Remi Boucher

@remiboucher
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Working at the Mont-Megantic International Dark Sky Reserve / National Park / ASTROLab. Self-proclaimed swiss army knife against #lightpollution.
Also interested in science, space, maps, photography, trailrunning, splitboard and more.
Websiteremiboucherphoto.com
Workmeganticdarksky.org
Twitter@remiboucher
Remi BoucherOct 6
Mark McCaughreanOct 5

Capitalism – the great con game wrought by those who rake in billions & billions by claiming they make people’s lives better while the only winners are them 🤑

Well worth reading this piece by @pluralistic on “enshittification” & in particular deep pile of ordure that Amazon has buried us all in 💩

Cory’s thesis is almost entirely vindicated by the pompous & deliberately obfuscational response by Amazon at the end 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

The Guardian
Show threadRemi BoucherDec 20, 2024
@spacegeck I’ve never found the Bortle scale particularly useful. Might as well use mag/arcsec2.
Remi BoucherSep 20, 2024
Salva BaráAug 21, 2024
A must-read letter by @travislongcore in LRT supporting the use of the term "artificial light".
"Our limitations here are not unrefined language, but the political will to understand and act, and those require plain talk."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14771535241268656
Remi BoucherAug 23, 2024
@overcastfm thank you for bringing back streaming! 🙌
Show threadRemi BoucherJun 7, 2024
@JohnBarentine after that, it's all a matter of matching the limits of the protected area to the municipal/county limits to implement outdoor lighting regulations or management plans
Show threadRemi BoucherJun 7, 2024
@JohnBarentine Having a "large" city like Sherbrooke inside the IDSR might seem weird at first, as it is not "dark", but the whole idea is to include the large sources of light to help reduce light pollution. Simply drawing limits around a dark area would have missed the point.
Show threadRemi BoucherJun 7, 2024
@JohnBarentine Interesting read, and glad you linked to the paper of light pollution reduction around Mont-Megantic. As I was reading your piece, I kept thinking about how this "lightshed" concept is very similar to how the Mont-Megantic IDSR (and the DarkSky Reserve concept) was built from the start.
Show threadRemi BoucherMay 30, 2024
@skyglowberlin @JohnBarentine yeah, I know that the use of light (both during and after the construction) is very different between Europe and the US, but even the size of the 2 sites for the factories are very different. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/19ce0o1/tesla_factories_a_scale_comparison_january_2024/#lightbox
Show threadRemi BoucherMay 29, 2024

@skyglowberlin @JohnBarentine looking at this video posted 2 months ago, there seems to still be a lot of unshielded construction lightson generators used around the factory https://youtu.be/C5gMoN7cVvc?si=s80f7bSLRsipxEzw (also visible in the screengrab from streetview.)

Most of the permanent lights fixtures seem to be shielded according to the drone view.

#gigatexas @ night!

YouTube
Show threadRemi BoucherMay 29, 2024
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