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Growing food and power on the same land: California researchers test agrivoltaics
https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2026/08/25/growing-food-and-power-on-the-same-land-california-researchers-test-agrivoltaics?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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i'm an economic centrist. I think both the market socialists and the command economists make great points.
@RussellsBarbershopQuartet I don't agree with the "the only thing that government should do is aggressive and ongoing redistribution of wealth" far-left-minarchist people but I like and respect their Bit.
Anthony Ralphs has been speaking against Flock at San Diego City Council meetings for almost a year straight. When he showed up as Darth Vader, the world started watching.
https://www.404media.co/darth-vader-flock-san-diego-city-council-interview/
@404mediaco Maybe he took inspiration from Count Binface? Sometimes you need to get noticed before you get heard.
This is, quite possibly, the most entertaining interview i have ever encountered. You simply *must * read it. It keeps getting better with every question.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/b-c-swimmer-crosses-strait-of-georgia-under-nine-hours-9.7316260
Urgent: I'm helping my friend @PaulDitz raise $3K for life saving surgery for his special kitty Atticus (pictured below). The good news is, we're only about $500 short. The bad news is I need that $500 in the next 3 or so days. If you can spare a few bucks to save Atticus it would mean the world to me. If he can get the money, the prognosis is good. We can save Atticus together, we really can. You can send money via Venmo (@PaulDitz) CashAp ($PaulDitz) or Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/PaulDitz
RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/117158475208631398
I'm surprised they didn't go after Xcancel first
#AfterDark IS BACK, BABY!!! https://morphing.cloud/afterglow/ #AfterGlow #Apple #mac @halcyon
I am blown away by the quality of this. Everything is snappy and completely native. The screen savers can be installed as real, actual screen savers, in System Settings. The options for each After Dark screensaver are even configurable within System Settings, with native controls.
These sound like small things but **they are not**.
You must download this app:
The weather forecast is doing it again. Thunderstorm warning every day for the past week or so and for the remainder of the week. Meanwhile not a single one of these clouds forming north and south of the city has decided to become rain. We had one single day of rain since the end of rainy season in early July. 🤦♂️
@David
We do get thunderstorms without rain in summer in Osaka (makes for good pictures!) and occasionally here on Okinawa too. That's probably what they warn about.
❤️ We Need Your Help Before Our Baby Girl Arrives ❤️
My wife is pregnant, and there are only about two and a half months left until our baby girl is due. We dream of welcoming her with the simplest things every mother and baby need, but our difficult circumstances make even the basic preparations a huge burden for us. 💔
We are trying to raise $500 to prepare for the delivery and buy essential items for our baby, including clothes, diapers, and other basic
https://chuffed.org/project/146250-help-hamza-survive
Hm, der Brand im Hohen Venn wurde wohl durch eine Agrarmaschine verursacht.
Dabei hatten Dirk Wiese gesagt, es seien Brandstifter und laut Innenminister Herr Bert haben "irgendwelche Idioten einfach etwas weggeworfen" …
Wer macht so was?
Mit Agrarmaschinen werfen ist echt asi.
@sl007 kann immer noch fahrlässige Brandstiftung sein. Die Maschine ist ja nicht für sich selbst verantwortlich und betreibt sich wohl auch selbst nicht autonom.
Now, we wait to see whether the trial court judge approves the amended complaints and grants a new injunction pausing Trump regime’s actions while the merits of the case are heard. If he does and the DC Circuit upholds it, it will be fascinating/disgusting to see the grounds regime use to challenge the new temporary injunction at the Supreme Court and the new contortions the Roberts Six will go through to lift it. 5/5
@heidilifeldman I smell the emergence of a new made-up unreviewable court Doctrine
I was actually more interested in understanding if either of the fridges which were here when we moved here five years ago might be a justifiable replacement, in terms of power consumption.
I need to measure a bit more, but since they are at least six years old, and probably >10, even though they are still working and I hate replacing working stuff, they are probably quite power hungry.
But ten-year-old fridges will probably still be working 20 years from now, but you'll probably have to replace a new fridge in 10 years.
If you're looking at full lifecycle energy costs, the energy footprint of manufacturing, running, and disposing of a 10-year lifespan fridge will be greater than keeping the existing fridge running for 10 years.
It's really tough to figure this out at an individual level; and not much easier with aggregate statistical data from thousands of fridges.
I'm excited to share Afterglow, my After Dark module player for macOS. With Afterglow you can run the original After Dark modules on your Mac -- directly, not inside an emulated classic Mac OS. Even as your screen saver!
Afterglow is not a port or remake: it runs the modules on the Musashi 68k CPU emulator with a re-implemented Macintosh Toolbox and OS API layer to reproduce the original module behavior.
I hope you have as much fun running it as I did making it. Enjoy!
Appeals Court Rules for Democrats in TV Ad Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/politics/court-democrats-republicans-ad-case.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Good morning Fedi friends!
I'd like to create a custom #Fediverse t-shirt for my upcoming talk at #BerlinFediDay.
I thought of maybe using the Fediverse logo as the "O" for "HOPE". What do you think? Trying to gauge if it's cheesy or not, I'd love some external opinion 😅
@_elena
I love it and didn't get to vote
@liaizon@social.wake.st yeah it does, just seems to be due to stricter checks on my end. I don't know if that's the right content type though.
@julian its because its being served from github pages and theres nothing I can do to change that. cause wake.st is my static website...
@jasongorman Cherry-picking is a sin against humans and gods.
Not that I've never been surprised, or added a file to .gitignore. That does happen, cuz modern build environments are complicated.
But if there are actual source files in a git status that I don't know why they're there, it's cuz my step is too big, and I git reset --hard.
My experience, over the decades, is that ignoring files generated by the build process is normal. And relatively "healthy." Ideally, one would build to a location outside of the source directories. But we often cannot control or change that, given the way that modern IDEs and develop environments work.
Our London borough has been one of the recipients of Dolly’s Imagination Library for the last few months. A free book every month. Some became my daughter’s favourites. I always make a little joke “Dolly sent this!!”.
This is a really sad loss for the world. 💔 the goal is to be this kind.
Also, I am always singing “toe beans” instead of “Jolene” when I touch my cat’s paws 😭😭😭
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