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@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
2026-01-21 08:46:16

Call for articles: Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture
Degrowth UK plans to run a series of articles as a stock-take of degrowth and ecosocialism worldwide. We envisage two types of contribution. 1) Short pieces (up to 2,000 words) summarising the situation with regard to degrowth thinking and practice at a country level (or for large countries at a more regional level). 2) Longer pieces (up to 5,000 words) reviewing the state of degrowth and ecosocialism in…

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-02-21 16:52:18

RE: vis.social/@infobeautiful/1161
A fun thing to think about: Where are all the Singularity people with solar?
There’s this whole pseudoscientific subculture organized around the one epistemological premise of “lines that go up will go up forever,” when in reality trends change and curves level off. And now here’s this one thing where people keep stubbornly predicting that it will level off and in fact the line (on a log scale) •has• kept going up far more consistently than predicted…. So why aren’t all the Effective Altruism people saying stuff like “In the future solar cells will save trillions of lives, so it doesn’t matter how many oil executives we kill in the present?”

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-03-20 14:32:18

Chuck Norris didn't die, we just weren't invited to the next level.
Hope he meets up with Bruce.
#rip #chucknorris

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-01-18 21:18:29

The EU is considering a two-step EU membership for Ukraine.
The first step/level would allow Ukraine to gain access to the EU market, subsidies, and development funds.
Not everyone is keen on the idea though:
unn.ua/en/news/eu-de…

@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
2026-01-05 19:11:01

Just swapped the 0.4mm nozzle of my 3D-Printer for a 0.2mm Nozzle. The level of detail and smoothness is stunning. Printing dust covers for USB A and C ports
#3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck

Two orange 3D-printed objects on a red surface. The left object seems to be coarser and lacking the level of detail the right object has. Both are USB A socket dust covers.
A 3d printed USB C dust covers still stuck on the printbed of a 3D printer. The printbed is a metal surface. The 3D object is an orange piece of plastic in a slender oval shape.
A hand holding a Flipper Zero electronic device. Showing the USB C charging port being covered with an orange plastic lid. The buttons of the Flipper Zero are also orange while the plastic case is black.
Close up of the front of a PC tower case. There are two USB A ports and a FireWire port. One USB port is covered with an orange plastic lid.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2026-03-08 19:41:19

Babi

Photo of a sleeping rescue cat with a clipped ear all scrunched up and tucked in on a bed. It's a level of comfy not often seen outside the womb.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2026-03-12 19:12:22

#TheGuardian article on "Why is #smoking so addictive – and what are the best ways to give up?"
”people often claim they feel better when they have a cigarette, but that’s a misunderstanding of what happens. Smoking basically brings you back to the baseline level you should…

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-12-28 01:15:15

On the Side II 🆓
在边缘 II 🆓
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (FF)

English Alt Text: A close-up black and white photograph of  a curved metal surface, possibly part of a fence or gate. Above a thin wire loops gently. In the blurred background, two cars—one white and one dark—are parked, adding urban context. The delicate form contrasts with the hard metal and modern vehicles, highlighting nature’s quiet presence in a busy city.

中文替代文字:
这是一张黑白特写照片,拍摄了一个弯曲的金属表面上,可能是围栏或大门的一部分。上方有一根细线轻轻地环绕着。背景模糊,隐约可见一辆白色和一辆深色汽车,增添了城市氛围。柔软的形态与坚硬的金属和现代车辆形成…
Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (FF)

English Alt Text: A black and white image showing a group of metallic shopping carts nested together beside a large plastic trash bin labeled “BRUTE.” The carts are aligned in a corner, suggesting they’ve been returned after use. Behind them, a wall is painted with abstract curved shapes, adding visual interest. The scene captures a mundane yet essential part of retail life, framed in a stark monochrome tone.

中文替代文字:
这是一张黑白照片,展示了一组金属购物车整齐地嵌套在一起,旁边是一个标有“BRUTE”的大型塑料垃圾桶。…
Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (FF)

English Alt Text: A black and white photo of a metal staircase with open risers, allowing light to cast shadows below. Railings run along both sides. To the right, a motorcycle is partially visible, parked in a shaded area. In the foreground, a concrete structure bears a triangular warning sign. The interplay of light and shadow adds drama to the industrial setting, emphasizing texture and geometry.

中文替代文字:
这是一张黑白照片,描绘了一座金属楼梯,楼梯踏板之间留有空隙,使光线能够穿透并在地面投下阴影。楼梯两侧设有栏杆。右侧阴影处停…
Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (FF)

English Alt Text: A black and white photo of a complex urban scene featuring multiple elevated highways crossing above a street-level area. Beneath the overpasses, cars and motorcycles are parked in a lot. A pedestrian walkway with railings runs along the left side, leading upward toward the elevated structures. The concrete pillars and layered roads dominate the composition, creating a sense of scale and depth. The monochrome palette emphasizes the contrast between th…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-02-11 17:51:16

hmm they are going to renovate the tour montparnasse
and the architect’s renders have plants growing high up on the outside of the building
i bet it’ll end up much less green
much like the ground level square where they have replaced the existing lawns with featureless concrete

architect’s render of renovated tour montparnasse: the dark brown windows replaced by mirrored glass (which is very bad for birds); the lower floors are implausibly green, and they have plopped a huge multistorey greenhouse on top
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-03-02 13:51:44

European gas price now up 48% since Friday!
And Dutch gas storages at a very low level (10% filled).
But: no incentive at all for commercial companies to start filling up again: prices throughout the year are higher than those for next winter. If we want the storages filled, governments need to act.

Gas TTF price graph for today, starting at €39 per MWh (+21% on Friday) and jumping at 11:49 towards the current €47.
@rberger@hachyderm.io
2026-03-04 21:44:40

“The barrier to creating software has genuinely dropped. That is not hype. What it means for professional engineers is not that their skills are less valuable, but that the skills that matter have shifted up the stack, as they have in every previous transition.
The developers who thrived after the move from assembly to C were not the ones who could write the most clever assembly. They were the ones who understood what the machine needed to do and could express that intent clearly in a higher-level language. The developers who thrived after the move to managed languages and frameworks were not the ones most resistant to garbage collection. They were the ones who saw the freed-up cognitive capacity as an opportunity to solve harder problems.
The developers who will thrive in the agentic era are the ones who understand this as another step in the same arc and invest accordingly. Not in resisting the tools. Not in deferring to them uncritically. In developing the judgment, clarity, and systems thinking that make the tools maximally effective.
That means writing better specs. Investing in test infrastructure. Developing genuine architectural understanding rather than surface familiarity. Building the taste to evaluate output rigorously. Practicing problem decomposition until it becomes second nature.
The era of programming as primarily a keystroke activity is over. The era of programming as primarily a thinking and judgment activity has been accelerating for decades and just shifted into a higher gear.”
#AITransition
#
addyosmani.com/blog/factory-mo

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-03-01 19:25:42

While Starmer and the far right condone USAsrael
'Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Iranians "deserve to live free from a brutal regime", but Trump's "unilateral and illegal military action won't deliver freedom, peace and security".'
'Referencing reports that a strike had hit a girls' school and killed dozens, Green Party leader Zack Polanski said "This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-01-15 13:00:21

"Experts say oceans soaked up record heat levels in 2025"
#Oceans #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-31 21:25:26

I also see that misguided narrative in the people who still (but increasingly rarely) dredge up stats about how many Obama- and Biden-era deportations there were, thinking it’s some kind of mic drop, thinking that deportations are the whole of the evil here, an evil we can just tally up with a bean counter.
And to be clear: those deportations •were• inhumane and evil. US treatment of immigrants has been morally intolerable since long before I was born. I need you to know that I know that when I tell you that this is a whole other level.
9/

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-02-28 19:54:06

Forgive me but who began this war?
"Earlier, the PM released a joint statement with the leaders of France and Germany, calling for Iran to "refrain from indiscriminate military strikes"."
UK planes 'are in the sky' in Middle East, Starmer says - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/ar…