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I love giant magnets. She/her My opinions are trash and fully my own.

The Luddites were English textile workers who "protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality." [source: Wikipedia] DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? Yes, yes it does.

Small rural water utilities are some of our country's most vulnerable critical infrastructure. My latest story is about a group that dispatches volunteers to help these utilities secure their networks — and plan for digital disaster.

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 2d ago

A small army of volunteer security experts has spent the past few years helping rural water utilities with cybersecurity. How has it gone? What have they learned? And what's next? Read my (timely!) new story about DEF CON Franklin: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/water-c...

I need to quit my job so I have time to learn theatrical lighting, stonemasonry, printmaking, welding, bushcraft, tattooing, forestry, gymnastics, filmmaking, pedal steel guitar, lost-wax casting, jazz drumming, weaving, graffiti, carpentry, snowboarding, blacksmithing, and navigation

TIL the University of Chicago has a Botany Pond It's a shame there isn't a Chemistry Pond, you could have a big open reactor, some stir bars within, whiteboards explaining the chemistry and some condensers recirculating solvent

A greenish pond at the University of ChicagoA sign advertising the Botany Pond at the University of Chicago

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel