Ode to resilience in the garden this evening.
A green point down the trunk of a freeze-burnt bitter orange tree.
#gardening #nature #resilience
Threats reframed as
Communication errors
Now is time to go.
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Went outside to paint again. Not much to say, it’s some greenery. At least I got something to put on the old drying rack :D
#landscape #landscapepainting #painting #oilpainting #pleinair #allaprima #art #kunst #mastoart #fediart
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Fake green fairytale claims humanity can maintain current levels of consumption (a lie) with renewables (a lie) which are already displacing fossil fuels (a lie) and therefore reach net zero (a lie) to bring temperatures down to safe levels (a lie) and that the critics of the energy transition are all funded or influenced by the fossil fuel industry (a lie) so proponents of green globalist aims are ethical in doing whatever it takes to achieve their aims (a lie).
jembendell.com/2024/08/25/the-…
The Nine Lies of the Fake Green Fairytale
Self-deception is rife within the environmental profession and movement. Some denial is not surprising, due to how upsetting it is to focus on an unfolding tragedy. But our vulnerability to self-de…jembendell (Prof Jem Bendell)
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Making the Case for Slow Technologies
It's time to intentionally slow down the technology in our lives so our brains (and often our emotions) have time to react, think, and respond appropriately. We do not always have to maximize efficiency and minimize friction.
readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026…
#technology #tech #indieweb #socialmedia #rss #blogging #philosophy
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I just posted an essay to my blog titled Evil's Spokesperson. It makes some points that relate politics to "AI".
netsettlement.blogspot.com/202…
#AI #LLM #LLMs #ethics #evil #sociopath #UsefulIdiot #UsefulGenius #Spokesman #Spokesperson #LaunderingIntent #IntentLaundering #SusanCollins #Ethics #military #targets #MilitaryTargets #TargetSelection #politics #USPolitics
Evil's Spokesperson
Kent Pitman's blog. Independent, progressive views on Society, Technology, Social Justice and Climate, or sometimes poetry, philosophy, or history.netsettlement.blogspot.com
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Good article
> any sufficiently well-trained answer is indistinguishable from profound thought.
on the useful-idiots commentary, did you follow how user age verification got into linux? A legal compliance enthusiast commited some self-professed unworkable garbage along the lines that it was intended to be like the new californian operating-system-user-age-collection law, which some microsoft employees immediately merged. Then, its reversion was blocked by an IBM employee.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and ...
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.TheBetter.News (The Better News)
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After our current Finnish MAGA administration here started working three years ago we’re now crunching new big numbers of homelessness. The homeless used to be people with addiction problems, now they include 80-year-olds as well as babies. The neoliberal racists in charge now whine on Facebook every day that people don’t like them, even after how well they’ve governed the country (created mass unemployment, record stats of it, all in order to make labour cheaper and to get housing removed from homeowners to landlords.)
This news is old news.
Peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins planted this evening. Goutweed harvest tomorrow.
Welcome in the jungle ...
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#TheOnion going hard at #SamAltman.
It's hard to pick, but I think this is my favorite line:
"Why did you decide to devote your life to AI?
I just saw so much suffering in the world that needed to be automated."
#OpenAI #funny #humor
theonion.com/the-onions-exclus…
It's hard to pick, but I think this is my favorite line:
"Why did you decide to devote your life to AI?
I just saw so much suffering in the world that needed to be automated."
#OpenAI #funny #humor
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The Onion's Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman
While leading OpenAI, Sam Altman has weathered leaked internal memos, an attempt to oust him as CEO, and widespread skepticism about artificial intelligence’s role in society.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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@jeridansky It made me pause, as so many Onion headlines do. It can apply to too many people with too much power.
“We Remember the Flour Massacre” (Jewish Voice for Peace, 2026-03-01)
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>> Two years ago today [29 Feb. 2024], as hundreds of starving Palestinians waited in line for humanitarian aid, including flour for bread, the Israeli military opened fire, killing over 100 Palestinians and wounding over 700.
>> They massacred people seeking bread for their families.
>> Two years later, we have seen the Israeli military continue to use famine as a weapon of war …
>> These are the same tools of intentional starvation and mass slaughter used in past genocides, and which we, as Jews, recognize as used by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust…
>> We will not look away, and we will not be silent. We will not rest until Palestinians in Gaza have access to all human rights including to food, water, shelter, and self-determination.
#JewishVoiceForPeace #FlourMassacre #Gaza #palestine
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com
Jewish Voice for Peace on Instagram: "Two years ago today, as hundreds of starving Palestinians waited in line for humanitarian aid, including flour for bread, the Israeli military opened fire, killing over 100 Palestinians and wounding over 700. They ma
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#humour #cartoons #history
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History is making fun of us
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#meme #memes #trump #donaldtrump #politics #uspolitics #whitehouse #republicans
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NewScientist: AI chatbots miss urgent issues in queries about women's health
AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women’s health in a test created by medical professionals
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Perles rouges sur le sable
Où les enfants couraient jadis
Traces de pas, faible indice
Des jeux et rires, mémoire friable
Le vent a soufflé sur les joies
Dépouillé les os secs et blancs
Des marmots qui tiraient à blanc
Sous les fenêtres des bourgeois
Pétrole et bombes, de concert
Le napalm au petit matin
Mêlé au café du crétin
Dictateur élu que l'on sert
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Several Vic regions are code-red catastrophic fire danger for Friday. It’s time to start preparing NOW if you’re in an affected area. byteseu.com/1696467/ #Australia #Melbourne
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World renowned medical journal, The Lancet, has published data concluding that US imposed sanctions cause the deaths of more than 564,000 people each year.
More than half of the dead are children under the age of 5.
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Museum Janitor Rules #globalmuseum #museums #humour #humor #janitors
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*BIG* Pepper Thread 1/🧵
I grew over 29 varieties of peppers in 2025. This thread reviews growth/productivity, cold tolerance and gives an honest detailed description of taste (fresh, dried and how it blends with other ingredients when cooking).
I hope people will find it useful for reference.
#garten #jardin #jardim #gardening #peppers #paprika #chiles #piment #solarpunksunday #bloomscrolling
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Ají cacho de cabra (baccatum)
I’m not sure if this is the correct pepper for the seasoning merkén, but it’s still good. When I look at videos of merkén being made in Chile, the peppers they use look larger. Online, it also states that the peppers they’re using in Chile are species annuum, which is odd because most peppers grown in Chile are baccatums and chinense.
Pictured below is the flower of the pepper I grew and it is clearly a baccatum flower.
You are a kind person. 
And I think your pepper thread is a true timelone cleanser for us not lose our heads.
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45/ PJ UFO (chinense)
Unstable hybrid. Some of my peppers came out looking like like round peach habaneros and tasted like metallic, fruity battery acid with raging, explosive heat (hotter than 300,000SHU). I gave it away. The others came out like purple squat teardrops. I kept the purple ones. They start out looking like UFOs and then plump out to teardrops. See pics.
Fresh: green tea, fruity-citrusy, very mild chinense, sweetish around 100,000SHU
Dried: metallic, a bit like chili arbol
Gerry McGovern
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •"Over 80% of current primary energy generation is from fossil fuels. Even if we tried to switch everything to electric and generate the power from nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, tidal and wave, then we wouldn’t have enough metals for either the wire or the batteries. For instance we would need 250 years of annual production of copper for the wire and 4000 times the annual production of lithium. Mining is an ecologically damaging activity."
jembendell.com/2024/08/25/the-…
The Nine Lies of the Fake Green Fairytale
jembendell (Prof Jem Bendell)Peter Gray (per/per) 🚲🏞🎷🏠🌿
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •Thanks for posting this.
We have to do 'degrowth' and we have to do it now.
Gerry McGovern
in reply to Peter Gray (per/per) 🚲🏞🎷🏠🌿 • • •Jaakko Niemi
in reply to Peter Gray (per/per) 🚲🏞🎷🏠🌿 • • •Gerry McGovern
in reply to Jaakko Niemi • • •@liiwi
Far more important is to bring consumption down. 10% of the global population do 50% of the damage. The 50% poorest have 10% of the negtive impact.
It is the European and North American middle class that must degrow.
(Population decline is already happening in many societies.)
@PeterGray
Jaakko Niemi
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •People have been talking about this for a while:
youtube.com/watch?v=nLxRULC6E4…
It's Not Impossible, We Just Need a Better Plan...
Decouple Media (YouTube)Gerry McGovern
in reply to Jaakko Niemi • • •Gerry McGovern
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •"The claim that renewables are already displacing fossil fuels is not true. Instead, globally, renewables are providing additional energy, with fossil fuel usage also increasing. There is no sign of global energy demand declining or any policies aimed at that. We all know that having a side salad with our pie and chips doesn’t make the belly disappear."
jembendell.com/2024/08/25/the-…
The problem is growth.
The disease is growth.
The cancer is growth.
We live in a Global Death Cult, Left and Right.
The Nine Lies of the Fake Green Fairytale
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Flohlaus
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •Gerry McGovern
in reply to Flohlaus • • •@flohlaus
We are burning more wood than ever.
We are mining more coal than ever.
We are pumping more oil and gas than ever.
We live in a Growth Death Cult.
Growth is the cancer.
It takes 2-3 ton of coal to make one EV
Every year, China cuts down 14,000 football fields of tropical forest in Myanmar just for the charcoal for manufacturing solar.
We are approaching mining a Mt Everest every year.
bencourtice
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •Gerry McGovern
in reply to bencourtice • • •@bencourtice
"In 2024, fossil fuels supplied 85% of direct primary energy consumption; wind turbine and solar panel (W&S) electricity gave us only ~3%."
William Rees
pelicanweb.org/solisustv22n05p…
And wind and solar are not renewable. They have massive mining impacts and require huge quantities of fossil fuels to mine and manufacture. Solar is cheap now because of massive overcapacity in China, and because solar is made there by the Uighur enslaved.
Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
www.pelicanweb.orgbencourtice
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •Gerry McGovern
in reply to bencourtice • • •bencourtice
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •that is usually a conclusion people start from, and work their way back to "therefore renewables must not work" by cherry-picking the evidence. Which would explain your false assertions about the sustainability of wind farms and solar panels, which are very clearly reducing greenhouse emissions in many electricity grids.
The fossil fuel (and nuclear) industry love arguments like yours because they know the primitivist implications of it will turn people towards apathy instead of challenging the big energy monopolies. But I'm sure you've heard this before and will keep cherry picking data to suit your foregone conclusions.
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Goerp
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •It doesn't offer alternatives, hope or a way out.
We already have plenty of people warning us of coming doom and gloom but those are a call to action. And then this: "Fifth, the claim that achieving net zero emissions would bring temperatures down to safe levels within just a few years is not true. "
What? Who's claiming that?
And claiming methane is the long term problem is just false. It's the effects of CO2 that linger 😠
Gerry McGovern
in reply to Goerp • • •Goerp
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •The Chinese refused to set emission targets claiming ”we need to invest in our economy, catch up with the west and then we'll reduce our emissions". Which they are doing now. India is making a LOT of progress. Its mostly the west that is regressing. The essay ignores positives and distorts facts to fit it's own narrative.
Saying that "it's just this one thing that is the cause and anyone saying different is lying or stupid" is the symptom of a closed (and angry) mind.
Gerry McGovern
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •"The claim that the world can reach net zero carbon emissions is a lie. Not only is that due to the previous two lies about energy production and demand. Not only is that due to the limitations of any carbon removal technologies and approaches, for getting CO2 out of the atmosphere. It is also because of the fundamental role of fossilised or natural gas in current industrial agriculture."
jembendell.com/2024/08/25/the-…
Every slice of bread you eat is soaked in diesel.
The Nine Lies of the Fake Green Fairytale
jembendell (Prof Jem Bendell)Neinkopp
in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •ember-energy.org/latest-insigh…
Global Electricity Review 2026 | Ember
Ardhi (Ember)Gerry McGovern
in reply to Neinkopp • • •@neinkopp
One of these statements isn't quite true:
"In 2025, fossil fuel growth ceased entirely."
"Global coal demand reached a record high in 2025"
reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
"Oil supply growth in 2025 ended up stronger than most early-year expectations."
statranker.org/economy/global-…
"Natural gas demand rose globally by 78 billion cubic meters (1.9%) in 2024, reaching 4,122 billion cubic meters (bcm), and is expected to continue growing in 2025 by 71 bcm"
igu.org/igu-reports/global-gas…
Global Oil Production in 2025: Trends, Statistics, and Insights - World ranking sites
StatRanker (World ranking sites - Data-driven rankings and statistics)