2025-11-05 14:00:09
"Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change"
#Education #Climate #ClimateChange
"Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change"
#Education #Climate #ClimateChange
Different Corners V ▶️
不同的角落 V ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Google's proposed Epic settlement includes reduced app store fees globally and a new program for alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/813991/epic-google-proposed-settlement…
Journalists really want prime ministers to change every 10 minutes. I like #bbcpaddy very much on #BBCBroadcsstingHouse, but even he can't rescue the wreck that #BBCNewsnight has become, I…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115835690251372850
Fascinating chart of the decrease in Stack Overflow questions … and fascinating thread of replies. The answer seems a bit more complex for Stack Overflow… their change in moderation policy in 2023 a…
Some positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.
I just tagged release 3.8.0 of Crell/ApiProblem, providing full support for RFC 9457 messages!
The only change of note in this release is dropping support for PHP versions older than 8.3. There's scarce few users on older versions, but there are new error constants to support, so it's easier to just bump the version requirement.
Have at!
https…
"Zohran Mamdani is not a symbol of socialism, or communism as Trump says, those boogeymen which fill the hearts of many Americans with terror. He’s something more powerful than that. His cry is: we don’t have to do things like we used to do. Everything can change. And it’s a message of hope that can resonate everywhere"
https://
Sportswriters at WaPo say they spent the last two years seeking guidance for reinvention from top editors, but never saw leaders support visionary ideas (Bryan Curtis/The Ringer)
https://www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-sports-department-d…
👼 Stringent climate policies could offer major health and economic gains by 2030
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-stringent-climate-policies-major-health.html
RE: https://newsie.social/@Tendar/115833199614876660
Perhaps because it was about oil and regime change?
And the "please, please, please, speak about ANYTHING but Epstein, please" factor?
🤔
"The attack on January 3 is not the first against Venezuela. In fact, the pressure campaign began in 2001 when the government of Hugo Chavez enacted a Hydrocarbons Law in accordance with the sovereignty provisions in the Bolivarian Constitution of 1999."
Trump’s regime change bid in Caracas follows 25 years of strangling #Venezuela | Morning Star
Wow, #youtube no longer allows me to change the playback speed of videos unless I pay up. Is that feature turned off for everybody now or just for those of us who use an ad blocker?
#enshittification
Walmart Precision Bombing
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNJlzKWSKob/
If I could change anything about my life I would go back in time and save the email my junior year's college adjunct professor send to the class at 3am:
"Wow there are a lot of Jennifers in this class"
I think he said one other thing..... but that was the gist of the email.
the future is not a countdown — https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-future-is-not-a-countdown?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
It's also probably worth bumping this post again:
https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/115832532498655940
I boosted the parent yesterday, but it's worth visiting again.
We are not powerless. There are things we can do. We don't have to shut down the whole thing all at once right now to make a positive change, but we do have to shut the whole thing down soon if we're going to survive.
Every act of resistance is important, no matter how small. We have lots of strategies, and we should support as many of them as possible.
"Researchers slightly lower study's estimate of drop in global income due to climate change"
#Climate #ClimateChange
Hydrogen, das war einmal.
A name change heralds the end of hopes for hydrogen as a mainstream mobility solution for Germany.
https://www.now-gmbh.de/en/news/pressreleases/driven-by-change-now-enters-2026-with-a-new-name-and-logo/…
I have long hated Donald Trump with every fiber of my being, and despise his enablers no end. So this new hellscape doesn’t change my perception of him and his administration but it does make me actually nauseous.
RE: https://detmi.social/@coreyjrowe/115771308543833824
As Metro Detroit goes to sleep, the transit data cutover team behind the curtain gets to work. Happy service change day!!
> But buried inside the newest batch of files related to the Epstein investigation is a possible hint as to what made [4chan founder] Poole change his mind. He met with Epstein the day before /pol/ was created.
https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-t…
I was trying to install TouchDesigner on my laptop, and got a pop-up about it not being a Microsoft-verified app when I double-clicked on the executable.
When I went to change the app recommendation settings, I see that it set itself to only install apps from the Microsoft store. I immediately changed it back, but I've never seen this before. 🫠
TouchDesigner is one of the few apps keeping me on Win10, and it can't even let it install in peace...
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds #Africa
RABcasts: Industry Leaders Exploring Global Change
Join Dr Suresh de Silva, Sydney radiologist and founder of global charity Radiology Across Borders, for a series of conversations with health and other industry leaders...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/rabcas
AMC is now Open Access!
As of January 1, 2026, all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.
#AMC
So yesterday the Trump administration rolled back fuel efficiency mandates set under Biden that it says are too costly for vehicle manufacturers to meet. They (the administration) claim that they expect the change to reduce the cost of a new car by around $1000.
So yeah, let's dissect that for a minute. First off, I have no illusions that new car prices are going to fall at all, let alone by $1000. That just isn't happening. But that's also a moot point because, you know, t…
A major concept guides the Missionaria Protectiva: Purposeful instruction of the masses. This is firmly seated in our belief that the aim of argument should be to change the nature of truth. In such matters, we prefer the use of power rather than force.
—The Coda
#dunequotes
Blog Roll and Podcast Roll
I have been meaning to do this for a while. Finally, @… made me do it.
I added a blog roll and a podcast roll to this site.
Both pages will be updated as my subscriptions change … if I remember.
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An interview with Laura Poitras about her new film, Cover-Up, which examines the career of Seymour Hersh and the role of investigative journalism (A.J. Goldmann/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/cover-up-laura-poitras-invest…
Happy Everything Breaks Day! The day when all the major tech companies lift their change freezes and deploy to production for the first time in weeks.
#tech #software #programming
wonder how many people who repeatedly interact with me actually get that im the same person as before with how much i change my pfp lol
Als regime change een valide reden is voor de start van een oorlog tegen een ander land, nou dan zouden er ook maar eens wat landen de VS en Rusland moeten aanvallen.
Is #fineart immoral? I’ve heard the argument that the only moral way to make a living as an artist is to do pornography and character commissions (since it doesn’t help the rich or a corporation). Unfortunately, I’m not overly interested in making porn or exclusively doing comms.
I’ve considered graphic design, but that involves corporations.
Do I have to change my interests to rema…
@…
With regard to the comment in your profile; with mastodon you’re less (not fewer for a change) likely to wake up with a soggy pillow.
"2025 was one of three hottest years on record, scientists say"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://phy…
“All my life I’ve wanted to ‘see’ into the soil,” he said. “Maybe now we can.”
Cheap “soilsmology” can apparently let farmers find out what's going on in their soil without disruptive coring or plowing. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/<…
always wild to see folks keep saying "this protest will not end a war so I won't do it".
I'm not going to pretend I go to enough protests but small incremental change is rarely fun, satisfying, or immediately evident.
»Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days:
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.«
The @… halving the validity of the keys makes the web more secure (not more anonymous).
🔐
I always love it when I make part 1 general enough that all I have to do for part 2 is change a parameter. #gleam
I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer-vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ai-change
Man we are so living in the future. I just had an insanely productive session with AI agent. Code written mostly by the agent and me just guiding it through what I need. It's incredible.
Over Thanksgiving I was talking to a relative about the AI and they were saying how it WILL all change our lives. I couldn't help but think how much it ALREADY has changed our lives and we just take all the changes for granted. It's here. It's doing it.
"‘Emotional traps’ and fake experts: How to spot climate disinformation in 2026"
#Climate #ClimateChange
"Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers"
#RDM
This morning, President Trump unilaterally launched a regime-change war against Nicolšs Maduro of Venezuela,
ordering strikes on multiple military targets in the country and seizing its leader and his wife.
They were “captured and flown out of the country,” Trump stated on Truth Social.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated,
in something like an inversion of the notion that jus…
Quarto Manuscript makes me almost want to write scientific articles again. This could potentially change the process quite a lot. But maybe there is also a good use for it in internal project reports. https://quarto.org/docs/manuscripts/
David #Lammy,
“Trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea.”
And,
<<I have principles. If they are inconvenient, I have others,>>
Why is the UK scaling back jury trials, and why is it controversial? | Civil Rights News | Al Jazeera
‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has outlined her political philosophy in this book whose first edition appeared last year. She argues that there is a distinctive Green political philosophy, distinct from but sharing many characteristics with…
Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need. Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need. Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need … 🎹
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/make-music-change-lives-software
#ClimateChange in the UK: ‘Homes may have to be abandoned’.
Not because of future developments, but because of the impact climate change is already heaving https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/31/climate-crisis-flood-risk-britain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
10 Ways Psychedelics Can Change Your Perspective Forever! | Tools for the Void 6 -100
#Psychedelic
Si on ne change rien, 79 % des glaciers mondiaux auront disparu d'ici 2100, mettant en péril l'approvisionnement en eau de 2 milliards de personnes et provoquant une élévation spectaculaire du niveau des mers.
#climat
MicroSucks STOP WITH THE CHANGES! I had Word showing one page as my default view. Today it switched to multiple pages. I DIDN'T GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO CHANGE THAT SETTING.
Small change, but one I should not need to make! I think they are annoyed that I changed from Edge to Firefox.
Also, annoyance is that in SharePoint using Firefox I MUST sign in every site I open. Massive (middle) finger pointing right now.
A morning of continuing professional development (CPD) in the office, as I dial in to a professional practice webinar run by one of my favourite psychologists.
Nice to be on the other end of the learning experience for a change!
CTU Winter Shapiro Lecture on Zoom: Rewilding the Tree of Life - Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change
https://ift.tt/9gSe2DU
Member book announcement: Slaymaker, _Wild Lines and Poetic Travels, a Keijiro Suga Reader_ …
via Input 4 RELCFP
Want Iran to get the bomb? Try regime change | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-iran-regime-change/
I keep thinking of something I've read years ago:
"Innovation is not the same as progress"
Progress implies a change forward, improvement, for the better.
Innovation is just change for the sake of change. Something new, not necessarily better.
Progress is hard, innovating is much easier.
Just watched a video on how Windows 11 can interfere with dual-boot setups in different ways, with the larger, overarching insight that Windows is doing its best to lock us in.
I feel that, as with climate change, we are at this crossroads but here with our privacy rights. The big companies want us to let go of our privacy and lock ourselves within their systems so we can be spied on in the best way, to feed us as much ads as possible and make us dependent on them (e.g. with "genAI"). …
A quiet change in everyday foods could save thousands of lives #nutrition
An average "true" Pole: There is no climate change! Global warming is bullshit!
Also said Pole: surprised pikachu face that snow fell in the middle of winter.
#Poland
"Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050"
#Africa #Climate #ClimateChange
Different Corners ▶️
不同的角落 ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
For Love & Money
A show where business and social purpose meet to inspire a movement for positive change – business as a force for good; brands driving profit through purpose...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/for-love-money/
Rust JS Tooling 2025: Why Biome, Oxc, and Rolldown Change Everything
Explore how Rust-powered tools like Biome.js and Rolldown are delivering 10x performance gains and revolutionizing the JavaScript ecosystem in 2025.
— by @…
🦀
🍋🟩 ‘Garden of Eden’: the Spanish farm growing citrus you’ve never heard of
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/16/garden-of-eden-the-spanish-farm-growing-citrus-youve-never-heard-of
"Hague orders Dutch government to protect residents on this sinking island from climate change"
#Netherlands #Climate #ClimateChange
How to talk about climate change with children!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_8ZOouZgU
All immigration officers on the ground in Minneapolis will be equipped with body cameras, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said on Monday.
Ms. Noem said that the change would be effective immediately and that the program would be expanded nationwide “as funding is available.”
“We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country,” she said in a social media post.
The announcement came in response to concern and outrage among…
"Don’t eat meat or drive a car: Are lifestyle-targeted climate policies eroding our green values?"
#Climate #ClimateChange
India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
Petition · Stop the closure - Save Chorlton's last bank! - Manchester, United Kingdom ·
#Chorlton
UK's Ofcom is reviewing multiple complaints against GB News over not challenging Trump's assertions, including that climate change is "a hoax", in an interview (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec
"Climate change made Australian heat wave 5 times more likely"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange
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‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/12/01/change-everything-natalie-bennetts-green-philosophy-a-review/
Habitat destruction, illegal trade threaten Sri Lanka’s endangered agamid lizards https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/habitat-destruction-illegal-trade-threaten-sri-lankas-endangered-agamid-lizards/
"Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds"
#Africa #Trees #Environment #Climate
Critical minerals dropped from final text at COP30
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/critical-minerals-dropped-from-final-text-at-cop30/
🌽 The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/03/environment-corn-farming-trump-administration
A Google support page in Hindi says the company plans to roll out an option to let users change their Gmail addresses while retaining all data and services (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/24/google-change-gmail-addresses/
"Solar energy protects German vineyards from climate change"
#Germany #Climate #ClimateChange #SolarPower
Peter Steinberger rebrands his AI agent project to OpenClaw, its second name change after Anthropic forced a shift from Clawdbot to Moltbot (Ron Schmelzer/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/01/30/mo…
Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data (Nadeem Badshah/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/
"UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #Landfill
"Report: Climate change to become world’s biggest driver of nature loss by 2050"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Nature
"Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies"
#Australia #Emissions #Climate
"Guardian Essential poll: only a quarter of older Australians believe climate change can be prevented"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange
"Climate change is shrinking children’s height - and humidity is making things worse"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Children
"Climate change links Tibetan lakes to Yangtze River, fueling flood risks"
#Tibetan #Climate #ClimateChange
"Which European countries will heatwaves hit hardest by 2100?"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange