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In 2020, Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative by 2030. In 2024, Microsoft emissions are up by 30% compared to 2020.

submitted 208 days ago • 1 comment

"We earth/climate scientists are getting seriously nervous. Abrupt changes & an acceleration of warming are occurring. We need exponential change, at speed & scale: rapid transitions away from fossil fuels & towards circular business models + healthy diets." www.ted.com/talks/johan_...

submitted 208 days ago • 1 comment

Many people complain about the Canadian health care system for good reason, but when I had pains today and thought I was having a heart attack I hit the local hospital, in minutes got x-rays, blood work, EKG, the works. A muscle spasm, I am fine. The only bill I got: Parking.

submitted 213 days ago • 2 comments

I have created wwater.ca to provide graphs of #COVID19, RSV, and flu levels in regions across #Canada using the Government of Canada's #wastewater initiative data. Inspired by the Ontario government shutting down the crucial Wastewater Surveillance Initiative on July 31, 2024.

submitted 216 days ago • 15 comments

"It is extraordinary that to date not a single US university has officially condemned the genocide in Gaza – or, at the very least, the systematic Israeli destruction of universities there." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

submitted 215 days ago • 0 comments

Weird how it’s not socially acceptable to go around punching strangers in the face but it’s now considered totally fine to give them covid

submitted 218 days ago • 55 comments

Actually democratizing art would mean making it easier for people to acquire the skill they want in art. Which would look like free college. Or free continuing adult education. More time off. Universal healthcare. The foundations that allow the freedom to pursue our various happinesses.

submitted 221 days ago • 25 comments

Unsurprising that surveillance & spy technology used on Palestinians are used in #Bangladesh by dictatorship to kill thousands of students & civilians. The war machinery sold & pushed by USA further fuels authoritarian rule. News articles reported of public outcry against the tech but to no avail.

submitted 221 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of people have Covid right now so just as a PSA: * A rapid test essentially measures how much virus is in your nose right now. * If you’re positive on a rapid test, you’re producing a lot of virus. Good to assume you’re contagious. Maybe less so at the end. www.today.com/health/healt...

submitted 221 days ago • 29 comments

The built environment was not built for climate change. Here's how extreme heat is disrupting trains, planes, bridges, hospitals, water mains & more www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... by @meghanbartels.bsky.social 🧪

submitted 221 days ago • 3 comments

(Ganked from @[email protected] on Mastodon, who seems not to be on Bsky) Here's calcgpt.io, a calculator that uses an LLM to do math (Point your glassy-eyed AI true believers here and watch them burble incoherently as they try to explain it away)

submitted 226 days ago • 26 comments

For as little as $5 – the cost of two hours of fuel for our generator – you can help power our work. Kyiv is now experiencing severe, continuous power outages as a result of Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

submitted 226 days ago • 1 comment

Renewable energy still supplies less of the world’s electricity than fossil fuels do, but it’s being built at a rate that far outpaces the construction of non-renewable forms of energy. Last year, renewables accounted for nearly 86 percent of new electricity capacity worldwide.

submitted 234 days ago • 4 comments

This will be an interesting day to reflect on in the future. "Battery cells at $50/kWh means the technology to decarbonize most of road transport globally is already here, as opposed to in some future scenario." EVs are cheaper than ICE now. Today.

submitted 245 days ago • 17 comments

A new NASA map shows temperatures of up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets and sidewalks. All that unrelenting concrete and asphalt for cars. Not nearly enough trees. They start with ridiculous heat that’s only getting worse, and then make it much worse with bad design. www.kjzz.org/news/2024-07...

submitted 246 days ago • 0 comments

life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t

submitted 253 days ago • 31 comments

Today in 1998, Atomic Audit was published, becoming the first and only comprehensive, cumulative accounting of the full costs of US nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs. Back then, we conservatively estimated total spending at nearly $5.5 trillion (1996 dollars). It now exceeds $12 trillion.

submitted 254 days ago • 6 comments

A useful word that isn’t used enough is “democide.” Democide is the mass murder of a demographic group who are not a racial or ethnic group (“genocide.”) So for example the mass murder of queer or disabled people is democide. It can be a helpful word to disambiguate when both are taking place.

submitted 258 days ago • 6 comments

Cities can be easy/fast to drive cars through or they can be safe/pleasant to be in but they absolutely cannot be both at the same time

submitted 276 days ago • 26 comments

Giving credence to the IDF's account of events is like taking an American police department's statement about a police killing at face value.

submitted 275 days ago • 2 comments

The IPCC says it’s unequivocal that humans are responsible for global heating and our GHG emissions are responsible for 100% of the recent warming. Preindustrial atmospheric CO₂ was ~280 ppm and now it’s >420 ppm, so we’re responsible for 33% of what’s in the atmosphere (not 3%).

submitted 282 days ago • 5 comments

Ottawa Police moved in yesterday to remove peaceful pro-Palestinian protestors from in front of Parliament Hill. The "Freedom Convoy" occupied Ottawa for 3 weeks while Ottawa Police stood by. Palestinian protesters got 5 hours before arrests. Must have been the lack of bouncy castles.

submitted 285 days ago • 0 comments

Israeli universities are assisting the genocide. Canadian universities refuse to cut ties with them. Despite the deep complicity of Israeli universities in the genocide in Gaza, Canadian universities are refusing the calls of their students to sever ties with these Israeli academic institutions.

submitted 288 days ago • 0 comments

“One 2020 study found that mammals are four times likelier to die on roads these days than they were in the 1960s. In the Sixth Extinction, the asteroid is an F-150.”

submitted 289 days ago • 4 comments

It remains a truism of advocacy that no matter the issue, everything progressive protesters get accused of (being funded by powerful interests, manipulated by outside agitators, holding secret meetings) is actually true of the agents of the status quo.

submitted 298 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t stress how dangerous 20+ years of teaching men STEM without Humanities has been for all of us

submitted 301 days ago • 31 comments

Gaza has already been bombed with multiple Hiroshimas worth of US bombs given it by biden, many by him overriding Congress to do so. Most without public disclosure. Biden is already nuking Gaza, just in a way liberals see as less rude and uncivil

submitted 303 days ago • 5 comments

I deleted a tweet where I was trying to describe how many hiroshimas worth of US bombs israel has dropped on gaza. This is from november 9, citing 25 kilotons. Littleboy was 15 kilotons. About 2 hiroshimas worth in the first month www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

submitted 303 days ago • 2 comments