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urlyman

@urlyman@mastodon.social

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

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

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The FT’s paywall showing only the headline and not even a smidgen of the lede is a metaphor for where capitalism is going

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Expressed as a percentage, the Greens were the winners in last week’s elections but…
https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy/112398148497055497

urlyman,
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…the Greens represent the possibility of actual change. Reform represents a doubling down on the worst aspects of the status quo.

The status quo wants the same 3 bar chords

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The Greens were the biggest winners in the local elections, so why aren’t they getting fair air time? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/07/the-greens-were-the-biggest-winners-in-the-local-elections-so-why-arent-they-getting-fair-air-time/
Proportionately, the Greens won most seats at the recent local elections, but they are denied airtime, and we get Reform instead. Why?

urlyman,
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@RichardJMurphy the Greens represent the possibility of actual change. Reform represents a doubling down on the worst aspects of the status quo.

The status quo wants the same 3 bar chords

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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I keep on looking at this map. The Gaza strip itself is already so small , one of the most densely populated parts of the world. And now everyone is supposed to cram into a minute part of this? And we are all supposed to appreciate this“humanitarian zone” - which has itself been repeatedly bombed already, too.

urlyman,
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@pvonhellermannn don’t forget the plans for the offshore bit https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/26/how-is-gaza-offshore-gas-development-tied-to-the-israeli-invasion/

@boss

urlyman, to random
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“Studies found a fifth of genetic data in papers was affected by Excel errors”
https://mastodon.social/@ewolff/112389603399246955

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Just over a year ago, on Twitter, I encountered a launch presentation from electric flight folks, Maeve Aerospace. Here’s what I wrote at the time 🧵

Let me know what I got wrong, or what’s changed since.

There is a possible long term future for aviation of certain kinds…

IF

we don’t create the conditions for the collapse of resilient high energy civilisation.

But we ARE creating those conditions at present…

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One day, people who write about the importance of climate change, will not fly all over the world doing book tours

urlyman, to random
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Listened to a couple of discussions about the shape of capitalist retreat:

  1. With a theoretical emphasis, the Macrodose conversation between Raj Patel, Jason W Moore and James Meadway (host) https://overcast.fm/+8dw-Ulyv4

  2. Doomer Optimism, James Pogue and Chris Mott with an ‘on-the-ground’ emphasis on the Sahel, especially Mauritania and the Central African Republic (CAR). What happened when France left and Wagner Group Russians (among others) moved in https://overcast.fm/+zkMNOM2Qc

mcc, (edited ) to random
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Programming languages that practice the doctrine of Anattā: C++, C#, Java, JavaScript

Programming languages that do not practice the doctrine of Anattā: Lua, Ruby, Objective-C, OCaml, Swift, Rust

Programming languages which are ambiguous with respect to the doctrine of Anattā: Python

urlyman,
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@mcc is it wrong of me that what I take from this is adding the plural of abyss to my lexicon?

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Ha Ha!

urlyman, to random
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Our politics are deeply unsuited to when politics has fked everything.

And social media is deeply unsuited to navigating it

urlyman,
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…all we have are asynchronous words and words alone are inadequate to try to express how it makes us feel that the lesser of two evils is still evil

urlyman,
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…the last times the UK was actively contributing to bombing the shit out of somewhere, we didn’t have social media at all (Iraq), and then had it a bit (Libya).

And we weren’t as heavily surveilled.

And we had the shale oil boom ahead of us to magic more growth on a finite planet.

And we had about 600 billion fewer tonnes of CO2 that we’d put into the atmosphere.

urlyman,
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…This time, it’s the same old bullshit. And the discourse is basically the same. There’s just much more of it.

Nothing has been learned. Even though so much has changed and yet, not nearly enough has changed

pvonhellermannn, to random
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"I was hoping I would find one good potato here, but there's not one left. They're all rotten”

Please, no “those stupid tractor driving anti climate-action farmers deserve this” responses this time.

A. That take isn’t really that great
B. This affects all of us, our food.

https://x.com/FarmCamUK/status/1784928179129360822

urlyman,
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@pvonhellermannn have people actually replied with something like that before?

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Would it be odious if I yet again expressed frustration with the (in my opinion) infantile and officious 500-character limit?

Argh.

Ok, that's it. Back to what you were doing.

https://fosstodon.org/
^^^^ I rest my case. XD

urlyman,
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@RL_Dane not odious at all, but the threshold will always be wrong, won’t it?

It frustrates me occasionally but it’s also true that having a constraint is often useful.

https://www.artistsjourney.com/blog/constraint-in-art

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What will really help drive down carbon emissions is blowing shit up that had several thousand fk tonnes of precious materials, in a region that isn’t (yet) a war zone
https://mstdn.social/@stux/112351211851864730

urlyman, to climate
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Eating animals reared in cruel, disgusting conditions during a that’s accelerated by meat eating gets us all here
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/26/us-cows-bird-flu-covid-pandemic-global-governments

Well done everyone

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I’m part way through the 2 regular podcasts I listen to which, for me, most interestingly explore the range of where we are and where we’re going, energetically speaking.

Tom Chi is this week’s The Great Simplification guest, and Olivia Lazard is this week’s @PlanetCritical guest.

Lots of thoughts, but I’m willing my ADD brain to listen to both in full before I comment on them. It’s hard because one of them is much more difficult to remain attentive to

25kV, to random
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I've just heard the phrase "carbon terrorist" used in relation to someone who chose to fly domestically rather than take the train. I'm 100% using that

urlyman,
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@25kV I’m with you in spirit, but what was the price differential, I wonder?

urlyman,
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@25kV not saying that makes it alright but sometimes the expensiveness of rail relative to air is a whole other level of insane

urlyman, to random
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Watched This Town tonight and it is bloody brilliant https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001w95v

I’m kind of fascinated by the art of screenwriting. Last night, we watched the very differently wonderful Ripley.

I don’t know how to describe what it is that writers do when they excel, but I sure as hell know it when lesser writers miss

urlyman,
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…there’s something here that speaks to how the output from AI can be both technically impressive and utterly banal and joyless.

As it suffuses inexorably into our lives we’ll crave and value lovely human storytelling more and more. I hope

KarenWyld, to palestine
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My friend Susan Abulhawa - Palestinian author and changemaker - recently returned from Gaza. She spent two weeks there; delivering aid for animals and people, running workshops to support Palestinian people under siege to tell their own stories; and checking in on friends and family.

She didn't want to leave - Israel cancelled Humanitarian visas. Until she can enter again, Susan has been publishing her accounts of this brief time in Gaza. These pieces are haunting and honest. The devastation and state violence is much worse than what we've seen online.

I'll post her articles in this thread as they're published. And the videos she's produced. And urge everyone to read/watch.

Keep speaking up for Palestine!

1/-

@palestine #Gaza

urlyman,
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@KarenWyld
Thank you for sharing these

@palestine

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I finished reading World Wide Waste by Gerry McGovern. I'd consider it essential reading for anyone working with computers!

https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/

It's well cited (though I still need to check those citations) & uses maths effectively to make it's point.

That computers + (surveillance) capitalism is actually worse for the environment than the predigital era. That we can and must move slow and fix things, and fund that vital work directly.

urlyman,
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@lstellway @alcinnz

I know that Yellowdog take energy use seriously (from their clients’ perspectives to save money) https://yellowdog.co/

they were the cornerstone and gift at the centre of this story https://seethroughnews.org/see-through-carbon-competition-pilot-review

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