New York City tops world's worst air pollution list from Canada wildfire smoke

As of Wednesday afternoon, New York City reached an AQI of 342, a level considered "hazardous" for all residents.

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@bascule "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, a chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure."
@bascule I’m gonna need some noodles
@bascule I heard the music as soon as I saw the picture.
@bascule It’s weird and unnerving for sure. Keep those windows shut tight and keep air filtration running round the clock. Wear N95s outside if you like your lungs. I speak from experience — from Oakland, Ca.

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When this happened in CA in 2020 amateur filmmakers were taking so many videos because they'd never be able to afford to recreate such a look for their post-apocalyptic movies.

Blargh!

@deirdrebeth @batyalee @bascule so someone is going to make another movie where you can’t see the monsters because of the haze?
@deirdrebeth I know that lots of people were taking photos. I did too. But I didn't know about the filmmakers. Good planning on their parts.
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OPEC+, #KochNetwork, and their Wall Street financiers are preparing to fry the planet & end democracy to keep power.

It's kind of ironic that Republican billionaire donors in New York, like Schwarzman and Griffin, had private planes grounded because of poor air quality.

These folks plan on dumping an enormous environmental cleanup of their obsolete oil infrastructure onto the taxpayer.

Yet they too can't fly out of LaGuardia Airport or breathe outside air.
https://abc7ny.com/nyc-smoke-air-quality-alert-flights-traffic/13355080/

FAA slows flight traffic in and out of LGA and Newark due to smoke

The FAA is slowing traffic in and out of LaGuardia and Newark airports due to the smoky conditions.

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@bascule Elon Musk and his replicants are coming. They already control the gop.

@bascule @kornel Blade Runner vibes in NYC, VR headsets from Apple, warnings about AI becoming a threat to humanity.

Cyberpunk dystopian future is no longer a future but a reality?

@bascule BTW: You can see the original set pieces from Blade Runner in New York in the Museum of Moving Images.
@bascule this us both cool and depressing
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@bascule you can totally tell these ppl have never experienced a wildfire before 🤡

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All that is needed is the flare stacks burning off excess hydrogen or methane 🫤🤷‍♂️

@bascule @gregorysherrow Feels like this would be the right time for someone to adapt The Sheep Look Up…
@bascule Smoke is so heavy 🙏
@bascule @peterme A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.
@bascule Yes, but can you make the connection between the Times Square hyper-consumerism advertising and the smoke from hundreds of wildfires?
@bascule This has been where I live every summer for the last 5 years. We have to strap hepafilters to the windows to breathe in the summer when it gets bad.
Night City has been basked is this eternal orange fog for longer than I can remember, is there any way to get it to go away or at least turn it off?

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@bascule oh my god, I was just there on Saturday, it wasn't orange at all
@bascule except there's no flying cars yet
@bascule Shit, I drove through Midtown NYC 7 days ago via an accidental reroute through Secaucus NJ. It was looking like Blade Runner with 75 degree, clear air and a gentle breeze then, I can only imagine the charms it offers this week.
@bascule Seriously. Surreal and trippy.

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Jeez, usually they have to add this effect / l👀k in coloure grading software. 😱

@bascule wear your N95s everyone, and good luck from California
@bascule FFS I was just playing this game last night, what section of Night City is this?
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