szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

This is quite a long but thoughtful read from RSPB Scotland, on approaches to managing the increasing risk of wildfires in rural Scotland.

https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scotland/posts/finding-a-way-forward-on-wildfires

Are we doing better than a factory worker of 1914? Let’s compare wages in the currency of Model Ts.

In 1914, an assembly line worker could buy a Model T with four months’ pay.

Best selling modern car : Toyota_Corolla

Price of Toyota Corolla 2021: $23895

average assembly line worker pay per hour: $17.08

23895 / (17.08 * 40 * 4) = 8.743 months

#economy #billionaires #inflation

A story in three parts.

Printer as a service 😠 Fuck HP 🤡

I need a stuffed train toy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation will award Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of the 'pirate' library Sci-Hub, for her efforts to provide access to scientific knowledge.

Without Sci-Hub, many academics would be unable to complete their research projects.

#EFF also highlights that Elbakyan’s work helps to challenge the current academic publishing system, where researchers are used as unpaid workhorses.

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hubs-alexandra-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-for-providing-access-to-scientific-knowledge-230728/

#elsevier #springer #scihub

Since Paul DeJong is in the news, I am obligated to bump this Chemical & Engineering News story https://cen.acs.org/education/outreach/Science-baseball-cards-comic-books/96/i31 #baseball #chemiverse

#vetmed #veterinary #dogsofmastodon

#Covid conscious VET WANTED wanted in #Ireland

for this little guy

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) is releasing a new book on the term that he coined in #enshittification and how to end it. https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/#the-internet-con

Everything he said over the past 7+ months about companies and organizations intentionally doing this is so spot on and I'm looking forward to get this and read it.

There's also a DRM-free audiobook version that will get released thanks to crowdfunding once again. You can find out more and contribute here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

GOOD
MORNING
@StillIRise1963

and it is ABOUT DAMN TIME

'Henrietta Lacks’ living relatives reached a settlement late Monday with the multi-billion-dollar biotechnology company they sued seeking compensation for its routine use of regenerative cells that were taken from her decades ago without her consent, according to a statement released by the family’s lawyers.'

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/science-medicine/henrietta-lacks-settlement-compensation-stolen-cells-biotech-company-JNCPZLQGEZENPCHLR643GKBBGA/

My wife has a PhD in biology. She worked with HeLa cells constantly (and never knew through that time that they were an acronym for someone’s name, much less who that person was).

It’s no exaggeration to say that modern human biological science is built entirely on cells taken from Henrietta Lacks without her family’s permission or even knowledge.

https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/110814369746877025

I made that, believe or not. In 2021. #photography #bees

New #watercolor #watercolour #watercolors #watercolours #watercolourpainting #landscapepainting #landscape

We dwójkę raźniej

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a new chief. His name is Jim Skea, a 69-year-old Scotsman.

Here is what he said in one of his first interviews after being appointed...
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Speaking to weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Skea warned against laying too much value on the international community's current nominal target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared the pre-industrial era.

"We should not despair and fall into a state of shock" if global temperatures were to increase by this amount, he said. "The world won't end if it warms by more than 1.5 degrees."

Skea also said that one short-term focus should remain expanding renewable electricity to reduce emissions from fossil fuel electricity generation and from internal combustion engine vehicles.

"Longer term, we probably will not be able to do without technological solutions like the underground capture of CO2," he said, referring to the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
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Ah, yes, of course. Good old carbon capture and storage, that magic fairy dust which allows us all to just go ahead with our daily lives and not worry about anything.

You see, their awesome plan is that by 2050 or thereabout, capitalism will have perfected some fancy new technology that will quickly and easily remove a HUGE amount of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere which can then be stored away safely (we hope) — AND somehow they expect to accomplish all this without having to burn almost an equal amount of fossil fuels to do it.

This is where it's important to remember that the IPCC is *not* a scientific body. It is a political body controlled by the largest and strongest nations, taking input from scientists but filtering what they're given through bureaucrats before presenting recommendations that will support Business As Usual.

And it looks like with Jim Skea, the IPCC has just the man for the job.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-do-not-overstate-15-degrees-threat/a-66386523

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #IPCC #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

The finished patch. I need more practice. But who says visible mending must be perfect 😁

#VisibleMending

@fibrearts

@cohanf I think pollen bearing and ovule bearing are good choices from the terminology that's available now - we'd have to expand our definition of pollen to include mosses and ferns and the like, so we can avoid 'microgametophyte' which I don't think would get much traction. Polliniferous and ovuliferous perhaps. The terms exist, and though it would certainly take getting used to, they're easy to explain and more informative than 'male' and 'female'.

It's interesting to think of the fact that the reproductive process is called 'pollination,' referring to the classically male side of the process only. And then there's dioecious and monoecious, referring to households, and hermaphroditic, referring to male and female gods. Even the words 'ovum' and 'seed' have their connotations to the human situation and the word 'gamete' is just the Greek for 'wife'. Some of it may be unavoidable, I'm not advocating we change the entire vocabulary though, just the worst offenders - for now.