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Wastewater Offers an Early Alarm System for Another Deadly Virus

A surveillance system proven during Covid-19 is now being used to track outbreaks of RSV.

WIRED

(Thread) In the olden days, a FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) project typically had:

- A source code repository
- A web page with the documentation, FAQ and links to downloads
- At least one mailing list called announce, typically also one for users and one for contributors, all with public archives
- (maybe) An IRC channel to chat with other users and maybe also the developers

Maybe it’s time to try that simple approach again? Everything open, everything accessible? 1/7

New in the Canadian Historical Review (I am one of the co-editors): a fine article tracing current vaccine hesitancy to shifts in parenting and the rise of neoliberalism in the late 20th century.

Kathryn Hughes , Catherine Carstairs, "'Needling Doubts': Maternalism, Neo-liberalism and Intensive Parenting as the Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in English-speaking Canada, 1980–2007"

https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2023-0006

#histodons #history #vaccine #vaccination #PublicHealth #MedicalHistory #neoliberalism #Canada

A really annoying thing that absolutely needs to stop:

- "More info in the discord!" / "Changelog in the Discord!"

STOP THAT.

Discord is a closed, proprietary platform. Post your stuff on the actual open web where more people will see it.

This is your regular PSA to learn the “over-under method” of rolling cables!

Coiling a cable the ‘normal’ way, whether just in your hands, around your elbow, or somewhere else, imparts a 1/2 axial twist to the cable each time.
That’s the main thing that causes your extension cables to develop kinks and degrade!
If you use the over-under method, the 1/2 twist is counteracted by a -1/2 twist every second loop, so the cable is kept flat and unstressed.
This can hugely increase the lifetime of your electrical cables, to upwards of 20 years of heavy use, without kinks or twists.
(GIF credit hosatech.com)

"Since June 2022, activists have been targeting renowned museums and galleries to draw attention to the climate crisis, with protests that often involve the apparent destruction of artworks. These actions have been condemned in global media outlets and are frequently represented as counterproductive and lacking in logic. We contend there is a logic in the actions of these political dissenters that goes beyond a simple attempt to secure media and political attention."

https://brill.com/view/journals/prot/4/2/article-p143_003.xml

On Art and the Limits of Dissent: Climate Activism at Museums and Galleries

Abstract Since June 2022, activists have been targeting renowned museums and galleries to draw attention to the climate crisis, with protests that often involve the apparent destruction of artworks. These actions have been condemned in global media outlets and are frequently represented as counterproductive and lacking in logic. We contend there is a logic in the actions of these political dissenters that goes beyond a simple attempt to secure media and political attention. The symbolic destruction of famous artworks represents a threat to deep psychological needs to transcend death through the protection of common heritage, which is discursively linked to climate and ecological destruction. Furthermore, considering the current literature on the physical spaces of democratic practices, we highlight the risks of demarcating museums and galleries as “off-limits” for political action and contend that these are legitimate sites for protest and acts of civil disobedience. Desde junio del 2022, los y las activistas han utilizado museos y galerías de renombre para llamar la atención sobre la crisis climática, con protestas que a menudo implican la aparente destrucción de obras de arte. Estas acciones han sido condenadas en medios de comunicación globales y son frecuentemente representadas como contraproducentes y carentes de lógica. En este artículo argumentamos que hay una lógica en las acciones de estos disidentes políticos que va más allá de la simple intención de capturar la atención política y mediática. La destrucción simbólica de obras de arte famosas representa una amenaza contra necesidades psicológicas profundas de trascender la muerte a través de la protección del patrimonio común, la cual está ligada discursivamente a la degradación climática y ecológica. Además, según la literatura actual sobre los espacios físicos de las prácticas democráticas, subrayamos los riesgos de demarcar los museos y las galerías como “restringidos” para la acción política, y sostenemos que son sitios legítimos para la protesta y la desobediencia civil.

Brill
it's even on the little touchscreeens of phones and tablets 🙄
I'd really like to buy a new laptop, but giving money to companies that refuse to abandon the typewriter double stagger layout feels wrong...

Turns out the renewed licence to use #glyphosate in Dutch agriculture was in part based on input from a scientist who previously supported the asbestos, lead, and diesel industries. And who was paid a few hundred thousand dollars to support Bayer in Australian court cases.

On Dutch public TV tonight:
https://www.bnnvara.nl/zembla/artikelen/toelating-glyfosaat-beinvloed-door-omstreden-amerikaanse-expert
#pesticides

Toelating glyfosaat beïnvloed door omstreden Amerikaanse expert - Zembla - BNNVARA

Het oordeel van de Nederlandse pesticide-autoriteit Ctgb dat glyfosaat niet kankerverwekkend is, is mede gebaseerd op publicaties van een omstreden Amerikaanse wetenschapper. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Zembla..

BNNVARA