Here's a great article on what homeless camps are constantly dealing with. Even as the homeless invent ingenious solutions to their own problems, the City of Portland, Oregon keeps trying to tear down the grass roots solutions only to erect their own top-down model of the same thing.
41 months ago Since we're all stuck at home during this (hopefully-over-soon) pandemic, here's a cool way to see the world through someone else's window! 10-minute videos people around the world have recorded of their view.
OK, it's basically like flash. Like flash, you can just use it for animation, but you can also make it jump from frame to frame and it interprets Javascript code so it can get quite advanced.
Basically, you can use it for frame-by-frame animation, but you can also utilize "tweens" to make some things easier, and you can even make a game with it just like flash.
One thing I really like is that it has the "tween" just like flash. This means, you take an object, make a keyframe, make a second keyframe, move the object, and Wick will calculate all the in-between frames for you. Very useful!!!
Something I don't like is there doesn't seem to be a "skew" tool. So, you can't have the same bounce and stretch that you could have from SynFig or OpenToons. At least, as far as I can tell from my limited experience. Still, a very nice tool. Easy! Probably a good beginner program for kids, too!
48 months ago A primer from activist collective Extinction Rebellion on smartphone security for people participating in activist organizing and protests. A how-to guide, as well as some philosophy and guidelines for developing a good security culture to support activism and disruptive public actions.
49 months ago Hashtags can only contain letters, numbers, and underscores. They cannot contain spaces.
Hashtags must be separated by spaces! If you cram a string of hashtags together without spaces between them, they're hard to read, and on Openbook only the first hashtag will be turned into a link (in order to to discourage such madness).
Hashtags usually start with a letter, although they CAN start with a number, but ONLY if they ALSO include letters. This allows the original use of the "#" symbol to represent numbers without causing conflict with the newer use of # to represent hashtags. For example, numbers such as #1, or the meaning of life #42, will not turn into hashtag links or generate wiki articles.
Hashtags cannot have a space anywhere inside the hashtag, since a space marks the end of a hashtag. However, a hashtag can contain multiple words, as long as there are no spaces between the words. To make the hashtag more readable, capitalize each word in it. For instance, you can write @OpenbookHistory💬 instead of @openbookhistory💬, even though these both link to the same hashtag. You can also use an underscore in a hashtag, although this is uncommon.
Olle Johansson, PhD discusses the evidence of adverse health effects from electromagnetic radiation, including wifi and cell phones.
He explains how there are over 25,000 studies about the health effects of radiation, and there have never been that many studies which are all wrong at the same time.
There is also a very telling trend of insurance companies and manufacturing companies having explicit legal clauses explaining that they are not responsible for any health effects of radiation from the use of their products. For instance, cell phones warn that they should not be within an inch of your body, which means you have given up any rights to sue the companies for eventual adverse health effects as soon as you touch your phone.