Remen Eramasi
@remeneramasi.bsky.social
Powered by the engineered nutrition of six kinds of apples. Word rotator. Anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist, anti-Nazi, anti-Republican, anti-Zionist. Pro justice, democracy, equality, freedom, human rights, kimchi, tacos. Ethically non-polyamorous.
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.
Would-be Guthries need to recall and reflect on a certain slogan once famously stuck on a guitar.
September 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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.
Would-be Guthries need to recall and reflect on a certain slogan once famously stuck on a guitar.
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In 2020, Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative by 2030.
In 2024, Microsoft emissions are up by 30% compared to 2020.
In 2024, Microsoft emissions are up by 30% compared to 2020.
Microsoft’s AI Push Imperils Climate Goal as Carbon Emissions Jump 30%
The company’s goal to be carbon negative by 2030 is harder to reach, but President Brad Smith says the good AI can do for the world will outweigh its environmental impact.
www.bloomberg.com
August 15, 2024 at 5:28 AM
In 2020, Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative by 2030.
In 2024, Microsoft emissions are up by 30% compared to 2020.
In 2024, Microsoft emissions are up by 30% compared to 2020.
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"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_...
www.ted.com/talks/johan_...
The tipping points of climate change — and where we stand
We're nearly halfway through the 2020s, dubbed the most decisive decade for action on climate change. Where exactly do things stand? Climate impact scholar Johan Rockström offers the most up-to-date s...
www.ted.com
August 15, 2024 at 3:48 PM
"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_...
www.ted.com/talks/johan_...
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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.
August 10, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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.
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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.
Inspired by the Ontario government shutting down the crucial Wastewater Surveillance Initiative on July 31, 2024.
August 7, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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.
Inspired by the Ontario government shutting down the crucial Wastewater Surveillance Initiative on July 31, 2024.
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"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...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Ussama Makdisi, Overwriting Palestine — Sidecar
The complicity of the academy.
newleftreview.org
August 8, 2024 at 5:56 AM
"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...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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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
August 5, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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
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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.
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.
August 2, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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.
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.
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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...
* 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...
What should you do if you’re still testing positive for COVID-19 after day 10?
How to interpret your at-home rapid antigen COVID-19 test results.
www.today.com
August 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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...
* 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...
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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 🧪
How Extreme Heat Harms Planes, Trains, Water Mains and Other Crucial Infrastructure
Scorching temperatures are further burdening an already-troubled infrastructure system across much of the U.S. in ways people are still learning to recognize
www.scientificamerican.com
August 2, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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 🧪
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students aren’t primarily future workers or ideological bots, they’re ends in themselves
August 2, 2024 at 1:49 PM
students aren’t primarily future workers or ideological bots, they’re ends in themselves
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(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)
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)
July 28, 2024 at 9:54 AM
(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)
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)
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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.
Kyiv is now experiencing severe, continuous power outages as a result of Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
July 28, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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.
Kyiv is now experiencing severe, continuous power outages as a result of Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
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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.
Last year, renewables accounted for nearly 86 percent of new electricity capacity worldwide.
July 20, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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.
Last year, renewables accounted for nearly 86 percent of new electricity capacity worldwide.
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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.
"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.
China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts
We no longer need to model for when cell prices drop far enough to decarbonize road transport. That day is here.
www.bloomberg.com
July 9, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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.
"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.
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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...
www.kjzz.org/news/2024-07...
NASA map shows temperatures up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets, sidewalks
Data from June 19, when the daily high was 106 degrees, shows asphalt across the city that day was between 120 and 160 degrees.
www.kjzz.org
July 8, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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...
www.kjzz.org/news/2024-07...
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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
Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.
July 1, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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
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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.
July 1, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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.
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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.
June 27, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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.
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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.
June 26, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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.