Mastodawn

Andy Rooney's children, both TV journalists,
talk about what their father might have thought about what's happening at 60 Minutes
https://scottvanvoorhis.substack.com/p/new-in-contrarian-boston-what-would

New in Contrarian Boston: What would Andy think? "Beat the Press with Emily Rooney" looks at how Andy Rooney would have dealt with the attacks on '60 Minutes' and its journalistic independence |

Value independent journalism?

Contrarian Boston

gmoke 3d ago

People who lie about the end of the world will keep lying until the world ends.

Timothy Snyder, On Freedom

gmoke 4d ago

Geometry Links - June 6, 2026 is now available
https://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2026/06/geometry-links-june-6-2026.html

Links to developments in geometric math, science, design, & art

Geometry Links - June 6, 2026

Growth ratio set in motion https://x.com/mathemetica/status/2049938085345972598 Thread on Riemann Hypothesis https://x.com/mathemetica/st...

gmoke 4d ago

Charcoal in Modern Cooking Transition
Tuesday, June 16
14:00–14:30 CEST, 16:00–16:30 GST

2.1 billion people without access to clean cooking
30% rely on charcoal
ways to modernise the charcoal value chain

Caroline Ochieng, IRENA
https://www.irena.org/events/2020/Jun/IRENA-Insights

gmoke 6d ago

Ecological designer John Todd proposes
remaking oil tankers into eco-machines
for the large scale purification of highly toxic
polluted waters

Starting with the Black Sea,
the Sea of Azov,
Persian Gulf,
Strait of Hormuz,
& the Red Sea...

Heal the waters

https://oceanarks.substack.com/p/healing-the-waters-poisoned-by-wars

Healing the Waters Poisoned by Wars

A Canadian Led Global Solution

Stories for Healing Earth

gmoke Jun 3

Preserving the photographic history of coral reefs
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/3/800049934/community/preserving-the-photographic-history-of-coral-reefs/
Raising funds to digitize & make available photographs of global coral reefs from 1946 through the 1960s, a way to remember & possibly rebuild what we have destroyed

Preserving the Photographic History of Coral Reefs

I saw a story online from BBC about a series of photos of Jamaican coral reefs from the 1960s (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260506-the-1960s-photos-capturing-jamaicas-lost-paradise) a week or…

Daily Kos

gmoke May 30

Masha Gessen on the lessons of Hungary's recent election
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/opinion/hungary-win-election-viktor-orban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.DvjD.m9SeN_61JkcO&smid=url-share

Opinion | Hungary Showed How to Defeat an Autocrat

Eleven lessons America must learn

The New York Times

gmoke May 26

from Aristotle's Politics:
There is also a third form of tyranny...
where a single person exercises irresponsible rule
over men who are all his peers or superiors,
& does so with a view to his own advantage
rather than to that of his subjects....

gmoke May 25

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - June 2026
https://hubevents.blogspot.com/2026/05/energy-and-other-events-monthly-june.html

Seems like these is a focus on AI in health & how to make climate communication more effective in these mostly academic events from all over the world on energy/climate/environment

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - June 2026

These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with ...

gmoke May 24

Colbert the day after he left CBS
hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, MI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTXB5uT_C4

Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube