Michael Tobis (mt)

Carney and Solomon both have just guzzled the hype from digital asbestos grifters, and it's going to cost us so much money in the end.

Why every website you used to love is getting worse The decay of Google, Amazon, and Facebook are part of a larger trend.

"The defining feature isn’t 'things got worse' — it’s 'things got worse and we stayed.'”

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this is the Pope

his entire thing is going around waving to crowds and looking happy

he is also such a White Sox fan that this is the maddest - and most human - I have ever a pope look

To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!

But I’ll bet that humans will be the last vertebrates to be extinct.

Anyway climate change alone isn’t likely to do us in altogether.

Unchecked climate change would be terrible, and there are other terrible risks, and they multiply each other.

A huge global mortality spike in the next century or two is a real risk and I lack the words to express what a horror that would be. I’m not saying the picture is a pretty one.

I get that he’s backing off climate, I get that it’s bad, but stating there’s no actual extinction threat is not a retreat for him.

A lot of folks seem to think a climate driven human extinction risk is part of climate science consensus.

It’s not. Among scientists it is a rare fringe opinion.

Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing ‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested:

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Full-page ad in the New York Times: Bringing power to America's AI future. Chevron

In today's New York Times, our fracking powered universal paperclips apocalypse

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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Considering the Solyndra mess, in the private sector, ten speculative projects are funded for every one that pays off but in the public sector a single “flop” is considered scandalous. This is a bug.

#graphicdujour

I use FocusWriter.

"Investor" sends inquiry to account channeling a famous long-dead artist.

Blue Jay
Ben Houstie ~ Heiltsuk
2024

I read a lot of Marvel comics in the 80s and these are the only ones I remember.

Map showing location of Thwaites Glacier overlaid on NASA visualisation showing where gravity satellite data indicate Antarctica lost most ice between 2002 and 2023

In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.

Translated from another language. “7 years in view”???

Also most Texans have never seen “colour” spelled with a “U”.

I got about that far into it as well. Carney isn’t a great writer.

I fully acknowledge that anecdote is often misused by people trying to squirm away from the balance of evidence. I understand that’s the point people are making.

But any anecdote is still evidence, and not all knowledge is the result of formal research.

The singular of data is datum.

This isn’t a post about grammar.

Sometimes an individual event is important to how we think about things. Any historical event is an anecdote.

A better phrase would be “no longer evitable”.

Nothing stopped us other than our own stubbornness. But staying below 1.5 is now infeasible.

Those who do learn from history are doomed to have people tell them they’re overreacting

What’s going on is an immediate existential threat to Canada in particular and western democracy in general. I think that ought to be obvious.

Fancy layout of New York Times homepage not working on Safari on iPhone.

It was. But it was a real quote and perfectly fair to make Americans aware of it.

I don’t love Ford but this isn’t his fault. At all.

It's a fucking distribution problem not a tech problem, Elon.