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Study showing how Australian Aboriginal people shaped the distribution of useful plants across their lands, dispersing them in more preferable areas, etc:

"The findings call into question our whole notions of what agriculture is," said Douglas Bird, study co-author and professor of anthropology at Penn State. "Rather than thinking about the difference between agricultural societies and hunter-gatherer societies as a matter of kind, we'd be better off thinking about it as a matter of degree—that people influence plants long before they engage in what we think of as farming."" - https://phys.org/news/2024-10-landscape-effects-hunter-reshape-idea.amp

Peoples who are used to living with the environment (instead of "against" it) understand that often the best interventions are the ones that are extremely subtle. In this case, the interventions were so subtle that they didn't fit into traditional western understandings of cultivation and agriculture.

So it's good to see this kind of subtle cultivation getting more recognized by science. There are many ways to live with the environment and to place the resources you need into places that are convenient for you and your people. The more that westerners can learn that, the more possibilities open up for how to live with the land.

#indigenous #australia #cultivation #agriculture #science #gardening #gardeningau #plants #nature #environment #ecology #anthropology

One of the perks of my new job is they don't use Microsoft Teams

So...I'm from Delhi, India, and I love surveying for #OpenStreetMap. I'm a pretty active mapper and I've also done a professional field survey for Médecins Sans Frontières (a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders).

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/contrapunctus/

I also like teaching people. In the past one year, I've organized 15+ mapping parties and workshops, where I taught how to use OSM and how to contribute to it.

Could I #GetFediHired to do any of this full time? Open to relocating or traveling.

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For the love of all that is holy, can you all please start using `<a>` for navigation and `<button>` for actions, not the other way around?

Please don't make me turn this into a blog post.

Signed, someone who couldn't right-click to "open in a new tab" when it mattered.

#HTML #accessibility

"Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday.

[...]

Researchers found that productivity stayed the same or improved in most workplaces, while workers’ wellbeing increased “dramatically” on a range of measures, from perceived stress and burnout to health and work-life balance."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

#news #workers #labor #WorkersRights #WorkWeek #FourDayWorkWeek

i think a radical paradigm shift might help here:

make publishers manually add links to responses and discussions that they wish to elevate.

one interesting model for this that i’ve seen is a site where every article contains in its footer an email address, and if you have something to add to the conversation, you email that address, after which the author *might* manually add your comment for everyone else to see.

this also discourages responding to a comment instead of to the article.

Documenting a prediction: This will receive an Ig Nobel in 2025.

Certainly is of the ilk of “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773186324001014?via%3Dihub

This Halloween, be the meat suit filled with spiders you were always meant to be.