h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

YOUR CHRISTMAS MOVIE

MY INAUGURAL LECTURE

Open Science!

Huge Patient Datasets.... but with Privacy Protected!

Vast National Infrastructure Projects... but created by a Small Squadron of Vikings!

Epic Battles for Clinical Trials Transparency... but with Happy Endings!

Data... but with Mawkish Moving Stories about Colleagues and Family!

TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

https://youtu.be/_-eaV8SWdjQ?si=Xwj2jQD7Nf4iju9V

British wind turbines produced a record 21.81GW of power between 9:00am and 9:30am this morning. Over the past 24 hours wind turbines have supplied 61.7% of our electricity needs. Live data can be seen on my site at https://grid.iamkate.com.

Matt Gray is Trying: Line Marking

I knew this would require some skill and practice, but wow. The people who do this day in day out are so good!

Thanks to Total Line Marking for letting me come over and ruin their car park!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tClOUi-fJc

Please donate to @internetarchive to stand by your library.

100Petabytes and growing-- building a record of our time for us all to enjoy.

https://archive.org/donate

Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. I only learned *this year* that the Great Bengali Famine of 1770 was a precipitating factor in the protest, and so I collaborated with my historian colleague, Dr. Robert Martello, to share the globe-spanning story of colonialism and corporate power that we think should be much more widely known.

https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-80-tea-and-famine

This is a 100% serious request: Does anyone have access to a ground-penetrating radar we could borrow?

We’ve just published a detailed analysis of how libel firm Carter-Ruck acted for OneCoin, a massive cryptocurrency fraud. The evidence is reasonably clear that Carter-Ruck were reckless in choosing to act for OneCoin and how they acted. They missed obvious signs of fraud. That had serious consequences.

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/18/carter-ruck/

“[…] I don't think honestly I could do it, in my own words, without this machine; I'm hooked on it, now.”

the Rhetorizer, as envisioned by Philip K. Dick in 1964

Today’s poem consists of popular searches on Google to do with Christmas. It’s called ‘Christmas in the Age of Google’.

A deep dive into the GOV.UK cookie banner (more interesting than it sounds!)
https://nooshu.com/blog/2023/12/12/govuk-cookie-banner-browser-privacy-and-security/

By @TheRealNooshu

#webdev

Sitting down or getting up from my Ikea chair seems to generate enough EMI to de-sync the HDMI monitor on the other end of the room.

Evidently, this is somewhat common: https://mastodon.social/@haeckerfelix/110272427676278609

What was Carl Sagan like as a child? Pretty much exactly how you’d expect. https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/12/carl-sagan/

Just found this...

Does anyone remember these ? :)

I'd be interested in a drive if anyone can spare one. (I realise they are incredibly rare)

#RetroComputing #floppy #computers

Man Announces He Will Quit Drinking by 2050.

A Sydney man has set an ambitious target to phase out his alcohol consumption within the next 29 years, as part of an impressive plan to improve his health.

The program will see Greg Taylor, 73, continue to drink as normal for the foreseeable future, before reducing consumption in 2049 when he turns 101. He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term.

Taylor said it was important not to rush the switch to non-alcoholic beverages. “It’s not realistic to transition to zero alcohol overnight. This requires a steady, phased approach where nothing changes for at least two decades,” he said, adding that he may need to make additional investments in beer consumption in the short term, to make sure no night out is worse off.

https://theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/man-announces-he-will-quit-drinking-by-2050/

#GlobalWarming #Oil #BigOil #FossilFuel #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Drinking #Problem

From my favorite charity: Early findings from the world’s largest Universal Basic Income study

Basically, receiving one big sum is way more efficient to escape poverty than a monthly payment -- people can invest at once in equipment that will give them both immediate and long term returns, rather than just covering their immediate needs.
+ as expected, people know what is good for them and came up with a way to transform many tiny sums into a big one for investing.

https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/?utm_campaign=20231207%20UBI%20study&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=285530804&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--1p1LvCwsdGblMtQD_JYzbB17IOKiRwzMew2kSbcaICRICWZtcYvPfjO5uYvexK6TZq_xvh_2kju2LdNm-MWIO64T6Eg&utm_content=285530804&utm_source=hs_email