Robert Burgholzer

@rburghol
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i want to design information systems to help people grow food & drink profitably, sustainably & deliciously. And I want to use them to make great wine. #Swimming #Yoga #Wine #Farming #Drupal
Wine-grower at Mount Alto Vineyards but opinions on this account are just me.
Websitehttps://mountaltovineyards.com/

Check out our latest Biodiversity Bulletin 🌎:

🐙 Marine Biodiversity
⛰️ Smoky Mountain Species
🌱 Land & Liberation
👇 and more

https://www.briefecology.com/the-biodiversity-bulletin

#ecology #bioDiversity #solarPunk #conservation

The Biodiversity Bulletin — Brief Ecology

Brief Ecology

🌲 "Ultimately, the stories here invite us to redefine our ecological relationships. When our relation to our environment becomes unsustainable, or even antagonistic, there are consequences."

- Our editor, Ben Lockwood reviews BOREAL, from Strange Wilds Press

https://www.briefecology.com/the-eco-update-28/eco-fiction-review-boreal

Eco-fiction Review | Boreal — Brief Ecology

by Ben Lockwood

Brief Ecology

NEW: Lawmakers Demand Answers After the White House Initiated a $620M Loan to a Firm Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

A group of lawmakers demanded answers from the White House this week following a ProPublica investigation revealing that a top aide to the president initiated a $620 million loan from the Pentagon to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr.

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-vulcan-lawmakers-letter

#news #government #trump #pentagon

Lawmakers Demand Answers After the White House Initiated a $620M Loan to a Firm Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

In a letter, a group of Democratic Congress members wrote that ProPublica’s reporting on the deal “reveals a staggering level of corruption and influence.”

ProPublica

Tridge has responded on the rsync vibe disaster

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

* you're all dumb haters
* AI is a revolution just in the past few months
* yes there were regressions but,
* the new test suite is awesome you haters
* openrsync doesn't pass the new test suite! ha, you fools! well that's cos it targets an older version but,

at least it reads like he wrote it by hand

i can pick the particular mastodon posts he's reacting to here

rsync and outrage

I gave up blogging a long time ago (apart from an occasional thing about ArduPilot), I tend to just write code and hope people find it…

Medium

“A federal judge ordered the United States to pay $15,800 in legal fees in the [habeas corpus] case of a man who claims he suffered a severe head injury while being taken into custody during Operation Metro Surge.” https://www.startribune.com/judge-orders-us-to-pay-nearly-16000-in-legal-fees-for-man-who-suffered-head-injury-after-ice-arrest/601851644

Good - without meaningful compensation, attorneys can’t afford to take habeas corpus cases like this one. 1/2

“Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.” And the bot just went ahead and did it.

https://404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404 Media
The Corruption of the Trump DOJ Seeps Deep and Far

Josh Kovensky has a good piece up today on the collapse of...

TPM - Talking Points Memo

Open source tractor. Open source house. Open source truck. Open source induction furnace.

Open sourced blueprints - Global Village Construction Set. 50 machines at a fraction of the cost of commercial counterparts. Lifetime machines. Modular. No obsolescence. Lovely stuff.

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

Home | Open Source Ecology

We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.

Open Source Ecology

Folk are criticising Morrisons the grocery retailers because theyve introduced sanitary bins in men's loos.

Fuck off. Its a great idea. For the men who need them to change their incontinence pads, stomas and other non paper waste.

Why are people so ready to hate on a good idea?!

#stoma #mens_room #menshealth #incontinence #dignityforall

Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace

New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.

The Philadelphia Inquirer