#publicgood — Public Fediverse posts

Chicago Reader: Chicago has abundant water. Data center developers want a taste. “Waterways in Chicago and northern Illinois have supported industrial activity for more than a century, and now those same bodies of water are drawing an influx of proposed data centers that would tap into the region’s plentiful resources. These proposals have drawn considerable scrutiny, with experts and […]

Chicago Reader: Chicago has abundant water. Data center developers want a taste. “Waterways in Chicago and northern Illinois have supported industrial activity for more than a century, and now those same bodies of water are drawing an influx of proposed data centers that would tap into the region’s plentiful resources. These proposals have drawn considerable scrutiny, with experts and […]

Chicago Reader: Chicago has abundant water. Data center developers want a taste. “Waterways in Chicago and northern Illinois have supported industrial activity for more than a century, and now those same bodies of water are drawing an influx of proposed data centers that would tap into the region’s plentiful resources. These proposals have drawn considerable scrutiny, with experts and […]

Chicago Reader: Chicago has abundant water. Data center developers want a taste. “Waterways in Chicago and northern Illinois have supported industrial activity for more than a century, and now those same bodies of water are drawing an influx of proposed data centers that would tap into the region’s plentiful resources. These proposals have drawn considerable scrutiny, with experts and […]

Chicago Reader: Chicago has abundant water. Data center developers want a taste. “Waterways in Chicago and northern Illinois have supported industrial activity for more than a century, and now those same bodies of water are drawing an influx of proposed data centers that would tap into the region’s plentiful resources. These proposals have drawn considerable scrutiny, with experts and […]

The Guardian: Key witness in Meta trial says terms of settlement insufficient to halt apps’ harms to teenagers. “The star witness in the US government’s landmark trial against Meta believes that a multibillion-dollar settlement reached on Wednesday does not go far enough to stop the social media giant’s harms to young users. ‘The limitations that are in the agreement are the equivalent of […]

Trump, Paxton, The Founders, And America’s Long Excuse For Powerful Men

Stop assuming corruption defeats MAGA. America’s history shows powerful men, from slaveholding founders to corporate-backed authoritarianism, get a pass unless people organize for accountability.

NOAA’s SOLAR-1 Enters New Era Of Space Weather Monitoring
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https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaas-solar-1-enters-new-era-of-space-weather-monitoring <-- shared technical article
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https://www.spaceweather.gov/ <-- shared NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) home page
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https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/future-programs/swfo/space-weather-observations-l1-advance-readiness-solar-1 <-- shared SOLAR-1 overview and details page
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https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-environment/space-weather <-- shared overview of space weather and its risk, hazards & impacts
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[I was lucky enough to see the launch from the Kennedy Space Center of GOES-19/U, my first launch - and love reading about the ‘ongoing story’…]
#spaceweather #solar #monitoring #risk #hazard #impacts #humanimpacts #SOLAR1 #SOLAR-1 #SpaceWeatherPredictionCenter #NOAA #NESDIS #earlywarningsystem #monitoring #risk #hazard #mitigation #infrastructure #satellites #electric #powergrid #blackouts #brownouts #transformers #utilities #energy #aviation #nationalsecurity #defence #missileguidance #agriculture #farming #precisionagriculture #GPS #vanigation #transportation #spaceflight #LaGrange #L1 #protection #coronagraph #SWPC #NESDIS #opendata #publicgood #fedservice #fedscience
#NOAA

Watching A #NOAA #Webinar on Flash Droughts
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https://noaaresearch.webex.com/wbxmjs/joinservice/sites/noaaresearch/meeting/download/9b3e684d45ca47fc9469070eabd9a142?MTID=m2fa4a8af7bd8647fc48619af5eeecb5a <-- shared NOAA Summer Science Series individual webinar
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https://www.drought.gov/what-is-drought/flash-drought <-- shared NOAA overview technical article
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https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/NOAAScienceSeminars.php <-- subscribe to the NOAA Summer Science Series
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00618-0 <-- shared paper
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https://communities.springernature.com/posts/the-prevalent-life-cycle-of-agricultural-flash-droughts <-- shared technical article (derived from paper above)
H/T @Jeffrey Basara PhD, MBA | Chair and Professor - Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell | Co-Founder - American Prime Sustainable Solutions
[Flash floods? not TOO hard to conceptualise.
Flash drought? harder to 'get my head around', but H/T / presenter does an excellent job!]
"Not all droughts are the same. In some cases, drought rapidly intensifies at subseasonal to seasonal scales with significant impacts to agriculture and water resources along with the increased propensity for heatwaves and wildfires. Like all droughts, flash drought begins with a precipitation deficit. However, both evaporative demand and soil moisture are critical flash drought variables, and identifying and monitoring the desiccation of the terrestrial surface is key for determining flash drought development and associated impacts. While recent advances in knowledge and monitoring of flash drought have occurred, fundamental questions remain in the state of the science. What are the overall mechanistic relationships between atmospheric demand, evaporative stress, terrestrial desiccation, and precipitation that drive the progression of flash drought? Do regional characteristics of the environment impact the evolution of flash drought? What are the scales of predictability for flash drought? Finally, how will flash drought frequency and intensity evolve in a changing climate system"
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"Flash drought intensifies rapidly due to changes in precipitation, temperature, wind, and radiation. These changes in the weather increase evapotranspiration and lower soil moisture. Flash droughts can cause extensive damage to agriculture, economies, and ecosystems if they are not predicted and discovered early..."
#water #hydrology #fedscience #publicgood #hydrologicdrought #waterdeficit #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #watersecurity #risk #hazard #humanimpacts #streamflow #riverflow #groundwater #surfacewater #climate #weather #climatechange #extremeweather #atmosphere #metrology #regional #global #farming #agriculture #fluvial #pluvial #rainfall #precipitation #cloudcover #energy #heat #temperature #ET #evapotranspiration #farming #agriculture #foodsecurity #waterresources #dynamicsystems #watermanagement #flashdrought #drought #susceptibility #monitoring #prediction #model #modeling
@noaa

If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?

https://polymathchristian.wordpress.com/2026/07/12/if-acts-happened-today-would-we-call-it-communism-4/

The United States Magnetotelluric Array And The National Impedance Map
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RG000850 <-- shared paper
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https://eos.org/features/magnetic-storms-induction-hazards <-- shared ‘overview’ EOS 2014 technical article
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2025.1742847 <-- shared technical editorial
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spaceweather #US #magnetotelluric #stations #monitoring #network #array #USMTArray #opendata #instrumentation #qualitycontrol #dataprocessing #archiving #electricalconductivity #3D #model #modeling #geology #geomagnetism #crust #mantle #CONUS #visualisation #geomagnetic #infrastructure #electricity #electricalgrid #utilities #publicgood #fedscience #fedservice #risk #hazard #mitigation #impacts #geothermal #mineralresources #exploration #magneticstorm #geoelectrichazard #earthscience #NationalImpedanceMap #conductivity #research

Aquatic Disease And Pathogen Repository (Aquadepth) To Track, Evaluate, And Ultimately Predict Aquatic Disease Outbreaks Across The Nation [inc. spatial, USA]
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/western-fisheries-research-center/news/aquadepth-merging-aquatic-disease-surveillance-data <-- shared technical article
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#fedscience #publicgood #foodsecurity #health #fish #fisheries #coral #sampling #mitigation #animalhealth #naturalresources #ecosystems #environment #habitat #aquaculture #economics #planning #impacts #humanimpacts #AquaDePTH #aquatic #disease #pathogen #database #spatial #GIS #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #surveillance #monitoring #USA #opendata #biogeographic #nationwide
@USGS

The Art Of Mapping The Edge
How surveying challenging terrain will protect New Zealand’s coastal frontiers
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https://www.hydro-international.com/content/article/the-art-of-mapping-the-edge <-- shared technical article 🔗
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https://www.linz.govt.nz/products-services/data/3d-coastal-mapping <-- NZ 3D Coastal Mapping Programme home page
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#bathymetry #topobathy #NV5 #oceanmapping #LINZ #newzealand #geospatial #hydrography #hydrographicsurveys #oceanography #arcgisbathymetry #arcgismaritime #3D #coast #coastal #coastline #naturalresources #ToitūTeWhenua #LandInformationNew Zealand #risk #hazard #infrastructure #resilience #planning #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #GIS #spatial #mapping #survey #publicgood #3DCoastalMappingProgramme #remotesensing #earthobservation #terrain #marine #elevation #depth #model #modeling
@LandInformationNewZealand

A quotation from John Adams

Every Man must seriously set himself to root out his Passions, Prejudices and Attachments, and to get the better of his private Interest. The only reputable Principle and Doctrine must be that all Things must give Way to the public.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-04-16) to Mercy Otis Warren

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/81374/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #commongood #commoninterest #community #democracy #mutuality #privateinterest #publicgood #publicservice #republic #selfcontrol #selfdenial #selfinterest #selfmastery #selfpolicing #selfrespect #selfsacrifice #society

Provisional Land Use Data From Water Year 2024 Is Now Available On [CA]DWR Atlas, CNRA Open Data, And SGMA Data Viewer For Public Use
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https://gis.water.ca.gov/app/CADWRLandUseViewer/?page=home <-- shared web-based CDWR datasets / map
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“The collected data is used by various federal, state, and local agencies, academic researchers and private consultants , and can help estimate the amount of water available for agriculture. Using this information, farmers can adapt and make decisions to better manage scarce water supplies more effectively.”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #California #download #opendata #water #hydrology #datause #datasharing #download #landuse #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #wateryear #DWRAtlas #statewide #CNRA #SGMA #publicdata #publicgood #usecase #crops #croplands #cropmapping #counties #countysurvey #CADWR #DWR #groundwater #irrigation #wateruse #watermanagement #federal #state #local #webmapping #agriculture #watersecurity #foodsecurity #watersupply
#CaliforniaDepartmentOfWaterResources

"Who Is Government? - The Untold Story of Public Service"
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219551344-who-is-government-the-untold-story-of-public-service <-- shared book details
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https://www.youtube.com/live/GuA_TUxi-5k?si=WbxW5iCGbzVMZNYW <-- shared video overview from the author
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My other ½ heard about this book in her #NOAA #bookclub - and got it for me for Xmas! 😀
I am very much looking forward to this series of essays...
#fedservice #fedscience #readingforpleasure #publicservice #publicgood #government #civilservice #society #resource #workers #stories #businessofgovernment #consequences #returnoninvestment #usecase

Space Weather Woman – ‘This Week In Space Weather!’
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https://youtu.be/FOLDm_N6ft8?si=Qw0H_8Q1isoq06Td <-- shared video, w/e 11/21/25, ‘Early Signs the Sun is Changing | Space Weather Weekend 21’
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https://www.patreon.com/SpaceweatherWoman <-- entry point for #SpaceWeatherWoman forecasts and reporting
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https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ <-- #SWPC home page
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[this post should not be considered an endorsement of a specific service]
#spaceweather #weekly #forecasts #effects #affects #sun #CME #stealthCME #coronalmassejection #risk #hazard #infrastructure #humanimpacts #weekendweather #data #appraisal #GOES #remotesensing #satellite #publicsafety #fedscience #publicgood #SWPC #opendata #SpaceWeatherPredictionCenter
#MillersvilleUniversity #NOAA #NWS #SWPC

[USGS] Landsat At Work – Preparing Residents When Hurricanes Threaten
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Landsat-Based National Land Cover Datasets (NCLD) Helps Predict Wind Risk To Homes And Other Structures
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/news/landsat-work-preparing-residents-where-hurricanes-threaten <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #landsat #satellite #fedopendata #publicgood #fedscience #risk #hazard #model #modeling #actuary #insurance #rates #appraisal #hurricane #naturaldisaster #infrastructure #damage #cost #economics #loss #NLCD #landcover #landuse #evulation #projection #Florida #residential #EROS #USGS #coast #coastline #computermodels #wind #surge #flood #flooding #USGS #NOAA #NASA #EROS #HurricaneLossProjectionMethodology

@seasharp
2/3… partners with #megaCorporates via #PPP (#PublicPrivatePartnerships) to provide #uselessJobs that wouldn't be feasible under normal market circumstances. We're forced to #invest in #corporations we hate because its a hedge against the #moneyPrinting/#inflation.

The #corporatist doesn't pay tax. They claim *they are* the #publicGood and get #BigGovt funding to #virtueSignal to us.

2/3
@orekix @mlg