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slackline :emacs: :orgmode:4h ago

Came across open_food_map: An open-source project for building interactive, data-driven restaurant maps for any city.

Looks quite easy to contribute.

https://github.com/laurencleek/open_food_map

Why? Because fuck Google homogenising the world...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/mar/19/how-google-maps-is-shaping-where-we-eat-video

GitHub - laurencleek/open_food_map: An open-source project for building interactive, data-driven restaurant maps for any city. This repo contains the code of the London Food Map plus a modular pipeline for adding new cities. Contributions welcome: add your favourite city, improve the models, or extend the visualizations.

An open-source project for building interactive, data-driven restaurant maps for any city. This repo contains the code of the London Food Map plus a modular pipeline for adding new cities. Contribu...

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slackline :emacs: :orgmode:4d ago

This is the sort of policy that the world needs to move away from destroying the earth as focus on GDP on promotes burning through the resources that are left.

Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead | Zack Polanski | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/18/zack-polanski-says-greens-would-ditch-gdp-targets-and-focus-on-wellbeing-instead

Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead

Leader uses first major economic speech to prioritise public services and reduction of inequality over growth

The Guardian

slackline :emacs: :orgmode:5d ago

yet more ways "AI" companies are fucking up the world for everyone...

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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slackline :emacs: :orgmode:Mar 15

@jpmens Works with the international standard ISO-8601 if the leading YYYY is dropped

(it would be great see to this international standard adopted world-wide as it would save so much hassle when it comes to wrangling dates although wouldn't solve the headaches of working with historical data).

slackline :emacs: :orgmode:Mar 13

Why is the UK so backwards in its approach to energy production and pricing?

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/uk-energy-prices-soaring-war-iran-fossil-fuel-north-sea

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why

The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

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slackline :emacs: :orgmode:Mar 12

@maphew Wait two years for enough humans to write useful and informative blogs that are scraped by AI companies for free to bolster their models and boost their profits.

The problem will persist with every new tool as there won't be training data on which the large language models can be trained.

slackline :emacs: :orgmode:Mar 12

Quite the shit-show that is being created by those clamoring for "AI" datacenters.

AI datacenters could get priority access to Britain's grid • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/uk_datacenter_grid_priority/

So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue

: Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hook

The Register

slackline :emacs: :orgmode:Mar 12

Something a bit fucked up about this, only a 13 year sentence for keeping someone in enslaved for 25 years?!?!?! She should get at least 25 years, one for each year the victim was kept locked up and then some.

Woman kept in ‘Dickensian’ servitude for 25 years speaks out as abuser jailed | Crime | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/12/amanda-wixon-jailed-woman-victim-imprisoned-25-years-speaks-out

Woman kept in ‘Dickensian’ servitude for 25 years speaks out as abuser jailed

Amanda Wixon, 56, sentenced to 13 years for keeping victim imprisoned at home in Gloucestershire since 1990s

The Guardian

slackline :emacs: :orgmode:Mar 10

Just read about `git cherry-pick --no-commit` which prevents a commit being made pulling in the commit(s) that are being cherry picked.

Reading through #magit manual (https://docs.magit.vc/magit/Cherry-Picking.html) I couldn't see this option mapped out in the transient.

I wonder if this is currently possible?

#emacs #magit

Cherry Picking (Magit User Manual)

slackline :emacs: :orgmode:Mar 8

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/116195224382916202

I've always wondered why funders don't cut out the middleman (traditional academic publishers) and just...make it mandatory that all funded research is written up and published openly by the body that funded it. 🤷

Seems like a no-brainer to me. Remove fees for publishing and everyone can access the fruits of their labour because those who funded the research, very often the public, publish the results of what they funded.

/cc @albertcardona @pjacock

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