That being said I love when Mari is in town because in her absence I wonder if I made her up, last night she regaled us with the story of how she was in a tertiary way involved in stopping a recent coup attempt in DRC and that her project making apps for snails is over bc the snails all died
Word on the storm impact from Helene in west North Carolina is that Internet just doesn't exist there. Every fiber path impacted, miles of fiber path gone, access roads to even start damage assessment are no longer there.
Network Engineers are saying days of work to get satellite trailers and basic e911 service restored. Weeks of work for Internet connectivity that even resembles normal.
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-92/ this week in sentences: like a piano, instanbul, horrible ruthless love, too crazy and alive, Or worse: Western scientists, the only system, that fragile boundary, at odds with the palace
"My #editors ask what the features are used for. A variety of purposes, I say, thinking carefully — hunting, storage, cooking. I’m leaving information out...
Write one too-specific #article, & #tribal historic preservation officers might find themselves fighting off #NewAge gatherings of non-Natives appropriating #Indigenous #worship. Or worse: Western scientists destroying ancestral remains for anthropological “research.”"
- @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/indigenous-community-cultural-coverage-journalism
Navajo uranium mine survivors demand action on stalled compensation program https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/092624_reca_rally/navajo-uranium-mine-survivors-demand-action-stalled-compensation-program/
People exposed to radiation from atomic bomb tests and uranium mines rallied at the U.S. Capitol – along with tribal leaders – to demand action on a stalled compensation program.
#Tucson #Arizona
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-91/ this week in sentences: PlayStation controller, of course, baja blast, likely stagger on, totally wasted, sinister magnificence, bruise of a story, guilt