Simon Forman

Permaculture, programming, peace.

[Simon Forman @SimonForman]

economics = ecology + psychology

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

Everything on Earth is Borrowed..
There is no "Mine" or "Yours"
.. There is only "Ours"
Even Time is
Borrowed.
We Kill over a Plot of Land,
that belongs only to
our Mother Earth.
All you have is what you
came with.. and what
you will leave with...
Your Spirit..

-Native American

[Markus Triska @MarkusTriska]

Web Scraping with Prolog https://t.co/t6OO19siuv

[Papers We Love (@[email protected]) @papers_we_love]

A (Not So Gentle) Introduction To Systems Programming In ATS by @deech

Video: https://t.co/00vQA1aFBd
Paper: https://t.co/ZvGer7251a

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Truth be told this is less about how much Bezos and Gates have (although they have 1.4 million times more than the median family)

It's more about how the poorest half of Americans have virtually nothing
https://t.co/IXllsutGXl

[Andrew Rader @marsrader]

How much selected space missions cost US taxpayers per year of the mission (or would cost in the last case).

[Simon Forman @SimonForman]

Ditto

[Lincoln Cannon @LincolnCannon]

I’m reassessing my news sources, hoping to find sources with more consistent and transparent objectivity. Any recommendations? What news sources do you use and why?

[Paul Dawson 📚 @PaulEDawson]

“Just 1% of the $700bn (£560bn) a year given to farmers is used to benefit the environment, the analysis found."

"Much of the total instead promotes high-emission cattle production, forest destruction and pollution from the overuse of fertiliser.” https://t.co/yFCFg2XK5X

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

For years, people have said my company's $70k min wage would kill my business.

We process payments for other small biz. We just had the worst 3 months for small biz in a century.

We had 0 layoffs, 0 fee hikes and made a small profit - all because of our excellent employees.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

$12.5 billion: what all 400,000 Amazon warehouse workers will make this year, combined

$12.5 billion: what Jeff Bezos added to his fortune in the last four weeks

In those four weeks Amazon got rid of the $2 hazard pay for warehouse workers even as the hazard continues

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

To all those having trouble saying it. Black Lives Matter. See, it really isn’t that difficult.

[Andy Slavitt @ASlavitt]

We will find the silver bullet all along was just compassion & competence.

[Paul Dawson 📚 @PaulEDawson]

Mangroves and seagrass meadows aren't as majestic as rainforests but they are just as important.

“Globally, vegetated coastal ecosystems are being lost twice as fast as tropical rainforests despite covering a fraction of the area.”

#ActOnClimate https://t.co/aBmko8BlkF

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Roughly 200 km northwest of the city of Agadez, in northern Niger, lies a tiny village of around 50 families which is pockmarked with hundreds of salt ponds filled with pastel colored brine water, attended to by men, women, and children all hard at work https://t.co/mEEC7l6fMk

[Zaron Burnett III @Zaron3]

Why did America fail the formerly enslaved once freedom was declared?

1. an assassin’s bullet silenced Lincoln

2. Gen. Sherman’s plan was never enacted

3. Reconstruction was designed by a slave-owning Southerner who kept children he fathered in bondage

https://t.co/WApct7x9Hh

[Simon Forman @SimonForman]

See that big blue thing on the left? That's the Pacific ocean. It's really pretty. "Let's ignore it." said the architects.

[Simon Forman @SimonForman]

Compare this new development to the blocks around it. Obviously there is room for greater density. What do you think of this particular form?
https://t.co/0N1InwR378

[Simon Forman @SimonForman]

It seems to me that from the POV of Christopher Alexander's "Pattern Language" et. al. those condos are not good at all.

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Wherever I go, I always feel the people I meet are the same as human beings like me. Scientists have also observed that we human beings are social animals. We have a sense of community. Right from birth we have the same feelings of closeness to those around us.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

On this #Juneteenth, when the world’s finally paying attention, let’s honor those who’ve always celebrated this day, just like they’ve always felt the brunt of systemic racism. At a moment of reckoning, let ‘s open eyes, ears, and hearts to those we need to see, hear, and love.

[MEL Magazine @WeAreMel]

Juneteenth should be a national holiday, because Black people deserve to celebrate