meine Gattin Klöße kocht, sind sie leicht und bekömmlich." (Loriot)
Gelbe Badeente mit Weihnachtsmann-Mütze
Lebendig ist die Gans auch warm. 😊
Optimist mastodon (AP)
Dann ...guten Appetit !

Daniel Pomarède mastodon (AP)
Wowzer! Map of cosmic flows, by yours truly, makes it to the cover of the Nature Astronomy journal.

"Galaxies from
wherever flock
together"

I'm no poet, but could this be a Haiku?

https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/8/issues/12

Credits:
Image: Daniel Pomarède, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l’Univers, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay.
Cover design: Bethany Vukomanovic.

#Cosmology #Galaxies #Astronomy #Astrodon #Astrophysics #Cosmography #Cartography #Map #Cosmicflows #science #STEM #news #space
A cover of the Nature Astronomy journal, dated December 2024, Volume 8, issue number 12, featuring a three-dimensional visualization of the cosmic velocity field inferred from the Cosmicflows-4 catalog of galaxies' distances and velocities. This map spans two billion lightyears from top to bottom. The velocity field is mapped by means of tens of thousands of very thin streamlines, seeded at the positions of the catalog's galaxies. Streamlines are shown white and semi-transparent, against a black background. They exhibit a very complex pattern with multiple attractors, seen as points of convergence of the lines. A text reads Galaxies from wherever flock together.

Adam Hunt diaspora
Last weekly update report from the #NCC in #Ottawa for #Gatineau #Park before the holidays.
Tom Grzybow diaspora
we have just over two inches, but it's petering out.
Adam Hunt diaspora
We got 1 mm (0.039") of snow overnight ....

Aladár Mézga diaspora
Then you're stuck with your decision... One more reason not to do it...
We've got a bottom feeding freshwater fish that looks like that. It's called a sucker.

Rachel A. Rosen mastodon (AP)
Happy Solstice! I'm sharing once again my favourite scene from Blight, which takes place at the Kensington Festival of Lights in Toronto.

"But this was what people always did, in the darkest season—huddle together for warmth and convince themselves that the dawn would come again."

Dear friends, may you kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight.

Art by Masivart on IG.
A chaotic scene of the Festival of Lights in Kensington Market. Surrounded by various performers in costumes and animal masks and illuminated by both lanterns and magic, the three main characters, Maya (mid-20s, female, Tamil, wearing thick black glasses), Ian (late-40s male, white, very thin and in black-and-white), and Jonah (mid-40s, Métis, at the lead of the group urging the rest of them on) are moving through the crowd.

Carmen Zedler reshared this.
What a convenient way to distract from their budget fiasco - and also attract oversees allies to meddle in US politics. 🤔

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1705659/ Pregnant Princess Beatrice stuns in a black blazer and dress as she joins Emma Weymouth at glitzy Ralph Lauren event in London

https://mastodon.xyz/@Louisa/113687517879869611 Louisa@mastodon.xyz - #Monsterdon

I made a free coloring page for your enjoyment, happy holidays!! 🎉🎊🎉🎊

https://ko-fi.com/s/644ac44b5b
Muse reshared this.
Muse diaspora

ZOMG!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!


🤖 Lazaro el dog mastodon (AP)
CBS News: Senate approves bill to expand Social Security to millions of Americans
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-fairness-act-senate-vote-passed/

Chuck Darwin mastodon (AP)
Elon Musk is, more or less, a rogue state.

His intentions are self-serving and nefarious,
and his nation-state level resources allow him to flout the law with impunity.

To put it into context,
if dollars were metres, Musk’s money would be enough to take him to Mars and back,
while a mere millionaire could only make a round trip from Paris to Amsterdam.

The sheer immorality of any one person possessing so much wealth is obvious to most people with basic amounts of empathy.

But when it comes to Musk and the other 14 people worth more than $100bn, the morality of it is almost a secondary concern.

Their individual wealth is a society-distorting threat to democracy in the same way that economics has always recognised monopolies to be dangerous to a functional market.

For $250m in direct support
– and an additional $44bn for control over X, nee Twitter, and with it the algorithm behind what 300 million users see on their timelines
– Musk was rewarded with a co-presidency.

What else are we supposed to make of his appearance at Notre Dame’s reopening, joining Donald Trump and various heads of state?

X’s valuation may be dropping as swiftly as its user count,
but that’s missing the point behind the purchase.

X served its purpose by helping elect Trump,
with one study suggesting the platform’s algorithm was tweaked to boost conservative-leaning users.

That Tesla stock has surged more than 40% since the election surely has little to do with the company’s fundamentals
and much to do with investors speculating on an unprecedented boost to its fortunes to come.

Tesla and SpaceX grew into behemoths on the back of public contracts and public subsidies,
and from xAI to Neuralink, his other companies stand to benefit from Musk’s inside influence over regulation.

Plutocracy is not enough, though, because nothing is ever enough for the handful of men who have everything.

Musk’s new obsessions
(beyond the validation and human affection that he mistakenly believes he will find on social media)
are attacking public servants,
slashing social spending
and going after the most vulnerable.

“In most cases, the word ‘homeless’ is a lie,” Musk tweeted recently.
“It’s usually a propaganda word for violent drug addicts with severe mental illness.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/20/elon-musk-is-becoming-a-one-man-rogue-state-its-time-we-reined-him-in?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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nwrocla mastodon (AP)
@pluralistic Cory Doctorow’s prescient story in #Radicalized is about health insurance and murder

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/cory-doctorow-radicalized-novella-healthcare-ceo-killing

AkaSci 🛰️ mastodon (AP)
Good news for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere - starting tomorrow, the days will get longer :mastodance:

The winter solstice will occur on Saturday, December 21, 2024 at 09:21 UTC (4:21 a.m. EST).

"The term “solstice” comes from the Latin words sol (Sun) and sistere (to stand still) because, during the solstice, the angle between the Sun’s rays and the plane of the Earth’s equator (called declination) appears to stand still."

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/winter-solstice-first-day-winter
#WinterSolstice
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A map demonstrating the first day of winter.
And showing the length of the day and might at various latitudes.
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AkaSci 🛰️ mastodon (AP)
Happy Winter Solstice, which occurred at 09:21 UTC this morning.

This is an image of earth taken by NOAA satellite GOES-16 at the minute when the Northern Hemisphere reached its maximum tilt away from the sun.

GOES-16 is a weather satellite located in geostationary orbit around Earth's equator at altitude 35,786 km and longitude 75.2° West (NYC is at 74° West).

🌎🛰️

https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-16&sec=full_disk&x=10848&y=10848&z=0&angle=0&im=12&ts=1&st=0&et=0&speed=130&motion=loop&maps%5Bborders%5D=white&p%5B0%5D=geocolor&opacity%5B0%5D=1&pause=20241221100021&slider=-1&hide_controls=0&mouse_draw=0&follow_feature=0&follow_hide=0&s=rammb-slider&draw_color=FFD700&draw_width=6
2/n
#WinterSolstice
Color image of earth taken by NOAA satellite GOES-16 at the minute when the Northern Hemisphere reached its maximum tilt away from the sun.

The sun is located at an angle of 23.5 degrees from earth towards east and south and is lighting up a crescent of earth hugging the east coast of S. America.
AkaSci 🛰️ mastodon (AP)
Winter Solstice celebrations on this cloudy morning at Stonehenge.

A recent paper states that the unique stone lying flat at the center of the monument, dubbed the “altar stone” — originated in Scotland, 100s of km north.

Other stones are also known to have traveled far.

“The fact that all of its stones originated from distant regions ... suggests that the stone circle may have had a political as well as a religious purpose,” said lead author Prof Pearson.

https://apnews.com/article/britain-stonehenge-winter-solstice-948b9d83cf34d306d562b24679b29bfc
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Druid leader Arthur Uther Pendragon, center, holds up his staff as he takes part in a Winter Solstice ceremony by the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, in southern England, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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Metacurity mastodon (AP)
‘Heroic’ childcare manager who sounded alarm over ‘Australia’s worst paedophile’ found not guilty of hacking
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/20/yolanda-borucki-ashley-griffith-computer-hacking-charge-not-guilty-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

MEActNOW mastodon (AP)
Just a reminder - THIS 👇🏼 is what it's like when government is working for the people...

Rightardia mastodon (AP)
Swimming mouse among 27 new species discovered in Peru

New critters discovered in Peru.

https://news.yahoo.com/swimming-mouse-among-27-species-120122170.html

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1705654/ A girl reported to the German police in September 2023 about the danger of a man called Talib Abd AlMohsen, who was planning to run people over with his car. The German police ignored the report #europe
A girl reported to the German police in September 2023 about the danger of a man called Talib Abd AlMohsen, who was planning to run people over with his car. The German police ignored the report

¡Feliz solsticio de invierno!

Hoy el Sol Invicto empieza a levantarse de su letargo, o lo que es lo mismo, se queda con nosotros, en el hemisferio norte, un poquito más cada día. Aunque aún queden por delante los días más fríos, en unos dos meses empezarán a brotar las precoces flores de almendros, cerezos y ciruelos para anunciarnos la primavera.

Sourdough2021 unkn (AP)
Out of the oven - multi-seeded sourdough using a Colorado levain, 9% scalded home milled rye grain, 5% scalded cracked Emmer grain, 6% scalded home milled pulses, 80% very strong Canadian white flour and 65g mixed seeds.
#sourdough #bread #colorado #breadsky #rye #pulses

Iain MacLaren mastodon (AP)
#astrodon enhanced core region of North American nebula using Ha-OIII filter.
nebula

kaybeeque mastodon (AP)
Well, that didn't last long.

Evie had a 💡 moment.

If he goes in 'that door' when the visit is over, if I go camp-out at 'that door', then maybe he will come out 'that door'.

Result: Owner dragged up driveway.
😂

Meet Evie!

#DogsOfMastodon
I found him, I got him to come outside, can I please have my treat now?

A young black lab in a purple plaid dog coat lying in the snow, gazing expectantly at her owner waiting for permission to mob me. 

Her front paws are outstretched towards the camera in preparation for launch.
I sing the song of my people!

Woo-oo Treat woo-oo!!!!

A young black lab wearing a purple plaid dog coat, sitting on the ground staring directly up at me, woo-oo-ing quietly requesting (the first of) her treat(s).

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1705652/ Landes. Maïté, célèbre pour sa cuisine du Sud-Ouest, est morte #france
Landes. Maïté, célèbre pour sa cuisine du Sud-Ouest, est morte

jelle pixelfed (AP)
New bicycle day! Mostly built off the upgraded components of my old Surly. So, its a Brother Cycles Big Bro frame, 12sp XT drivetrain, DT wheels with 350 hub rear and Son dynamo front, PNW coast sus dropper and 29x2.6 Mezcals. Focus on durability, over weight or aero, to be ready for the apocalypse, errr new year! #bikepacking #cycling #biketooter
A blue mountain bike

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1705650/ What this is? #germany
What this is?

Adam Hunt diaspora
Pretty much
Martin N diaspora
Dann lass doch die "Ente" suchen!

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1705648/ Maxi-ordine del governo spagnolo a Leonardo: Madrid acquista 25 caccia Eurofighter costruiti a Caselle #italy
Maxi-ordine del governo spagnolo a Leonardo: Madrid acquista 25 caccia Eurofighter costruiti a Caselle

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Shutdown chaos has Republicans worried about moving Trump agenda

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5051916-republicans-struggle-agenda-trump/
Opus mastodon (AP)
Good

old roadside pictures hometown (AP)
drive-in cinema (church), route 19, pinellas park, florida, 1980

Glyn Moody mastodon (AP)
US animal lab from which monkeys escaped accused of widespread abuse - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/animal-lab-monkeys-abuse-allegations "Monkeys also reportedly suffered from chronic malnutrition and died of hyperthermia and heatstroke" #AGI
#agi

Love Actually irritates me but it was prescient in having the American President be a rapist.

It's a fantasy though, in so far as the British Prime Minister does something about it......

#LoveActually #Trump #Starmer
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