@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-10-31 22:04:22
UN sees world's emissions falling 10% by 2035, far short of 60% goal #environment
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-01 17:55:36
Vikings waive Adam Thielen following WR's request to be released https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-waive-adam-thielen-following-wr-s-request-to-be-released
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-01 00:41:27
Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social2025-12-02 02:42:47
My amazing niece flying solo. I took this still* from a video of her getting ATC clearance, taking off, and flying. Solo. She’s not yet 20.
I rly don’t have the words to describe my feelings as I watched the video. I cried like a baby—I can say that much.
Yesterday, I bought her a pair of Ray-Ban aviator shades for Xmas. Because she’s an aviator. ❤️
* I chose to share a pic w/ her face obscured for social media, but she’s as beautiful as she is brilliant.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-02 05:55:32
Everyday Plastics Could Be Fueling Obesity, Infertility, and Asthma
https://scitechdaily.com/everyday-plastics-could-be-fueling-obesity-infertility-and-asthma/
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-01 18:37:41
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-01 18:37:41
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 21:56:24
Hi, it’s Al Franken.
I don’t usually send messages like this, so I’m hoping you’ll read to the end for a GREAT story.
Before that, though, I want to tell you about Peggy Flanagan.
She is unbelievably great and she’s running to keep Minnesota’s Senate seat blue.
Her end-of-month fundraising deadline is tonight so I’ll get to the point: Please donate now.
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-10-02 00:12:27
As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts #Amazon
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-02 04:30:30
