Chagrined to see one of my fave uppen-comin' socially conscious folksingin' music guys uploaded a hasty heartfelt song lamenting the recent murder of a prominent Christian white nationalist fascist.

Would-be Guthries need to recall and reflect on a certain slogan once famously stuck on a guitar.

In 2020, Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative by 2030.

In 2024, Microsoft emissions are up by 30% compared to 2020.

"We earth/climate scientists are getting seriously nervous. Abrupt changes & an acceleration of warming are occurring. We need exponential change, at speed & scale: rapid transitions away from fossil fuels & towards circular business models + healthy diets."
www.ted.com/talks/johan_...

Many people complain about the Canadian health care system for good reason, but when I had pains today and thought I was having a heart attack I hit the local hospital, in minutes got x-rays, blood work, EKG, the works. A muscle spasm, I am fine. The only bill I got: Parking.

I have created wwater.ca to provide graphs of #COVID19, RSV, and flu levels in regions across #Canada using the Government of Canada's #wastewater initiative data.

Inspired by the Ontario government shutting down the crucial Wastewater Surveillance Initiative on July 31, 2024.

"It is extraordinary that to date not a single US university has officially condemned the genocide in Gaza – or, at the very least, the systematic Israeli destruction of universities there."

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Weird how it’s not socially acceptable to go around punching strangers in the face but it’s now considered totally fine to give them covid

Actually democratizing art would mean making it easier for people to acquire the skill they want in art.

Which would look like free college. Or free continuing adult education.

More time off.

Universal healthcare.

The foundations that allow the freedom to pursue our various happinesses.

Lots of people have Covid right now so just as a PSA:

* A rapid test essentially measures how much virus is in your nose right now.

* If you’re positive on a rapid test, you’re producing a lot of virus. Good to assume you’re contagious. Maybe less so at the end.

www.today.com/health/healt...

The built environment was not built for climate change. Here's how extreme heat is disrupting trains, planes, bridges, hospitals, water mains & more www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... by @meghanbartels.bsky.social 🧪

(Ganked from @neilk@xoxo.zone on Mastodon, who seems not to be on Bsky)

Here's calcgpt.io, a calculator that uses an LLM to do math

(Point your glassy-eyed AI true believers here and watch them burble incoherently as they try to explain it away)

For as little as $5 – the cost of two hours of fuel for our generator – you can help power our work.

Kyiv is now experiencing severe, continuous power outages as a result of Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

Renewable energy still supplies less of the world’s electricity than fossil fuels do, but it’s being built at a rate that far outpaces the construction of non-renewable forms of energy.

Last year, renewables accounted for nearly 86 percent of new electricity capacity worldwide.

This will be an interesting day to reflect on in the future.

"Battery cells at $50/kWh means the technology to decarbonize most of road transport globally is already here, as opposed to in some future scenario."

EVs are cheaper than ICE now. Today.

A new NASA map shows temperatures of up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets and sidewalks. All that unrelenting concrete and asphalt for cars. Not nearly enough trees. They start with ridiculous heat that’s only getting worse, and then make it much worse with bad design.
www.kjzz.org/news/2024-07...

life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t

Today in 1998, Atomic Audit was published, becoming the first and only comprehensive, cumulative accounting of the full costs of US nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs. Back then, we conservatively estimated total spending at nearly $5.5 trillion (1996 dollars). It now exceeds $12 trillion.

A useful word that isn’t used enough is “democide.” Democide is the mass murder of a demographic group who are not a racial or ethnic group (“genocide.”) So for example the mass murder of queer or disabled people is democide. It can be a helpful word to disambiguate when both are taking place.

Those of us who know how much money we have, who *have* to know how much we can spend, experience money in a categorically different way than the ultra-wealthy. They have a tool they can wield for any purpose, in the shape of money. All that matters is what they want to do with it.