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Written by RadicalEcologist on 2025-01-23 at 16:38

Well, the last question was obviously answered!

To sum-up and address some of the great comments

As a rough operational structure I was definitely imagining distributed computing as the easiest way for most people to contribute. The next level of effort would be people aggregating, cleaning, or collecting from personal weather stations all data. A step up from this would be more trained curator, maybe people who can also work with satellite, airport, and other professional data. And the most involved people would be the modelers and local interpreters (meteorologists).

I know HAMs, other hobbyists, and some projects do certain parts of this and existing things should be incorporated (including the NWS and other services while they exist).

The reason I came to this is because many local regions in the US can only rely on NWS for reasonably accurate local forecasting. Without the service and its data/resources many would be relying on more broad scale predictions from outside sources also losing access to the NWS data.

There are a lot of great points, suggestions, and ideas that were brought up (especially those pointing to existing sources) which brings me to my last thought. For those that are interested in this, should we designate some sort of repository? If so where?

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Written by RadicalEcologist on 2025-01-22 at 15:34

Hey, so, we all know weather is going to get more dangerous over the next few years. Also, the USA weather services are probably not going to be operating at their best (to be optimistic). I know there are other sources, but the whole of the world society feels like it is on the edge of darkness. So...

Proposal/question: using the plethora of easily accessible data, compute, and brilliant people; how could we form a federated and decentralized weather service?

I imagine it would require some standardized protocols and modeling teams. Similar things do exist for other areas of research. However, I am an ecological modeler and know very little relevant information beyond using climate models. I am not completely sure what is needed for weather. Thoughts or ideas? Or is anyone even interested in this?

[#]wx #weather #federation #decentralized #opensource #foss #modeling #resilience #anarchism

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Written by RadicalEcologist on 2025-01-14 at 02:28

If you view owning real estate as a financial investment, you are either bad at economics or an evil selfish hoarder. Also, you either negligently damn everyone younger than you or you do it on purpose.

If that makes you feel a tense defensiveness build up inside, ask yourself why you feel that way.

Having the rights to a home or farm/land you actually use is wonderful, but there is only one planet. Profiting off of real estate beyond your own use can only result in a few people owning everything. This is a mathematically inevitable type of feudalism so grotesque that even the lords of old would revolt.

No, renting is not for your own use, in case some deranged landlords got lost here moving between twit and bsky.

[#]yellingintothevoid

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