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Fix things. Be a Lorax. Challenge disinformers. Own your data and defend others'. Join your Green Party. Run Debian.
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From Steven Donziger @sdonziger.bsky.social

Musk’s $277 million “investment” in the Trump campaign allowed him to ingratiate himself to the inner circle. His net worth has since risen $170 billion to $455 billion — a roughly 600x rate of return.
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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From Jim Means on Fazebuk.
Back in 2016, I posted this graph of global temperature by year. at that time 2016 was by far the warmest year ever. I thought I'd post again, showing the graph updated for the present. What seemed so impressively hot in 2016 has been blown away by recent years. The Earth just keeps getting hotter and hotter... Two graphs showing the yearly temperatures overlaid, and the most recent are the warmest.
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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January 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Merry Christmas. Have an easter egg on me.
The book of Mozilla is one of the great software easter eggs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla
December 22, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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Permafrost thaws, releasing iron that stimulates bacteria that release metallic poisons into streams. Exposed pyrite acidifies the water. Seen in google earth across the Yukon and British Columbia.
"North America's Ongoing, Ignored Disaster"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxfp...
Acid rock drainage.
Sketch shows an active layer of soil above a permafrost layer. Water seeps thorugh the active layer, activating bacteria that release poisons. Meanwhile pyrite exposed in the active layer by melting reacts with the water and acidifies it. Resulting destruction resembles acid mine waste.
December 1, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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The official history of Silicon Valley is more false than true.
Elon Musk's parents own about half of the biggest emerald mine in South Africa Bill Gates' grandpa owned a bank and his mom used her connections on the board of IBM's law firm to get Microsoft's first deal with IBM. Jeff Bezos got $250K seed money from his wealthy parents Self made billionaires are a myth. Wealth is mostly hereditary.
November 30, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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Bike party!
November 19, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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Resist planned obsolescence. MSFT ending Wndoz10 will send 100millions of perfectly good PCs to the dump.
Save yours with free software. debian.org
Many choices. https//distrowatch.com
short essay argues against tiny PCs, in favor of bulkier, but user serviceable home and office computers. User serviceability keeps e-junk out of landfills.
November 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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Is your figure adjusted for the annual zig zag?
October 22, 2023 at 8:52 PM
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Remember that time when Obama got the "97% of scientists thing" wrong? It was 97% of >climate experts< (not all scientists), way back in 2010. I like Powell 2019 but Anderegg et al 2010 is still the best source for the 97% figure.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
cartoon of 97 scientists in green, two in grey, one in red
August 26, 2023 at 2:21 AM
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Western hemisphere video from space, true color, last 24 hours. Swirling hurricanes!
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=60
Screen grab as the video rolled. Sunrise in the Rockies. Smoky Canada and Brazil. Hurricane hitting Baja. Dust blowing off the Sahara.
August 20, 2023 at 5:39 PM
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In an age of disposable appliances protected from repair by special parts and tools, fight the machine by fixing your machines!

"The Right to Repair Is Law in Minnesota. California Should Be Next" (EFF blog)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/right-repair-law-minnesota-california-should-be-next
Repairing a broken fan. Nylon cable ties and wire cutters. The mounting post that failed was much weaker than the rest of the plastic body. Planned failure.
August 20, 2023 at 5:24 PM