Janneane
janneane.bsky.social
Janneane
@janneane.bsky.social
Media Studies at Penn // in the forest, in the city
“Rivers want to move; it’s part of the physics of flow and sediment transport. Unrestrained by human engineering, a river moves in a sinuous pattern that balances erosion and sedimentation.
But many rivers aren’t allowed to move laterally. They are straightened and “channelized”…”
In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods?
The deaths in the Texas Hill Country are a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. Flood-stricken Vermont has a radical plan to counter the threat it faces.
www.newyorker.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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In an interview with Gabriel Rosenberg, @brdemuth.bsky.social asks: Are species timeless? Or do they change over time, as humans do?

“If you take seriously the idea that animals have culture,” Demuth argues, “then you have to assume that it was also changing.”
Are Species Timeless?: Talking with Bathsheba Demuth About the Arctic
“There was an interdependence that was very clear in the animal relationships in the Arctic.”
www.publicbooks.org
July 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“Anubis creates a computational cost that is prohibitively expensive for AI scrapers that are hitting millions and millions of sites, but marginal for an individual user who is just using the internet like a human.” From @404media.co

www.404media.co/the-open-sou...
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
www.404media.co
July 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Lyon says he learned how devious our brains – and the camera, by virtue of its long lens and narrow view – can be in shutting off manmade sounds. ‘The microphone is truly agnostic in its record. Everything is captured . . .’” www.esquire.com.au/martyn-stewa...
Martyn Stewart, the man who collects the earth
Sound recordist Martyn Stewart’s archive of 97,000 field recordings lays bare a planet changing in real time. Esquire listens in
www.esquire.com.au
July 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort.

On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.

zohranfornyc.com/gotv
June 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.

New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM