These are questions that activist Mariame Kaba regularly asks herself when she is outraged about injustice [ht]: What resources exist so I can better educate myself? Who’s already doing work around this injustice? Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them? How can I be constructive? …
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Some weeks ago Google announced that it was sun-setting Google Fusion Tables. Fusion Tables was often used by journalists, scientists, and others interested in quickly plotting data on a Google Map without having to do any coding. Google encouraged users to switch to other products, like its BigQuery cloud data warehouse system, its Google Data …
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The day after Christmas, there was a story from the CBC called Nature Conservancy of Canada suggests a better fate for country’s Christmas trees which was largely a re-packaging of a news release from the Nature Conservancy earlier in the week. That press release begins: If you’re taking down holiday decorations and thinking about ways …
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Some years ago – I think it was 2015 – a friend of mine kindly gifted me the game Mini-Metro on Steam because he guessed that I would love it. He was right. Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start …
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