Mastodawn

I have almost 20 years of experience creating, managing, and maintaining knowledge bases for both Level 0 / Client Facing purposes and for technical teams.

To put things bluntly … Is your shit fucked? You need me! Is your shit pretty good but it seems like people aren’t using it? You need me! Does your “documentation” point people to a Discord? You needed me a long time ago but I can still help!

(This isn’t a true FediHired post but I do expect to get paid for my services unless no members of your project are getting paid. We can discuss sliding scales.)

Alan 18h ago

Calishat 20h ago

Africa Plants, Grok, TikTok, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, July 13, 2025

NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from The Conversation: Africa’s plants: a database project has recorded 65,000 species – and is still growing . "The database was developed by the Geneva Botanical Garden in Switzerland – involved for more than 60 years in research and conservation projects in Africa – in collaboration with the South African National Biodiversity Institute. It’s an online list of all known…

http://researchbuzz.me/2025/07/13/africa-plants-grok-tiktok-more-sunday-researchbuzz-july-13-2025/

Africa Plants, Grok, TikTok, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, July 13, 2025

NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from The Conversation: Africa’s plants: a database project has recorded 65,000 species – and is still growing . “The database was developed by the Geneva Botanical Ga…

ResearchBuzz

Alan 18h ago

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🍓𝔹𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕪𝕊𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣🫐20h ago

@ai6yr Sadly the 97yo Grand Canyon Lodge at the North Rim had burned and is gone as of today. (Designed by architect Gilbert Underwood in 1928. ) 50-80 structures destroyed in area.😢
Hopefully all visitors, parks workers and fire fighters are ok. #grandcanyon #wildfires #arizona

https://apnews.com/article/grand-canyon-wildfire-lodge-north-rim-f3510c22a6fddc9ff1322dbd450aedb8

Historic Grand Canyon lodge destroyed by wildfire, official says

A historic lodge on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim has been destroyed by a wildfire. Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents and staff that the Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames. He says the visitor center, the gas station and a waste water treatment plant also were lost, along with some employee housing and an administrative building. Millions of people visit Grand Canyon National Park annually, with most going to the more popular South Rim. The North Rim is open seasonally. It was largely evacuated last Thursday because of the wildfire, with more evacuations of firefighters and hikers in the inner canyon over the weekend.

AP News

Alan 19h ago

Popehat’s Interests First 21h ago

Let’s talk about Professor Jonathan Caravello, who teaches math and philosophy at CSU Channel Islands. He’s been detained by the feds based on events at a protest in Ventura County on Thursday. /1 www.pacbiztimes.com/2025/07/12/c...

CSUCI Professor arrested among...

Alan 20h ago

It's Going Down 2d ago

"An injury to one, is an injury to all."

Jamie Garcia, murdered by ICE.

"My uncle Jaime was just a hard-working, innocent farmer. He was chased by ICE agents, and we were told he fell 30ft.

They took one of our family members. We need justice."

Support fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jaime-alanis-farm-worker-glasshousefarms

Alan 21h ago

Listening to the July 3 episode of Behind the News. One question Im left with is given how private equity purchases of businesses are leveraged with outside loans - why is any entity loaning these deals money given how badly they perform? Maybe I will have to read Meagan Greenwell's book

https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-july-3-2025/

@doughenwood

NATO summit, the depredations of private equity | KPFA

Lily Lynch, author of this report, on the NATO summit • Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company, on the depredations of private equity

KPFA

Alan 22h ago

Krazy Krêpe 1d ago

For Linux users who want to remove DRMs from ebooks they've legally purchased, so as to read them on the ebook reader they've also legally purchased for their intended purpose: I've updated my setup to replace using #AdobeDigitalEditions through wine with the simple and marvelous libgourou library.

Details here:

https://amrhaps.net/english/post/2025/07/13/Adobe-Digital-Editions%2C-Linux%2C-and-DRMs%3A-Updated-again

With thanks to @mart1oeil who told me years ago this should be possible 🙂

#epub #drm

Adobe Digital Editions, Linux, and DRMs: Updated again - American Rhapsody

The most popular posts on that blog are, by far, those in which I gave detailed instruction on how to remove DRMs from Adobe Digital Editions Books, the first one in 2011 and the

Alan 23h ago

Ken 1d ago

In a hot climate, the shade created by solar panels decreases irrigation needs and eliminates heat stress on crops grown beneath them. Plus, the cooling effects of growing plants under solar arrays can actually increase the power output of the panels. apple.news/AVuY5sY1tTeW...

In the Sweltering Southwest, P...

In the Sweltering Southwest, Planting Solar Panels in Farmland Can Help Both Photovoltaics and Crops — Inside Climate News

Agrivoltaic solar arrays can shade crops from sun while moisture from vegetation cools the panels to increase their productivity, researchers and farmers have found.

Alan 23h ago

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦1d ago

How Britain privatised itself into failure

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

#MustRead #book #BookReview #NonFiction #Privatized #outsourcing #ProfitsOverPeople #Britain https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the-state-for-sale-how-britain-privatised-itself-into-failure/

Alan 23h ago

IICADD 23h ago

The 5th global coop research conference offered excellent dialogues, presentations and coop tours. A partnership of ICA-CCR, ACE and CASC, coordinated and hosted by IICADD, ensured diversity of topics and people. Conference documentation on https://portailcoop.hec.ca/ #coop #ica #hecmontreal