spaceplasma:

spaceplasma:

“Now, for the first time in its billions of years of history, our planet is protected by far-seeing sentinels, able to anticipate danger from the distant future – a comet on a collision course, or global warming – and devise schemes for doing something about it. The planet has finally grown its own nervous system: us.”

– Daniel Dennett ( We Earth Neurons )

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NTs OMZ

Every day is Earth Day

Finally left work to go home at 11, and taking a taxi home, like in the old company, except this one is not paying for it, and instead of the firms town car all I can afford is Lyft Line with two tipsy Asian girls talking to each other about food, food, delicious food, restaurants they’ve been to, or want to go to, filling the car with alcohol breath, and my plan to nap will now never materialize, I have food right here, in a bag, Kati rolls from an Indian place where cabbies eat, but I can’t eat in the car, and now it’s going to be 40 mins to get home according to the app because of the car pooling detour and traffic – Manhattan is full of successful looking people partying spilling out of restaurants having eaten and drunk and seen their friends and full of ambition and plans, and I vaguely remember doing something like that in another life but all I want to now is sleep sleep sleep after yesterday’s near all nighter and today’s 12 hour workday..
Finally the girls leave and the driver tells me, how this is it for the night and he is hungry and sleepy too and I am his last ride.
He knows.

“Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove”

imadeit-davidjanes:

On Tuesday, Mr. Ballmer plans to make public a database and a report that he and a small army of economists, professors and other professionals have been assembling as part of a stealth start-up over the last three years called USAFacts. The database is perhaps the first nonpartisan effort to create a fully integrated look at revenue and spending across federal, state and local governments.

Want to know how many police officers are employed in various parts of the country and compare that against crime rates? Want to know how much revenue is brought in from parking tickets and the cost to collect? Want to know what percentage of Americans suffer from diagnosed depression and how much the government spends on it? That’s in there. You can slice the numbers in all sorts of ways.

Usafacts.org

Of course, this is not for the alternativefacts community.

“Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove”