Armed men surrounded disaster relief workers in Northeast TN
https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/fema-workers-threatened-in-carter-county/
I've let this one sit as an open tab for over a week now; it feels good to catch up a bit.
Interesting piece about AI solutions in #EmergencyManagement and response.
Last gaps in getting emergency/disaster info over here:
1. Public safety agencies that (still) only post info to FB or Twitter and DO NOT post on their own websites or to notificaiton systems. OES/Fire/Police.
2. Transit departments and transportation systems with service updates, not available via API or on a web page.
3. Individual fire photographers. (still mostly on other platforms trying to get the clicks and likes and virality, esp. when media gets lazy and just makes articles out of posts).
(#2 can easily be fixed by agencies posting their status to their own services, #1 just needs them to have another tool to post to RSS/their own website, #3 is the hardest)
#random
"But for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day."
-GWB
Facebook is blocking emergency warnings as wildfires roar through West
As a climate scientist who relies on environmental data, it pisses me off that these criminals tampered with rain gauges to defraud the government.
It’s a wild story worth reading.
https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/08/patrich-esch-ed-dean-jagers-ranchers-fraud-insurance/
The labor movement and the songbook are intertwined; folk singers, country pickers, punks and popular balladeers have hailed the American worker, and chronicled the trials of earning a paycheck. Here are our picks for the best songs about work, for your Labor Day listening. "If Woody Guthrie were alive today, he'd have a lot to write about...." (with videos)
Alexandre B A Villares 🐍
Ian James
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Jeffery Harvey, DEL, CEM
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David Ho
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