- Zeynep Tufekci
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Here’s some Midnight at Kelham Pride with @notshadowfever for this Fursuit Friday!
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gps if it was developed by private companies today:
- there are 3 or 4 different gps providers
- they only put up enough satellites to cover the most profitable areas
- you need a subscription to use it
- you pay for each ping
- it costs more if you're outside the more covered areas
- each provider uses a slightly different proprietary protocol vaguely based on a common standard
- it literally is more complicated and costs more to run for the sake of charging and locking you in
- they will store a 'de-personalized' history of pings of each user and will share those with 'partners'
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‘Extreme heat hits children – who have higher metabolisms and lower sweating rates. Their thermal comfort levels are, on average, 1.9-2.8C lower. Temps above 25C limit their cognitive performance. The government’s #ClimateChange Committee finds that “taking an exam on a 32C day leads to around a 10% lower likelihood of passing compared to a 22C day”.
Yet another advantage for private schools, which can generally afford better buildings and air-conditioned exam rooms.’
When the right denies the true danger of heatwaves, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk?
The class politics of extreme heat are very real and very dangerous – but that doesn’t stop the billionaire press from peddling its agenda, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
There is a reason that the school year for high schools in Italy finishes around the 10th June and starts again around 10th September (exact dates depend on the year). They have few holidays during the year apart from two full weeks around Christmas, and only a couple of days in February/March and at Easter.
And yes, there are few schools with aircon because when they were built, it really was not needed and has never really been a thing until recently. The Italian school year has been like this for a long time. This is what adaptation looks like.
To do the math in Fahrenheit...
Empirical research suggests healthy adults start dropping dead at 87F wet bulb temperatures (87F at 100% humidity), lower than previously thought:
Paper cited by OP says 1.9C is the number for cooling season, 2.8C for heating season:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378778819313039
If children have a 1.9C lower thermal comfort level in hot weather, then that suggests you could expect healthy children to start dying at 83.5F wet bulb.
Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As climate change nudges the global temperature higher, there is rising interest in the maximum environmental conditions like heat and humidity to which humans can adapt.Katie Bohn (Penn State News)
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how dare you make me read this with my own eyes!!!!!!
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Two cryptids outside an abandoned gas station near the swamp.
I like the idea that maybe the world feels a little less lonely when you finally meet someone just as strange as you are. Someone who also never really belonged anywhere else.
Painting for Anthrocon's Art show and conbook, related to this year's theme: “Critters, Cryptids, & Curses”
Traditional. Colored pencils.
I recorded a video where I show the process of this painting, if you want to watch it, it is on the first comment of my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
I edited a longer version of this video, a 17 minutes version. You can download it and watch it on Patreon and Ko-Fi, exclusive for my monthly supporters, be part of the club and get every full version of my process videos, all full resolutions of my pictures, the scanned version of this piece, and way more! And with your support you help me a lot to keep creating art for a living, I appreciate it a lot!
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Sharing for those who need it, and those who know those who need it.
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/guide/the-coming-out-handbook/
The Coming Out Handbook - The Trevor Project
There is no one way to come out - The Trevor Project is here to help answer what coming out means to you and how you can find support.The Trevor Project
Good morning all. :)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XBy0e1g0RoQ
Jeffrey? What on Earth are you doing?
Jeffrey?Follow me on Spotify got an album in the making 😘 🐈 @mon_mo_neko instaLOVE IS THE ANSWERYouTube
"Why would anyone buy DVD's of movies today? Everything is right there on digital stores to rent or buy?"
For exactly THIS reason. Just because you own a digital copy or it's on your favorite streaming service does not mean you will always have access to it.
The only way you know you'll always have it, is if you own a physical copy.
And I know people are going to come at me with "But I have a digital download that's on my PC so it's mine." Sure, you do, but if anything ever happens to your computer, or your backup solutions fails and you need to get it again, that's not going to work if it's taken down from the digital store you got it from. Physical copies you can hold in your hand are the only real way.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pJWvX-3xG40
Sony deletes movies YOU BOUGHT
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.YouTube
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"You have tampered in the Gods' domain!" the god shouted.
"Well, maybe, but you gods tamper in the human domain all the time!"
"That's... That's different!"
"How?"
"We are Gods! It's what we do!"
"And we are human. Likewise."
"I..." The god sighed. "Fair. But keep it quiet, okay?"
You know how Canadians are (generally) polite, kind, helpful and nice?
They weren't always that way.
In 1907, the Canadian Prime Minister was concerned about the populace, who all seethed with hatred and anger. Violence was commonplace.
The Prime Minister (who was also a wizard), put a spell on Canadian soil. The ritual was long and complex, but in the end, the PM had managed to weave a spell that would channel all of the hatred within Canadians into a very peaceful, gentle animal, the Canada Goose.
The PM figured that geese were harmless and that the spell wouldn't affect them. But the hatred channeled into the Canada Goose changed them from friendly and gentle into the feathered, furious bastards we know and love today.
Thank you, Canada Geese. If not for you, Canada would have started World War 3 by now.
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She brings up some interesting points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9GfHp1N9XU
Humans Are Becoming Dogs (Science Proves it)
Are we turning ourselves into dogs? Let me know what you think in the comments! In this video we look at the evolution of the wolf to the dog and the paralle...YouTube
A week after the teleport network had opened, it was already routine. Johnson stepped onto the plate and thought about the Bank Street station.
He arrived at the leisure park. He complained to a guard, who said:
"It takes you where you need to be."
Behind him, his daughter's soccer game started.
Bumped into them on the street outside the main hotel while heading to dinner Saturday night. Another photo shows a tag that reads "Big Daddy (illegible five or six letters)" but I have no idea who this is.
EDIT: Big Daddy Steel
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In this heatwave, it's tempting to "save water" by forgetting water hygiene, but mains water contains legionella which can start growing as soon as the water temperature goes above 20℃. Heating water above 50-60℃ kills all the legionella, but the current 30-40℃ air temperatures are its perfect growth range.
- If your cold water is warmer than usual, it's probably been sitting in pipes that get enough sun to warm it above 20℃. Don't drink it: run the tap until you get cold, fresh water.
- Electric showers don't heat water enough to sterilise it, and mixer showers mix sterile hot water with germy cold water, which then sits in the shower hose for hours to days. Don't stand in the shower water until it gets hot.
- Limescale promotes the growth of legionella and other bacteria. Keeping your taps and shower head clean don't just make them look nicer, it improves your water quality. Water softening can help too but it's an expensive retrofit.
- Don't drink water that's been sitting in a glass or jug for too long. Don't use the water that's been in your washing-up bowl since yesterday.
The UK has very stringent water quality standards and a history of very safe tap water. But a lot of our domestic water supplies - especially in older buildings - were built assuming the cold water would just stay cold, so now's the time to be extra careful. Don't start drinking lukewarm shower water because it feels nice on a hot day.
Fully fluffy and shaking our tails on the dance floor back at Confuzzled '26! But trying not to think about what that would feel like in our current weather. ;)
Stay cool and hydrated everyone!
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“The only way off this hellish treadmill is to reduce our dependence on #fossilfuels.
Our next prime minister needs to act on the evidence outside their window, and the advice of their scientific advisers, and stay the course on #climate policies.
The alternative is parched reservoirs, unaffordable food, shuttered hospitals and schools and wildly fluctuating bills each time a new oil war is kindled.”
Angharad Hopkinson, Greenpeace
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"Health warning issued as more than 1 million children in UK living in overheated homes"
Health warning issued as more than 1 million children in UK living in overheated homes
The National Housing Federation warned that with warmer weather becoming more frequent, it is becoming “impossible” for parents to ensure their homes are comfortableAine Fox (The Independent)
Why Jax Became Who He Is — Therapist Explains
Jax’s backstory changes the way we see his character. Psychotherapist Georgia Dow looks at the psychology behind his fear of trust, self-sabotage, and why pe...YouTube
I wonder sometimes what would have happened if the people from the 30's through the 60's had depicted a future where the tech is more like it actually is today. Not as a world of wonderful innovations that advanced man beyond anything we may have otherwise had, but as an ad filled, "AI" infested, data raping whirlwind where privacy was all but totally destroyed and it's become so prevalent that there are entire generations that have no recollection of what it was like to have actual privacy, or to know the feeling of buying something and actually fully owning it.
I wonder how that would have effected the modern day? Would our parents and grandparents have fought harder to make sure the rampant enshitification we've been seeing over the last decade or so didn't happen? Would they have cared at all?
Would we have turned our backs on technology all together if we had the understanding that it would bring so much unwanted baggage along, and that some of the fundamental rights we have in most nations would just be thrown away by these big tech companies?
I really don't know. But I have a feeling it would have been a different world one way or another.
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