Michael Cervieri

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Writing words and making web things while trying to develop a forest garden along the CT/RI border.

Husband to a much better half.

Father of two kids teaching me about the awe and wonder in the world.

Here: mostly #bees #trees and #robots with a lot of #photography in between.
Homehttps://michael.cervieri.com/
Michael CervieriApr 24, 2023
"If your business model is to tell lies so that you’ll get viewers and have lots of advertising revenues, then, odious though this business model may be, the tax system’s job is to tax you on the profits that you actually make from it. And those profits are indeed reduced when you are successfully sued by the victims of your malicious falsehoods."
https://www.levernews.com/fox-can-claim-tax-writeoff-for-defamation-settlement/
#media #law #gross
Fox Can Claim Tax Writeoff For Defamation Settlement

The company says it can deduct the cost of its $787 million payout to Dominion over its election lies.

The Lever
Michael CervieriApr 23, 2023
the clouds are puffy this evening
Show threadMichael CervieriApr 22, 2023
@chelming adding to my reading list. i love stuff like this.
Michael CervieriApr 21, 2023

say what? when caterpillars infest corn, the corn emits a signal to attract wasps to attack them.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.92.10.4169

@plants

Michael CervieriApr 20, 2023
the bee in here tells me the lawn's coming in nicely.
Michael CervieriApr 17, 2023
@ElleGray if we could repost i would and in that repost i'd write, "i have a new hero."
Show threadMichael CervieriApr 17, 2023
@DebOppermann lovely
Michael CervieriApr 17, 2023

when vengeance really was personal:

"Starting in pre-Christian times... fasting was a method of resolving legal disputes. A person might sit in front of the house of someone who had wronged them, either seeking support from the gods or threatening to curse the enemy by dying on their doorstep."

https://daily.jstor.org/the-irish-fasting-tradition/

#religion

The Irish Fasting Tradition - JSTOR Daily

Particularly before the Second Vatican Council (a.k.a. Vatican II), fasting was part of the Catholic calendar. No one took it more seriously than the Irish.

JSTOR Daily
Michael CervieriApr 17, 2023

"As humans, we are creating new types of ecosystems that have potentially never been seen before."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/04/animals-migrating-great-pacific-garbage-patch/673744/

#environment #nature #oceans #trash

Animals Are Migrating to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The oceanic soup of plastic fragments is becoming a new kind of ecosystem.

The Atlantic
Michael CervieriApr 17, 2023

using non-lethal tech to protect desert tortoises from ravens:

"When raven eggs hatch, the adults go into overdrive because they have babies to raise. You have these predatory vacuum cleaners scooping up everything... They just go out and start killing everything, and if baby tortoises are around, they’re really easy to nail.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/for-young-threatened-desert-tortoises-these-technologies-have-arrived-to-help-180981969/

#conservation #nature #tech

For Young Threatened Desert Tortoises, These Technologies Have Arrived to Help

Biologists are deploying 3D-printed replicas of hatchlings, lasers and drones to curb predation

Smithsonian Magazine