peter sabaini
@peter.sabaini.at
Techie, herbivore, climate worrier. Er/he
Works in open source by day, for https://klimavolksbegehren.at by night
Mastodon: https://ful.social/@peter
Works in open source by day, for https://klimavolksbegehren.at by night
Mastodon: https://ful.social/@peter
Theres good stuff I try to do more of.
There's bad stuff that I mostly try to avoid but which I can at least *somehow* relate too -- speeding, getting blind drunk, drugs, ...
There's bad stuff that I mostly try to avoid but which I can at least *somehow* relate too -- speeding, getting blind drunk, drugs, ...
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Theres good stuff I try to do more of.
There's bad stuff that I mostly try to avoid but which I can at least *somehow* relate too -- speeding, getting blind drunk, drugs, ...
There's bad stuff that I mostly try to avoid but which I can at least *somehow* relate too -- speeding, getting blind drunk, drugs, ...
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"Beyond Bill Gates’s “Soft Denial” Ahead of the #COP30: Why Technological Fixes Alone Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis" by Rakibul Hasan Khan for #CounterCurrents: countercurrents.org/2025/11/beyo...
Beyond Bill Gates’s “Soft Denial” Ahead of the COP30: Why Technological Fixes Alone Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis | Countercurrents
The UN Climate Change Conference 2025, COP30, is set to convene in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to 21, bringing together some 50,000 participants from around the world. While this gathering is…
countercurrents.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Beyond Bill Gates’s “Soft Denial” Ahead of the #COP30: Why Technological Fixes Alone Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis" by Rakibul Hasan Khan for #CounterCurrents: countercurrents.org/2025/11/beyo...
Guess I'm not the only nerd out there that decided to go on a password cleanup spree these days.
🚨 2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned
by Troy Hunt
#HaveIBeenPwned #LeakedPasswords #Security #TroyHunt
www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-em...
by Troy Hunt
#HaveIBeenPwned #LeakedPasswords #Security #TroyHunt
www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-em...
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Guess I'm not the only nerd out there that decided to go on a password cleanup spree these days.
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It was hard to navigate between the gradual tech salvation that most people at the national level believe in and the hard climate science application or activism. Climate work in the regions is more tangible, but also backed by analysis about sufficiency.
theconversation.com/why-even-pro...
theconversation.com/why-even-pro...
Why even pro-climate action organisations may pull in different directions
Experts explain the tension between stability and politicisation in climate governance.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It was hard to navigate between the gradual tech salvation that most people at the national level believe in and the hard climate science application or activism. Climate work in the regions is more tangible, but also backed by analysis about sufficiency.
theconversation.com/why-even-pro...
theconversation.com/why-even-pro...
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DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf
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🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings.
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings.
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
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The Central Committee of the Communist Party lays out the key directions and priorities for China for the next five years. It reaffirms the importance of clean energy for China's energy, economic and industrial policy, but raises concerns about commitment to 2030 climate targets.
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The Central Committee of the Communist Party lays out the key directions and priorities for China for the next five years. It reaffirms the importance of clean energy for China's energy, economic and industrial policy, but raises concerns about commitment to 2030 climate targets.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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Europe cares less and less about Ukraine. It's not only sad but also strategically dumb.
bsky.app/profile/kyiv...
bsky.app/profile/kyiv...
⚡️Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says.
Military aid to Ukraine has fallen dramatically in recent months, a report by the Kiel Institute published on Oct. 14 has found.
Military aid to Ukraine has fallen dramatically in recent months, a report by the Kiel Institute published on Oct. 14 has found.
Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says
In July and August, total military aid to Ukraine fell 43% lower than the amount received in the first half of the year, a report by the Kiel Institute finds.
kyivindependent.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Europe cares less and less about Ukraine. It's not only sad but also strategically dumb.
bsky.app/profile/kyiv...
bsky.app/profile/kyiv...
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a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
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i think "TACO" now is actually totally wrong. it's not that Trump chickens out. it's that maintaining a tariff regime requires object permanence
October 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
i think "TACO" now is actually totally wrong. it's not that Trump chickens out. it's that maintaining a tariff regime requires object permanence
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“For the past 2 decades, scientists have…landed on the same takeaways—esp. that rich countries must shift their diets to be more plant-based. But that message has, with few exceptions, failed to incite action by governments and food companies, or even the environmental movement itself.” #EatLancet
The rich must eat less meat
Scientists say rich countries need to eat a lot less meat. Will the environmental movement finally listen?
www.vox.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“For the past 2 decades, scientists have…landed on the same takeaways—esp. that rich countries must shift their diets to be more plant-based. But that message has, with few exceptions, failed to incite action by governments and food companies, or even the environmental movement itself.” #EatLancet
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Get a heat pump, get a job installing insulation or selling EVs, go to local council meetings in support of bike lanes or solar parks or dense housing near public transport. Run for political office, or at least vote. Recommend flight-free holiday destinations to others. (Delete as applicable).
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Get a heat pump, get a job installing insulation or selling EVs, go to local council meetings in support of bike lanes or solar parks or dense housing near public transport. Run for political office, or at least vote. Recommend flight-free holiday destinations to others. (Delete as applicable).
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Climate people, did the fossil fuel industry seed and propagate the idea that renewables (specifically batteries) require materials, which require mining, which is bad (so implicitly we should just run on fossil fuels forever)? It's just striking to me how devoutly people repeat it unexamined....
September 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Climate people, did the fossil fuel industry seed and propagate the idea that renewables (specifically batteries) require materials, which require mining, which is bad (so implicitly we should just run on fossil fuels forever)? It's just striking to me how devoutly people repeat it unexamined....
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Imagine saying this out loud to a room full of people, like it is a good thing.
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Imagine saying this out loud to a room full of people, like it is a good thing.
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I dare the US administration to declare @fcbayernmunich.bsky.social a terrorist organisation.
"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.
September 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I dare the US administration to declare @fcbayernmunich.bsky.social a terrorist organisation.
Austrian social democrats don't care about #climate. They say they do but they really don't.
Ah, nicht nur ökologisch und verkehrsplanerisch ein Unsinn, sondern juristisch zumindest fraglich. Was bleibt? Die Lust zu betonieren? Shame on you, @spoe.at
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Mit dem grünen Licht für den Lobautunnel setzt Hanke auf Risiko
Mit dem Baubeginn für einen Abschnitt der Wiener Nordostumfahrung schafft der Verkehrsminister Fakten. Dabei sind für den Tunnel noch Verfahren anhängig
www.derstandard.at
September 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Austrian social democrats don't care about #climate. They say they do but they really don't.
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There's been a tonne of interesting stuff to read on China's green export boom, developmental green industrial policy & even US energy transition politics in the past couple weeks; here is an annotated list from me & @70sbachchan.bsky.social
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Many good things to read
The tipping point on energy in China, maybe the US?
buttondown.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
There's been a tonne of interesting stuff to read on China's green export boom, developmental green industrial policy & even US energy transition politics in the past couple weeks; here is an annotated list from me & @70sbachchan.bsky.social
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
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For those who emphasise the so-called ESG backlash in Europe or America, this is a timely reminder that sustainability is a global movement meeting global challenges. Thank-you @wblau.bsky.social.
In case you find yourself thinking that somehow all sustainability regulation was being rolled back. It isn't. And the US is the outlier. Enormous dynamism and regulatory innovation across Asia. This is from The Brunswick Group's quarterly sustainability radar. For the full report, contact me.
September 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
For those who emphasise the so-called ESG backlash in Europe or America, this is a timely reminder that sustainability is a global movement meeting global challenges. Thank-you @wblau.bsky.social.
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The climate impacts of fossil fuel CO₂ will last longer than nuclear waste.
July 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The climate impacts of fossil fuel CO₂ will last longer than nuclear waste.
It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion // It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed
September 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion // It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed
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Imagine making this point about, say, climate investments, arguing how it'll have outsized societal and economy-wide returns, and that we should stop worrying about climate tech's returns on investments, which, in any case, we're measuring wrong.
This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters.
www.wsj.com/articles/sto...
www.wsj.com/articles/sto...
September 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Imagine making this point about, say, climate investments, arguing how it'll have outsized societal and economy-wide returns, and that we should stop worrying about climate tech's returns on investments, which, in any case, we're measuring wrong.
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“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
September 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods