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Iain Soutar
@isoutar.bsky.social
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The new UK government has the lowest proportion of privately educated cabinet members since 1945, and that's just fine.
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Caesar Schinas@caesar.dev |
50 followers 219 following 10 posts
Geek, sailor, nature lover.
Struggling with solastalgia and trying to do my bit for the planet and our future. 🌳🌲🌴🍄
🌐 caesarschinas.com
🐘 indieweb.social/@caesar
✅ keyoxide.org/hkp/5119c11d57d14127aca1b6cfeab09a2560ec3bc6
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Iain Soutar
@isoutar.bsky.social
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The new UK government has the lowest proportion of privately educated cabinet members since 1945, and that's just fine.
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Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
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As a non-American, what's going on in America is absolutely terrifying. I can only imagine how scary and depressing it must feel to Americans.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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No, really? Market forces are what's DRIVING climate breakdown. 🌎
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POLITICO Europe
@politico.eu
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French PM Gabriel Attal has encouraged centrist voters to pick candidates from the leftist France Unbowed movement in order to stop candidates from the far-right National Rally in Sunday's legislative election.
Follow our live blog for more updates: www.politico.eu/article/firs...
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Caesar
@caesar.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
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This will be a nice feature if/when it's opened up to people other than big news publishers, but I'm disappointed that @Mastodon decided to roll their own opengraph meta tag instead of using the existing web standard `link rel="author"` […]
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Prof. Farhana Sultana
@farhana.bsky.social
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Satire is dead
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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A reminder that whales face actual real threats and offshore wind turbines are probably not even in the top 100
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
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Joseph D. Ortiz
@earthsciinfo.bsky.social
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Electrification is also coming to bus fleets around the world. Is your area lagging? 🧪🔌💡
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David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social
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We’re making a lot of plastic. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, we produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic. But that's equivalent in weight to the amount of CO₂ we emitted to the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024.
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Jan Rosenow
@janrosenow.bsky.social
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Unthinkable just a few years ago: Almost 20% of all cars sold in 2024 are predicted to be electric vehicles. BNEF expects global EV sales to reach 16.6 million in 2024.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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Recapping: —Great night for far-right. Big surges all around France. Can win next week, but nothing certain. —Left bloc 2nd. But not great for them: stable since 2022, not what they need to win overall. —Macronists 3rd, will fall A LOT. But got just enough to still make many runoffs.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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Robert McNees
@mcnees.bsky.social
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My students were worried about the heat death of the Universe. I told them not to worry, that everything would be 0K.
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Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
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That's certainly something to think about. I would say that in the case of low income households who can't afford to upgrade, subsidies should be provided to support upgrading, instead of to support continued emissions from gas.
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Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
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"A new regulatory approach is urgently needed to ensure costs for gas grid do not spiral out of control." Surely the best (and fairest) outcome would be if it did "spiral out of control", meaning costs would be paid by the remaining users, giving them an incentive to migrate to cleaner fuels.
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tante
@tante.cc
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I keep seeing journalists and others take things that #OpenAI employees say at face value. Just given the data we have it's safe to assume that everyone working there in any kind of managerial role is a compulsive liar. They are even less credible than the outputs their products generate.
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Dan the Gnome
@brewergnome.bsky.social
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Cities, "Not overdrawing the power grid is a matter of personal responsibility, don't use your AC!" Every tech company, "LET'S ADD MORE AI SUCKING UP POWER" Cities, "Great idea! How about you do it here and don't pay taxes?"
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Caroline Wilkinson
@carolinewilkinson.bsky.social
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"...we’ve ceded so much power and authority to tech people with a very narrow competence and understanding of the world, but have allowed them to believe they actually understand far more about the human experience than they really do."
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Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
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I'm not a Pinterest user, but ugh, can no platform escape from the curse of short-form video?
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John Teets
@suenitos.bsky.social
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This is Alan Turing's birthday. He was the brilliant mathematician behind the British codebreakers who some historians say saved as many as 14 million lives in World War II. Much of his work led to modern computers. In 2019, Britain honored him with a 50-pound note. 1/x
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Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
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Good article. It will all depend on somehow overcoming carmakers' greed… Disable JavaScript or use reader mode to skip the paywall.
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Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it
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Zeke Hausfather
@hausfath.bsky.social
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We often focus on global temperatures, but land regions where we all live have been warming much faster. For #showyourstripes day, here are land, ocean, and global climate stripes shown on the same color scale:
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Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
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Despite the positive headline, this is a very depressing article. Global fossil fuel usage is growing as fast as ever, with no sign of slowing down, and the same applies to global CO2 emissions. Almost all of that growth is coming from China.
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
@mackuba.eu
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👇 Bluesky moderator drama still better than Mastodon moderator drama, because at least you don't need to migrate your account and identity to a new server…
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simple object access protocol
@realsoap.bsky.social
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just saying if this were mastodon like 1000 people would have to switch instances right now
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Indioguerreiro
@indioguerreiro.bsky.social
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Gotas de sabedoria:
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Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
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It's real.
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Doug Parr
@dougparr.bsky.social
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Legal judgment says UK planning needs to account for environmental impact of burning fossil fuels
Weirdly before now planners assumed climate impact of new fossil fuels not their problem
Could reopen go-aheads for Cumbria coal mine, Rosebank oil field
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Joseph D. Ortiz
@earthsciinfo.bsky.social
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Demonstrable evidence that #renewable & #sustainable technologies/practices are not only good for the #environment & #ClimateMitigation. They also make good economic sense. If you are still investing in #FossilFuels, you are investing in stranded assets. 🧪💡🔌
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Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
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Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated
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No Billionaires
@zil.bsky.social
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Honestly? Academics are used to that kind of cognitive dissonance. Going to a Covid epidemiology conference and not wearing a mask? Totally fine. Flying halfway around the world for a climate conference that could’ve been online? Totes fine. As a group, we’re part of the problem.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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Awkward to have spent almost a decade studying Twitter, writing a book about Twitter, and then becoming outspoken about why I believe it is ethical to abandon ship, to then have other scholars of the same thing over there tweeting away and tagging me in things with the presumption I should engage.
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Jan Rosenow
@janrosenow.bsky.social
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Unthinkable just a few years ago: For the first time renewables (wind, solar, hydro) produced more EU electricity than fossil fuels in 2023. 2/3 of EU electricity is from non-fossil fuel generation. Source Ember
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Jan Rosenow
@janrosenow.bsky.social
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There are claims that solar uptake will lead to "waste mountains".
Research in Nature Physics says:
"35 years of cumulative PV module waste (2016–2050) is dwarfed by waste generated by fossil fuel energy & other common waste streams"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mikhail Kats
@mickeykats.bsky.social
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With the usual caveats that metrics are imperfect, these trends need to be a wake-up call for the US
We're seriously under-investing in science and technology research: the National Science Foundation got cut by 8% this year, even before adjusting for inflation 🧪💡
www.economist.com/science-and-...
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GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ SciComm at Forbes
@grrlscientist.bsky.social
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#Cats🐈 kill 1.85 BILLION #birds🦉
#Windows🪟 US kill 675 million birds🪶
#Vehicles🚗 72 million birds🦤
#WindTurbines kill 328,000 birds🦜
yes, this loss of birds to wind💨 turbines is tragic, BUT why specifically try to ban wind turbines BUT NOT CATS?
#ClimateCatastrophe #CatApologist
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Anna Zivarts
@nondriver.bsky.social
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Are there *really* that many nondrivers?
I wrote something explaining the data and why, if you care about accessible, inclusive, climate friendly communities, maybe you should embrace how many of us are poorly served by car dependency.
www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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“Make Electric Vehicles Lighter To Maximize Climate and Safety Benefits” - me & the gang www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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Finally the fossil fuel industry will take on Big Thermometer
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Cats of Yore
@catsofyore.bsky.social
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Before the internet kittens had to call everyone individually to explain how small and cute they were. Ca. 1920 - 1935. collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/597342
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Cities can be easy/fast to drive cars through or they can be safe/pleasant to be in but they absolutely cannot be both at the same time
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Bossett
@bossett.social
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Not sure quite how to describe watching OpenAI becoming a load-bearing source of content across every platform, but it's certainly Not Good™ in a variety of ways we haven't tried before
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Katie Matthews, PhD
@katieocean.bsky.social
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"Among the buyers of these #carboncredits are companies such as the carbon credit broker Moss, the Brazilian low-cost carrier GOL Airlines, the food delivery app iFood, Itaú, one of the country’s leading banks, and the international companies Toshiba, Spotify and Boeing."
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Justin Mikulka
@justinmikulka.bsky.social
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"The oil industry knows that we’re past “peak oil,” and demand for diesel is going to continue to drop. Both because trucks are electrifying and switching to hydrogen, and because diesel/ICE models are becoming ever more efficient, using less diesel to move the same amount of Earth and goods."
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Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
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What a shitty fucking place the USA is.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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For years, this was a lone, windswept birch, surrounded by nothing but billiard-table sheep-bitten grass + rocks.
Now, with grazers gone, it protrudes from a rising tide of multi-species young rainforest, full of wildflowers + birdlife.
Nature *wants* to return.
#Rewilding 🌎
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GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ SciComm at Forbes
@grrlscientist.bsky.social
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"Never admire quietly.
If I admire something about someone, I tell them. We humans are so fragile. It's important we give people their flowers💐 while they are still here. Never admire quietly."
-- Chimamanda Adichie
#admiration
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European Commission
@ec.europa.eu
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🇱🇻, 🇪🇪, 🇸🇰, 🇨🇿, 🇮🇹, 🇲🇹, 🇫🇷, your voice matters!
#UseYourVote in the European elections. Or others will decide for you.
#EUelections2024
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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I mean, maybe I'm strange, but if someone gave me $46 billion, that might make me *less* motivated to keep working? Of course, I'm willing to be the test subject if anyone would like to test that hypothesis.
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