Get a sense of scale for computer storage...

Byte of data: a grain of rice
Kilobyte: a cup of rice
Megabyte: 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte: 3 container lorries
Terabyte: 2 container ships
Petabyte: covers Manhattan
Exabyte: covers the UK (3 times)
Zettabyte: fills the Pacific Ocean

Original source of the comparison, for the record: https://www.slideshare.net/dwellman/what-is-big-data-24401517

*sigh*

The moment you learn that linguists went with "Great Vowel Shift" when "Great Vowel Movement" was sitting right there.

Today marks 7 years since the Pulse Nightclub shooting, one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.

We must pass meaningful gun safety legislation, stand up against anti-LGBTQ+ hate, and work to build safer communities for all.

Every day I get to show someone the Falkirk wheel is a good day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel

Kudos to #California.

What is your state doing to identify and avoid the #textbooks revised to ingratiate #Florida extremists?

Just for old times' sake, my petition to allow US and UK trans and nonbinary people fleeing transphobic laws and a potential genocide to claim asylum in Canada? Well, it closes in just under one week. At the moment, we're about sixteen thousand signatures short of the second-most signatures on any Canadian petition to the government. Ever.

So I'm gonna send this around one more time, with the hope that Canadians will see it, sign it, and pass it along. You will need a Canadian address (a real one) to fill out the form.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268

Disponible en français ici:

https://petitions.noscommunes.ca/fr/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268

Thanks for your attention; boosts and x-posts to other social media welcomed.

Panama's updated data for Darién Gap migration through April 2023.

If there are about 30 million Venezuelans, including diaspora, then the 205,917 total (all the blue here) means __one out of every 146__ citizens of #Venezuela walked through the treacherous Darién Gap jungles since January 2022.

Unthinkable.

https://www.migracion.gob.pa/inicio/estadisticas

Our #GeneticMap just got a lot more diverse and thus useful, too

This is one of the most profoundly good news stories that will never get the recognition it deserves, but it remains a marvel

Consider we only mapped enough of the #HumanGenome to make it useful 20 years ago — without that rough data, the #pandemic we all went through would have been much longer & worse — and now we have dozens more genomes to build upon!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05896-x

#DNA #genetics