Mastodawn

I hope US folks on the No Kings rallies know how much people outside the US are heartened to see them. We always knew the US is full of very fine people who totally reject and revile what's happening, but my god it's good to see it.

Show thread

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦5h ago

btw, I censored the 2025 number in the graph since it is terrifying and hopefully improves over the year.. Lots of background on the CO₂ cycle is here: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-climate-change-and-management/

On Climate Change and (Active) Climate Management - Bert Hubert's writings

Nothing on this page is factually controversial. However, many things in this post make for uncomfortable reading. And, climate discourse is now so politicized that many factual statements are taken as dog whistles. For example, in what follows I will state that climate has always been changing, and has in fact never been stable for very long. This is 100% true, but people interpret this as if the writer means that our current climate change is not caused by human beings, or is nothing to worry about.

Bert Hubert's writings

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦5h ago

This is the graph where you should one day be able to see a decrease in how quickly the CO₂ concentration is rising. Even if our own CO₂ emissions would decrease however, it might not happen, because it appears the Earth's ability to absorb CO₂ from the atmosphere is declining, which is extremely worrying.

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦6h ago

Show thread

Mathijs 9h ago

@bert_hubert for simple calculations I really like unit-aware calculator qalculate: https://qalculate.github.io/ it's probably my most-used tool on my $dayjob

Qalculate! - the ultimate desktop calculator

Show thread

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦7h ago

And as multiple people pointed out, even in megacorporations some good work is getting done because there are people who deeply care, enough so that they fight the idiocy to make useful things still happen.

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦7h ago

Show thread

Serge Droz 8h ago

@bert_hubert I think there are a lot of people who care about good work and will do good work for the sake of it, often behind the backs of the idiots. They won't, of course, get any praise or credit for it because these managers, not having a clue, think it's because of their genius.

I've seen this over and over again.

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦9h ago

Akshay 9h ago

Massive demonstration for Gaza and against genocide today in Brussels.

75.000 participants according to the police, and 110.000 according to organisers.

Inspired by the Dutch sister demo, “Draw a Red Line for Gaza” was the largest demonstration in Belgium for years.

#Gaza #Activism #Palestine #Israel #EU #RodeLijn #Genocide #Belgium #Belgie #Belgique #Belgien #EU #UE #Europe

Show thread

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦9h ago

So the question of course is, if business are being controlled by total idiots who have no clue, how is anything getting done? My own observation, most megacoporations have outsourced almost everything to suppliers not run by business idiots. My theory is that investors get the hots for companies run by business idiots and not for actual creators of code, services or products. "The megacorp" then only exists as a converter to fool investors. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

The Era Of The Business Idiot

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kind of idiot. The

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦12h ago

Peter Gleick 12h ago

Hey all, I'm afraid that if you're on mastodon.social server and were following me, you've been accidently deleted from my list.
If you want to follow me, you'll have to refollow. Thanks. 🚨

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦13h ago

So I found myself doing some actual calculations in a spreadsheet today. On if you could store meaningful amounts of energy by sinking & raising massive pieces of concrete into the ocean (yes). Doing such calculations *correctly* benefits tremendously from dimensional analysis, but a spreadsheet can't do it. In fact we barely do this. But it is so luxurious to have the computer check your work:

Website	https://berthub.eu/
Orcid	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6317-0670
Linkedin	https://www.linkedin.com/in/bert-hubert-b05452/