Mad Kiwi living in South Yorkshire, England. Passionate about the planet.
Also @PhilRandal on Twitter and Bluesky.
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#Note2Self: Always. Update. The. Version. Number. In. Bind. Zone. Files. After. Any. Change.
(written after removing dozens of tmp-* files in /var/named that suddenly showed up, together with weird permission denied entries in the log files ;)
"The worldâs richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026, analysis has found.
Meanwhile, the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget, according to the research by Oxfam."
The global top 10% (roughly speaking, everyone who can afford a car) will do so in a matter of weeks.
I was inspired to revisit some of KSR's earlier work by this interview with @akshatrathi talking "Abundance or Adequacy?" and the search for better climate futures.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-12-30/zero-how-to-imagine-a-better-climate-future-podcast
I've seen the Make America Great Again slogan attributed to the would-be dictator of the US in Octavia Butler's 1993 Parable of the Sower.
But I just came across it in a diatribe by the dictator of San Diego in Kim Stanley Robinson's post-apocalyptic The Wild Shore from 1984!
Mastodon gGmbH has just issued a new blogpost:
âĄď¸ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-build-together
Some highlights:
- Eugen has stepped down as head, his replacement is @mellifluousbox (Eugen will continue as an advisor)
- Mastodon gGmbH and its US-based 501(c)(3) intend to transition to a Belgian non-profit and transfer their assets there
- Eugen has sold his Mastodon-related assets (including the trademark) to the 501(c)(3) for âŹ1 million, these will eventually be transferred to the Belgian non-profit
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