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All that bad news you saw from me yesterday, along with so much more bad news today — it all adds up to this.
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
I love it when people take their plushies with them on trips, and post photos of them visiting nice places! Is there an established hashtag for those kinds of photos? If not, maybe someone should think of one.
Update: I'm declaring #PlushieTravels to be the one and only canonical totally official proposed hashtag for it. 
Changing tracts for a moment; scientists have made an incredible discovery that alters not only how we understand the deep ocean, but also may alter what we know about the Earth's supply of the very oxygen we breathe - and unsurprisingly, capitalists are already working on fucking that up without the slightest care in the world for the harm it may cause our biosphere.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo
Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean
"About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was made by marine plants photosynthesizing - something that requires sunlight.
Here, at depths of 5km, where no sunlight can penetrate, the oxygen appears to be produced by naturally occurring metallic “nodules” which split seawater - H2O - into hydrogen and oxygen."
The article goes on to describe how we discovered these deep sea nodules which may take millions of years to form, what it means that oxygen is being produced without marine plant photosynthesis, and how this probably changes our understanding of deep sea life that likely depends on that oxygen (fish need oxygen, they just get it differently than we do.) Science lovers are encourage to read the whole piece.
What I want to focus on here however, is the fact that immediately after we've discovered this natural wonder, deep sea mining companies and resource-hungry capitalists are looking to literally rip these metallic nodules from the sea floor with virtually no concern for how that might affect our oceans, or even life on Earth.
"And because these nodules contain metals like lithium, cobalt and copper - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.
But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support life on the seafloor. And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures."
Are life-giving, water oxygenating metallic nodules our only source of lithium, cobalt, and copper? Nope. Have deep sea mining companies studied the potential harm harvesting these nodules might cause? Nope. Might ripping them out of the water affect the delicate balance of not only ocean life but potentially how the oxygen we breath is distributed across multiple ecosystems and even the whole planet? Yeap. Does capitalism give a shit about any of that? Apparently not. The simple truth here is that we don't know how important these nodules are, and if the capitalists have their way we're going to start destroying them to make batteries before we even find out.
Look you can call me an alarmist if it'll make you feel better, but this story is merely a microcosm of the entire reason you're living on a boiling planet, facing down a mass extinction event that may well wipe out billions of people and destroy a habitable biosphere for countless other species as well.
We live in an extractivist culture, driven by the capitalist profit motive, where time and time again the need to keep stacking money for incomprehensibly rich ghouls is prioritized over not only nature, but the very survival of the human species. Capitalism is killing us, and literally nobody in the wealthy ruling classes, or the governments they've bought lock stock and barrel is doing anything about it, or shows any signs of even *trying* to do anything about it.
I don't know if tearing metallic nodules that produce dark oxygen from the ocean floor to make more Tesla batteries will compromise the planet's supply of the precious air we all breathe or not. But neither do the rich bastards that want to do it anyway. And you and I both know that if even if they did know, they wouldn't care.
At some point the human species is going to have to get serious about prioritizing life on Earth over the material demands of capitalists and rich people, or we're going to run out of life to commodify; or you know, the very air necessary to sustain our own existence as animals on a planet uniquely capable of supporting that life. One thing I *can* tell you is that after hundreds of years of capitalist predation of our shared biosphere, it is clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that neither the capitalists, nor the states they own, are going to make the right choices to ensure our survival, for us.
#ClimateCrisis #DarkOxygen #Capitalism #OceanLife
The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.Victoria Gill (BBC News)
@KayOhtie I thought it was good, and informative. There's 6 min clip on tiktok to get the shape of the coverage:
https://www.tiktok.com/@lastweektonighthbo/video/7379701265225223466
A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!
Don't roll your own crypto.
I guess a blog post coming in the future.
*Angry fox noises*
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A shift is happening:
•Biden has cancelled his meeting with Netanyahu
•Harris will skip Netanyahu's speech to Congress
•Harris will meet with Netanyahu to tell him to stop bombing Palestinian civilians
•Seven major unions just sent a joint letter to Biden calling on him to "immediately halt all military aid to Israel" ahead of Netanyahu’s DC visit:
SEIU, NEA, UAW, UE, APWU, AFA, & IUPAT
Don't let up. Keep the pressure on until US stops funding genocide & starts rebuilding Palestine. Let's go.
This is an interesting take, the basilisk framing makes sense! But I still don't get what the trigger is. What is the SOMETHING you refer to? Do you know?
I'd like to understand it, because I like to understand why people think the way they do, especially when I disagree with them. I can't fathom TERFs. It doesn't make sense, it is so irrational. With ordinary bigotry is possible to understand where it's coming from. Racism kind of makes sense, conservative transphobia and homophobia kind of makes sense, etc.
The position that trans women is a threat to cis women is a complete mystery to me. It is, as you say, fucking stupid.
Did a long investigation for WIRED looking at how studios are already using AI to degrade and kill jobs in the video game industry
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/
Everybody in a UBI study could spend it all on drugs & I would still support UBI.
Stop asking virtue of the poor which you don’t of the rich.
I agree. There are so many assumptions and expectations made of those on low incomes which are completely unfair and entirely based on prejudice.
But my favourite story about the concept of a universal basic income, is that the leader who came closest to implementing it wasn’t Jimmy Carter, Harold Wilson or Barack Obama…nope, it was Richard Nixon in 1969.
@JugglingWithEggs
Seriously…the story of how Richard Nixon almost implemented UBI:
In 1969 President Richard Nixon was on the verge of implementing a basic income for poor families in America. It promised to be a revolutionary step – had the President not changed his mind at the last minute.The Correspondent
i don’t even need to hear from the EFF to have a good argument why adshit shouldn’t run on my computers
the argument is: it’s my computer
no seriously. are they paying me for the use of my computer to run their adshit? no? then it doesn’t need to run on my computer.
that shit is for me, not doubleclick or whatever the bloody thing is called now. if it ain’t making me happy or bringing me money, it’s out
@rameshgupta @tauon @silly The internet existed before corporations used it as an ad platform. They are not innocently developing cool services with ads as a monetization strategy, they're developing services as a way to force people to view their ad network content.
Ads were not inevitable, but viewpoints like yours allowed them to become ubiquitous.
Privacy should be the default. It's very simple.
⬆️ @sekka @tauon @ariadne @silly
>>Ads were not inevitable, but viewpoints like yours allowed them to become ubiquitous.
You either did not read my viewpoint or did not understand it.
I say the same thing — email and web existed before ad monetization.
I have resisted ad monetization with good results. I wonder why others failed, why they whine, and put blame on anti-ad people like me.
Don’t eat free candy without giving up something else. Pay for services using money or your data. Simple.
By happy coincidence, Alexei Sayle was recording an episode of “Strangers on a Train” from London to Hereford just as people were arriving for EMF. It’s live on the radio at 10.30am this coming Saturday, and will be available to listen/download after the broadcast.
The lost files are found!
Hrhrhrhr, awesome shots from an #EAST far far in the past by fella Dakoru appearing! 💜💖
There'll be more!
Featuring Heyz worn by Cabro 🧡🤍🖤,
I wonder how they is, havn't heard from for ages!
Can someone help?
this is a good policy
edit: this post got big and im gonna turn off notifications for it now
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"Tory conference could be like a wake as business stays away"
Attendance in Birmingham predicted to be worst in living memory with big impact on party’s fundraising effortsRob Davies (The Guardian)
Email received a few days ago: "We need to know which version of SSH is installed on the server, as we want to ensure it is not vulnerable to external attacks." My response: "Don’t worry, SSH is accessible ONLY via VPN, and I am the only one with access to that VPN—activated only when needed—so there is no way for there to be any issues, regardless of the version used."
Email received this morning: "We’re not interested; you must provide the SSH version installed and, if it's not the latest, ensure us of the update date."
My response: "Sorry, could you explain the rationale? SSH is not exposed, it’s not listening on any public IP."
Their reply: "Provide the version."
My response: "OpenSSH_9.7, LibreSSL 3.9.0, on OpenBSD."
Their reply: "This is not considered secure. It must be OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u3."
My response: "It’s not Debian; it’s OpenBSD."
Their reply: "So the systems are insecure."
And they claim to be a cybersecurity company...
#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian
I've talked to a few friends today. Construction contractors & similar for political issues. This is the first time I've ventured into it because people in the blue collar industry around here tend to be more Republican.
They are non-social media and don't think about politics the way we do. They think in terms of common sense resolutions that will help both them and the country, and don't put political labels on them.
They thought Trump is an idiot who can't string more than a few sentences together and don't believe him capable of anything.
They were disgusted by the entire process and worried that Biden was following along that same track.
They said Harris is kind of a relief, seeing someone finally capable of stepping up and running the country the way a president should. And they will be voting for her.
I wanted to relay this because much of the time we only see Social Media feedback so some real world examples helps get a better perspective.
It's vital, over the next few weeks, to remember that Republicans, foreign powers, and extremists will be working to make Democrats and people who vote for them angry with each other.
The goal will be to create turmoil in the party and its followers, and to disrupt the Harris campaign before it gets going.
Do not be fooled by bots and extremists that try to make you hate your allies.
Content warning: Fursuit/partial & light shibari
In the newly-formed parliament in France, the youngest member, far-right MP Flavien Termet, was given the task of welcoming the deputies. Most of the deputies did not shake his hand.
(Extra credit to the Rock, Paper, Scissors guy!)
From https://bsky.app/profile/caymanwent.bsky.social
If your win10 install is pushing Copilot on you:
1. Run PowerShell as Administrator
2. Paste: Get-AppxPackage *CoPilot* -AllUsers | Remove-AppPackage -AllUsers
3. Press Enter (There will not be any output if it is successfully removed)
4. Reboot
Repost to save a life
I did some searching but couldn't find the original source of this graphic but it's just too good not to share. My apologies for swiping this without credit.
This chubby otter, Sveni, is about to enjoy his favorite food: sushi. But not before his eyes first take in the delight before him.
Patreon reward for Sveni
Digital. Procreate.
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LobitoWorks is opening for a small batch of custom fursuit commissions (first public opening in several years!), with completion dates in 2025. Hard deadlines are possible with a deadline fee ranging from 15-50% of your commission price.Google Docs
A really cool and interesting thing just happened in space. NASA’s Mars Rover drove over a rock that cracked open, revealing pure sulfur.
This is a first on Mars. It’s also unexpected given the characteristics of its surroundings.
#NASA #Space #PlanetaryGeology #Mars #Rover #Astronomy
Among several recent findings, the rover has found rocks made of pure sulfur — a first on the Red Planet.Anthony Greicius (NASA)
It's always so refreshing to see more rubber and gear kink peeps who are also massive nerds who're into some of the same engineery shit I'm into, because it makes me feel like less of an oddball.
It makes me feel normal. Like there is absolutely a niche community for weird exotics like me. 💙
Even a big wolf looks tiny in the wide expanse of nature
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I admin a local "pantry" group on Facebook, for food sharing. Basically, if you have food (or other stuff, but mostly food) that you don't want for whatever reason you can post it in the group and give it away. It stops good being thrown out and wasted, and helps people who might be going hungry otherwise.
Tonight a woman put up a post talking about how she's a young mum with two small boys, and that they were out of food until Thursday. She talked about how she was embarrassed to ask but really needed help.
Two women answered the post, offering food. The OP explained that she didn't drive and would it be ok of people dropped things at her place, so I offered to drive around and collect the things people were giving and drop them at her place. I don't have spare food I can help with, but I have a car and I have time.
The second woman I collected from was someone I actually met at the beginning of the year, when she posted in the group and asked for help with cleaning supplies.. I gave her a bunch of things I had tucked away under the sink and didn't use.
She had told me then about how her partner had just been diagnosed with cancer. She told me tonight how she'd stayed in the group because she was waiting for the opportunity to help someone else because we'd helped her so much. She's doing better now, and it made her feel happy she could help someone else.
When I dropped the food these two women had given to the OP, she talked to me about how her partner had died suddenly the year before, leaving her with two young boys.. both with autism and ADHD. She said she's 31 and doesn't have her life together yet. I told her I'm 50 and mines a mess too. I told her that one of the women who had offered food was someone the group had helped previously, and how happy she'd been to be able to help as well. We talked about how community means not only helping people, but also being helped. We talked about how this means that our communities are stronger and prosper together. She's looking forward to being able to help someone else too.
This is how mutual aid works. No matter how dark things get, we can find hope in community.
#MutualAid #Indigenous #Aboriginal #CommunityCare #CommunityNotCops #RegionalAustralia
It's wild how many views my Leeds Furmeet videos are getting so far, over 4,800 views already! Thank you so much for watching. Here's a GIF of Nebraxas being awesome
It's been great being back at the LeedsFurs furmeet and I got some good footage from the fursuit walk and the meet. I'm looking forward to going back again s...YouTube
@cyrus I used to be surprised by things like this, but then I learned about the Remington Model 700.
See, the Remington Model 700 was perfectly fine at firing when the trigger was pulled. But it could also fire when the trigger wasn't pulled, causing injury and death. Remington sold this rifle for more than 40 years, despite knowing of the flaw and knowing a way to fix it... because the fix would have made each rifle 5.5 cents more expensive to produce.
@cyrus ironically it's almost exactly the same price per unit for a non-welded socket as a welded socket once you get to about 10k pcs because the plastic pieces cost $0.0001 at that volume, whereas the metal pieces are bounded by the total material mass. the cost difference is a rounding error.
my guess would be one (or more) of:
- they already had a welder in the production line and it'd be a machine change
- there's a medical device compliance spec that requires it
- they're idiots
@agatha I am not the god of reparability and hardware maintainability, so no worry. it won't be me.
but better be safe. don't tack weld any batteries
Content warning: what, unhinged, gross
Content warning: what, unhinged, gross
1. exploded/leaked and destroyed the PCB
2. not exploded /YET/
the worst part? this is a device I'm tearing down, yeah, but it's also a device I rely on every day for medical reasons: I bought a second one to tear it down.
so now I know my legit one has a limited lifespan.
https://www.mouser.ca/c/power/battery-holders-clips-contacts/coin-cell-battery-holders/
do they still put data in a proprietary format on an SD card that not even the physician can read?
I recall contributing to SleepyHead back then…
it's a shame Jedimark stopped working on it:
https://sleepyhead.jedimark.net/
SleepyHead CPAP Review Software
sleepyhead.jedimark.netHad one of these explode in my face once when I was desoldering it.
Fortunately for me, I was using a lighted magnifier at the time and it caught the blast of fiery lithium instead of my face.
My underwear on the other hand, didn't fare so well.
Does this make me a Repair-Pirate? Harrharr! 😄🏴☠️
A real pain, if you really don't want to loose the BIOS settings and have to power the thing while replacing the battery