yogurt @yogurt@mastodon.bida.im

I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.

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Latest comic:

#gaza #protest #war #firstamendment #israel #palestine #cartoon #comic #politics

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontiéres @MSFcanada

Medical staff in #Gaza are so inundated by the sheer mass of patients arriving that the surgical board used to keep track of the weeks upcoming surgeries has been wiped clean and replaced with these words:

"Whoever stays until the end,
will tell the story
we did what we could.
*Remember Us*
20/10/2023

1:38 PM - Nov 10, 2023 - 227.9K Views

I love this cartoon from Stan Kelly.
#bicycles #bikelanes

In the #WestBank, Orthodox Jews are protecting #Palestinians.

The difference between Wikipedia and Twitter is that Wikipedia is intentionally a non-profit.

Dena Takruri, giornalista americana palestinese, visita Hebron.

How Israeli Apartheid Destroyed My Hometown

Dena Takruri spends a day in #Hebron to see with her own eyes what Israel’s occupation has done to the Palestinian city her dad once called home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdGcej-6D0

#Ukraine #Palestine

Yes. It's a war crime.

Do you know what else is a war crime?

Doing the same thing to Palestinians.

The double standard here is insane and brazen.

Things are not good or bad based on the race of the people it is done to. That's not how logic works. That's not how morality works.

The University of Pennsylvania is acting proud of Katalin Karikó now that she's won a Nobel. But they kicked her out of her research assistant professor job when she insisted on doing the work that won her that prize:

"She recalls spending one Christmas and New Year’s Eve conducting experiments and writing grant applications. But many other scientists were turning away from the field, and her bosses at UPenn felt mRNA had shown itself to be impractical and she was wasting her time. They issued an ultimatum: if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, and face a substantial pay cut.

”It was particularly horrible as that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer,” said Karikó. “I was facing two operations, and my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card, had got stranded there because of some visa issue, meaning he couldn’t come back for six months. I was really struggling, and then they told me this."

"While undergoing surgery, Karikó assessed her options. She decided to stay, accept the humiliation of being demoted, and continue to doggedly pursue the problem. This led to a chance meeting which would both change the course of her career, and that of science."

Elsewhere she recalled:

“I thought of going somewhere else, or doing something else. I also thought maybe I’m not good enough, not smart enough."

She's now an adjunct in UPenn's neurosurgery department. Will they fast-track her for tenure now that she has a Nobel, or just live with the shame?

Both quotes here come from interesting stories. The first is from here:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

The second is from here:

https://billypenn.com/2020/12/29/university-pennsylvania-covid-vaccine-mrna-kariko-demoted-biontech-pfizer/

#xkcd #DeltaTest Urban Planning Opinion Progression - If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars. - Fri, 22 Sep 2023 04:00:00 -0000 - https://xkcd.com/2832/ #PoweredByAwk

Back to School...

Two ways to do the school run.

An elementary school in North Carolina vs. one in #Holland ... 🧵

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

Intermodalità. Perfetta e con la massima efficienza se devi viaggiare nel singolo centro città: apri la mappa, configuri il percorso e ottieni velocemente informazioni e orari.

Il problema? È il viaggio interprovinciale, quello ove il più delle volte ti obbliga di usufruire di mezzi appartenenti a diversi enti. Se devi viaggiare da provincia a centro o da provincia a provincia, pianificare il percorso può richiedere ore di ricerche al PC. Impensabile nel 2023.

Se i singoli enti non vogliono parlare tra loro, rilascino per lo meno le API pubbliche e gratuite che ci pensiamo noi.

Did someone say "AIOps"?

This feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.

Never forget, a 13-year study of a dozen cities found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. As for sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them.

Via @Streetsblog, read article linked below.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says/

#bikelanes #bikes #cities #sharrows #infrastructure #urbanism #cars

I feel bad for all the pets today 😔

È quel giorno dell'anno in cui vi ricordo che i botti di Capodanno terrorizzano gli animali domestici e quelli selvatici. Molti, moltissimi uccelli ne muoiono. Non è un'innocua celebrazione, è una tradizione anacronistica e dannosa di cui ci dobbiamo liberare.