#ClimateChange, #Collapse, #ClimateDiary Many folks seem to think we are making good progress electrifying everything and are on track to phase out fossil fuels by around 2050. I would like to bring this article to people’s attention […] [Original post on mas.to]

Speaking of separation of church and state, as someone who was raised both patriotic and Christian, I am appalled to see the White House releasing sermons and bombing muslims in the name of Christianity on Christmas Day. If they made a reboot of V for Vendetta, set it in the US, and included […]

One of the subtler points of nostalgia in stories about the early space programs is how preoccupied everyone is with popular opinion. A direct link between public opinion and funding is a pervasive depiction in documentaries and in dramatizations. Wouldn't it be nice if stuff still worked that […]

Thinking about the last time I visited the post office. Only the lobby was heated. Not the warehouse and offices where USPS employees work all day. Biden was still in office, and so was the cost-cutting postmaster general from Trump's first term, Louis DeJoy Meanwhile, the DOJ is day after day […]

"Due by December 19th" does not mean "start the project on December 19th"

The most surprising thing about that 60 Minutes segment is that it's only 13 minutes

On the one hand I'm like, this is not a rental, I can hook up my phone On the other hand, it's not a rental, and hooking up my phone will give them way better data than it would have if I were user #503 of this car

The lawyer who handled Epstein's hush money has also worked for Trump and Pete Hegseth and his name is selectively redacted throughout the files Which everyone knows now, because the "redactions" were made by placing black rectangle objects in adobe acrobat, which don't remove text data

When you walk around barefoot in Cyberpunk 2077 your steps have special barefoot slappy slappy sound effects. Honestly the most immersed I've been for awhile

In Elio there's a dramatic sequence where they have to navigate Earth's cloud of orbital space junk to escape I love it but it's really, really weird hard science reference in a movie that features hyperdimensional travel and instant cloning

I mean so basically The right-wing non-denialist reading of climate change is the United States can't afford to curb the use of fossil fuels because it must do everything it can to remain the hegemon and protect its access to natural resources while the rest of the planet descends into chaos […]

Professional courtesy tip "Wasteful" and "inefficient" are not synonyms

It turns out that the 16 retractions reflected complaints from victim advocates that identities had not been properly protected. Names and faces are appearing without redaction, in violation of the law So it's interesting that although they had lots of energy for redacting things, so much so […]

We used to say Indiana's next policy to fight brain-drain will be to just educate fewer people. Turns out our representatives didn't get the joke https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/indiana-public-colleges-cut-almost-20-of-degrees

Autocrit psychic damage attack: 15 years ago was not the 90s

Seems like Microsoft's last Windows 10 update was to install Copilot on my computer Bleep blorp gone

They're already doing take-backs of material that's embarrassing to Trump but accidentally made it into the release. This attempted cover-up is massive https://apnews.com/article/release-epstein-files-justice-department-trump-9290fcaad1cb6fcb1cbc1befabc01994

Just made hot sauce from peppers and vinegar and salt I'm never buying hot sauce again, going straight to the source from now on

I'm not done with this yet 💁🏻✨ I had a hunch that the grocery cartel made more from their crimes than their settlement amount. Napkin math time. By the end bread was at least $1.50 higher per loaf. If there were 10 million families buying 1 loaf of bread […] [Original post on urbanists.social]

Given they had 30 days to comply and are still withholding documents, they are not complying with the law Given that they must have known they would be coming up short given the scope of work they were undertaking, and did not use that foresight to warn congress that they would be coming up […]

General reminder that the US does not have a deterrent nuclear force: the US has a nuclear first-strike force. In a deterrence scenario, you're reacting to missiles that have already launched: pinpoint targeting empty silos is a waste of a bunch of gazillion dollar guidance systems This insight […]

Current remote working setup is 3 laptops + I wander over to my desktop occasionally to look at mastodon Wildly unsustainable but I feel powerful

My favorite powershell command is bash

I feel like if I was car-free for four years, and I drive a 50mpg hybrid as needed for the next four years, that's sort of like driving a 100mpg hybrid for 8 years. It's averages I'm not doing any math to support this feeling, I'm just saying that's my mood

Pope Francis called that church in Gaza every night for a reason. #history #christianity #gaza

I've never been a text-to-speech person but I realized the other day you can have multiple languages installed and use Notes and the translate app as free language learning apps. Now I'm obsessed

Obviously true, not controversial: "The process of making art without the use of AI references is different from making art with the use AI references" Inflammatory marketing copy: "The process of making art without the use of AI references is inherently better than making art with the use of […]

RE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/115743288524372578 I've always wanted to build one of these and now I don't have to yay

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it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

USA Today: Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado "...WASHINGTON ‒ The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

If you say "I have a question" too fast in Catalan you end up saying "What the fuck is that" It's my favorite language already

There is an ongoing side quest in Cyberpunk 2077 where you have to "neutralize" cyberpsychos - basically people in acute mental health crises exacerbated or created by the ongoing or heavy use of cyberware. Tangentially, "psychosis" is not clinically characterized by mass murder, the dominant […]

"Doesn't seem to have an ideology" is a funny thing to say about political nazis and nazi collaborators. At the end of the day, there's no material difference between a true believer and somebody who's just in it for the perks. Crimes are crimes

Sometimes I just like to run them all just to see it happening #python #mud

Sobbing because the Spanish subtitles don't exactly match the spoken Spanish in Encanto

Futurists: The economics aside, computation inevitably creates more complex computers, and this process is basically deterministic: sentient organic life is just a predictable transition phase between amino acids and computronium (a form of matter that's maximally optimized for computation) […]

I ordered a teeny weeny box so my team can have a shared joplin notes server On the one hand this sucks because we should be able to use a cloud service but the state forced us into a budget crunch and the school doesn't really need this so we don't feel like […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Love anarchy flags. It's the irony for me

Who else AGREES with Jamie?! 🤚

So, I mean, like I'm "glad" that a slim majority of Hoosier Republican state senators are still exhibiting behaviors characteristic of Hoosier conservatives and not radical terminally online talk radio wingnuts. Hoosiers flipping the bird to Washington politics is refreshingly normal But I put […]

[Hot, spicy DEI take] If MAGA were full of smart white supremacists, they'd support DEI efforts because diverse classrooms and workplaces make white people smarter

Who signed off on 21 Jump Street being 2 hours long

*banging silverware on the table* Fea-tures, fea-tures, fea-tures!

I am building 3 complementary apps for the MUD system Two are in python, the third is an electron app Guess which one I spend all of my time fighting with

I admire that thing actors do when they don't understand their line so they just act the hell out of it and it works

The whole thing with the "AI will do everything" pitch is that agentic AI requires a skilled, knowledgeable human operator So it's not AI doing anything at all, it's one guy is expected to do the work of 5-10 specialists. Which isn't exactly an innovation, it's more like the 12th re-release of […]

"Why does God contradict himself so much?" is one of the more hotly contested 'big questions' of theology and scriptural studies. I only have 3 credit hours on the topic, but I think it's because the most obvious answer (God often contradicts himself because humans often contradict themselves) […]

Fun fact: The composition of gasses that you need in a space habitat (Earth atmosphere analog) is naturally buoyant in the atmosphere of Venus. If you're ballooning on Venus, your habitable volume is also your lifting body

[Paradise spoilers] I'm mostly enchanted with Paradise, there's just two weird things 1) Presley's indestructible braids aren't the biggest mystery, but they're pretty high up there. If this element has a purpose and is not an oversight, maybe it signals her competence and self-sufficiency 2) […]