Scientists have discovered that Earth’s carbon sinks are not really carbon sinking at the moment
Is that good? What does that even mean?First Dog on the Moon (The Guardian)
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Where are the American furries from?
based on 19k google form answers
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Damn literally every Alaskan is a furry I guess. /s
Pleasantly surprised to see that many up here though. Surprised it's not lower.
> "Driving is easy!"
> A couple rainy days:
45-car pileup on southbound I-5 closes freeway for hours in Kent
Up to 45 cars were involved in a multi-car crash around 1:20 p.m., forcing the closure of southbound I-5 in Kent.The Washington State Patrol (WSP) closed all southbound lanes to allow first responders and tow trucks to reach the crash site.
Trooper Rick Johnson with WSP said that there were only minor injuries.
Traffic was being diverted to SR 516 until all the cars could be taken off the road.
Several first responders and agencies answered the call including officials with the Washington State Patrol, Washington State Department of Transportation, local fire and paramedics.
The backup reached 5 miles, officials with WSP and WSDOT said.
The road was reopened at 4:15 p.m. but it is taking some time to clear the backup.
During the closure, people were told to plan for added travel time and seek alternative routes.
Real-time traffic information is available on the WSDOT mobile app and the Travel Center Map, or by signing up for email updates.
WSP is investigating the cause as a single crash.
finally someone wrote The Thing about 'digital nomads'
YES
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/digital-nomads-criticism-locals-exploitation
The Unfettered Selfishness of Digital Nomads
We all know they’re insufferable, but they’re also making the world worse.James Greig (Thrillist)
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Brakes. This magic thing can even make a car come to a full halt!
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but the US might not even achieve that goal with "independent" commissions, since basically everyone in the US is part of either party. Other solutions would be #rankedChoiceVoting to help competition/more moderate candidates and speaking of the Electoral Collage the "#NationalPopularVoteInterstateCompact" would effectively enable a popular vote. #usPol #Elections
How Canada ended gerrymandering
Our neighbor to the north solved its gerrymandering problem decades ago.Andrew Prokop (Vox)
@nick @kkarhan Interesting story, thanks. We need some kind of RCV.
NPV compact feels hacky, cleaner to pass a majoritarian constitution via referendum. Many more fixes needed e.g. dissolve Senate, remove slavery clauses including still-active involuntary servitude for convicts, align pol incentives with citizens’. More:
https://sfba.social/@vij/111292247310383927
Manish Vij (@vij@sfba.social)
@collette One person, one vote: dissolve Senate and electoral college, most votes for president wins, ban partisan state election officials, replace gerrymander with nonpartisan commissions or math Align incentives: easier ballot access, some form o…SFBA.social
TIL The East India Company did not carry or sell the opium to China itself because of the Chinese ban, instead the company dominated the Indian production end and monopolized the supply, selling it to private traders/smugglers who actually did the selling, not unlike China on fentanyl issue today.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge1087/til_the_east_india_company_did_not_carry_or_sell/
Opium trade | China, History, Wars, & Facts | Britannica
Opium trade, the traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries, mostly Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China.Encyclopedia Britannica
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"Oxfam’s research found that the world’s fifty richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air. This produced as much carbon as the average person in the world would in 300 years.""
Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam
Consumption of the world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5CJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
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Someone had to do it
https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-cities-are-lovely-x-is-a-dumpster-fire
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Engagement on [Mastodon] is often kinda boring. I'm not looking for an echo chamber where everyone agrees with me all the time
👀 Is this a call for urbanist hot takes? If so here's what I've got
- Homeowners have an incentive to restrict development. We should reduce the amount of local input in development
- Environmental review served a good purpose in the era of highway expansions but should be removed in places where it has become an impediment to development
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- While well-intentioned, affordability requirements for new housing only serve to make construction less financially viable and less likely to be constructed
- Likewise there is far too much hostility towards developers and landlords in urbanist spaces
- Historical landmarking is often used to prevent development and it should be limited (eg. SF's historic laundromat)
- We should not expect transit to be a cash cow but free fares makes it harder to expand service
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TIL: Oreo was created in 1912 as an imitation of Hydrox. Oreo eventually surpassed Hydrox in popularity, which resulted in the Hydrox cookies being perceived by many as an imitation of Oreo, despite the opposite being the case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gdp77a/til_oreo_was_created_in_1912_as_an_imitation_of/
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American Trinity (Left):
- Commodore PET
- Apple II
- Tandy TRS-80
Japanese Trinity (Right):
- Sharp MZ-80K
- NEC PC-8001
- Hitachi BASIC Master MB-6880
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Imagine wondering “When’s the next time that Christmas will be a Tuesday/Wednesday, for those sweet optimal public holidays (Jan 1st being exactly a week later)?”
Now imagine asking, idk, google or Siri or god forbid an actual calendar, instead of turning to the best tool for the job: systemd.
#systemd #linuxadmin #linux #systemd
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This is systemd propaganda! /jk
This feel so wrong, like emojis source code (I love it!)
"Trust us! What's the worst that could happen?"
"It’s impossible to compare [the company's] AI-generated transcript to the original recording because [the company's] tool erases the original audio for 'data safety reasons.'"
They're going to ask for your consent to do this with your medical records. Don't let them!
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14
Researchers say an AI-powered #transcription tool used in #hospitals invents things no one ever said
#IAmDB #AI #Hallucinations #Health #HealthTech #Tech
Researchers say AI transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said. Whisper was created by OpenAI.GARANCE BURKE (AP News)
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I was seconds away from telling the manager "If AI does your job, then why should anyone still pay you? Cuz by that logic you're deadweight!" but I'm not a sociopath who force-feeds people their own BS so I didn't...
I mean if they can uninvite me for enforcing my inalienable human rights then certainly they don't have a need for professionals or to fill a vacancy...
#DataProtection #HumanRights #AI #Enshittification #Dachkräftemangel
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I think you sidestepped a major disaster by being uninvited. These are not your people.
It's #CyberSecurityMonth! Time to #deGoogle 💪💪💪
What are your favorite privacy-first apps?
Check out our list:
https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-google-gmail
How to De-Google your life: The ultimate list of best private Google alternatives. | Tuta
Start DeGoogling today and prevent Big G from exploiting your data! Learn how to replace Google apps with private ones in this detailed guide.Tuta
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it has been zero days since I started building another meme generation tool.
based on https://xkcd.com/2501/
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*Blank look*
"It's the most popular foundry Uncial type" ...
*Blank look*
"Ya know, Uncial???"
*Sigh*
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"Being the town's laughingstock after spending $100,000 on a truck is definitely not ideal."
😂🤣
#us
I Don’t Know Why Women Keep Laughing at Me When I’m Out Driving my Tesla Cybertruck
A Tesla Cybertruck owner says there is a concerted effort to publicly shame people who drive the all-electric truck. He recounts several instances where people pointed and laughed at him while driving his Cybertruck.Tinsae Aregay (Torque News)
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46 years of #Arctic sea ice thickness during the month of September...
Graphic available at https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/
Arctic: Sea-Ice Thickness/Volume
My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentrat…Zachary Labe
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Tesla out here "disrupting" your groundwater with literal AI sludge.
A stream of bright green chemicals leaked from Tesla's Palo Alto campus and flowed into a storm drain and creek, prompting a hazardous cleanup response. The fluorescent fluid was...
https://jwz.org/b/ykbq
"I LOVE SMALL TRUCKS I LOVE SMALL TRUCKs"
submitted by u/Bitter-Gur-4613
https://redd.it/1gdd998
#fuckcars
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BREAKING: Study Finds COVID-19 Linked to 50% Increase in Car Crashes Due to Neurological Changes
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic raises concerns about long-term neurological effects, as Long COVID symptoms could impair driving abilities, but their specific impact on driving remains understudied.
Study:
https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/01.wnl.0001051276.37012.c2
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"Car blocking bike lane as police rip the tendons and joints of a scientist in Denmark for protesting pro-corporate anti-climate agricultural legislation"
submitted by u/KingApologist
https://redd.it/1gd89wn
#fuckcars
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Theo Moudakis // Toronto Star
#shoppersDrug #dougFord #bill60 #ontario #onpoli #cdnpoli #conservatives
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Question for the #FreeBSD #jails experts - how do you determine if/when you start to put services and processes into jails vs running them on a single, unjailed server?
Concrete scenario - I've got a second server in my homelab that's running the backup (synced, thanks to #OpenBSD's opendhcpd) dhcp server, a DNS server and most importantly, the Unifi Controller.
Right now I'm running the Unifi Controller and its database in a jail, and am currently wondering if this is necessary and useful given it seems mostly to add to the maintenance overhead and, given that it's a purely internal server, the added isolation might be a little overkill.
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And as the bare metal/host OS is disconnected from the services I find it easier to upgrade OS without impacting installed packages in guests.
BTW, a nice feature of VNET jails is that the jail can run on another VLAN than the host.
To wrap this up for now, I ended up leaving some of the base services (`nut` for monitoring the UPS/shutting down the server and dhcpd) on the base #FreeBSD system and the other services - internal and filtered external DNS, and the Unifi controller - each got their own jails.
So far, so good, and the move from an older full size server to a lower spec Lenovo M90q Tiny should hopefully save some electricity as well.
60,000 cancelled subscriptions in the first 24 hours following the NO endorsement announcement from #Bezos #WaPo is absolutely staggering. this might be the first time in the history of USA media that this happens.
but forget about the Washington Post a minute: Bezos trashed his credibility overnight. doesn't matter if he has the biggest valuation in the world, making him the richest asshole on paper. Bezos wants the respectability and influence of culture makers.
that ain't happening… ever.
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I was one of those who canceled, because there is absolutely no way I'm supporting that. As for Prime, I've never been attracted to it, but I am guilty of buying from Amazon. Too bad it's so easy.
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@fmhilton
A phrase that has been in my mind since the start of Amazon's rise:
"Seduced by the convenient side of the Force"
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If you're cancelling your Washington Post or LA Times subscriptions, I humbly ask that you please consider supporting a nonprofit newsroom like ours, the Mississippi Free Press, with a donation.
We're free for anyone to read (no paywalls!), but your donations help us grow our pro-democracy journalism.
http://mfp.ms/donate
Give Now to Grow MFP Journalism in 2024!
Help us grow our newsroom in Mississippi and our systemic reporting to make a difference for our home state and beyond.Mississippi Journalism and Education Group
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Numbers to call if you witness or experience voter intimidation or harassment happening at your polling location.
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There was a project from around when Mac OS X first came out, to the point of being bootable with a XWindows desktop environment. Something like OpenDarwin, I think? (Edit, yes, link below)
As far as I can tell there isn't any more, but it's been a few years since I Iooked.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#Derived_projects
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I forget sometimes that most folx younger than me can’t remember a time when TV just went off the air at night. No infomercials, or reruns… just dead air.
Like, there are more obvious big deal changes that have happened in my lifetime. That one definitely blew some of my younger friends’ minds today though.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Church of Jeff • • •That's the thing about slave economic systems too.
If it's so great, why were there so many slave revolts?
If Jim Crow was so accepted & "normal" why was there a constant series of court cases and civil rights marches against it?
If patriarchy was so wonderful, why was there a suffrage & women's movement?
If transphobia & homophobia was universal, why are bigots in the courts & politics fighting so hard?
Kevin Karhan :verified:
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