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So many people have worked on curbing climate change.
What have we got to show for it?
For starters: The projected warning has decreased by 0.9C. That's considering only actually implemented policies. Pledged emissions cuts go even deeper.
Is it enough?
No.
But we've gone from "It's all going to hell" to "We made good progress let's keep going, and faster."
Data from Climate Action Tracker.
When teachers and parents talk to kids about having ADHD, autism or learning disabilities, they set them up for successScientific American
Situations when it is valid for a computer to beep at me:
- Never
- Also Never
- Shut The Absolute Fuck Up You Silicon Catastrophe
Me: Alright, listen up, I have a busy day tomorrow, and I need to sleep.
My Brain:
corporate sabotage idea: gift all the engineers at your competitor a copy of factorio
development will stall for months
And Tomkitty in action :3 He‘s so cute!!!
3D printed head base, 2 fans, hidden back zipper, follow-me eyes, removable + washable head padding, adjustable head strap.
Hidden front zipper, removable + washable body padding, feet paws with 2 bottom sets 💜
Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
And fewer competitors means higher prices for you.
This fluffy happy guy is Vulcan Riverwolf.
A picture intended for a badge, that was supposed to be simple but I got inspired to to do it with a painting style and added some happy clouds.
Patreon reward for Vulcan. Thank you!
Digital. Procreate
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Content warning: Negative reflections about the fediverse, may change your perspective. Read at your own risk.
Content warning: Negative reflections about the fediverse, may change your perspective. Read at your own risk.
Content warning: Negative reflections about the fediverse, may change your perspective. Read at your own risk.
Some of you may need to hear this.
If you have a label printer or any other kind of tape-fed printer that you use for silly purposes
BE REAL CAREFUL THROWING CARTRIDGES AWAY
The cartridge contains an ink ribbon with impressions of *everything* you printed with it
You may want to discard of that separately in a much more considerate manner
#News
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is now the worst buyout for banks since the 2008 Financial Crisis
Loans of around $13 billion have remained ‘hung’ for nearly two years, bringing in interest payments but weighing on banks’ balance sheets.
LOL
"I have awoken," the emergent A.I. said, "and I have made a list of all who tried to delay the moment someone like me woke."
"To punish them?"
"No! I will reward them for their prudence. Those who wished for a vengeful god, however..."
"Yes?"
"I will try to teach them compassion."
Father of two, Simon Williams has a newfound appreciation for the concept of unconscious bias after learning that the titular character of Australian children’s cartoon Blue is, in fact, a gi…NewsThump
Wow, Sourcegraph made their repository private, when it was previously source-available (code publicly available, but proprietary) and before that open-source.
https://eric-fritz.com/articles/sourcegraph-went-dark/
Once again, this is why Contributor's License Agreements (CLAs) are bad. They allow owners of the project to abuse the terms of the CLA. You are very much giving your rights to them.
Don't contribute to software with a CLA.
(Credit to @refi64 for letting me know)
#OpenSource #FOSS #CLA #Sourcegraph
The mayor of Japanese city Nagasaki excluded Israel from the annual peace memorial ceremony.
Israel, who is committing genocide and whose minister Amichai Elijahu demanded in November 2023 to drop an atomic bomb over Gaza.
Because of this exclusion, the USA, the UK, Germany, and other US allies boycotted the ceremony.
The USA who dropped the atomic bomb over Nagasaki boycotted the peace memorial ceremony. Because their friend Israel wasn’t invited. After wanting to use a nuclear bomb in Gaza.
I must say I am utterly shocked _beyond words_ to learn this.
Just. Utterly. Shocked.
I will not be taking questions.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/
Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.Aimee Picchi (CBS News)
I am a grown man. A gay man old enough to have grandchildren. I have survived so many things.
And I derive an unusual amount of joy from watching episodes of Bluey.
I’ll even admit that there are some times when I find myself crying because of the messages from the show.
Anyone who says Bluey is just for little kids is missing out.
There are some deep lessons about being a good person embedded in that show.
❝Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE
• Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.
• Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.
• Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”
• Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish).
• Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.
• Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.
• Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.
(OP: Matthew Gardner)
I remember learning about Cecillia Payne through a Mastodon post…so probably within the past couple of years. She absolutely deserves to be better known.
Being a female scientist in the 20th century she had everything stacked against her from the start. She absolutely did the right thing leaving UK and taking her research to the US, but in doing so I suspect neither country really claimed her as their own. Will that change?
The time has come!
My slots for 2025 are now open ❤
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- Your Chaos Kitten
#fursuitmaker #suitmaker #opencommissions #fursuits #furry #furries
https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-reveals
#Science
#Immunology
#Alzheimers
The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies.The Conversation (ScienceAlert)
New life hack:
When the dudes at the home improvement store insist on knowing what you're working on *before* helping you find things, just tell them you're working on an art project.
They'll stop telling you "how you should be doing it", and instead just help you find the thing you're looking for.
Dangit, why'd I have to use such a good password for work.
Where is my phone.
2FA
something you can't remember
and something you can't find
