Jack Allard

Jack Allard

@jackallard.net

seattle hacking with biodiversity data on atproto https://photos.jackallard.net

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It’s Prof. Sporadicus in another episode of Science Minute! Today, we join Walla Walla City Council to explore the question: what happens when we run a landscape-level experiment in our only drinking water source? wallawallawatershed.com

Video jam on the Hypno 2 Webcam video of lines of code, added mirror affect. Hue modulation from onboard mic audio, and a luma key shader on the right hand channel.

Threw together this flippable mushroom card demo last night! It is based on the same interface as the search result items from the search engine demo I worked on last month, so I will soon be able to generate a trading card for every known species on earth!

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propaganda we're not falling for: - there's no nature in cities/urban areas - we already know everything about plants & animals - nature photography requires expensive camera equipment - you need a degree to contribute to science - you need to travel far to see interesting species

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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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Replying to @fwcindivisible.bsky.social

The postal service has not "long struggled with its finances". The USPS has long struggled with Republicans putting ridiculous financial requirements on it, and more recently dickhead DeJoy's sabotage. Also it struggles with biased media hit jobs like this paywalled drivel.

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No, Mr. President, you cannot illegally arrest and detain legal US residents because of their political views or opinions. In America, we have a little something called the First Amendment. Throwing protesters in jail is yet another step on the path to authoritarianism.

absolutely fried this raspberry pi pico today trying to swap it into a prototype in place of an arduino time to learn more about circuitry i think…

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Also got these messages through right before they locked it down

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

I just sent this email to all 13,000 federal employees of the NOAA lol. The Trump administration's changes to their communications system made it so literally anyone can blast messages out to the entire agency

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UnitedHealthcare has been accused of using algorithms to deny treatments and refusing coverage of nursing care to stroke patients. UnitedHealthcare and its parent company now face a class-action lawsuit over its use of the algorithm.

nytimes.com‘Delay, Deny, Defend’: United Has Faced Scrutiny Over Denying ClaimsThe company has been accused of using algorithms to deny treatments and refusing coverage of nursing care to stroke patients.

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Replying to @supersaiga.bsky.social

Imagine making bread as a hobby, with no profit incentives, and just giving away the extra to your friends and neighbors. Maybe you invest in a machine to make some parts less tedious... suddenly you're cost to make bread has dropped dramatically and you can give even more away...

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Replying to @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

Staffer: "Aww shit, he flat lined again, and we got a spending bill vote in 3 hours!" Occult liason: "Ugh, McDonnell's office has possession of the Necronomicon right now, I'll let you know as soon as his people are done with it..."