Kara de la Marck

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Open Source, Cloud native, & Linux @ Microsoft | MS AI Ethics @ Cambridge
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...

She's still hot, though!
Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It hurt when I crashed my bike...
It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian
Thanks to the extraordinary growth of EV sales in China, the IEA now predicts that the country's oil demand will peak in 2027 & that worldwide demand will peak in 2029. A world in which oil is declining is very different from one in which it's growing, even if absolute levels don't change by much.

China’s Oil Demand Will Peak E...

Listen up Mastodonians, because this is important:

Right now we have a unique chance to rise up and hit back against Zuckerberg and Musk. Because italian filmmaker @_elena and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING short film, which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and come join us in the fediverse.

Hit the fascists where it hurts — make this go viral by watching it and liking it on YouTube, then hit the share button and share it everywhere!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno

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I can no longer tell if I'm holding up surprisingly well right now because I did all of my grieving for the future back in 2024 or if I have just reached a state of emergency dissociation so extreme that I will not be feeling my feelings until 2026.
Elon Musk can’t take the heat

The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working. So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.

Mother Jones
Happy Liberation Day! Incredible choice by the 49.81% of voters who voted for this outcome.

Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Climate Change

"We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month, citing "recent setbacks to global decarbonization efforts."

#MorganStanley, #JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that #ClimateChange will likely exceed the #ParisAgreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits.

The big banks' acknowledgment that the world is likely to fail at preventing warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels is spelled out in obscure reports for clients, investors and trade association members. Most were published after the reelection of President Donald Trump, who is seeking to repeal federal policies that support clean energy while turbocharging the production of oil, gas and coal — the main sources of #GlobalWarming.

Morgan Stanley’s #climate forecast was tucked into a mundane research report on the future of air conditioning stocks, which it provided to clients on March 17. A 3 degree warming scenario, the analysts determined, could more than double the growth rate of the $235 billion cooling market every year, from 3 percent to 7 percent until 2030...

Please read the full text from the link below:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-banks-quietly-prepare-for-catastrophic-climate-change/

#ClimateCatastrophe
#Capitalism

Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Climate Change

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement’s 2 degree C goal and are examining how to maintain profits

Scientific American