The Lemmy Club

A couple months ago I posted about finally getting a interview, and today they called me back with an offer! I'm finally gonna be employed!

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54482884

This may be more an ask than anything. To all the data nerds, or those that know them, in the public sector in the US: If you or those you know are working with large public datasets, please consider taking the steps necessary to ensure that data is not lost to the world. Between many institutional organizations local and abroad down to the many selfhosters out there, there are many places this data can continue to live, thrive, and serve the public that has not only paid for it to exist, but benefitted from its use. My mind immediately goes to all those scentific datasets necessary for helping analyze the state of our planet. Of these there are an incredible amount online only because of federal funding. The stakeholders are too great to count, but they are critical not only to the US but all those with access to do so. I can not fathom how much work and research has been made possible. I know this to be true of so much public data. Others may know more of specific needs and methods of preservation. This is a kind of book burning in an abstract sense that would be unrecoverable, too costly, or immensely difficult to restore. The hard work of the collectors, maintainers, and contributors should not be lost due to gross negligence and malevolence.

That's fuckin it. I'm done with everything

Urgent Call to Support My Family in Gaza

My family has lost everything under the bombing—their home, safety, and even the most basic necessities of life. The situation is dire, and aid is not reaching them sufficiently, but your support can change their lives. Any contribution, no matter how small, helps provide them with food, medicine, and shelter.

For those who can donate or even share, every bit of support goes directly to those in need. Thank you from the heart to everyone standing with us during this difficult time.

Donate here: https://gofund.me/1222af19

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The original was posted on /r/fosscad by /u/monsieurLeMeowMeow on 2025-02-04 00:04:53+00:00.

WASHINGTON — President Trump expressed interest Monday in tying continued aid to Ukraine to the US getting access to rare earth minerals from the war-torn country.

“We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earth and other things,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that he wants a “guarantee” in exchange for US money.

“We’re handing them money hand over fist. We’re giving them equipment. [The] European [Union] is not keeping up with us.”

Trump, 78, had previously vowed to end the three-year-old war between Russia and Ukraine in the first days of his administration.

Ukraine is one of the largest rare earth mineral suppliers in the world, and has the largest titanium reserves in Europe.

The country also boasts deposits of lithium, beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, zirconium, graphite, apatite, fluorite, and nickel, per the World Economic Forum.

Russian forces have already taken parts of Eastern Ukraine that had historically provided the rest of the country with key minerals, notably much of the coal-supplying Donbas region.

But other parts of Ukraine, including the Dnieper River basin that runs through the center of the country and the Carpathian Mountains in the West, have massive supply of minerals and natural gas under Kyiv’s control.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had expressed willingness to provide minerals in exchange for the US continuing to give military aid in its war against Russia, according to a readout provided after Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) visited Ukraine last year.

“President Zelensky was excited about and was committed to obtaining a strategic agreement with the US regarding the more than a trillion dollars-worth of rare earth minerals owned by Ukraine and expressed a commitment to create a working group with the US to make this happen,” the senators said in a joint statement in August.

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The original was posted on /r/femboy by /u/sailor-x on 2025-02-03 21:00:03+00:00.

This has been shining in my eyes for the last 10 minutes whilst the bus driver takes a break.