Richard Delevan

This scans. But worth noting we’ve had some, let’s say tussles, over the millennia over differences re things like First Mover, immanence, transcendence, and the role of metaphor and parable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

British media failing to fully appreciate that racist fabrications aren’t just a jolly jape isn’t new. But we seemed to have tipped over from winks to growls.

Liz Warren to her absolute credit shows up on CNBC and is willing to call everyone a stupid piece of shit in a way that even Bernie would refrain from

Millions of people now live for weeks each summer in hazardous air quality due to smoke from wildfires nearby or far away. Imagine if the weather apps that advise us to stay inside or wear masks (echoes of covid 😬) told us that climate change is substantially to blame for the fires.

Can satellites help these leaky pipe hunters end hosepipe bans? A start-up is helping water companies to pinpoint leaks, saving millions of litres a day as the country faces more severe droughts

Every day Britain loses 3 billion litres of water through leaky pipes - a big problem as Britain's summers become more arid. But water companies have some new tech with which to find them, including satellites that can spot leaks from space. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Knew a cpl of Persians who said the solution to the Problem of Evil is that this is Hell bc the ruling authority is all knowing but, erm, not all-good.

i know i sound like a crazy person but im slowly being unironically convinced of some actual metaphysical evil force awakened within the last decade

Mabrouk!

Always great to see an article where I’m quoted in print (today’s NYTs)🤩

There's a pretty good case that the Antichrist has announced he's building a new ballroom and that AI is golden-calf/Tower of Babel idolater bait.

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

That's just one of many instances of distortion and misinformation in the US Department of Energy "Critical Review on the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions".
Which in fact is a fossil fuel propaganda scam.
Let's hope Americans are not that easily fooled.
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Good shit Sydney

A dense crowd of protestors walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, waving Palestinian flags.

There were babies in prams, elderly people in wheelchairs, families, friends, organisations, unions, and a sea of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs. It was the largest and most moving protest I have ever seen. #MarchForHumanity

NEW: 90,000 people protesting against the genocide in Gaza have shut down Sydney Harbour Bridge.

🇦🇺👏

Well done, New York! The state's building code now requires most new buildings to be all-electric. This makes good economic sense: It's cheaper to install a two-way heat pump to both heat and cool, vs a one-way AC plus a one-way furnace. Outgrowing indoor combustion also benefits climate and health.

Not for nothing I think this is precisely why @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s encouragement to find people who are DOING something rather than telling you to BELIEVE something is pretty right on. Tenant, rank and file worker, pro-Palestine, etc organizers are on the move & seeing real opportunity.

Love this comic, but the research on resistance actually finds that anger fuels resistance. I would shift the order so it's consistent with the research findings:
Denial-> Depression-> Anger->RESISTANCE!

The increasing intermittency of….nuclear power stations:

Source: Financial Times | “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” on.ft.com/4fsSclS

This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services

Why glaciers are threatening to wipe out more mountain villages Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move away from the mountain villages at risk?

This BBC item is about people living in idyllic villages in one of the richest countries of the world - far away from the oceans and the seas.

Climate change is global.

It doesn’t matter if you live by the coast, in a poor village, or in the mountains in a wealthy global capitalist mountain haven.

On net Ezra probably shouldn’t have done this interview but man, Hazony comes off like Jerome Corsi wearing a suit and tie

Fuckin hate Brecht

So. Fucking. Good.

YouTube video by BY THE GODS OF SCIENCE FICTION By Dawn's Early Light 1990

By Dawn’s Early Light, w James Earl Jones, Martin Landau, Rp Torn, Rebecca De Mornay, Powers Booth, etc is without doubt the best Doomsday film ever. youtu.be/a_hf9whczPU?...

Kindof let down by a Brecht joke not doing more biz on BS

Weirdly a story where the protagonists passively accept doom (permanent, absolute, nothing after) is a really shit story that no one reads.

Or it’s Brecht.

What much of the doomer discourse seems to miss is that it doesn't particularly matter whether you think collapse is inevitable or better days are just round the corner

What matters is whether you're active or passive

It is worth noting that Chinese scientists, in a Chinese-built bathyscaphe, achieved this feat. Over the last few decades, Chinese ocean science capabilities have advanced significantly, and they will overtake the US if the US doesn't increase its ocean science funding. We're doing the opposite.

Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance US banks have already pulled out of NZBA, the UN environment programme’s finance initiative

Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance.

They all support Trumpism and chase profits whilst humanity and planet earth face crisis.

Can't expect banks to voluntarily accept social responsibility, it must be imposed by law.