Makerspaces in crisis zones are already helping people around the world: Puerto Rico, Haiti, Nepal.
Instead of waiting for expensive western supplies in makeshift tents, the survivors can get tools and start building new houses and infrastructure immediately. This not only makes the help /cheaper/ but also allows the people to feel more empowered and in control, less prone to long-term traumas.
Rep RaΓΊl Grijalva calls for interior secretary Ryan Zinke to resign
"an Interior Department inspector general investigation of Mr. Zinke β one of at least 17 publicly known formal probes of either him or his department since he took office β was recently referred to the Justice Department"
@rick_777 key points I remember is that it covered, for instance, a variety of types of crutch features such as single post or a rocking chair bottom or different armpit rests and why you might want a particular feature
It also covered local materials such as using gourds for wheels on a walker
Listening to a great #DailyShow interview with Will.i.am including a need for our own private AI rather than just cloud AI while scheduling an interview with a privacy related organization :)
Daily Show digital presence sucks, so I normally don't post about it, but watch this one before it expires in a few days
"Fontes said tabulation took longer because ballots that could not be read by machines were hand counted, which had not been done in the last two election cycles. There were about 130,000 of those ballots."
Any recommendations for an easy to use Mastodon client development library with lots of good examples?
I mostly don't care what language as at this point I will have to (re-)learn anything other than shell, but Python or Perl would be slightly more useful for me
Magazines, catalogs, etc. For most junk mail you can sign up to stop it via https://dmachoice.thedma.org/register.php - they charge you $2 to do it, or $3 if you do it by mail.
By the way: Open Library lets you check out books, including by current authors. Some of them have a wait list, but you still support authors. And some of them are off copyright and therefore free: