@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-07-10 19:18:02
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-07-10 19:18:02
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-10 22:19:37
You only have a copper 'industry' if you have copper in the ground. US has a lot in Arizona. It mines it. But it's not enough. Even a 200% tariff isn't going to change the reality of where we get our commodities."
'RIP home renovations': Trump’s massive copper tariff buried in mockery - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2673043468/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-07 17:39:48
Jets to play Fields, starters in preseason opener https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45920863/jets-change-course-play-starters-first-preseason-game
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-08-08 17:56:37
In positive change, Cowboys HC sees $136 million, $13.5 million weapons 'interchangeable' https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/08/cowboys-schottenheimer-lamb-turpin-interchange…
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-11 09:13:09
Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Dave Guruge, Samuel Mann, Ruth Myers, Oliver Bates, Mikey Goldweber, Andy Williamson, Jon Lasenby, Ian Brooks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05992
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-08-08 16:12:44
From David Suzuki
This economic story doesn’t end well. Let’s change it!
The natural world is foundational to every aspect of our lives. We all need food, air and water. But nature is not our sole underpinning; stories are also foundational. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to make sense of the world or create meaning within it.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-09-09 15:49:19
Massive uptick in NFL kickoff returns in Week 1 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46207142/nfl-kickoff-return-rate-increases-dramatically-week-1
@tydalforce@mastodon.world2025-09-08 13:24:42
Whole lakes are drying up! We all need to get serious about climate change NOW. It may already be too late...
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/862270/lake-urmia-has-become-part-of-history-re…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-08-07 20:21:06
Trump pushed major change to Medicare after $5 million donation to MAGA, Inc: report (Alexander Willis/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673867349/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p115#a250807p115
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-07-31 03:07:59
🥵 As SoCal bakes, UCLA study shows duration of heat waves is accelerating faster than climate change
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/ucla-study-heat-wave-duration-faster-than-global-warming
🆓
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-21 20:27:36
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fidji-simo-note-employees/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-07-08 11:19:32
Burrow: Home burglary altered Batmobile plans https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45693169/home-burglary-altered-batmobile-plans
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-06-14 11:51:37
Content warning:
Sex change happens quite a few time in #GreekMythology, usually by divine intervention. I collected a list of characters whose sex is changed, usually by divine intervention. One is the story of Mestra, who got the ability to shape-shift from her ex lover Poseidon and went on to marry Autolykos, a son of Hermes with the ability to change the look of the things he stole. What a power coupl…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-27 03:31:16
TUVALU is preparing to carry out the first planned migration of an entire country in response to the effects of climate change.
Recent studies project that much of its territory could be submerged in the next 25 years due to rising sea levels, forcing its inhabitants to consider migration as an urgent survival measure.
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-07-20 14:17:45
The Last of Us Part 2’s story is just fine the way it is. TLOU2 isn’t for everyone — and maybe it shouldn’t be.
https://share.google/vg2WYB24QZTklDIRH
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-20 11:00:36
"Endangered rays, sharks and native oysters 'could thrive' despite climate change, report claims"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Animals
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-31 09:32:21
AI-generated stories favour stability over change: homogeneity and cultural stereotyping in narratives generated by gpt-4o-mini
Jill Walker Rettberg, Hermann Wigers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22445
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-08-03 14:26:41
Nepo baby or late bloomer? Former 6th rounder has front office, Cowboys coaching connect https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/03/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-42-rb-deuce-vaughn/85…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-06 16:08:48
Stephen Miller boasts about 'rich resources' in nation targeted by Trump for regime change - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/venezuela/
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-07-25 16:30:55
What the Raiders D-line depth chart looks like following the release of Christian Wilkins https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/25/raiders-defensive-line-depth…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-06-16 12:34:24
Content warning:
I collected a list of characters who experience sex change in #GreekMythology, usually by divine intervention. One is the story of Siproites, a hunter who saw the goddess #Artemis naked while she was bathing and was then transformed into a woman:
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-06-29 21:31:39
Pickens' Drama in Dallas gets first episode out of the way before training camp https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/29/george-pickens-drama-cowboys-culture-change/84408563007/…
@ginevra@hachyderm.io2025-08-30 00:56:10
Thinking about #DiscoElysium succesors(?), including ones with heavy ethical concerns. A lot of them have gone for female protagonists: Good! There could have been a couple more leading women in DE. But the reveal trailers are mainly voiced by men... men berating or mocking the central character.
Longdue's Hopetown has a father figure voice over, berating the protagonist: "Who do you think you are? [...] You don't understand the forces at play" Infantalised, she doesn't get to respond.
ZA/UM's Zero Parades VO is also a man, initially flattering the spy protagonist "brilliant, relentless" ... then saying she came after him and "everything she touched, written into failure". Again, no chance for the female spy to tell her side of the story ... And there's an objectifying/threatening section about how her fair hair is like a dandelion. Tangeant: what's with the heavy/bad pseudo-German VO accent?
Do I bother mentioning DarkMath's XXX Nightshift? Yes, for once a woman's VO, but (as you'll have guessed from the name) a porn-like, male-gaze view of what a woman would say and think.
So, don't be fooled that a female protagonist means we're actually getting a woman's POV. It's just a cosmetic change. Dora Klindžić's https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rx3zlqzbjylvtyg6siikaouq experiences as a writer at ZA/UM show how women struggle to have a voice and stay employed in these types of studios. Many of the senior men she mentions are still at ZA/UM.
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-08-31 19:20:01
Turning a paddock into a forest in just 24 hours - a filmmaker's inspiring climate action story. Individual and community efforts like tree planting can make a big impact in fighting climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2025-08-25 12:57:22
The Story of #Valkey 🚀 🧑🏫
Back in early 2024, a popular #opensource project, #Redis, made a bold change: it shifted its licensing from
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-28 13:06:20
How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love
@evemassacre@assemblag.es2025-07-15 10:14:55
The Mars House was a fun read. I enjoyed the ideas Natasha Pulley has put into worldbuilding: How would people change when living on Mars, as society and physically? How would languages and tech evolve? The actual story is a wee bit too YA soap lit for my taste but as I said: a fun read!
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-20 08:51:04
Regime change in Iran is 'unacceptable', says the Kremlin (Ivor Bennett/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/russia-would-react-negatively-if-irans-leader-is-killed-says-the-kremlin-13385983
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p3#a250620p3
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-07-31 11:36:30
Cowboys specialty center survived regime change as consistency is key https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/31/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-44-ls-trent-sieg/85381099007/…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-07-31 15:54:10
How billionaire Mike Repole plans to change the vibe of the UFL, expand it to 16 teams https://www.espn.com/united-football-league/story/_/id/45863976/new-ufl-investor-talks-market-changes-expansion
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-07-13 16:53:14
Fossil fuels are stupid.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidrvetter.bsky.social/post/3ltubfjws2s2h
Note that highways are built using fossil fuels (both the building equipment used to create them, as well as asphalt which is made using bitumen, a b…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-28 22:19:43
A new look in Green Bay: Trading for Micah Parsons continues Packers' aggressive offseason https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46098223/nfl-micah-parsons-trade-green-bay-packers-dallas-cowboys
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-07-31 10:16:50
Cowboys Headlines: WR waived; Jones' claim about Diggs rehab; 2 vie to replace Guyton https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/31/news-headlines-july-30-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-24 14:49:24
Sources: Vikes add Wentz, trade Howell to Philly https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46063756/sources-vikings-add-carson-wentz-trade-sam-howell-eagles
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-08-26 23:11:34
3 positions Cowboys should now target in trades, waiver claims or free-agent signings https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/26/cowboys-trade-sign-claim-free-agent-roster-53-man/858367210…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-24 13:19:41
Shedeur, despite struggles, expects roster spot https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46063435/shedeur-sanders-expects-browns-roster-spot-struggles
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-06-20 13:56:30
Cowboys youth movement on offense may cause bumps, but was much needed change in direction https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/20/the-offensive-line-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-06-24 18:54:37
Mock draft: Derrick Henry biggest mover in change to non-PPR https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45568588/fantasy-football-mock-draft-2025-12-team-non-ppr
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-08-12 18:31:20
Change! Every adjustment in Cowboys' latest depth chart after preseason loss to Rams https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/12/cowboys-depth-chart-before-ravens-preseason-game/85628455…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-20 11:29:22
Which NFL teams could change QBs next year? 12 situations to watch -- and possible options for each https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46018436/2026-nfl-quarterback-market-predictions-12-teams-starter-questions