"One estimate is that 360 million birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals are killed on the roads in the US each year, while across Europe it may be 200 million birds and 30 million mammals."
Traffic may be as important as industrial farming for destroying wildlife - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
UKHACC Chair, Richard Smith writes his thoughts on Traffication and the need for greater recognition of the impacts of traffic on nature, human and animal healthUK Health Alliance on Climate Change
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TIL that the #1 indicator of a mass casualty offender (planned or executed event) is having a U.S. military background
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/extremism-disinformation/2023/06/07/what-ties-violent-extremists-together-military-service-study-says/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g7kz2l/til_that_the_1_indicator_of_a_mass_casualty/
Military service key factor in 3 decades of extremist attacks
One-quarter of all extremism-driven mass casualty attacks and plots from 1990 through 2022 were devised by perpetrators with military backgrounds.Nikki Wentling (Military Times)
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I propose writing IPv6 addresses as Unicode:
- take each segment
- convert it to a codepoint
- ???
- profit
For example: 2a01:4f8:c012:fb3::1 would become
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#Seattle #SoundTransit #LinkLightRail
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The Oakland Hills are on fire again, 33 years to the day from the infamous Oakland Hills Firestorm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_firestorm_of_1991
We're gearing up for a tough fire season as winds are picking up after an exceptionally hot and dry year.
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TIL the 300 Club at the South Pole involves a tradition where participants go from a +200°F sauna to the -100°F outside, often running a lap around the South Pole marker while wearing only boots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g7j3g6/til_the_300_club_at_the_south_pole_involves_a/
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“How can people watching what is happening in Palestine and do nothing?”
Americans are dying of hypothermia during hurricane clean up.
Canadians are getting scurvy from malnutrition.
The people in charge, do not care.
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TIL that 0.8% of the population is unable to form visual mental images, per a 2022 study.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia#Research
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g7faoc/til_that_08_of_the_population_is_unable_to_form/
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Every state that doesn't default to mail-in ballots is engaging in intentional voter suppression.
Every state that collaborates with the electoral college is engagining in intentional voter suppression.
Every state that doesn't automatically register people to vote on their 18th birthday (what most countries do) is engaging in intentional voter suppression.
You should work on these things before vote shaming individuals.
Don't think about tactics when you should be thinking about logistics
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Modern shell #scripting is weird. :P #programming #bash #linux
#!/usr/bin/env bash
function parse_options () {
declare -n result="$1"
shift 1
result['verbosity']='4'
result['memory']='24G'
result['volumes']=''
result['device']='/dev/st0'
result['write-rate']='250M'
local opt
local OPTARG
while getopts 'vm:n:i:' opt
do
case $opt in
v)
result['verbosity']=6
;;
m)
result['memory']="$OPTARG"
;;
n)
result['volumes']="$OPTARG"
;;
i)
result['device']="$OPTARG"
;;
r)
result['write-rate']="$OPTARG"
;;
esac
done
if [[ -z "${result['volumes']}" ]]; then
echo "-i VOLUMES is required"
exit 1
fi
return 0
}
declare -A CONFIG
parse_options CONFIG "$@" || exit 1
exec mbuffer \
-v "${CONFIG['verbosity']}" \
-m "${CONFIG['memory']}" \
-n "${CONFIG['volumes']}" \
-p 30 \
-s 65536 \
-A 'sh /usr/local/bin/tape_wait.sh' \
-f \
-R "${CONFIG['write-rate']}" \
-i "${CONFIG['device']}"like this
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Buffers? I see no buffers. It's a relatively trivial little script to translate one command-line API into another. I would use typeset instead of declare to make it portable to Korn Shell, and get rid of the unnecessary local OPTARG. I would get rid of the unnecessary local-reference trick with result -- it is not a sin to modify a well named global variable in a shell script. It could easily be translated into entirely POSIX-compatible syntax by using multiple global variables.
As for using another language, well that would be both silly, and far more complex. The shell is always already there and quite capable.
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ngl, I don't get it. It feels to me more like an understanding that buoyancy is a function of mass over volume, but maybe it makes more sense if you understand something specific about it (like what it's actually floating on? Seems like a strange material. Some sort of plastic? Thin material that could break?) Not quite sure what the hubris part is exactly.
Though, that said, there is indeed a 0% chance that any existing safety regulations standard would allow this.
The AI tech bros are panicking. Greed and lies can only get you so far.
"The energy, water, and capital demands of generative AI are astonishing, requiring perhaps trillions of dollars of spending this decade alone. Revenue hasn’t kept up, so one way for these companies to maintain the flow of investment dollars is to double down on the hype."
Big Tech has given itself an AI deadline
Why are AI execs suddenly saying that superintelligence is just around the corner?Matteo Wong (The Atlantic)
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revealing the fediverse's gifts
If they’re motivated, tooled up, and plugged into communities of support fediverse server teams can provide context-sensitive, high-touch local moderation for their members—while also connecting to a broad landscape of other well-governed servers.Erin Kissane (wreckage/salvage)
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[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/16/climate-crisis-technology-ai
Rebecca Solnit: *Tech barons are forever predicting some amazing new technology to fix the climate crisis. Yet fixes already exist.* The difficulties with the known solutions are mainly that some businesses and billionaires are lobbying tooth and nail to stop us from using them. *Proposing we go for some false or nonexistent solution has become an excuse constantly deployed as an excuse for not …
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TIL that Honey Nut Cheerios haven’t contained nuts since 2006. The nut flavor comes from a blend of peach and apricot pit
https://you-well.co.uk/american-cereal-is-weird/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g78277/til_that_honey_nut_cheerios_havent_contained_nuts/
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🔥 FBI created its own cryptocurrency token, NexFundAI, to bust widespread market manipulation. Several market makers are charged with wash trading and a pump-and-dump scheme.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/fbi-creates-fake-cryptocurrency-to.html
FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market Manipulation
U.S. DoJ charges 18 in a $25M cryptocurrency fraud operation, uncovering market manipulation through an FBI-led sting.The Hacker News
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-CO2
-CH4
-C2H6
-C3H8
It's all carbon. It's all fossil fuels. You can read about the slight differences here, but understand:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-19/gas-emissions-worse-than-coal-study-finds/104481570
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Gas industry in damage control as landmark study finds LNG 'worse than coal' for the climate
For years, the mantra from the industry has been that gas is a bridge between coal and renewable energy. A landmark study has sensationally challenged that idea.Daniel Mercer (ABC News)
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@eniko @angelastella @gabrielesvelto Sources!
> Unfortunately, the majority of plastic waste is being incinerated, dumped in landfills, and released into the environment, causing significant environmental and health problems (Wang et al. 2020a), with only a tiny percentage that does not exceed 10.0% recycled in the USA
10% is recycled. 90% is _incinerated or released into the environment_.
If we used 1% of the plastic we use today, we could easily manage 100% of it, no?
TIL: The Allies raided a Nazi chemical company in 1944 and interrogated a chemist due to the amount of radioactive material involved. However, they learned that he was not working on nukes, but radioactive toothpaste known as Duramad, using radiation to kill germs. Some samples are in a museum now.
https://museumofradium.co.uk/doramad-toothpaste/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g6tzmc/til_the_allies_raided_a_nazi_chemical_company_in/
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"Drivers that park their car on tram lines should have their permit taken away forever"
submitted by u/1_Pinchy_Maniac
https://redd.it/1g6j40s
#fuckcars
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Excellent news.
ODOT Denied $750 Million Federal Grant for Rose Quarter Expansion
Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) officials say the state transportation department didn’t receive a coveted $750 million federal Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant it hoped would help fund its plan to expand and cap I-5 thr…Taylor Griggs (Portland Mercury)
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The Times Ed Board forgot to do the reading on the Transportation Levy
The Times Ed Board forgot to do the reading on the Transportation Levy – Seattle Bike Blog
Levy spending breakdown. The Times Ed Board thinks there's too much bicycle safety and not enough maintenance and bridge work. Chart from the Keep Seattle Moving campaign.www.seattlebikeblog.com
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Don't be fooled by the slick renderings. Eric Adams sold out cyclists and bus riders by turning the planning process over to 5th Ave luxury retailers who changed the design to please their customers:
Bike lane -> gone
2 bus lanes -> 1 bus lane
1 vehicle lane -> 2 vehicle lanes
https://bird.makeup/@nycmayor/1846932067126317086
bird.makeup - Tweet
Right now, 70% of the people on Fifth Avenue are pedestrians but they can only use less than HALF of the space! That's going to change under the plan we rolled out to completely transform Fifth Avenue into a WORLD-CLASS pedestrian-centered boulevard…bird.makeup
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TIL that California doesn’t have any speed cameras and San Francisco is installing the first ones
IS THIS WHY OUR DRIVERS AND ROADS ARE TERRIBLE
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/why-were-introducing-speed-safety-cameras-first-california
@enobacon @JessTheUnstill @scott frustrating that the state is so reluctant to install traffic calming and transit infrastructure. We have the same problem in California
A bus lane costs quite a bit more than traffic calming through because you need physical lane separation and speed cushions to stop cars from speeding in the bus lane and killing pedestrians. This is especially important if you have poor bus frequencies where buses are separated by 10+ minutes
Fuck Microsoft and Fuck Nadella.
As expected, the 24H2 update installed 'Recall', it can't be uninstalled.
To disable the Microcoft spyware, run this as admin
C:\Windows\System32>Dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall
Can't vouch that all the people you share your screen, code, IP, private details, will disable theirs. consider NOT sharing anything ever again.
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I.consider #Windows a #Govware and #Windows11 a #Malware that is incapable of complying with #BDSG & #GDPR and I expect @bsi and @EUCommission to ban the use of any Windows machine because if that.
- #Microsoft can't be trusted as they are acting under duress (#CloudAct) and are known for.comitting illegal #espionage (#PRISM collaboration!)...
Anything else but a flatout #WindowsBan due to #Recall is undue leniency and would look like a conditionless surrender by regulators.
- But I guess @noybeu has to sue companies into compliance!
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First Wind Event of the Season for Western Washington
#wawx
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NEW STORY // Washington Transit Agencies Sound the Alarm About Impacts from I-2117
via @urbanistorg // 🔗 https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/09/27/washington-transit-agencies-sound-the-alarm-about-impacts-from-i-2117/?feed_id=4229&_unique_id=66f6badfa906b
Washington Transit Agencies Sound the Alarm About Impacts from I-2117 - The Urbanist
# If approved, Initiative 2117, repealing 2021's Climate Commitment Act, would put $2.39 billion in funding for transit agencies across the state over the next 16 years at severe risk of evaporating.Ryan Packer (The Urbanist)
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in reply to Extinction Rebellion Global • • •Frank Engelhard
in reply to Extinction Rebellion Global • • •Extinction Rebellion Global
in reply to Frank Engelhard • • •They don't, they have wallabies. 🙃
Frank Engelhard
in reply to Extinction Rebellion Global • • •sven_md
in reply to Extinction Rebellion Global • • •about 3 (pigeons) within the recent month, what I've seen by feet tha riding vehicles as guest, or driving them behind the wheel
manually to avoid collissions with dragonflies at daytime in summer or frogs at night, bees during heat, etc.
cabrio without a roof? use own feet to nordic/walk, jogging, ...than even needing fuel for energy to recharge batteries, changing tyres, having space in a trunk or using a cargobike instead, value that matters for the #environment