Oof. This was shared to me today and honestly it has me spinning. I won't pretend to be as informed about every aspect of #climatechange as I should be, but the direness of this well-sourced essay took me aback. 4C locked in? Absolute collapse? No way to survive past 2100?
I'd be interested to know if this is indeed the consensus amongst careful thinkers knowledgeable on these topics. I have no trouble believing that the IPCC is blowing smoke, but then seeking truth is that much harder.
Apologies if this is old news to y'all. I'm just reeling.
David Lynch Releases on YouTube Interview Project: 121 Stories of Real America Recorded on a 20,000-Mile Road Trip
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The science behind why people think they're right when they're so, so wrong.
From NBC News: "There may be a psychological reason why some people aren’t just wrong in an argument — they’re confidently wrong. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Plos One, it comes down to believing you have all the information you need to form an opinion, even when you don’t."
Here's the original study: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…
#Psychology #Misinformation #Brain #Science #Facts #Politics
Clyons and Vills mated to produce Tray.
They are a Generation 16 fractal.
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Have you upped your #Python development experience with any #Rust tools yet?
⚡ Maybe you use ruff or uv, and know their blazing fast performance
Or maybe you've been using Rust and you don't even know it! 👀 Looking at you, @pydantic and @FastAPI users...
Join us tomorrow night to learn more about The Rust Invasion!
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This will be a free event, and we'll have pizza 🍕 and beverages 🥤 for everyone. Newcomers welcome!
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Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working to Kill Solar in One Ohio County. The Hometown Newspaper Is Helping.
Opposition to solar was stoked by a group whose major donor — a retired gas-industry executive — also leads a pro-gas dark-money organization. #ClimateChange
Alan Miller is one of six U.S. prisoners who have survived their execution in the modern death penalty era.
“It’s like déjà vu,” he told Bolts staff writer Lauren Gill as he braced for a second execution attempt. boltsmag.org/alabama-nitrogen-…
I need you all to know that Meta's Threads moderation is the worst thing on the planet.
It detects the word "Cracker" as hate speech no matter the context among other things.
XFCE 4.20 gets a little bit of Wayland, Pine64 returns from the abyss, Raspberry Pi branded SD cards, and ultra low-power X86_64 servers on ARM with #Box64.
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Limp Bizkit says Universal Music Group failed to pay out royalties after their streaming resurgence.
The band says in a new lawsuit that after their music saw a surge in popularity, it still had “not been paid a single cent by UMG” until taking action against them. The complaint gives a glimpse into what it’s like for a band seeing a revival of its music — and the alleged challenge of capitalizing on that.
Wild Chocolate Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul by Rowan Jacobsen, 2024
The thrilling story of the farmers, activists, and chocolate makers fighting all odds to revive ancient cacao and produce the world's finest bar.
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#nonfiction
#cacao
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