A gossamer thin supply chain for tech
I always thought the mines in Spruce Pine, NC made kitchen countertops. TIL they made the Palomar Observatory, and pretty much every modern computer chip:
The processor that makes your laptop or cell phone work was fabricated using quartz from this obscure Appalachian backwater.
The thing I miss the most are the snarky posts from the Seattle office.
I'm working on a couple of projects where I have looked at buyouts and flooding. Harris county has been doing pretty good at buying and tearing down vulnerable houses. But a lot more needs to be done.
bsky.app/profile/wand... (also, fixed some false alarm issues with the 🚨🚨 from this afternoon.)
So remember those major Science studies with Meta about the role of algorithmic ranking, polarization, and misinformation on social media? It turns out Meta made 63 tweaks to the algorithm during the study period which were not reported in the study. New in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I used to think Loving v Virginia was the greatest name for a legal case ever, but a new challenger has emerged
So we're supposedly drowning in crime, so let's have cops waste huge amounts of time harassing a teenager.
My latest post on solar panel permits in Houston ajackson.quarto.pub/website/Blog...
A look at how residential solar has grown in Houston from 2014 to September 2024