Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

😳Chronic Kidney Disease Is Poised to Become the Black Lung of Climate Change - TIME #ClimateCrisis

https://apple.news/A3TEAcObXSl-nMqTdXq0XVw

Family rescued from wildfires in Maui thanks to iPhone’s Emergency SOS via Satellite https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/09/family-rescued-wildfires-maui-iphone-satellite/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Guess What Was Found Under the Seafloor?!

A look *underneath* seafloor hydrothermal vents on 🌎has revealed cave systems teeming w/ worms, snails & chemosynthetic bacteria living in 75F-degree water.

Methinks this may have significance for the origin of life on Earth & maybe Enceladus!

https://tinyurl.com/3zhnmbhv

#Science #Earth #space #ocean #sea #life #astronomy #news

" The Atlantic Ocean is running a fever. Waters off Florida have become a hot tub, bleaching the third-largest barrier reef in the world. Off the coast of Ireland, extreme heat was implicated in the mass death of seabirds. For years, the north Atlantic was warming more slowly than other parts of the world. But now it has caught up, and then some." This is a really good overview of #shipping emissions + #climateChange by @voooos

https://www.science.org/content/article/changing-clouds-unforeseen-test-geoengineering-fueling-record-ocean-warmth

Democracy wins in Ohio. Here's to a day in the (hopefully) not too distant future when rooting for democracy doesn't feel so partisan.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/08/ohio-issue-1-special-electionresults-voters-decide-tuesday-on-august-8-ballot-issue/70487461007/

Google is getting sued for $5 billion because incognito mode in Chrome doesn’t prevent you from being tracked online.

Of course, this isn’t what the feature is designed to do. Incognito mode was popularized by Firefox in the mid-2000s. It’s purpose was hiding your browsing history from other users of a shared computer which is why it was colloquially called porn mode.

The combination of branding and rise of mobile usage meant the original purpose has been lost to time

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/7/23823878/google-privacy-tracking-incognito-mode-lawsuit-summary-judgment-denied

important info if you have a blog/content website etc which you would not want to be used by OpenAI for their data vacuuming

➡️ add this to robots.txt
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

➡️ or block these IP ranges
20.15.240.64/28
20.15.240.80/28
20.15.240.96/28
20.15.240.176/28
20.15.241.0/28
20.15.242.128/28
20.15.242.144/28
20.15.242.192/28
40.83.2.64/28

🔗 https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

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