John Rowe @JohnTheKea@nitech.online

A lot of developers I follow should take Nilay up on this: from @verge on their October 13th Vergecast episode:

"If you are out there building a cool #ActivtyPub product, just let us know. We are going to overcover that stuff to show folks that people are building new and interesting products. But it has to be good."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/13/23915777/today-on-the-vergecast-threads-news-conundrum-and-googles-many-many-many-trials

By now most of you probably have read the reports about a new scientific calculation showing that there are only about five years left in the global carbon budget.

See -- https://theconversation.com/carbon-budget-for-1-5-c-will-run-out-in-six-years-at-current-emissions-levels-new-research-216459

This means that to have even a 50-50 chance of limiting planetary warming to 1.5°C above the baseline, human emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases would have to be reduced to nearly zero by 2030.

That, however, would require an almost complete shutdown of all industry, commerce, and international trade — and we know for sure that is not going to happen. It's inconceivable.

So this is very, very, VERY bad news. But it’s also not surprising to me.

We have known for decades, actually for half a century, that a shift away from fossil fuels was imperative. And what did our leaders do in all that time? You know the answer. I don't even have to say it.

Let's be clear about this, though. Our wonderful life-giving biosphere is *not* dying — it is being killed. It is being murdered by greedy capitalists and their lackeys in government.

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions

Devastated at the Maine mass shooting. My deepest love & condolences to the at least 22 fatal victims, dozens more injured, & thousands more traumatized.

Maine is the 565th mass shooting of 2023. It’s the 298th day of the year. We are suffering a mass shooting every 12.5 hours.😓

No other developed nation allows this perpetual atrocity. This is a barbaric policy choice & we are paying the ultimate price.

We need a federal ban on assault weapons & a ban on lobbyist money in politics ASAP.

The Notifications & Focus team is looking for world-class, customer focused engineers. If you’re interested we’d love to hear from you. https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200482858/system-experience-notifications-and-focus-engineer?team=SFTWR

They're Putting Sails on Giant Container Ships https://t.co/sJvkNSAxrV

Oil consumption per capita varies hugely from country to country.

The differences are staggering.

Instead of locks, maybe I'll try this 😁

H/T to @LilahTovMoon

So wait building all these "secure" chat apps on a browser engine packaged in a thin layer of UI, with its insane number of dependencies and the gigantic, immense attack surface that this entails, was somehow a bad idea?

Who knew! Who could have foreseen this! Shocking, really.

#InfoSec #Electron #WebP

This is fine.

Anything that makes a city a worse place to drive makes it a better place to live… 👀

https://xkcd.com/2832/

Policy idea:

To address the national home uninsurability crisis, we need a national climate insurance program that covers property loss from wildfire, flood, hurricane, or other extreme weather disaster.

This would be funded by an excise tax on oil and gas production and imports.

This week I went to an event where they had this amazing machine that demonstrated the workings of a heat pump: taking a unit of heat from the right side and transferring it to the left side, the beers are cooled and the (vegan) sausages are warmed. I think it's brilliant and should be used to overcome any doubts or resistance to heat pumps, especially in Germany. Maybe they should be mandatory in every beer hall?

#HeatPumps #HeatPump

As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re using as an excuse. If more walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school.

Spread the word.

MORE OF THIS!!!

‘Brought to you by big oil’: US billboards call out companies for record heatwaves

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/29/billboards-oil-climate-crisis-phoenix-austin

> Fossil Free Media, a non-profit media organization, installed the ads in cities rocked by heatwaves including Phoenix and Austin

Wagner’s Yevgeniy Prigozhi’s Plane Falls Out Hospital Window, In Apparent Suicide

One of the most dangerous thing about the church of capitalism is perhaps it can’t imagine anything *good* being free. It’s almost like profit replaced morality, reason, and humanity.

I randomly think about these things and it reminds me of the tragedy of Aaron Swartz… 😞

Dozens of people in Maui have died and hundreds have lost their homes because of wildfires, fanned by hurricane winds.

Here are some ideas for how you can help, including community funds and nonprofits you can donate to, and drop-off locations if you live in Hawaii.

https://flip.it/gEWvlh

#Hawaii #Maui #Wildfires #Fires #Help

The world is now experiencing some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, thanks to profiteering fossil fuel corporations. They owe us hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations for the havoc they’ve unleashed. @therealnews

https://therealnews.com/fossil-fuel-companies-owe-the-world-massive-reparations-for-climate-breakdown?utm_source=optout

Even some automakers are recognizing the dangers of car bloat and calling for change.

Here is Stellantis' CTO in a recent interview.

https://t.co/4kA8qqYciQ

More than a Trillion Dollars of tax payer money was given to subsidise fossil fuel industries in 2022.

If it doesn't make you angry that we are literally paying to kill our biosphere, I don't know what will. 🤷‍♀️