Rowley @Rowley@social.cleverlibre.org

Here's the Guardian's take on our paper, published today: "Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/earth-well-outside-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-scientists-find?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Piñata Economics, I like it, I will now dedicate my life and entire personality to it

Texas' government just spent $31.7M in the middle of a heat wave and energy shortage.

No, not to provide fresh shelter to the homeless. Neither to install booths with free fresh water. Neither to increase the number of public spaces (outside of shopping malls) where people can gather, instead of burning energy to keep their homes cool 24/7. Neither to boost its investments in renewables and pivot away from the oil that it keeps digging.

No, the government just gave that money away to Bitcoin miners to convince them to turn off their energy-hungry machines, so everybody else can also use energy to keep themselves cool.

Let that sink in. Even a life-threatening heatwave can't get miners to behave cooperatively and turn off their machines, whose only purpose is as pointless as randomly guessing a number whose SHA256 hash satisfies a certain arbitrary numeric constraint - and they skim some profits out of these pointless puzzles just because someone decided that putting up a system with such perverse financial incentives was a good idea. In order to get them to behave as someone who's not a complete selfish sociopath and evolutionary failure, the government had to compensate them for the losses that they would make by turning off their computers.

I guess that today's capitalism is that system where it's actually ok for the government to spend public money - as long as that money goes to those who need it the least.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/

Washington Post's most ardent practitioner of normalizing extremism found a report that supports the "both sides" bullshit that pervades Big Journalism.

It is infuriating, but it's so damned standard -- even now when democracy is on the ballot next year and the new fascists stand a frighteningly good chance of winning.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/09/race-divides-political-parties/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk0MjMyMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk1NjE0Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTQyMzIwMDAsImp0aSI6IjM0NTIyNDM0LTdhOTUtNGUxMS1hODI5LTE3OWFiMTM4ZTVkYSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDIzLzA5LzA5L3JhY2UtZGl2aWRlcy1wb2xpdGljYWwtcGFydGllcy8ifQ.yHqwz26x_FvsE9MzKDLSvVmAdDlW0gJHWQOd2GXGUJo

Elon Musk wants more antisemitism. He’s not “falling” for it. He’s actively catapulting it into the mainstream while knowing the consequences. He sees Nazi propaganda as a feature of Twitter/X, not a problem. But losing advertisers IS a problem. So he blames the Jews for it instead of Nazis. Subtle.

Comment about Mitch's freezing

'To everyone upset that people are cheering for this man's apparently declining remember what Mitch said to Obama when he was trying to explain the immense benefit public healthcare would provide:

“You must be under the mistaken impression that I care.”

I just heard someone refer to a certain politician as "Kentucky Fried Palpatine" and spat out my coffee.

I really appreciate hearing denunciations of racist murders by Republican politicians who spent the last six years saying racism doesn't exist in America and demonizing millions of people protesting it and passing sweeping cookie-cutter legislation to outlaw any mention of it in history books and inspiring their neo-Nazi fans, who 100% agree with these positions and policies, to gun down black, brown, Jewish and LGBTQ people in malls, clubs, supermarkets, synagogues and dollar stores.

A few years ago i had the idea for an 8bit Tom Waits video game that's actually a full retrospective of his works and i still think about it a lot.

It starts off as a like a bluesy jazzy noir, then shifts to like a weird dreamlike quest across a country, then this whole section that's just like "What If CARNIVÀLE, but like… REALLY fucked up? Like I mean, what if CARNIVÀLE and TWIN PEAKS got pregnant in the Black Lodge, and SATAN was the baby's godfather," at the end of which you have to run a chase across a frozen pond in the shape of the name ALICE, and just when you can see the other shore ,you fall through the ICE, the you have a brief stop in Hell and Wonderland where you can only get to the BLOOD MONEY section if you make it all the way through the "Poor Edward" level and search for the secret doorway to hell inside the teardrop coming out of one of his Devil Twin's eye; but if you do, you wake up on a boat on a blood red and phosphor green and grey sea, sailing to a new land, which is exactly the land you came from, but Changed; you walk into a diner and spend one whole level just glowering at Iggy Pop until he blinks and leaves; then the rest of the game you teleport and fight and bindle beans cook your way from railyard to junkyard until you claim your crown as Hobo King.

I think that'd be pretty fun.

All of my spaghetti code is open sauce

@sonyasteele @Incognitim
The fecklessness of federal officials quoted in this piece validate the mindset of wannabe Ubermensch techbros that they are simply smarter than the agents tasked with regulating them, so deserve to win.

It didn’t have to be this way.

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#film #kubrick #madness #mugshot

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I've become more radical as I've gotten older because goddamnit all the fascist and useless assholes who were fucking us over 40 years ago are still in charge and they just refuse to die.

Sometimes bad things happen to bad people and we are allowed to enjoy it, as a treat.

Dear Zoom:

Could you please, please adjust your app to check for updates before shutdown instead of on launch? Signed, everyone who's ever been made EVEN LATER to a call because zoom just HAD to update right this second omg right now right now right now, instead of being able to delay the install

BBC Earth Unplugged - Wet Animals Shaking
- Rat
source: https://youtu.be/iCvuIaxeLKE
#rat #rats

Me: I think I'Il open this kitchen drawer.

Potato masher: The fuck you will.

Privatjets, Yachten, Kaviar: Wie beeinflussen Superreiche das Klima?

Solange die Politik keine Verbote für Superreiche ausspricht, wird sich nicht viel ändern.
➡️Reportage mit Jan Wilkens von CLICCS @cenunihh
@strg_f

https://www.funk.net/channel/strgf-11384/privatjets-yachten-kaviar-wie-beeinflussen-superreiche-das-klima-strgf-1922452