jlin

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To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. July was a bit of a whirlwind, and not just because of the pyrocumulonimbus clouds.

Photo of an embroidered calendar, with pie-shaped wedges for each month and stitched icons representing a new story from each day.

🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU

Are you a reporter who covers wildfires, smoke, climate and/or the environment? Do you have 10-15 minutes to talk to me for an OpenNews case study on personal protective equipment and newsroom best practices on covering wildfires and smoke? Email karen at opennews.org, DM, or Signal at karenkho.45.

My Microsoft 365 subscription expires on July 11. After that, no more Microsoft for me! I'll be using Libre Office, VLC Media Player and GIMP for watching video and editing images, Duck Duck Go and Firefox for web searches, Proton for email and Ubuntu for my operating system. Freedom!

HOW TO PAN ROAST ANY VEGETABLE 1. set oven to 425 F/225 C 2. put chopped veg in bowl 3. add olive oil, salt, pepper to bowl 4. toss veg in oil/S&P till it's covered 5. bake for 20 min on sheet tray 6. test with fork. fork go in super easy? done. if not, another 10 minutes, repeat until forkable