lobster @Lobster@social.cleverlibre.org

"In March 2022, Antarctica experienced an extraordinary heat wave. Large swathes of East #Antarctica experienced temperatures up to 40°C (72°F) above normal, shattering #temperature records.

So shocking & rare was the event, it blew the minds of the Antarctic #climate science community. A major global research project was launched to unravel the reasons behind it & the damage it caused.

The papers tell a complex story that began half a world away from Antarctica."
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-antarctica-totally-blew-minds-scientists.html

There are some really smart and talented people on here following me, and I know some of you are looking for work.

I work part-time at a company that’s looking for a Full-Time technician who is qualified and experienced in maintaining and installing IT and telecommunications equipment, including NBN, CCTV, Phone Systems, Access Control Systems, Digital Radio Communication Systems, among other things.

The job would require moving to Gladstone in Central Queensland, Australia, and the company could assist with that.

Send me a DM if you’re interested, and I’ll get you more details.

A call went around a few of the Linux Distributions, and together they are confident they have plenty of copies of Linux, in a very large number of flavors, to run all 240 million of the computers Microsoft is abandoning to e-waste.

Ask how.

https://www.makeuseof.com/cant-upgrade-pc-windows-11/

#linux #Ewaste #Computer #EndOfLife #Abandon

PS:
next time y'all hear a jackass selling a GUARANTEED/UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME as their own idea, just slap them them in the mouth and dare to say that again without giving Martin Luther King Jr his rightful flowers & credit for working out that idea with his economics advisors in his book, "Where Do We Go From Here?".

btw, do y'all know how much, back in 1968, it would have cost to end poverty in this country with an GBI/UBI?

2 BILLION DOLLARS

instead, he was assassinated.

I learned about Martin Luther King Jr. when I was young and I was impressed how he stood up to racists. Later, I learned about Malcolm X and the Black Panthers and how MLK was considered more palatable by the white establishment. Much later I learned about his lesser known quotes and speeches railing against white liberals like me and it only made me admire him more.

#MLKDay

Little white flowers of hope in a #Devon hedgerow near Tavistock yesterday 😊🌞. #wildflowers #photography #naturephotography

"If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don’t want it. Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people."

– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Nеgroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society… We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its Indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade.”

- MLK jr., "Why We Can't Wait" (1963)

#mlkday #mlk #indigenous

Hello moon. Early afternoon sky. #Nunavut #photography #LandscapePhotography

One of the many sets of people Martin Luther King Jr has to stand in for are all the other people who were murdered for political activism. There’s no Medgar Evers Day, no Malcolm X or Fred Hampton Day, no Elijah Lovejoy Day, no Birmingham Bombing Victims Day. There’s just him

Like other treaty rights, the right to fish is not GIVEN by the United States. It's a right the tribes already have, and have always had. It's one of the rights that the US has promised not to take away. It's a debt.

new Buddhist #art, made by Siraphob; msg me if interested! Nice and large, really calming and relaxing composition, painted with oil paint on canvas ~ #art #arts #artforsale #artmarket #artlovers #artlover #artfinder #artgallery #spiritual #spirituality #yoga #meditation #buddha #buddhism #buddhist #painting #paintings #decor #interiordecorating #Interiors #peace #relaxing #calm #serenity #nature #naturelover #naturelovers

Last week I commented on one of the FWFG 30 days of yoga videos about how I struggled with a specific type of posture (seated wide legged ones) but had got my blocks out to help me. Soooo many people replied saying they too struggle with these ones.

Amazing how I no longer feel alone and will be able to treat myself a little more kindly when doing those postures now. All because I allowed myself to be vulnerable in public.

#YogaWithAdriene #FWFG #yoga #vulnerable

“The greatest birthday gift my husband could receive is if people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds celebrated the holiday by performing individual acts of kindness through service to others.” – Coretta Scott King

#MLKDay #MLKDay2024 #MLKDayOfService #libraries #library #community

Yesterday this small #painting appeared and it's just about right for a freeeeezing cold #BlueMonday.

It's called "The other half of the sky" (after a song by #MoonSafari) and shows, quite simply, a fox running in a winter landscape and birds going to roost.

#watercolour with ink - size 280 x 280mm on 600gsm rough paper

https://janetomlinson.com/products/the-other-half-of-the-sky

A library full of books is wonderful, especially of the books include lots of titles that idiots want to ban,

"Nightshade" is a tool that allows artists to subtly alter their digital artwork's pixels to disrupt #AI training sets. It causes AI model malfunctions, leading to errors like misidentifying objects. Alongside "Glaze," which masks artists' styles from AI scrapers, these tools address artists' rights and intellectual property issues in the AI industry. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/