1/🌡️ Global warming passed a milestone on 17th Nov 2023 that barely made the news
For the first time ever, the world's daily average temperature was 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels
Here's what the data says about when that becomes the annual norm, & whether it's coming sooner than anyone expects🧵
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Not from The Onion. It's real - and further evidence of how AI (as wielded by for-profit companies) can transform education.
BTW, their website says "Featured on [sic] the NY Post" even though the Post's article is titled "Reading for Idiots" and it quotes an expert who calls it "alarming."
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Hell is for Other People (2019)
Iran targeted UAE the most. “They can hardly believe US impotence at protecting oil installations & shipping, & the US inability..to rapidly refresh their dwindling stocks of interceptors. There's a profound sense that US military bases have become a source of threat rather than security"
Status quo: what incentive is there for you to change the system that made you powerful in the first place?
Never trust pledges
the only business is usual
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.
The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.
The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
One of the best cartoons in ages! Thank you @BillBramhall!
The ugly news: Gambling is bad, especially as a way of life
Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.
A war by any other name.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social
23/ "NEW ODD LOTS
The War in Iran is creating a fertilizer crisis at the worst possible time for farmers around the world
@tracyalloway.bsky.social and I talk to Bloomberg Intelligence agriculture analyst about the surging cost of urea" - Joe Weisenthal
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
New Dublin data centre is 1st in Europe to be run by a live microgrid
Despite a requirement to source at least 80% of annual demand from renewable electricity, it’s powered by gas
No wonder Ireland won’t meet its climate targets!
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/d...
The rules.
My @smh cartoon.
'Around 2,500 pickup trucks and SUVs...are sitting unused'
'Sources indicate the vehicles, which feature large presidential seal and ICE branding, are impractical for the agency's primary stated purpose of arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants.'
www.jalopnik.com/2119795/ice-...
Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? #ai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bei...
We are doomed.
Nuorisobarometrin tuloksiin liittyen. Viime aikoina useat yhteiskuntaopin opettajat ja muut kasvatustieteilijät olleet yhteydessä @bios.fi ja kiitelleet ekologisen jälleenrakennuksen -aloitteen olemassaolosta. Että on edes joku yhteisöllisyyteen nojaava esimerkki aikamme haasteisiin tarttumisesta.
This is from 1975.
Today, Macquarie taking AI fearmongering to the next level:
www.afr.com/chanticleer/...
Samalla kun toimittajat juoksevat milloin minkäkin pikkupaikkakunnan huoltoasemille kysymään nyt "päivän ämpeen" bensan hinnasta, olisi entistä tärkeämpää antaa runsaasti tilaa niille asiantuntijoille (kuten @terevaden.net!) jotka ovat varoittaneet pitkään nyt käsillä olevasta tilanteesta.
Human exceptionalism
Our World in Data asks today "What are the deadliest animals?" w/out mentioning that humans are, by a long way (especially if one includes direct & indirect killings), the deadliest of animals, for both our own species & other animal species: we kill *billions* of fish each day
the really fun thing about this is that even this text's seeming factual accuracy—it can't be called "honesty"—is *also* just a coincidental artifact of these glorified Markov chains being structurally incapable of differentiating truth from falsity and meaning from nonsense.
Bloomberg's John Authers is tracking global fertilizer vulnerability. Even if the war ends next month, Brazil—the largest fertilizer importer—is unlikely to restock in time for the next soybean planting. Higher food prices will land in time for the US midterms. www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
German car manufacturing was the envy of the world. Currently it is in stark decline while still large in scale. Big parts of Europe managed to grow their manufacturing sector in the meantime. Source: buff.ly/gDmANuL
