Ways to help Hurricane Helene survivors via donations: GoFundMe’s Hurricane Relief Fund — direct cash grants to affected individuals and groups. Red Cross — funds relief efforts across the area impacted by Helene. World Central Kitchen — distributing food and water to affected communities […]
Ways to help— donate — mutual aid — Hurricane Helene https://itsgoingdown.org/mutual-aid-hurricane-helene/#aid#HurricaneHelene#Hurricane#Helene
EVs could catch fire if inundated with saltwater from Helene https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-electric-vehicles-fire-flooding-0284e2eb2accc0570361def4e963eda0#EVs#EV#safety#Hurricane#Helene#HurricaneHelene#SafetyWarning
The Media Economies Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder is launching a 5-month process of mentorship and peer-to-peer learning, empowering veteran community builders to adopt emerging open social networks. #onlinecommunity#socialmedia […]
“ This is where our new Online Investigations Toolkit comes in: it not only helps you discover tools in categories like satellite imagery and maps, social media, transportation or archiving, but is also designed to help researchers learn how to use each tool by providing in-depth descriptions […]
I'm reading the GAO's report on the Department of Education's FAFSA software debacle. It's basically the Greatest Hits of Waterfall Software Development. (Disclaimer: I played a small role in oversight of this on the Biden-Harris Transition Team, for which my contribution was a single memo […]
A climate scientist wanted to test if wood, buried in the right soil, could avoid decomposition, thus sequestering the carbon. They found the right soil, dug the hole to dump the wood in, and found a chunk of an eastern red cedar 6½ feet underground. Carbon dating found it to be 3,775 years old […]
Sudan — it's been a year of civil war — seventeen months, in fact. The largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3zq40qq25ohttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeyg2g288wohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hq5c5s Follow […]