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urlyman

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Cycling, designing, coding, over-thinking. Bit sweary.

Climate shadow boxing https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/climate-shadow-carbon-footprint

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pvonhellermannn, to random
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Yep, this is where we are at.

urlyman,
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@pvonhellermannn me too. But, if you haven’t already listened to it, the conversation linked to is really great.

Including recommendations not to read the book!

urlyman,
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@pvonhellermannn it’s soul destroying.

I’m thinking on this and pretty much everything else Vanessa said https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112542527498426551

urlyman, to random
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#climateDiary
#decroissance

This is a fascinating and sobering discussion
https://overcast.fm/+nh1AEbE7s

urlyman,
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My attempt at Tim Garrett’s model in bullet point form:

  • everything in life is pushing energy along networks
  • all networks are built of matter
  • having built a network, there is a corresponding energy demand to keep that network functional
  • but networks are always in the process of decay so they always need maintenance and renewal
  • too little and it decays, too much and there is a window for growth and for power laws to do their thing
  • and here we are

urlyman, to random
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Got a feeling that the UK centre ground hasn’t shifted that much since 2019. It’s just that the parties have.

The Tories are now way to the right of most of the people that voted for them in 2019.

And Labour are now roughly Cameron with an extra authoritarian topping.

This isn’t leadership.
It’s capitulation

urlyman,
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The millions who ‘don’t do politics’ are a huuuge fly wheel.

But that fly wheel will be disrupted. Probably this decade https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112546019855473380

urlyman, to random
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I saw about 3 questions’ worth of the last night. It was as facile as I expected.

The dynamic of it was something like this:

Q: these floorboards and the ones of the floor beneath and the ones of the floor beneath that, are riddled with dry rot. How will you make this building safe?

Sunak: our oil investments will allow us to put a nice oil finish on all the floors

Starmer: that’s ridiculous! We will use wax

urlyman, to random
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“We should think about our body as part of our brain.

Our body is doing some of the brain stuff for us and when we change our body we change what our brain is doing.

It turns out that when you try out new actions in the world, your views do change a lot of the time.

One of the things to bridge between action and debate is that thinking is often the secondary result of doing.

And if we wanted to have a more thoughtful society, we’d be doing more, right?”

https://www.planetcritical.com/p/the-cognitive-dissonance-crisis

urlyman, to random
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2006: Nick Stern, commissioned by Labour: “We need to spend 1% of GDP on climate-related policy”.

2008: Nick Stern: “I was wrong, it should be 2%”.

2021: Labour: “We’ll spend £28 bn a year” (1.3% of GDP)

2023: International Energy Agency (IEA) “Global investment in clean energy must reach $4.5 trillion by 2030” (2.5% of GDP)

2024: Labour (whispers) “we’ll spend £8.3 bn over 5 years” (0.07% GDP per year)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9xxpypr8d0o

ht @markhburton

#climateDiary

urlyman, to random
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Keir Starmer is claiming that Labour represents CHANGE… while offering as little change as possible.

Why does change rarely amount to any change at all?
Why do we fail to change?
What would we have to do to make change possible?

In October 2019, David Runciman explored those questions in a 50-minute lecture at Wolfson College, Cambridge, plus 10 minutes of Q&A 👉 https://youtu.be/avX636h4mzE?si=7RIcCGtXe4FUPC4x

cferdinandi, to random
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Lasted 3 hours

https://mastodon.social/@cferdinandi/112554405432756211

urlyman,
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@cferdinandi what didn’t stack up?

Just curious. I made the switch just over 4 months ago and am happy with that.

urlyman,
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@cferdinandi interesting, thanks. 1P works fine for me but each to their own :)

@noleli @mattwilcox @dzajew

urlyman, to random
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TIL that Graham Stringer, who has been the Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton since 1997, and is running again, has been a Trustee of the disaster-capitalism, climate science denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) since 2015.

That’ll really help build Great British Energy
🙄🙄🙄

https://www.thegwpf.org/labour-and-conservative-mps-join-gwpf/

urlyman, to random
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There’s a Guardian article from Fiona Harvey today, which links to https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says from November last year, citing that…

the richest 1% of people in the world are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the bottom 2/3rds.

So how much wealth does one need to be in the world’s richest 1%?

Knight Frank had some answers to that in 2021: https://www.knightfrank.com/research/article/2021-03-01-how-much-wealth-gets-you-into-the-global-top-1

In the UK, at the time, it was $3.3 million, which was about £2.4 million.

London’s average property price is ~£700k

urlyman,
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@seachanger glad to help. I find it kind of fascinating how when these reports come out the reporting tends not to join the dots with the specifics.

A partial picture seems to be a way to avoid the implications

urlyman, to random
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Rhetorical question:
Is Farage a total stunt

ht @PabloMartini https://climatejustice.social/@PabloMartini/112560525792401615

ricmac, to random
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If you had to power rank the least trustworthy big tech cos to start a new social product, how would you rank them? My list:

  1. Google (the least trustworthy; 99% of their products would be eventually sunsetted)
  2. Apple (the blue bubble gang is as social as it gets)
  3. Meta (long list of past infractions)
  4. Amazon (everything they do is designed to make Bezos richer and own more of space)
  5. Microsoft (ironic they are the most trustworthy of this lot…but they’ve learned their lesson, no?)
urlyman, (edited )
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@ricmac equal first. All of them are engaged in obsolescence by design. All of them are accelerating into this conundrum. They are utterly energy blind behemoths https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111068095946637599

urlyman, to random
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“The AI analyst Azeem Azhar recently recalled being in a meeting with 100 CFOs who were discussing the promise of generative AI to cut labor costs.

‘Let’s just say they were like cats surrounding a group of baby starlings — and let’s just say the lips were being licked’, he said”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-real-threat-generative

urlyman, to random
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“What if you knew, not only in your head, but in your bones, that in the next 10 to 20 years, what is viable today will no longer be the case?

What would you be doing today?”

https://overcast.fm/+2tlWtyisQ

urlyman, to random
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The modern web:

Disables JavaScript in order to get a Daily Mirror web page to load at all.

Enables JavaScript in order to get a link to Twitter to load at all

urlyman, to random
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The thing that is so draining about the immigration debate is how it dances around dynamics that have nothing to do with why there is mass migration.

Stop the boats, if it were to be meaningful at all on its own misanthropic terms, would mean actively unwinding capitalist colonialism.

So that there were fewer people needing to flee deathly situations.

That the actual tactics do nothing whatsoever to even contemplate such policy change guarantees the creep towards fascism

urlyman, to random
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This interview with Vanessa Andreotti on ‘Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity’ is great.

I’m only 20 minutes in so far, but what she has already said – e.g. about education – makes a lot of sense to me

Page:
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/125-vanessa-andreotti

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kQ7_IZ8YI

PDF transcript:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61d5bc2bb737636144dc55d0/t/66561b6371d13e15ce3d5deb/1716919139197/TGS+125+Vanessa+Andreotti+Transcript.pdf

#climateDiary

urlyman, to random
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34 orange whipped

The Blues Brothers dancing with Ray Charles on piano in the background.

urlyman, to random
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I just saw a beige.party poll with 50 ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-choices 🥴

urlyman,
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…Is this PR?

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