Justin Kiggins
Open Source Product Manager at @cziscience. Prev @alleninstitute, @ucsdneuro. he/him. Opinions my own.
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Scientists Wrote a Eulogy for Iceland's First Glacier Lost to Climate Change
That may sound like an Onion headline, but alas, it is not. We’ve reached the point in our wild planetary experiment where humans are memorializing the things we’re knowingly wiping out.
What open-source culture can teach tech titans and their critics
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NASA: Apollo 50th Anniversary
From October 2018 through December 2022, NASA will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program that landed a dozen Americans on the moon between July 1969 and December 1972.
San Diego City Council votes in favor of new gun-safe storage law -
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Gun owners in the city of San Diego will now have to lock their weapons in a safe or use a trigger device. That’s now a city ordinance. KUSI’s Ashlie Rodriguez has details on the new safety measure.
Plastic straws play only minor role in global plastics pollution
More plastic was produced in the last decade than ever before on earth.
Barr's donations to Senate Republicans spiked before confirmation
In the lead up to his Senate confirmation hearings for attorney general earlier this year, William Barr's giving habits suddenly changed.
Catholics in Iowa went to church. Steve Bannon tracked their phones.
Campaigns have been using cell-phone location data for years. Did Bannon take it too far?
Currents Research on DigitalOcean
A quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud.
Visualizing the Bach Doodle Dataset
Last March we launched the Bach Doodlewith the goal to make music composition more approachable. Users entered theirown melodies, and used a machine learning...
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Do Elon Musk’s brain implants have potential? Experts say they might
Independent experts in the kind of brain-computer interfaces that Neuralink is developing said they are impressed for the most part, though caveats abound.
Your eyeballs are not ready for the horrors within the Cats trailer
Behold...a cinematic adaptation of one of the most dizzyingly atrocious musicals of all time. Tremble...at the very famous people transformed, via some Cronenbergian VFX wizardry, into animals of the feline persuasion. Bear witness...to the horrors...
Open source in 2019, Part 3/3
21 years in, the landscape around open source evolved a lot. In part 1 and part 2 of this 3-part series, I explained why today, while open source is more necessary than ever, it appears to no longer be sufficient. In this part, I'll discuss what we,...
Knitsy Makes Knitting Easy
An app that generates perfectly fitted knitting patterns based on your measurements, your yarn and your style.
Hundreds of Astronomers Denounce Arrest of Native Hawaiians Protesting Thirty Meter Telescope
All week, opponents to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) have been putting their bodies on the line to prevent construction from starting on top of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea. Now these opponents, who are largely Native Hawaiian, are finding allies among an...
Feds hold 3 sisters at O’Hare for 12 hours; accused of setting trap for undocumented parents
Supporters of the family had gathered at the airport, fearing border officials were using children as bait to lure their undocumented parents.
Solve Mysteries As A Gang Of Cats In This Open World Game
I don't know if you've heard, but everybody wants to be a cat. Apparently a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at, see
Open Source Directions Ep. 25: Binder
We will be joined by Chris Holdgraf and Min Ragan-Kelley, who will tell us about the future of Binder. Binder is an open-source web application for managing digital repositories. It is particularly...
Data Asset eXchange
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