A reminder: epidemics and pandemics are expected to increase in frequency as the climate crisis advances [1] and as humans build deeper into wildlands [2].
So what do we do?
1) Address the climate crisis! 2) Embrace urbanism, controlled growth, and leave wildlands alone. 3) Push for infrastructure improvements for indoor air quality. 4) Push for better healthcare and sick leave policies. 5) Advocate for better funding for scientific research.
I only have direct influence over small and mid-sized events.
Ultimately, it's going to take someone who has influence in organizing larger events mustering a bit of courage and conviction to step up and join PyCon US.
We cannot sit by and let PyCon US be the only flag bearer at that scale. We must rise to the level of their excellence.
Personally, I'm hoping to see the Drupal or Ruby communities step it up.
The organizers of @pycon have given community organizers a massive gift 🎁
Let's not squander it!
A *sold out* #PyConUS 2024 proved that even large events can prioritize safety and inclusion for caregivers and immunocompromised people by way of requiring masks, and gathering venue data to calibrate their policy from year-to-year. Smaller events have proven it's possible at that scale, too.
Now is the time for at least one other large event to step up.
Beware folks, there's an astroturfing campaign emerging on fedi that appears to be aimed at garnering support for the actions of the Israeli government.
BTW did you know that FlightRadar24 and FlightAware don't show you all the aircraft you could be seeing?
For instance, you'll never see military aircraft, private jets from the uber wealthy, or even, say, the Sonoma County Sheriff's helicopter: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N108SC
This is why things like Airplanes.Live are so valuable. They get data from a network of hobbyists with base stations (like me!), who share and publish open data for the joy of it.
Now helping local journalists learn how to use unfiltered flight trackers.
The low altitude flyover by a fighter jet on Monday really has kicked up a lot of interest... and fair enough too, unless you're at an airshow, you really don't expect a fighter jet to fly overhead at less than 1000ft AGL.
I've been at the OSS Growing Pains workshop focused on governance these last couple of days, and I've never felt more confident that I'm in the right place.
I'll be unpacking and riding on this experience for a while!
Today is #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay. According to the CDC, ~7% of Americans have experienced long COVID – that's ~17.6 million people. There are more people in the US with long COVID than there are with red hair.
However, many event organizers think there are so few people impacted that they don't need to implement Health & Safety measures.
If you consider the cycle of inaccessibility, you have to wonder... how much of that is self-fulfilling prophecy?
@rhialto Thank you for the heads up! I just logged in and see that Glassdoor has already autopopulated details on my account, presumably through scraping or data brokers. Eugh.
That is a real headline from mainstream news here in the US. The Republican establishment isn't even trying to distance itself from violent extremists anymore.
We can and should push Democrats to do better and live up to their promises, and come November, we need to remember that:
- voting is harm reduction, and - voting is important but never enough.
@thegrumpyenby@seachanger@phpledge Yeaaaah, pretty much 😅 Short of radical social change, which seems possible as we go deeper into polycrisis, but is a lot less predictable.
There have been some encouraging signs in the US and other countries, like Belgium, that indoor air quality is starting to be taken seriously. But those gears turn sooo slow.
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