Greg @Greg@social.coop

Me before looking up a bunch of sea creatures: Life is complicated and emergent! Even the "simplest" life form has an unfathomable complexity born of a history whose length and diversity are beyond our comprehension!

Me after looking up a bunch of sea creatures: Life is about having a mouth and if you're lucky something to get the mouth near food. Anything else is apparently extra.

Fighting the urge to do a complete audiobook reading of the Mueller Report for Librevox Recordings.

This article lays out the argument against the NCG/CDS food co-op model in great detail. Worth a read for anyone interested in what's been going on with food co-ops:

organizing.work/2019/04/why-do-coops-hate-unions/

Also we didn’t just observe the supermassive black hole once and were fine with that; we viewed the black hole over several days of observation, so we watched the gas/dust disk’s dynamics change quite rapidly. The disk is orbiting at about 1000km/sec [~600mi/sec] and nearly 90 Earth masses of material falls in every day. Early data is even suggesting the jet of material escaping before the event horizon may be pushing the black hole, moving it away from the center of M87.

Event Horizon Telescope

Things that are happening at work: the Wikimedia medium-term plan. Feedback is desired from anyone who cares about the future of Wikipedia and related sites. (Feedback directly to the discussion page of that wiki page. I'm afraid I don't have the bandwidth to relay it.)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019

I wish I could find a therapist who would try to solve my emotional problems with the same thoroughness and alacrity as a research librarian solving my research problems

tl;dr -- Believing in meritocracy will turn you into a bigoted asshole

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/04/belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you.html