Featured Links - November 11, 2024

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about. Sorry for all the politics this week, but I think you can understand why.

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• Science is revealing the true stories of Pompeii’s victims beneath the ash. "Analysis of ancient DNA rewrites what we know about the relationships between the people buried there in A.D. 79."
• Coping Strategies. "Governance--like theories--should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." From SF author and futurist, Karl Schroeder. 
• Readying the Resistance. "A Democratic guide to minimizing harm from the coming Trump term."
• Now what for public health? "We need to be ready for a new world."
• Concert Archives. "The concert database for fans, by fans. Explore, Track, and Share the Experience." This is a cool site for digging into your personal concert history.
• 1000 Nuclear Reactors. "That's how much solar and wind electricity is sitting around waiting to be plugged in." Some encouraging news on the environmental front, but utility companies need to get out of the way. 
• It’s Find Out Time. "“I never thought the leopard would eat my face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party." Voter remorse is going to be a big topic in the coming days. 
• November 8, 2024. Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American newsletter. In this one, she discusses the role of right-wing misinformation in the election and ties it to a similar period in American history. 
• Making Money in the Next Four Years, and Why You Need to Plan Now to Support Your Favorite Creators. Good advice from John Scalzi on how you can help your favourite creators weather the next (at least) four years.
• NASA Quiet Space Fan Research to Benefit Commercial Space Stations. "Controlling noise inside spacecraft helps humans talk to each other, hear alarms clearer, get restful sleep, and minimizes the risk of hearing loss. It is best to control the noise at the source, and in spacecraft the noise often comes from cabin ventilation and equipment cooling fans."
• XOXO. "This post annotates a talk I gave on August 24, 2024 at the final XOXO Festival in Portland, Oregon. The talk was about why I left the internet, how the Covid Tracking Project got me back online, and most of all how the work we did at CTP led to me to believe that we—the weirdos of internet-making and online life—have to not merely retreat from the big-world social internet, but fix it."
• Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released. This is at least the 171st instance of suspects using physical violence to steal bitcoins.