Hewwo, this is fops how may I help you today?
Oh you wanted the Cyber division? That's me!

📷 @AeroFox64 & me

#FursuitEveryday #furry #fursuit #FoxFursuit #FoxFurry #LupeSuits

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ぼくは怒ってるんだよぉ

#FursuitEveryday #着ぐるみ #ケモノ

"Fossil fuel companies are forcing governments to compensate them for lost earnings in the transition to a low-carbon global economy."

Bit like the UK compensating slave-owners, rather than the slaves, when it abolished slavery, eh?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/fossil-fuel-investment-treaties-lobbying-climate-mary-robinson-ban-ki-moon-ect

Fossil fuel firms forcing countries to compensate them, Mary Robinson says

Former Irish president and Ban Ki-moon say fossil lobbying is hampering climate progress

^{Fiona Harvey (The Guardian)}

If you thought Mike Johnson’s words outside the court sounded like a Trump script, that is no coincidence. Trump just admitted it to to the press.

Journalist: “Are you directing surrogates to speak on your behalf?”

Trump: “I do have a lot of surrogates, and they are speaking very beautifully.”

This can potentially become a problem for Trump, as the gag order EXPLICITLY states, Trump is not allowed to direct others to make the attacks he himself is not allowed to.

Your move, Judge Merchan!

It’s Time for Furries to Stop Using Telegram

I have been a begrudging user of Telegram for years simply because that's what all the other furries use. When I signed up, I held my nose and expressed my discontent at Telegram by selecting a username that's a dig at MTProto's inherent insecurity against chosen ciphertext attacks: IND_CCA3_Insecure. Art: CMYKat I wrote about Furries and Telegram before, and included some basic privacy recommendations.

http://soatok.blog/2024/05/14/its-time-for-furries-to-stop-using-telegram/

It’s Time for Furries to Stop Using Telegram - Dhole Moments

I have been a begrudging user of Telegram for years simply because that’s what all the other furries use. When I signed up, I held my nose and expressed my discontent at Telegram by selecting…

^{Dhole Moments}

Blue Blizzard 🦊❄

Commission for KetsNobra on Twitter! :3

Higher res version, time lapse video, and drawing stage snapshots on my Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104176770

#Vulpera #WorldOfWarcraft #Warcraft #Furry #FurryArt #FurryArtist #MastoArt #Commission #ArtCommission

A couple of weeks ago I posted about the pernicious influence of lobbyists for the petrochemical industry, doing their best to derail a treaty aimed at limiting the tremendous global amounts of plastic production, use, and disposal.

See -- https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112377162225459307

Now here's more on the story...
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When I registered to attend last month’s United Nations conference in Canada, organizers insisted it would be a “plastic free meeting.” After all, representatives from roughly 170 countries were gathering to tackle a crisis: The world churns out 400 million metric tons of plastic a year. It clogs landfills and oceans; its chemical trail seeps into our bodies.

Delegates have been meeting since 2022 as part of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in hopes of ending this year with a treaty that addresses “the full life cycle of plastic, including its production, design, and disposal.”

The challenge before delegates seemed daunting, especially when representatives from fossil fuel and chemical companies would be vigorously working to shift the conversation away from what scientists say is the only solution to the crisis: curbing plastic production.

But when I got to the meeting, I discovered that those industry reps were not a sideshow; they were welcomed into the main event.

They could watch closed-door sessions off-limits to reporters. Some got high-level badges indistinguishable from those worn by country representatives negotiating the treaty. These badges allowed them access to exclusive discussions not open to some of the world’s leading health scientists.
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This is not a surprise. Capitalists will stop at nothing to keep polluting, keep destroying, and keep killing — as long as they can make a profit.

➡️ https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-waste-united-nations-international-conference-treaty-ottawa

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

When #Copernicus published its update "April 2024 was warmer globally than any previous April in the data record" I heard it in a casual radio message, followed by an update on football.

Even though I have to deal with #ClimateChange professionally, the realization that we are in an uncharted climate territory does not make it any less mind-boggling. Casually mentioning this unfolding threat to our civilization in between the really relevant news and sports borders with denialism.
#DontLookUp

A policy on use of Generative AI has been accepted by the Minecraft Wiki community.

With development of new tools and technology, wikis have to keep up and evaluate risks and effects of those on the wiki and their communities. This policy is a result of exactly those evaluations.

You can see the new policy in here: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Minecraft_Wiki:Wiki_rules/Generative_AI_policy

#GenAI #AI #MinecraftWiki

Minecraft Wiki:Wiki rules/Generative AI policy

This policy prohibits the usage of generative AI on the Minecraft Wiki, and defines exceptions where the usage is allowed. Generative AI includes (and is not limited to) large language models (LLMs, e.g. ChatGPT) and text-to-image models (e.g.

^{Minecraft Wiki}

as a security practitioner, i can no longer legitimize telegram given their latest behavior of attacking actual legitimate secure messaging tools

i was already planning to delete my account at the end of the month over the nazi thing, but i am not going to tolerate a bunch of useless rich-ass techbros (durov and musk in this case) bullying @Mer__edith who is one of the most empathetic people in this industry and who runs an absolutely solid team who cares extensively about the safety and security of the users of their product

i don't care if "all the furries are still there" anymore. i won't be. i'm done with this.

"We do not live in a system governed by people who are prepared to plant a tree in whose shade they will never sit. We are governed by people who inherited a shady grove built by labor, fired the gardeners and commodified the shade which they believe is generated ex-nihilo by market forces; 'trees' are a completely unrelated externality that can be acquired fully grown by suppliers and if a thought catches anywhere in their mind, it's only to recognize that every time a tree falls, the remaining shade gets more valuable"
- @beej, on this weeks Microsoft studio closures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSHsw9TYN3M

Freedom Never Sleeps || CheckPoint 549

Stories on: SMT V: Vengeance, Nintendo World Championships NES Edition, Helldivers 2, shutting down a bunch of studios, and Pokemon GO.Support LRR: http://pa...

^YouTube

So…there is a concerted campaign, with Musk as its mouthpiece, to discredit Signal and get people to switch to Telegram. It’s disinformation, but there’s also useful information in it. The useful information is that a hideous, powerful, right-wing crank — or whoever’s yanking his chain — really, really wants people to use Telegram.

We’ve long known Telegram’s security is weak. But now, in light of this new information, we should move forward assuming that Telegram is actively compromised.

Software and data are the same thing to a computer.

On a disk or RAM or L1/L2 cache, it's all 1s and 0s. Your data and code sit next to each other, not special in any way to the computer.

Most programmers act like they are somehow different in nature, like oil and water.

It's a useful separation, but one that occurs only in the mind.

As programmers, we get to say, "Let's pretend there is a thing called X."

And because we do this, we get 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 benefits from them.

Before I watched this clip I didn't believe non-human animals had the capacity to be massively passive-aggressive.

https://youtu.be/wr_Eg8Zw7LA

Taronga Zoo's Lyrebird Mimics Evacuation Alarm After Lion Escape

A lyrebird at Sydney's Taronga Zoo has been caught mimicking the evacuation alarm a week after five lions escaped their enclosure.Subscribe: https://bit.ly/P...

^YouTube

"Children raised under UK austerity are now smaller in height at age five than their European counterparts, with tooth extractions among five- to nine-year-olds in poorer communities..."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/14/british-children-poverty-tories-gordon-brown

Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope

We know about the hardship of ‘Thatcher’s children’, but a new generation of Tories has raised inequality to even higher levels, says the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

^{Gordon Brown (The Guardian)}

Record heat waves all across the planet. Extreme storms and floods. More and more deaths.

The destruction from climate change is everywhere you look. And what causes climate change?

Excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide…
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The largest ever recorded leap in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has just occurred, according to researchers who monitor the relentless accumulation of the primary gas that is heating the planet.

The global average concentration of CO2 in March 2024 was 4.7 parts per million higher than it it was last year, which is a record-breaking increase over a 12-month period.

“It’s really significant to see the pace of the increase over the first four months of this year, which is also a record,” said Ralph Keeling, director of the CO2 Program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “We aren’t just breaking records in CO2 concentrations, but also the record in how fast it is rising.”
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I said above that excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere cause climate change, and that’s true, but what’s the cause of all those greenhouse gases?

It is the unrelenting senseless drive for economic growth at all costs. In other words, capitalism.

We need system change.

FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-record

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

You'll be unsurprised that the Institute for Fiscal Studies has confirmed 'extra' NHS spending promised by the Tories was eaten up by inflation;

this is what happens when the focus is no nominal not real (inflation-adjusted) values.

Its been obvious that the defunding of the NHS was at least partly achieved by being publicly obscure (with media collusion) about inflation-adjusted funding & instead trumpeting absolute/nominal funding increases.

#NHS #health #austerity
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/nhs-spending-rise-lags-behind-tory-funding-pledges-ifs-finds

NHS spending rise lags behind Tory funding pledges, IFS finds

Thinktank says extra funding eaten up by higher inflation despite greater demand with service in poor state of repair

^{Larry Elliott (The Guardian)}

Is this a safe space to point out that the largest direct air capture plant in the world — designed to remove 36,000 tonnes of CO₂ each year — is a time machine that takes us back 28 seconds in a year? 🥲

https://wapo.st/3UTqMwC

The model they made of Block 4 is incredible.

What people didn’t realize was that not only did the explosion blow the lid off, it also blasted the bottom of the reactor down almost four meters - allowing the molten core to spill out.

Thinking back to the “inferno” scene in HBO’s Chernobyl, that violent graphite burning would make sense if the bottom of the reactor was completely blown out. Path for air to flow through like a fireplace.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chernobyl_Reactor_4_model_inside.jpg

File:Chernobyl Reactor 4 model inside.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

^{commons.wikimedia.org}

Banks are propping up the fossil fuel industry to the tune of €6.5 trillion, new report finds.

Barclays, Santander and Deutsche Bank were among Europe’s biggest fossil fuel financers in 2023. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/13/banks-are-propping-up-the-fossil-fuel-industry-to-the-tune-of-65-trillion-new-report-finds

At work, challenge Three Letter Acronyms (TLA) at every opportunity.
* They are a barrier to entry for those who don't live in your work
* People are embarrassed to ask, so at best they are distracted Googling. Mostly they are now just not understanding
* When used in combinations they make sentences difficult to parse. "We're targeting key SLOs as a way to maintain our SLAs as one of our OKRs for EOW".

I freaking hate them

The Guardian has a piece well worth reading. It turns out we are doing all the right things for our gut health and it doesn't include kombucha.

The article does not mention steel cut oats - but I would recommend them. And you may not be aware that most brie, camembert and feta are not pasteurized but are legal in Canada!

https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/12/cheese-please-eight-everyday-foods-that-are-great-for-gut-health-and-arent-kimchi-kombucha-kraut-or-kefir

#health #food

Cheese, please! Eight everyday foods that are great for gut health – and aren’t kimchi, kombucha, ’kraut or kefir

There’s more to looking after your internal microbiome than stuffing down the four Ks. Here are some cheap, readily available alternatives

^{Clare Finney (The Guardian)}