Brian Beach @bwbeach@social.cleverlibre.org

La siguiente foto está proporcionada por la cámara policromática de la nave SDCOVR botsin.space/@dscovr_epic

Está centrada sobre Peru a las 16:53 del sábado 14 de octubre.

La mancha oscura es la sombra que proyecta la luna; así es como se ve un eclipse desde fuera de la tierra.
#eclipse #earth

This sucks. If you have a connected car, anything made recently, and you're remotely interested in #privacy you're going to want to read this.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/06/mozilla_vehicle_data_privacy/

Or keep that older, disconnected car running for as long as you can? It's immeasurably sad that after spending a fortune on a car, you're still somehow the product and being monetized. And, of course, my kids will almost certainly never know anything different. They've been born into connected cars and this privacy nightmare.

From Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness:
"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."

I think that for me the pinnacle of how bad offices could get was when companies were willing to pay $5,000 usd to $10,000 for "privacy / phone call / two person conference" pods rather than admit open floor plan was an absolute ergonomic failure.

I dunno who needs to hear this (a few people, for sure, me included).

It's still okay to enjoy nice things. And fun things. And silly things. And daft things.

The world is going to shit. It's been going to shit for many years, and each year, that shit has encroached on more and more people.

For a lot of people, 2020 might have the point that it impacted *you*. For others, it might have been the events of the last week. For others, it was 2016. For others, it was 2008. For others it was 2001, or 1989, or 1979 - *and so on and so forth*.

This is not to say that events should be ignored or dismissed, I'm absolutely *not* saying that, but it's okay to carve out some time, an oasis if you like, for yourself.

You need to keep your strength up, and within that broad statement is...all sorts of things. Listening to music. Cooking. Watching anime. Going for a run. Lifting weights. Playing games. Whatever it is that makes you "you".

It's still okay to do all that stuff.

Source: NanaSnake, who lived in North-East London through WWII, and kept up her weekly bridge night with the girls through the Blitz, and allegedly the sherry kept flowing as well.

The global mean temperature in September 2023 was 1.82 ± 0.09 °C (3.28 ± 0.17 °F) above the 1850 to 1900 average, continuing the run of extraordinary records.

This is highest anomaly ever measured for any month, and 0.50 °C (0.90 °F) above the prior September record.

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Climate #Temperature #Weather

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Excellent piece by Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic on the order-less world that is upon us, ushered in, in no small measure, by the abandonment of adherence to the Geneva Conventions - with blame assessed at nations around the world, including the U.S..

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/

Next time you see someone drinking the "nothing bad has happened since the repeal of #netneutrality" kool aid, make them read this https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-10-12/fcc-seeks-to-restore-network-neutrality-rules-trump-era-deregulation

Happy day.

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Title: Fudo Hill, Lake Yamanaka (1936)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

https://lake-yamanakako.com/en/see-and-do/10439 #HasuiKawase #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #Autumn #LakeYamanaka #FujiGoKo #MtFuji #MountFuji #Yamanashi #Japan

I hadn't considered some of these before….

https://electrek.co/2023/09/29/the-hidden-costs-of-using-an-electric-bike/

#ebike #hiddenCosts #sarcasm

THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES

Dear software people,

Unicode is older now than ASCII was when Unicode was introduced. It’s not a weird new fad.

It’s complicated but so is the domain it represents. We recognize that we have to think about time zones and leap days and seconds, for instance. And it’s a cleaner abstraction when you aren’t halfhearted about it.

Sincerely,
Charlie

If you realize that staying under 1.5C is now a fantasy... and if you've learned enough to know that temperatures will almost certainly climb far higher than that within the next few decades... and if you've heard all you need to hear about climate and ecosystem tipping points... and if you understand that our modern hyper-connected just-in-time society exists on a knife edge, where any major interruption in any part of the supply chain can potentially bring everything down... and if you've therefore accepted that collapse is inevitable...

What do you do about it?

Each of us here will have to decide for ourselves. There are no right or wrong answers.

One option is to try to prepare, to become a "prepper." That might work for some people, but not for all of us.

In any case, whatever we choose, it would be ideal if we can search deep inside and find peace within ourselves. That's the message, I think, of this heartfelt essay from Alan Urban...
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I am tired of stressing out because I’m not fully prepared. I’m *never* going to be fully prepared. No one is.

Even if you’re already living off the grid and fully self-sufficient, it’s only a matter of time before a climate disaster kills your crops or destroys your home.

If a doctor told me I had 5-15 years to live, would I spend all my free time searching for a treatment that would only buy me a few extra months?

Of course not! I would spend my time enjoying nature, playing games, listening to music, hanging out with friends and family, and going on little adventures with my kids.
What’s the point of surviving a little longer if you aren’t really living in the first place?

Sure, I could spend all my free time learning knots, canning fruit, drying herbs, cleaning guns, smoking meat, sewing clothes, growing mushrooms, making candles, building booby traps, using the ham radio, and so on and so forth — and I will do some of these things.

But if I’m being honest, most evenings I would rather watch a movie with my kids without feeling guilty that I’m not doing enough to prepare.

I’m tired of living in the future. I want to live in the now. I want to move beyond collapse awareness and into collapse acceptance. I don’t expect to get there all at once, but already I feel less burdened.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://archive.ph/q4dwd

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis