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#Feelings can be weaponized. Feelings are what move us. They’re a status report and interpretation of our internal, visceral state, and of our limbs and head. We don’t like things that cause us pain. We avoid things that cause pain. Someone tells you that something will cause you pain, you won’t like it, you’ll fight it. Can you say,

Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (Madeleine Cuff/New Scientist)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/25850

Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails | New Scientist
Operation Blue Skies is the world’s first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace, aiming to lower the climate impact of flights on a large scale 

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021) - Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers! - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-2.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021)
Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers!

Primaries in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming held on Tuesday provided the latest view into how voters are feeling ahead of November’s US midterm elections.
One candidate aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) netted an extraordinary win
while another was defeated handily.
Donald Trump’s handpicked candidates received a mixed reception from voters.
In Alaska, voters chose their fighters for one of the year’s marquee US Senate races,
and in Florida, e…

A democratic socialist win and losses for Trump allies: takeaways from primaries in three key states
Elections in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming provide a sense of how voters are feeling ahead of November’s midterms

Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor

Moving as metaphor
A few weeks ago, I and several others helped some friends of ours pack up their apartment into a truck in preparation for moving cross-country from Chicago to New York. It was, as such moments generally are, bitter sweet. It's always a good feeling to help out a friend, but when you're helping them get further away from you it's not as pleasant. Of course, me being me, what struck me most about the whole process was how well it served as a model for software development and project managemen…

Hayao Miyazaki will return in Avengers: Doomsday.
https://geektyrant.com/news/hayao-miyazaki-is-showing-up-to-work-at-studio-ghibli-every-day-but-nobody-knows-what-hes-making

Hayao Miyazaki Is Showing Up to Work at Studio Ghibli Every Day, but Nobody Knows What He’s Making — GeekTyrant
At 85 years old, Hayao Miyazaki apparently still has somewhere very important to be every morning. The legendary filmmaker continues to report to Studio Ghibli on a daily basis, and while that might sound like confirmation that another Miyazaki movie is taking shape, there’s a wonderfully strang

Smoke Gets In Your...Hole Where Your Soul Should Be
MAGA may have a set a new mark for belligerent stupidity
BILL MCKIBBEN
JUL 20
...wildfires, and hence smoke, will persist all summer, and since the hot world we’re creating produces ever more wildfire and hence an endless supply of future smoke, I think it’s worth taking a moment to get all this on the record.
Also, the flow of smoke down from Canada has produced a perfect MRI of the MAGA nervous system, reveali…

The Trump administration has paused construction of border infrastructure in Big Bend National Park in Texas following public criticism of the controversial project.
Crews were filmed bulldozing pristine desert wilderness earlier this month, sparking rare bipartisan pushback.
The construction is part of a larger plan for the Big Bend region to build hundreds of miles of walls, vehicle barriers and other border infrastructure.
The Department of Homeland Security waived req…

Bipartisan Outcry Forces Trump to Pause Border Security Project in Big Bend National Park in Texas
The Trump administration has paused construction of border infrastructure in Big Bend National Park in Texas following public criticism of the controversial project. Crews were filmed bulldozing pristine desert wilderness earlier this month, sparking rare bipartisan pushback. The construction is part of a larger plan for the Big Bend region to build hundreds of miles of walls, vehicle barriers and other border infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security waived requirements that federal …

Two contrasting films,
produced eight years apart,
neatly distill the evolution of John Fetterman,
Pennsylvania’s maverick senator in his journey from progressive icon to a man seemingly more at ease with his nominal Republican opponents than his fellow Democrats.
Fetterman’s evolution has been so stark that some Democrats fear he will go over to the Republicans
– jeopardizing the party’s hopes of regaining control of the Senate
– despite his disavowals of…

‘I don’t trust him any more’: Pennsylvanians come to grips with John Fetterman’s rightwing turn
The maverick senator has isolated himself from supporters as he has become a strident supporter of Israel

Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects