You know why performance on mastodon.social has been incredibly slow?
There was a big spike in posts on the Fediverse today. At one time, there were 350,000 toots sent in an hour.
See bottom graph.
this right here is why the Elon Jet account is important
this information about Elon Musk, the man whose entire career is made off the idea that he's going to save the world from climate catastrophe
and this is how he rolls so he can get to a World Cup game:
How The Washington Post has used flight data:
* To track a former president's emergency landing (in 2022): https://wapo.st/3HGp8IA
* To map out how military helicopters flew over George Floyd protests (in 2020): https://wapo.st/3V3WRie
* To raise questions about Elon Musk's flights (in 2019): https://wapo.st/2RmjE7X
* To investigate The Post's owner Jeff Bezos (in 2018): https://wapo.st/3YmLt3M
* To document extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime (in 2017): https://wapo.st/3HMh9d0
A plane carrying former president Donald Trump suffered engine failure late Saturday evening over the Gulf of Mexico, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in New Orleans shortly after taking off from the city.
Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.
Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.
How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?
https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science #HistoryRemix
@dangillmor I have been begging people to get to the lifeboats for five days now.