“What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.”

- Fred Rogers

Discovery here IS bad, and — I hate to say it — the solution to that is an (entirely optional) algorithm that surfaces potential follows and compelling content right out of the gate.

Algorithms aren’t inherently evil. Hell, “show posts in reverse chronological order” is in itself an algorithm.

What matters are 1) choice and 2) the intention with which the algorithm was designed.

#Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@mimsical/110865836818850808

“Climate change” isn’t just about the climate being different. It’s about a highly complex and interwoven system shifting how it operates, and the cascade of consequences is almost certainly going to take us by surprise. Our world is far more intricately interdependent than we generally appreciate. And there will be more things like this:

“Ocean acidification is going to do all sorts of weird things to animals’ sensory perception.”

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/can-you-smell-me-now-how-bout-now/?omhide=true&utm_source=Hakai+Magazine+Weekly&utm_campaign=2eeec209a9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_06_COPY_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0fc1967411-2eeec209a9-121628661

#climate #ocean #smell

Many office buildings have been left empty since the start of the pandemic. To make them into housing, they might need new windows, altered HVAC systems and rewiring of electrical systems.

It’d be expensive to do, but it is doable.

#housingcrisis #cities #affordablehousing
https://theconversation.com/empty-office-spaces-can-be-converted-to-residential-buildings-but-it-wont-be-affordable-207168

EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause #Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime
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An #EPA document shows that a new #Chevron #fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.

#Chemicals #Plastic #Plastics #Biofuels #Mississippi #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-approved-chevron-fuel-ingredient-cancer-risk-plastics-biofuel?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post