ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT:

The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.

Graph from Nat Bullard and data from Ember.

Yeah, I dunno, VicRoads. If cars can park in them, and cyclists *have* to use them, are they *really* built for cyclists?

The Trump family’s latest crypto scheme, “World Liberty Financial”, has the makings of the biggest clusterfuck in Web3 is Going Just Great history.

#CitationNeeded #crypto #cryptocurrency

When #Earth’s 4 hottest days were recorded in July, #climate scientist #JohanRockström told The Post that the planet was probably the warmest it has been since the last ice age began >100k years ago. Climate clues contained in ice cores, lake sediments & tree rings show that global #temperatures are shifting out of the range they’ve occupied for most of human history.

#ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Copernicus #FossilFuels #CarbonDioxide #atmosphere #science

Ringed Ice Giant Neptune

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NIRCam

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240906.html #APOD

And now they'll go after #OpenAI and all the other #LLM companies consuming their books. Right? Right??

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending

#InternetArchive

'Unbreakable' quantum communication closer to reality thanks to new, exceptionally bright photons
https://www.space.com/unbreakable-quantum-communication-bright-photons

Comets are made from a collection of small icy particles that formed in the early Solar System. As they approach the Sun for the first time, tidal forces and radiation pressure cause them to crumble, shedding smaller meteoroids that follow them in orbit. When those meteoroids cross Earth's orbit, we see them as a meteor shower. A new paper suggests that the meteor showers we see can explain the sizes of the particles that went into the formation of the comet.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1055435

@mcc "Added bugs, fixes, and improvements."

Hot language take:

More languages need sentence modifiers like ね (ja), kan (id) and innit (en-GB) for when you're 99% sure of something but want the listener to be able to confirm or refute the information.

Ex.
今日寒いね?
Hari ini dingin, kan?
Cold today, innit?

Are there other languages that do this that I can marvel at?

Some ads just don't age well.

Humble Oil became Standard Oil became Exxon became ExxonMobile became monsters.

#climate #ClimateChange

My book The Everything Guide to Remote Work has tons of tips for remote job interviews. Why? Hiring managers told me the interview doubles as a screening process to make sure candidates know the etiquette & norms of working remotely. It's things like:

⏱ giving a time zone when you schedule the interview

🎧 wearing headphones on the call

🎤 muting your mic if there are more than 2-3 people on the call

...and many more tips in my book!

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Everything-Guide-to-Remote-Work/Jill-Duffy/Everything/9781507217863

Florida's housing market is seeing 'nightmare scenarios' as buyers back out due to affordability concerns

Read more: https://t.co/JLApWKciLV

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

As seen in the Anarchist Pedagogigies Collective

#ThirdSpaces #solarpunk #future #hope

I am not going to lie, I distinctly remember electronics from my childhood being less fragile, and computers being less pissy with hardware (drivers are another thing).

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/alien-life-might-actually-look-101500218.html
How likely is it that we’re not alone in the universe? The idea goes in and out of fashion. The problem is that we’re the only life we know of. “We are both the observer and the observation,” says Nathalie Cabrol, chief scientist at the SETI Institute in California and the author of The Secret Life of the Universe, a bestseller in her native France, “We are life trying to understand itself and its origin.”

#seti #science #scicomm #book

This artwork by @kellybrownsays (on another platform) is perfect and speaks volumes!

h/t to my friend @MikeMayak for the image

#TimWalz #VP #candidate #election2024 #politics #USpol #Harris #book #CharlottesWeb #EBWhite #spider #web

#IAmDB

20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.

Day 5
Goodbye, things by Fumio Sasaki

This book helped me maintain my debt-free life. It basically short-circuited my desire to cheer myself up by buying things.

#bookstodon
#bookchallenge
#20books20days