Stephen Watson

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Trying to do the right thing, occasionally kilted and always queer.
When real news is hidden behind subscriptions, and fake news is freely available, it's no wonder the world is where it is. Capitalism at work

But ultimately I'm sad. I'm sad that I hate the new tool and everything about it (energy use, how it's trained, how it's used) and I don't want to use it -- and likely won't.

And that means that my time in the industry is probably coming to an end sooner rather than later.

I was not prepared for an existential crisis today.

5/5

We went to Joshua Tree yesterday (my second visit) and I brought my infrared camera along with me to see what I could capture. #infrared #photography #landscapephoto #landscapephotography

Mass shootings in the US:

2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647
2023: 656

So far in 2024: 385

We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.

In the early 2010s, there was a huge wave of planned carbon capture, and it didn't turn into actual, real, operational carbon capture.

Is this wave going to be different? I don't think so: CCS isn't really *meant* to actually work.....

https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/12/17/ccs-the-failure-bomb-the-current-state-of-cop28s-poison-pill/

CCS, the failure bomb: the current state of COP28’s poison pill

COP28 show that CCS is back, and it’s worse than ever. Through multi-decade failure, it has helped fossil fuel projects. Things are about to get worse.

Ketan Joshi
Of course he did.

Sociopaths and psychopaths like Trump have difficulty distinguishing between people mourning and celebrating and grieving and jubilating and bewailing and rejoicing because in order to make those distinctions accurately, they would have to have the willingness and capacity to give at least the slightest fuck about other people as anything other than objects of possible utility.

@psychopac24

RE: https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C_i7XZygShQ
Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

Trump says gold star families were “celebrating” in Arlington cemetery

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Lake Baikal, Siberia and the Great Lakes, USA.
Fascinating.
@bgannin @mattiem That’s a great way of looking at it. A few of my competitors are very unscrupulous and the better I do the less opportunity they have to harvest and exploit data about their customers. I take that as a definite win as someone who is very allergic to that sort of business practice.
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