@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDas #Ozonloch über der #Antarktis ist 2026 ungewöhnlich groß.
Am 12. September erreichte es rund 25 Millionen Quadratkilometer und lag damit etwa fünf Millionen Quadratkilometer über dem Durchschnitt für diese Jahreszeit. Prognosen des
@kazys@mastodon.socialI wrote about Lynes's the Tastemakers and updated it for our day. Go ahead, shadow-ban this.
https://varnelis.net/the-tastemakers-2026/
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The Tastemakers, 2026 - varnelis.net
In February 1949, Harper’s published the essay “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow” by its managing editor, Russell Lynes. There, he observed a new structure determining prestige in the country: where once wealth and family were the markers of status, now taste and intelligence—what Pierre Bourdieu would later call cultural capital—were paramount. Two months later Life magazine had ...
@david@boles.xyzMake a Game of Life
In North Loup, Nebraska, where I spent my boyhood summers with my grandfather, the television pulled one signal out of the sky, channel 10/11, and when the picture dissolved into snow the day still had eight hours left in it....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/15/make
@cdarwin@c.imI’m standing atop a very tall ladder, peering down through a haze of liquid nitrogen vapour into a giant stainless steel flask containing three smaller containers.
Inside the smaller wedges
– which are labelled 005, 006, 007
– are three of Peter Tsolakides’ “patients”.
The frozen bodies belong to people who, before their death, paid handsomely to be cryogenically frozen in the hope of one day being brought back to life.
The ladder is inside a normal-looking shed…
@cheryanne@aus.socialAustralian School Library Day
Australian School Library Day is celebrated on the Wednesday of Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Children's Book Week®, so this year it will be celebrated on 26 August.
Book Week is a busy time for school libraries but it is also just the right time for school communities to pause for a moment and recognise how essential school libraries are in ensuring that reading is a part of everyday life and that students have access to fabul…
@outer@mas.toTomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
--Macbeth (name of the play and …
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzOvershown: 'It felt good' to see Cowboys' improvements come to life in Rams joint practice https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/12/cowboys-demarvion-overshown-joint-pra…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialRandom thought that goes interesting places:
There are a lot of cheap ways to spend money to drastically improve the quality of life for lots of people (UBI, mosquito nets, digging wells, etc.). Those people almost invariably become way more economically productive in aggregate when this happens, far above the costs involved, if you measure from the perspective of the affected group. So for billionaires looking for outsized returns on investments, why not simply spend on some of these programs, then invest in a broad index of socks that are going to go up as a result?
The answer could be "billionaires by their nature are too evil to think of this," which, could be true....
But I think there's a deeper answer, which is that there *is no* bundle of stocks that goes up as humans flourish. This is directly contrary to neoliberal economic doctrine/propaganda, but it also has an explanation that's obvious from the neoliberal doctrine itself: the stock market is a gambling arena for bets on corporate profits. Corporate profits are money taken in in excess of costs. But the value of a corporation is not produced abstractly by the mere existence of the organization; it's produced by the labor of humans working for the organization, with raw materials that the organization purchases. So to make a profit, an organization has to do some combination of paying its workers less than the value the create, and/or paying less for it's raw materials than they are really worth. The more it does these two things, the more profit it can generate.
Notice that these two profit-generating activities directly and indirectly immiserate humans, *and* that reducing human misery by means other than reducing these activities makes them harder. People who have other means of income won't sell their labor for less than it's worth, nor will they sell their resources below their fair value. Only desperate people will agree to terms that corporations require to be profitable.
This is not a "Marxist analysis" by the way; it's the direct application of the basic principles taught in any neoliberal introductory macroeconomics class.
In any case, once we understand that the stock market is "gambling on how much corporations can exploit their employees/suppliers/customers", it's clear why you can't make money from stock investments in companies that profit from flourishing humans: profit is by construction made of human misery.
It also explains a lot of other things, like why private US employers who pay huge amounts of payroll towards health insurance for their employees would be *against* public health insurance that would offload those costs onto all taxpayers: the amount they're able to lower wages as a result of desperation for access to health care is more than worth the direct costs.
This is the central reason why capitalism (defined as: a system where money equals power) is inimical to human happiness: it allows profits built on suffering to be converted into the power to maintain the system of suffering and even extend and intensify it, creating a feedback loop of extractive domination.
Now I'm sure some people might read this and think: what about the good companies? The ones that pay their workers and suppliers a fair wage, and sell their products at fair prices? Even putting aside the fact that such a thing seems less believable than a unicorn these days, such a company by definition does not make a profit. The fair wage for its workers is the value they add to the raw materials it buys, and the fair price for those is the selling price of the finished product minus the value the company adds. The balance sheet will read exactly zero at the end of the day if compensation is actually fair. You can still run a company like this in theory, and even grow it, but of course under capitalism it will just get bought out by an unethical company that is profitable. Could you in some kind of utopian dream world run a tightly regulated series of markets where you have most of what people think capitalism is, without the bad parts? Maybe, but it definitely wouldn't involve actual capitalism, and it wouldn't have a stock market.
#anarchy #capitalism #econimics
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzSince 2017, ESA’s #SpaceDebris Office has published an annual Space Environment Report to provide a transparent overview of global space activities and determine how well international debris-reduction measures are improving the long-term sustainability of spaceflight: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/ESA_Space_Environment_Report_2026 -> "The number and scale of commercial satellite constellations continue to increase each year. Not enough satellites leave heavily congested orbits at the end of their lives, creating a growing collision risk. More than three intact satellites or rocket bodies are reentering the Earth’s atmosphere every day on average. At the same time, ten new payloads are launched daily. A new trend has constellations change altitude significantly year-on-year. New report metric added in 2026: on-ground casualty risk of reentries. Even though the numbers are low compared to everyday risks in life, the chance of a casualty increased in recent years due to increased traffic."
@paulwermer@sfba.socialSo it's not just Chinese EVs: "In the last two years much of the car industry’s focus has been on Chinese overcapacity, but the VDA’s statement is drawing attention to deeper changes in Europe with fewer cars being bought by the public."
And with ever more people living in an urban setting, and the arrival of e-bikes & e-mopeds, the need for a car in every day life continues to drop.
German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to addre…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialSo it's not just Chinese EVs: "In the last two years much of the car industry’s focus has been on Chinese overcapacity, but the VDA’s statement is drawing attention to deeper changes in Europe with fewer cars being bought by the public."
And with ever more people living in an urban setting, and the arrival of e-bikes & e-mopeds, the need for a car in every day life continues to drop.
German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to addre…
@cdarwin@c.imIn the small hours of June 30,
Joe Klima lay awake in bed.
A little before 5 a.m., he rose and packed his lunch.
Ahead of Klima was his last shift at the Conn Selmer plant in Eastlake, Ohio
— everyone’s last shift,
because the factory was closing.
At a time when the president of the United States said the country was in the midst of a manufacturing renaissance,
the 150 people who still worked at the plant were losing their jobs,
and seeing m…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #JazzRecordRequests
Jeff Beck:
🎵 A Day In The Life
#JeffBeck
https://open.spotify.com/track/3cCwWJbqCgPgp16aT1Hqrf
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsLet's say you're building a house. Normally this involves hiring a whole bunch of experts (either directly or via some company). You need to pay a fair wage for their labor, and you have to pay for all the material they're going to use. Some of them will be more experienced than others. They will sometimes make a mistake. They will sometimes get sick. The whole construction work will probably take a few months, and may get delayed in the process. Some construction material will be wasted. There's also a risk that over the next years, you'll discover that they screwed something up, and have to fix it. But you'll get a reasonably good house.
Now, a kid comes and tells you you don't have to do this. Instead of paying all these people, you can hire him. He's wearing a suit and sunshades. He never laid a brick in his whole life. But he's got this new great technology that will give you a great house in no time. Of course it will cost you, but not as much as the labor of all these people. You try to learn more, and you discover that the technology actually builds and razes a hundred of house-like things a day, until it gets close enough to something that actually resembles a house. There's a lot of wasted energy and material, but you don't have to worry because it's all subsidized (for the time being). You pay less, you get a house that looks just right on the outside and inside, and that seems to work just right.
Of course, there's a real risk that in a few months you'll discover that something is wrong. You may have to pay a lot for a real expert to figure out how things were done, and how to fix them. Or they may not be able to help you. You may be stuck having to call the suit again, and he'll happily come and fix it for you. And by "fix", I mean he will just raze a whole part of the house and start randomly spitting it out again until he gets something that looks about right, and works about right. Of course, it may not really be a good fit for the rest of the house, but you don't want to pay for replacing the whole thing, do you? It may also introduce a completely new issues that will surface in a few months, but that's just how it is.
Welcome to the glorious world of #AI.
#NoAI #NoLLM #LLM
@cdarwin@c.im"Another Wasted Life.”
That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist
Rhiannon Giddens.
She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day.
The song was inspired by
Kalief Browder,
a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22
after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years,
after being falsely accused at the age of …
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGarmin launches the Cirqa Smart Band, a $200 screenless fitness tracker that monitors 80 activities with an up to 10 day battery life, to compete with Whoop (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotWhen I First Held You by Anstey Harris. I picked this up as it has a #Glasgow connection. It focuses on Judith, who has to give up her baby in the 60s, following a relationship with a man who was a fellow part of a group protesting against Faslane. We meet her in the modern day, widowed and hugely affected by events of the 60s but also very much making a life for herself when the legacy of those d…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @cdarwin@c.imIn the narrow alleyways of the historic center, the stone walls were sweating under the day's 40°C heat.
There was no sign of human life on the main street.
Metal shutters were down and wooden window blinds remained closed.
About 20 kilometers from Perpignan,
Ille-sur-Têt, a large rural village in Pyrénées-Orientales,
resembled a ghost town on Monday, July 6.
That morning, the local prefect renewed his evacuation order for the town's 5,900 resi…
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.socialEverybody dies some day. "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" provides practical handles on how to de-clutter your life, for your own benefit, and the ones who outlive you.
Useful to give this matter some thought timely. Written in a light an utilitarian style by Margareta Magnusson.
#book #goodread
@cdarwin@c.imBryan Johnson,
a 48 year old American entrepreneur,
has made headlines for his outlandish anti-ageing techniques
-- spending millions of dollars in a bid to extend his life
and reduce his biological age to that of an 18-year-old.
Johnson refers to his Benjamin Button-esque ways as
‘Project Blueprint’,
meticulously taking 54 supplements a day,
eating every meal between 6am and 11.30am,
and following a strict exercise regimen.
In 2023, …
@bici@mastodon.social"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free"
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @cdarwin@c.imAn employee of a company that runs an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Colorado is under arrest
after shooting and injuring a woman on Thursday evening.
The incident happened after the woman participated in a protest in front of the facility earlier that day,
according to the Aurora police department.
When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body.
She had a friend with her, who was …
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caIn the grand tapestry of life, it’s the moments shared with loved ones that truly define our journey. Take a moment today to appreciate those dear to you. It's these relationships and cherished memories that make every day worthwhile. As Churchill said, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
@cowboys@darktundra.xyza day-in-the-life of an NFL long snapper 📽️ | @Lenovo #DallasCowboys #dayinthelife #NFL #shorts
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Beatles:
🎵 A Day In The Life
#NowPlaying #TheBeatles
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caA little discouraged this afternoon as I spent part of the day adding extension wire into the 2nd pump as I had the first.
Two tries on both ends splicing in the cord and both times the pump fails to start with a low voltage on the pump-side error. 😢
Hate losing a day… but also unsure where the problem is. If it’s the pump, my splices, or the quality of the extension cord spliced into it (it is the other half of the same cord used to extend the first pump.) Really hope it is not the first! But the other two options suck too because it is an annoying job to do the splices.
Bummer.
Also after the foaming in, it looks like I still missed a significant gap somewhere. Only redirected about half the water. There is a lot more coming down to the end of the waterfall which is good. Still lots coming out the bottom under the flat rocks.
I think I am going to try splicing in a newer extension cord another day since that will kind of answer both the splicing and cord questions at once.
For now though, no extra bottom poolpond circulation/sprayers, just the main pump. And I still have 1.25 cans of foam to use, so I will plan for another day of foaming when I can take a super close second look at where the water is going that it shouldn’t.
Can’t all be successes. Like computer stuff 😝
Onward!
My outdoor office was fun tho. 😊
#poolpond #backyardProject
#diy #pondlife #success #failure #life
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioGive a man a fish in his hands and he eats for a day. Leave a man a fish in his pockets and "he stinks" for the rest of his life. 🐟
#saying #adaptation #fish #humor
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Beatles:
🎵 A Day in the Life
#TheBeatles
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Chris Cornell:
🎵 A Day In The Life - Live At The Royal Albert Hall - 2016
#ChrisCornell
https://open.spotify.com/track/0IRbbVLjTM8U5EtOiK21LZ
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The Beatles:
🎵 A Day In The Life
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