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enobacon, 24 days ago to portland

“It’s absurd for ODOT to claim that their proposed $1.9 billion 10-lane highway is in compliance with the city’s existing plans for #climateAction, sustainable #transportation investment or neighborhood development. We filed this lawsuit because state law requires ODOT to follow the city’s #cleanAir and climate goals. ODOT shouldn’t be allowed to advance a project that brazenly violates the city’s adopted plans.” -- #NoMoreFreeways #ODOTGTFOpdx #Portland

https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/odot-faces-lawsuit-to-stop-1-9b-rose-quarter-freeway-expansion/

sundogplanets, 4 months ago to random

Good recommendation for very basic, linux-friendly video editing software? (Prefer open-source/free, but willing to pay if it's actually what I need)

arstechnica, 4 months ago to random

Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse

Apollo dev: "I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership... cares about developers anymore."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/exploring-reddits-third-party-app-environment-7-months-after-the-apicalypse/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

whitemice, 5 months ago to technology

A fun look at a truly annoying [and revealing] aspect of LLMs: they are more like improv actors than experts. #technology #llms #chatbots #improv
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/12/ai-silliness-getting-to-no.html

whitemice, 6 months ago to technology

If retaining a particular CEO at a company is make-or-break then that CEO was/is bad at their job. A Chief Executive should build a sustainable institution that can operate in their absence. #technology

tomw, 8 months ago to random

Email attachments are a silly hack but it's now just considered routine and even reliable. Base64? We're seriously still transforming multi-megabyte binaries to alphanumeric encoding for transmission? multipart/alternative; boundary=[random garbage]? Just an absolute joke of a hack.

sundogplanets, 8 months ago to random

"Manoeuvre" is officially my least favourite word to spell. (The American spelling ain't too bad, the Canadian spelling is atrocious).

Oh wait, it gets worse: "manoeuvrable"

aaaaggghhhh

heyfluxay, 9 months ago to random

Prepare for IPA fueled toots, I regret nothing!!!

danwentzel, 9 months ago to random

Big oil will happily finance the destruction of both the planet and American democracy to increase short-term profits.

lauren, 9 months ago to random

What's going to happen when there's a damned earthquake or other disaster that takes out cell service (always first to go) and prevents controllers from reaching those robotaxis that go nuts and stop in the middle of streets blocking escape routes. This is totally crazy and dangerous.

heyfluxay, 10 months ago to random

There’s a call I have to sit in on in 30 minutes and I really really really really don’t want to…..

round, 10 months ago to random

bring back the little orange RSS icon in the corner of every website

sundogplanets, 10 months ago to random

"Somewhere, a large asteroid is on course to eventually hit Earth. Will humanity be ready?"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-somewhere-a-large-asteroid-is-on-course-to-eventually-hit-earth-will/

whitemice, 10 months ago to Dog

Waiting for mom. #dog #dogsofmastodon

whitemice, 11 months ago to random

I'm not sure what "Capitalism" is, but it is not what is preventing the most significant steps we could take on #climatechange : reducing VMT, walkable communities, urbanization, local agriculture, energy efficient housing, .... Capitalism would eagerly do all those things. if The State - with the full throated support of "Progressives" - was not there to obstruct doing those things.

So, like or don't like #capitalism, but please stop saying it is the reason we can not address #climatechange

whitemice, 11 months ago to Michigan

This article overlooks something obvious: the existence of Green Bay (107K), Duluth(87K), and Appleton (75K).
The Michigan UP is just too far away. There is a radius of reasonable travel, thus a radius for the economic uplift created by a city. #Michigan
https://www.bridgemi.com/business-watch/western-upper-peninsula-towns-empty-out-look-wisconsin-lessons

adamjcook, 1 year ago to random

Back in my hometown!

First time since 2018.

#Chicago

breadandcircuses, 1 year ago to climate

It can be argued that electric vehicles are an improvement when replacing ICE vehicles.

But that misses a much bigger point — which is that the very best car is not an electric car. The very best car is no car at all!

Building electric cars requires massive use of fossil fuels, including petrochemicals for the manufacture of plastics. In addition, mining of lithium for batteries as well as trawling for other minerals in the deep ocean is environmentally disastrous, killing biodiversity while polluting our water, soil, and air.

LITHIUM EXTRACTION — https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-lithium-fields-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future

DEEP-SEA MINING — https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/109814016209990908

The kind of “Green Growth” championed by capitalists and politicians, which features more electric cars, a bit of solar, and a few wind farms — along with continued use of fossil fuels — is not a good answer. It does not solve any of our problems, and in fact only makes them worse.

Say NO to more cars, of any kind. Push instead for active transportation and for improved public transit.

Continued economic growth is unsustainable. Period. The only logical choice for us and for the biosphere is de-growth.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Degrowth #WarOnCars #BanCars