Since the 1990s, many public systems have switched to inorganic chloramine, a chlorine derivative, to purify water supplies. Systems serving about 113 million people in the U.S. use this process. This alternative purifying chemical produces hundreds of byproducts, including an “unidentified product” that befuddled scientists.

In findings published in the journal Science, researchers have identified that compound, chloronitramide anion. They found it has possible risks linked to carcinogens and could be harmful to reproductive and developmental health.

I can't find a public access version of that article tho.. I wonder if any common filtering methods work on this substance?

(this issue of Science just came out, so maybe the access issue will resolve itself in the next few days)

we need significantly more resilient communications infrastructure. though this applies equally to disaster prep since the internet is extremely fragile. i see this as a problem with a bunch of parts, but some of the main pieces look like this to me:

1. organizing computers (spare phones, spare laptops, actual server hardware) into cloud-like infrastructure components
2. writing software that actually works well running on trash (fediverse nodes really hate it when hostnames change, so hexbear itself may not adapt well if the domain gets seized. they aren't a good match for disaster services either since you can't guarantee that global DNS will work)
3. building overlay networks to connect nodes over the internet (yggdrasil+i2p looks like a winner in the short term)
4. building a physical mesh network to link nearby computers together over fast links (BATMAN for no se vende mesh here in LA)
5. developing a mobile adhoc mesh routing protocol that can setup a usable internet using only smartphones that interoperates with the fixed mesh noted in 4 (this will likely replace BATMAN, but is also a research problem and would represent a novel capability)

there are a bunch of shitty mesh apps and hardware components out there that may also be applicable, but its hard to get anything useful out of them without more planning and coordination. (meshtastic, briar, secure scuttlebutt, simplex, et al. come to mind)

i've been working on minibase for the micro-cloud component in an experimental capacity for years using alpine linux (just cuz i like it), but I've recently started working on a production version based on nix.

To correctly practice this magick (at least according to the random gnostic books I've read), you can never finish during sex either.

they could decriminalize homelessness right now.

wait are you telling me that the AI revolution was extremely oversold???

Praise the sun!

the best thing about the panthers is that they're the complete package. they operated clinics and breakfast programs and community defense and more. let them come back.

a gameshow idea: "are you smarter than the known genius elong musk?"

So when are we shipping out to protect their independence?

time to start my communist twitter competitor, the only problem is i don't have a catchy name for it ...

imo nukes = sovereignty. if you don't have them, you will get pulled into a proxy conflict between the west and some other nuclear power.

DO NOT FUCK WITH ME I WAS NEGLECTED BY MY PARENTS I WAS BEATEN AS A CHILD AND I TURNED OUT FINE

is everyone in the west raised in an abusive home or what? at least millenials got participation trophies. that's probably the thing that saved them. until they discovered toast..