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gneilyo, 7 days ago to random

AI brings out my inner Luddite.

gneilyo, 10 days ago to random

Low polygon count ass truck

msquebanh, 12 days ago to random

Wearing my fave boots & pants again. Both are super comfy & both are my fave colour - #purple 😊

Side of backyard #SoilRemediation area is doing well! My cover crops mixes are choking out the fugly colonial non-native grass. I have native grasses in my homemade mixed cover crops mix. This area that I'm standing on was dead zone for years because of hard clay blocking plant growths. It took me 3 yrs to get soil healthy enough to grow more diversity!

compost, 15 days ago to climate

I would love to see more accounts about #Compost on the fediverse.

Compost is a fantastic tool that can help us balance the #ClimateChange. The more we talk about it, the more we can inspire people to start this wonderful habit.

Our habits make us, and talking about positive habits is a good thing in the toxic environment social media can be.

I would be honored if we had a community of accounts that talk about it, and you can be sure that you will be boosted, and followed and not feel like #Mastodon is a void.

snarkysteff, 1 month ago to random

From my walk tonight.

Somewhere, there’s an HOA that thinks this house would look better with a grass-covered yard. (Idiots.)

gneilyo, 2 months ago to random

Has anyone considered what’s gonna happen once AI is fully trained up on all of us using the oceans of data that’s been collected by
telcos
banks
medical systems
genomics companies
social media giants
supermarkets
political parties
cable companies
credit bureaus
and our backstabbing cars
in addition to the countless sources I’m neglecting to mention

or nah

FantasticalEconomics, 2 months ago to academicchatter

The NAACP has had enough of DeSantis' anti-DEI policies and are encouraging Black athletes to boycott Florida schools.

"This is not simply about sports; it’s about acknowledging and advocating for the rights and supports of Black students within educational environments.”

We'll see if sports (and the millions of dollars of revenue they bring in) will be the Achilles heel of these studies e on universities in the name of combatting 'wokeness'.

https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4524394-naacp-florida-university-boycott-dei/

@academicchatter

seachanger, 2 months ago to animals

Ok let’s do this, reply with your #dogsOfMastodon

ajsadauskas, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to climate

If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

So.

The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

No, really:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

Gets better.

He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

Not gross revenue.

Profit.

So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

#oil #BigOil @fuck_cars #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #ClimateChange #environment #ExxonMobil #Exxon #business #economy #politics #capitalism #ClimateCrisis

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, 3 months ago to random

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gneilyo, 3 months ago to random

#cdcsays you don’t need to wear a seatbelt if you’re just going to the store

BlackAzizAnansi, 3 months ago to random

What's the most unhinged children's television show that you grew up watching?

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

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snarkysteff, 3 months ago to random

“How large is it?”

“Well, sir, I’ll put it to you in relatable terms — it has the girth of 64 Canadian geese.”

“THAT BIG?”

“Indeed. Perhaps — I say this cautiously — as many as 68.”

“Alert the media.”

arstechnica, 3 months ago to random

Tesla publishes its financial results for 2023; profit margin shrinks

Revenues only grew by 3 percent year over year, disappointing the market.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/tesla-publishes-its-financial-results-for-2023-profit-margin-shrinks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

clive, 4 months ago to random

The "world's ugliest airplane" ...

... is the AirTruk

Designed in New Zealand for cropdusting, its ungainly appearance is due to the interesting specs the designer was handed

Trivia: It appeared in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Item #4 in my latest Linkfest newsletter, free to read here and subscribe or hey even support if you can: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-17-medieval-fighting-snails-loud/

cdarwin, 4 months ago to instagramreality

A #fake #robocall mimicking Biden’s voice encourages Democrats not to vote in Tuesday' New Hampshire primary

A prominent New Hampshire Democrat wants the makers of a robocall mimicking the voice of Joe Biden and encouraging Democrats not to vote in the primary on Tuesday “prosecuted to the fullest extent” for attempting “an attack on democracy” itself.

“I’m not going to let it go. I want to know who’s paying for it? Who knew about it? Who benefits?”

NBC released a recording of the call.

“What a bunch of malarkey,” it began, using a term so-characteristic of the 81-year-old president it has been widely used in merchandising and meme-making.

“You know the value of voting Democratic,” the voice said. “Our votes count. It’s important that you save your vote for the November election. We’ll need your help in electing Democrats up and down the ticket.

“Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again. Your vote makes a difference in November, not this Tuesday. If you would like to be removed from future calls, please press two now.”

Sullivan’s phone number was included.

Biden’s name will not be on the Democratic ballot on Tuesday, because the state went against an official reorganisation of the primary calendar which placed South Carolina first
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/22/biden-fake-robocalls-new-hampshire?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

gsuberland, 4 months ago to random

journalists should ask the CEO of HP for comment on his recent surprising public disclosure that their printer products are vulnerable to code execution, and ask why they haven't done a recall on the affected products.

https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/111784290236799086

gneilyo, 4 months ago to random

Have a Super Duolingo subscription, but don’t want an inferior product from a company that mistreats the people who made the app great in the first place?

Find info on cancellations and refunds here: https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004068143-How-do-I-request-a-refund-

From: @majorlinux
https://toot.majorshouse.com/@majorlinux/111779905731304018

carnage4life, 4 months ago to random

This guy is supposed to get us to Mars? I wouldn’t trust him to get me to a Greyhound station.

arstechnica, 4 months ago to random

iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282

Still-working iPhone from Alaska Airlines flight 1282 found on the side of the road.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/iphone-survives-16000-foot-fall-after-door-plug-blows-off-alaska-air-flight-1282/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social