Good Things Friday (240) and Link Love
September 29, 2023
- I have made a DENT in the piles of detritus that threatened to take over my office! I cleared one corner of kid clutter, sorting things into giving-away-to-local-friend and recycling piles. Wiped down the baseboards and floor under one of the cabinets, vacuumed the nooks and crannies that the robot vacuum cannot reach, sealed and postaged the birthday package for our Lakota sponsee, and scheduled a mail pickup.
2. Also I reorganized things in Smol Acrobat’s room: filled a bag of things to give-to-local-friend, another bag of things to return to the lending friend, and remembered to mentally start a package for a third friend. There was a LOT of effort expended though by all appearances, I’ve only moved things around to new piles. Still. I did a good job.
3. The Waymaker Race: We still have two weeks in the Prove sponsor’s timeline to earn their matching dollars and we’re still pretty far from that $20K cap. Earlier on, I only had PiC do it because he logs many miles but since we’re still not even halfway, I put Strava on my phone, registered for the Race, and put myself in the Hermits Union, too. I’m only walking about a mile a day but that’s worth $1 a day and every bit counts. Also, it’s a chuckle that the Hermits Union has the most members and is the top of the leaderboard! Go Hermits!
Challenges this week:
Have you ever heard of the Dutch reach? This is the first I’ve heard of it but it’s a method of opening your door so that you don’t door bicyclists. Pretty neat.
Through the Night is a verité documentary that explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a child care provider, whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York. Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival. A co-production of POV and ITVS in association with Latino Public Broadcasting and Black Public Media.
This is a fantastic idea: SNAP recipients are denied hot food. These Penn grads found a hack with a new kind of corner store.
Yikes: New Orleans area officials preparing for possible saltwater intrusion by mid-October
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI: Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along
After Florida restricts Black history, churches step up to teach it (wapo gift link from a friend)
California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease
Uh no thank you: Plant Fungus Infected a Human in First Reported Case of Its Kind
That is enough nonsense, COVID!: Use of antiviral may be fuelling evolution of Covid, scientists say
Molnipiravir was always a bad idea and scientists have said so from the start. It also doesn’t work very well. But don’t worry, there’s so much covid around that it doesn’t need the help to mutate.
Why is that not so reassuring? XD