In my journey to continue to find the good things in a world that’s breaking my heart on the daily, I found some beautifully-serene art.

Kinetic artist, Reuben Margolin uses skills in design, engineering, physics, electronics, and more. He creates motorized pieces that seem impossible. The one is called “Interlaced.”

More:
https://www.reubenmargolin.com/

#Art #Engineering #Physics #Math #KineticArt #Sculpture #Artist #ReubenMargolin #Mechanical

I never want to see pundits say that young people are not interested in politics ever again.

Young people aren't the problem. Uninspiring candidates are the problem.

Had my talk on Small Web accepted at #why2025 but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.

If any conferences do want to hear about the Small Web and are willing to support our work by paying us to speak about it, please feel free to get in touch:

https://small-tech.org/contact-us/

#SmallTech #SmallWeb #speaking #events #conferences #decentralisation #humanRights #personhood #democracy #peerToPeer #web #design #dev

This Is Not a Drill: Living the Climate Emergency

🌡️ Japan had hottest June on record

🌡️ Spain records highs of 46C

🌡️ Portugal recorded 46°C in some regions

🌡️France recorded 41.9°C in Vinsobres on June 30, with dozens of monthly records broken.

🌡️Greece reported a high of 43.2°C with minimum temperatures exceeding 31°C in some areas.

🌡️Turkey hit 45°C, with minimums as high as 33°C in some areas.

#climatechange #extremetemps 😓

check this out if you want to help preserve the archive of "most local newspapers through most of US history" that had its funding pulled, even if you only have a couple dozen gigabytes to spare, you can
a) make an account on https://sciop.net/ ,
b) run a qbittorrent instance, go to preferences>web ui and click enable,

and just do this

and that's all.

if you have spare storage, you can sort by seeders, ascending, and start from there. or subscribe to the rss feed and auto-download it.

this is an archive funded by the library of congress (threatened) and the national endowment for the humanities (actively being eliminated). the alternative is that an enormous amount of US history that doesn't percolate into history books is owned and operated by lexisnexis and other for-profit data brokers.

this is the first run of some tooling to lower the bar for participatory scraping - at the moment, the archive is still online, and the scraper will automatically embed a webseed URL in the created torrent. so even if you don't have space to seed, you can scrape the data, upload the torrent, and make it possible for waiting peers to become mirrors

#sciop

Call your Republican Senators RIGHT NOW.

Not later; not tonight; RIGHT NOW. Pick up the phone and dial the switchboard if you don’t know their office’s direct number:

(202) 224-3121

Tell your Republican Senator or Senators that you demand they vote AGAINST the Big Ugly Bill that transfers wealth to the billionaire class at a scale not seen in decades if ever, and balloons the national debt to levels never imagined.

They’re still going through amendments. There is still time, if you call RIGHT. NOW.

#fascism #politics #uspol #uspolitics

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