So I can finally tell you about one of the things I've been being SUPER impatient about:
If you're out in the world and happen to see a magazine with the words "Time," "Special Edition," "Artificial Intelligence," and "A New Age Of Possibilities" on the cover, you uhh… might wanna give pg. 28 a look 👀
So this episode is also pretty weird to release now because an uptick in militia fighting in DRC has drawn media attention back to the issue of "conflict minerals"—I've seen campaigns where people are quitting vaping in solidarity w/people of the Congo? Which, IDK. I hope this deeper dive into the longer history of tantalum mining in DRC is helpful for ppl just now learning about it.
https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2500-and-a-dream-fansteel-and-the-history-of-tantalum new RIP Corp and it is a doozy of an episode!! Tantalum, labor strikes, colonialism, war, a million things. I am nervous about it because there's so much packed in here and also it's based on some of my master's thesis research so it feels kind of precious to me.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185645731429?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28 or if you want a different piece of a submarine cable? Here is one on eBay
Oh no this is very expensive but very cool https://www.ericaweiner.com/products/victorian-transatlantic-telegraph-souvenir-locket
Mathematics has many daughters. Nearly all are beautiful. Physics & Chemistry are dutiful and visit home often. Life science is always away on some exotic research trip, hardly has time to write. Three of the girls live at home: Statistics, Computer Science ... and The Other One.
Statistics spent some time in a sanitarium, no one talks about it. She's doing better now & dotes on her mother. Computer Science puts on a suit each day for her Big Important Job. But she still never moved out. 1/
OMFG KILL ME
this code which looks reasonable DOES NOT work because canPlayType DOES NOT return a boolean as one might expect but rather A STRING which is one of
- ""
- "maybe"
- "probably"
like were fucking FLIRTING or something
cant make this up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/canPlayType
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-50/ this week in sentences: distinguished imaginary, autograph about it, tennis bracelet diamonds, tannins and funkiness, except shyly, sawgrass and tule, decorated with kelp, impossible aspirations
Today is the day @darius and I finally get to announce that we're in the new @DigInfFund cohort of projects, researching fediverse governance, so I…wrote about trees
https://tinysubversions.com/notes/ford-diif-grant/ aieeee so happy for you @kissane @tinysubversions!!!
https://www.nfb.ca/film/data_for_decision/ obsessed with this educational film about the Canada Geographic Information System which features a special map scanner built by IBM for the Canadian government
I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.
We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.
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