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Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU as energy transition hits ‘hyperdrive’

The EU is on track for a 'huge collapse' in fossil fuel power this year, says energy think tank Ember.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/08/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-the-eu-as-energy-transition-hits-hyperdrive

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #FossilFuels #Renewables #GreenEnergy #ClimateChange

People posting tips daily to survive wildfire smoke, covid, or never before seen high temperatures, but if you say it's the end of the world you're somehow being dramatic 🤷‍♀️

Re: floods in Ukraine after Russian blew up a dam.

Please stop saying "Russian side of the river". Both sides of the river are Ukrainians. Nearest point of Russia is 300 km away. There is no Russian side of that river.

The billionaire opened his eyes. How had he survived that Learjet crash?

Oh wait, he hadn't.

He looked around. The forest glade was beautiful! Laughter and happy chatter filled the air. Everyone looked contented.

"I'm in Heaven!" he smiled.

A harsh guffaw sounded beside him.

"You have no power over this land and its people, for all eternity."

The billionaire screamed.

"I'm in Hell!"

#microfiction

Dog Biscuit? Smells OK. Thank you! 🦊

#Fox #DogBiscuit #Wildlife #Photography #Fuchs #HundeKeks #Tiere #Bonio #LittleMaggie

#nyc rn:

People called me crazy for collecting fresh air in safes. They laughed at me. They said I was an idiot to spend my life savings on 127 high security safes and to fill them all with nothing but clean oxygen. But who's laughing now? There's a big metal box of smoke-free air in every corner of my home, and only I know the combination.

comes out as bi

…8 minutes later: “rANdOm” police inspection

Will you look at that sweet em-dash?

#writing #writingcommunity #punctuation #WIP #writinglife #books #book #bookstodon

'"The worst thing any country can do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about," [the head of the WHO] said.'

Yeah, good luck with that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65499929

Listening to a podcast about kidney stones the guest was introduced as a nephrologist (kidney doctor) but I heard "phrenologist" (practicer of the pseudo-science phrenology) and was like "wait wut?!?!?" LOL.

Après les russes, le deluge..

Water pouring through the breach of Kakhovka dam on the 5th June after it was blown up, probably by the Russian invaders of #Ukraine.
It is hard to imagine the destruction that has been unleashed by this. It will take decades to repair.
Image from Sentinel-2 natural colour processing on #SnapplanetIO

#KakhovkaDam #RussianInvasion #SlavaUkraine #Sentinel2 #ESA #EO

When #AI techbros train their #LLMs on people's works, these works are similarly removed from their individual context, "melted down" into the raw material — training data. Just disembodied words and phrases and sentences for the model to parrot later.

Historical and cultural and social context of these works is destroyed, melted away.

And it also happens without consent. And it also happens on a gigantic scale. And it also happens because techbros can sell the output.

I think it is fair to say that such destruction of cultural artifacts, such reduction of items that had meaning and significance to people, is a type of violence in and of itself, regardless of how these items were acquired.

Those who created these works of art and these religious items in the first place, and others for whom they had significance — maybe they were family heirlooms? — were obviously not even asked for consent.

Conquistadors took them because nobody could stop them.

On the off chance that anyone was wondering about the inspiration behind the names in Zach Snyder’s upcoming Netflix film #RebelMoon, the planet name “Veldt” is what the German word for “world” sounds like, and “Imperium” is the German word for “empire”

Zach didn’t dig too far for those, did he.

https://gizmodo.com/rebel-moon-zack-snyder-character-guide-netflix-sci-fi-1850515090

Elijah J. McCoy, the son of former slaves, overcame formidable obstacles and racial discrimination to become one of the most prolific inventors of his time. In 1872, he invented the automatic lubricating cup for steam engines. McCoy’s invention revolutionized locomotive maintenance and gained widespread acclaim to the extent that McCoy’s invention became renowned as “The Real McCoy,” symbolizing authenticity and reliability

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#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History

Is that the Old English characters of wynn, eth and thorn punched with a Dymo labeler, you might be asking? It is!

I think I'll have to order some of the stronger resin, and there are still plenty of design issues to resolve. But it works! And once I get the process down, making new font wheels will just be an hour or so of moderate tedium!

Standardowym elementem ludzkiej kultury od tysiącleci jest narzekanie starszego pokolenia na młodsze. Narzekał Arystoteles w IV w. p.n.e., narzekał Horacy w okolicach 20 r. p.n.e., narzekali niezliczeni starcy przez tysiąclecia. Jednak tradycja narzekania żadnego nie doprowadziła jeszcze do refleksji i narzekanie trwa nadal. Teraz robią to Janusze biznesu, pardon, „pracodawcy”, w reakcji na asertywne pokolenie na rynku pracy.

Inspiracją dla tej polemiki jest artykuł Konrada Oprzędka (Tok FM), w którym przedstawia reakcję „pracodawców” na postawę pracowników z tzw. pokolenia Z (w dużym uproszczeniu: urodzeni po 1995 r.), którzy ani myślą traktować pracy ich jedynego celu w życiu, marnować zdrowia i życia, by pan Janusz kupił sobie nowego Mercedesa, albo powielać patologicznych pomyłek pokolenia swoich rodziców...

Pełny tekst na https://sztucznechwasty.net/2023/06/06/czy-zetki-sa-naprawde-roszczeniowe/

(wyszedł tak mniej więcej dwa razy ponad limit znaków na Kolektivie, więc nie robimy prostego crosspostingu)

Repurposed an old out-of-date iPhone that was not being used into use as a display for our home energy use. With the dark mode engaged it seems to work and look pretty well for this purpose!