Thatcher Ulrich

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Program writer for a respectable corporation.

Brooklyn mostly

gridx2020, an energy transition toyhttp://tulrich.com/gridx2020
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@billyjoebowers @mekkaokereke @carnage4life "an electric bike is not enough" may be more a matter of ignorance of options. My bike's got no e-assist (yet) but it has a trailer, and the trailer does a lot. I'd like to see someone load that snow blower into a small car.

People are encouraged to think that they can't do stuff like this on a bike.
The trailer is *easy*, two friends of mine have hauled good-sized loads with it w/o practice, it just worked.

@billyjoebowers @mekkaokereke @carnage4life Oh hey, this is me 😁

We got rid of our car a few years ago and got a couple of Tern HSD cargo e-bikes. I use mine for probably 7 out of 10 trips I make around town.

We started leasing a car when it looked like one of us might have an out-of-town commute. But, that changed and now we're looking to go car-less again.

The main things that make me reach for our car is inclement weather and longer highway trips out of town. Would be nice if there was something just-good-enough for those cases.

Like she said in that video, I don't need a TV, mini-fridge, and a sofa in my car 😅

GIANT PUMPKINS let's talk about em

I believe I have gotten FIVE spam texts today that look like genuine Harris fundraising appeals, but are fake.

Lest it need be said
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ActBlue — Billions raised online since 2004

From Friday's Vineyard Gazette: one of Vineyard Wind's turbine blades snapped, dropping fiberglass debris into the water. Debris washed up on the south shore of Nantucket, closing beaches during cleanup. Cause unclear, the plant is shut down and construction halted pending investigation. An NREL expert says "this is an anomaly".

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2024/07/18/vineyard-wind-project-shut-down-over-broken-blade-setback

Vineyard Wind Project Shut Down, Blade Falls Off

Federal regulators have shut down Vineyard Wind while they investigate what caused a 107-meter turbine blade to break and spill fiberglass into the ocean.

The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News
The #Science Is Clear: #OffshoreWind Isn’t What’s Killing #Whales
Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore #windturbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whales-are-dying-but-not-from-offshore-wind/
Whales Are Dying but Not from Offshore Wind

Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all

Scientific American

Vineyard Wind turbines are easy to see from South Beach! I think at least 20 are visible, even though last week the local paper said only 10 are operating.

I'm thrilled to see them, and also a bit surprised how obvious they appear. This is a Pixel 3 phone photo at 7x zoom

#offshorewind

Vineyard Gazette, July 12, 2024

Progress on offshore wind: Vineyard Wind weirdly still reports only 10 turbines operating (out of 62), but Revolution Wind has "steel in the water" (65 turbines planned, ~2025), New England Wind approved by BOEM (129 turbines, ~2029), Sunrise Wind approved (84 turbines, ~2026)

( so very, very brief—on the order of hundredths of a second. The first photograph of a red sprite, confirming their existence, wasn’t taken until 1989)

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/New_images_of_rare_thunder

#redSprites

New images of rare thunder

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen has captured images of rare thunder phenomena as part of the Thor-Davis experiment on his Huginn mission. 

For computer graphics academics and researchers, I threw this list of folks together. Apologies if I've forgotten anyone or included anyone who prefers to be forgotten! Let me know if there are any errors or corrections. Hoping this will help folks migrating from the birdsite. 🙂
https://christopherbatty.github.io/Mastodon-Graphics-Academics/
Graphics Academics on Mastodon

A list of Graphics Academics on Mastodon