'Around 2,500 pickup trucks and SUVs...are sitting unused'
'Sources indicate the vehicles, which feature large presidential seal and ICE branding, are impractical for the agency's primary stated purpose of arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants.'
www.jalopnik.com/2119795/ice-...
Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? #ai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bei...
We are doomed.
Nuorisobarometrin tuloksiin liittyen. Viime aikoina useat yhteiskuntaopin opettajat ja muut kasvatustieteilijät olleet yhteydessä @bios.fi ja kiitelleet ekologisen jälleenrakennuksen -aloitteen olemassaolosta. Että on edes joku yhteisöllisyyteen nojaava esimerkki aikamme haasteisiin tarttumisesta.
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
Today, Macquarie taking AI fearmongering to the next level:
www.afr.com/chanticleer/...
Samalla kun toimittajat juoksevat milloin minkäkin pikkupaikkakunnan huoltoasemille kysymään nyt "päivän ämpeen" bensan hinnasta, olisi entistä tärkeämpää antaa runsaasti tilaa niille asiantuntijoille (kuten @terevaden.net!) jotka ovat varoittaneet pitkään nyt käsillä olevasta tilanteesta.
The planet is warming at the fastest rate on record, a new study finds.
Table taken from this article, showing the animals that killed the most humans in 2023 https://ourworldindata.org/deadliest-animals
Human exceptionalism
Our World in Data asks today "What are the deadliest animals?" w/out mentioning that humans are, by a long way (especially if one includes direct & indirect killings), the deadliest of animals, for both our own species & other animal species: we kill *billions* of fish each day
the really fun thing about this is that even this text's seeming factual accuracy—it can't be called "honesty"—is *also* just a coincidental artifact of these glorified Markov chains being structurally incapable of differentiating truth from falsity and meaning from nonsense.
Bloomberg's John Authers is tracking global fertilizer vulnerability. Even if the war ends next month, Brazil—the largest fertilizer importer—is unlikely to restock in time for the next soybean planting. Higher food prices will land in time for the US midterms. www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
German car manufacturing was the envy of the world. Currently it is in stark decline while still large in scale. Big parts of Europe managed to grow their manufacturing sector in the meantime. Source: buff.ly/gDmANuL
Amazeballs🤯--the world gets fossil fuelled climate disasters, repeat global mass coral bleaching, toxic algal blooms that kill marine life over tens of thousands of sq km, destruction of irreplaceable Indigenous rock art cultural heritage
Meg O'Neill gets a fancy 11.7 million pound pay check 🤬🤬🤬
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
WSJ finds that of 279 arrested for attacking ICE in what it unfortunately labels an "aggressive public-relations tactic," 181 were US citizens; none was convicted. But onviction isn't the point; harassment is.
Americans are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
This is not good (regardless of that the Iranian regime is dreadful). The war will make the water shortages so much worse. In all of the region (and different nations are blowing up adversaries desalination plants in addition, as part of this war...)
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Iranian women enjoying the new freedoms bestowed on them by the United States and Israel
We. Are. The. Bad. Guys.
Never trust pledges
The only business is usual
www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000011862066.html
This is what ecocide looks like.
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
omg, nailed
Yes, this is what scares me. We are not ready for it.
Jakob Nielsen's LinkedIn post titled '40 Years of Being Right Become 40 Years of Being Wrong.' https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jakobnielsenphd_40-years-of-%F0%9D%97%95%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%97%B4-%F0%9D%97%A5%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%B4%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%98%81-become-activity-7434629393999876096-MmUF
Jakob Nielsen is calling it
...the only issue is, when you click on the main link in the post, the article is so full of Al slop cartoons I had to immediately close the tab and rinse my eyes:
www.uxtigers.com/post/ux-roun...
And no, marginally 'less unsustainable' is not the same as 'more sustainable'
Can you spot the 'sustainable' in this?
PWC online advertisement: 'Moving tons of equipment to 24 races isn't a side story. It's a backbone of Formula 1® race operations. To keep pace with growth, Formula 1® turned to PwC, its Official Consulting Partner, to help deliver the Future of Race Operations program-and make each season smarter and more sustainable. Go trackside to see the transformation.'
'Moving tons of equipment to 24 races isn't a side story. ... [to help] make each season smarter and more sustainable.'
Moving tons of equipment _by air_ is not, and cannot be, sustainable
Cool story bro
www.pwc.com/us/en/librar...
Suomessa talousajattelua leimaa voimakkaasti konservatiivinen, fatalistinen ajatus maailmasta, jossa on ankaria "ihmisen ulkopuolisia" sääntöjä, joihin järkevät ihmiset pyrkivät sitten sopeutumaan. Suhdannevaihtelut paraatiesimerkkinä.
