Dan GillmorLicense plate readers are shredding what's left of privacy in America, with the happy connivance of law enforcement. This includes, of course, data that right-wing states are eager to use to punish people who dare to, for example, seek abortions. https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article276848586.html
Jade 
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I burn fossil fuels, I do it for the children. Hopefully they can get us out of this mess.
Nell GreenfieldboyceHave you ever felt stuck in a bad situation that you couldn't get out of, through no fault of your own, and all you could do is just make the best of it?
Such is the life of the Devils Hole pupfish.
10,000 years back, it somehow got trapped in a small, inhospitable fishbowl made of rock in a desert. A decade ago, only 35 fish were left. But lately its been doing better, despite—or maybe partly because of—flash floods and earthquakes.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/1182118098/against-all-odds-the-rare-devils-hole-pupfish-keeps-on-swimming
#fish #wildlife #biology #ecology
If you're thinking of using Facebook/Instagram's Twitter clone, here's a reminder of just how invasive it will be of your privacy:
h/t @nelson
Phil PlaitSome big personal news, and some AMAZING images of Saturn from JWST!
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/personal-news-and-jwst-sees-saturn
Robert McNeesLibraries are civic marvels.
Besides lending books and providing internet access, the Chicago Public Library lets you check out fishing poles, telescopes, cameras, knitting supplies, sewing machines, puzzles, tools, cooking equipment, a (model) human skull, sheet music, instruments, toys, museum passes, laptops, wifi hotspots, craft kits, seeds.
You can book meeting rooms or 3D printers. Some branches have teachers on site for homework help. Story time for kids, literacy programs for adults.
Ken White
#DIDYOUKNOW If a publication runs a big headline reporting someone entered a not guilty plea at their first court appearance, as if that’s news, you are legally permitted to punch the managing editor in the crotch three (3) times
Corey S Powell24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth
Over 45,000 galaxies are visible in this recent image from JWST’s Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, captured with the Near-Infrared Camera.
If it has diffraction spikes it’s a star. Otherwise, it’s a galaxy!
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, B. Robertson (UCSC), B. Johnson (CfA), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), M. Rieke (U. Arizona), D. Eisenstein (CfA)
Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)
The Volatile MermaidRepublicans: 4/20 should be a national holiday!
Us: Huh? We thought you guys were anti-marijuana.
Republicans: [writing out birthday cards to Hitler] What?