Jan RosenowI asked ChatGPT to write a heat pump rap song.
It's pretty good, don't you think?
Dave O. Mitchell
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Puns, praxis, typos; brevity, soul, wit.
Interested in #ClimateAction #EnergyTransition #SolutionsJournalism #TacticalUrbanism #SolarPunk & stuff.
Ask me anything in the form of a haiku, I’ll answer in kind. #HaikuAMA
“At the precise moment when music was becoming synthesised and digitised and sampled, he insisted on its traditions of heavy lifting. (‘Anyone who has ever played a piano,’ he liked to say, ‘would really like to hear how it sounds when dropped from a 12th-floor window.’)”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/20/tom-waits-frank-trilogy-reissues-swordfishtrombones-rain-dogs-franks-wild-years #tomwaits
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/20/tom-waits-frank-trilogy-reissues-swordfishtrombones-rain-dogs-franks-wild-years #tomwaits
‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy
Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra
Luke LeBrunComparing and contrasting app privacy policies for Threads, Bluesky, Twitter and Mastodon:
Daniel Moser🚙 A car is parked 92% of the time.
🚗 A car spends 20% of its driving time looking for parking.
🚙 Its 5 seats only move ø 1.5 people.
🚗 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels.
🚙 A road at peak throughput is only 10% covered with cars.
Sounds efficient ?
"Natural" gas or methane: which would you choose?
Great video from Canadian Physicians for the Environment, StopFossilFuelAds.ca
"Natural" gas or methane: which would you choose?
It's ok to be angry about climate change.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
Canadian Government Ad™: Cleaning up the Oil Sands
Mondoweiss 🇵🇸Twenty years ago, an Israeli bulldozer crushed Rachel Corrie to death as she protected a Palestinian home. She has since become a global symbol for those seeking justice. Israel may have killed Rachel, but she lives on in us.
Even “a pointy security organ of the Canadian state” is sounding the alarm:
"Put simply, climate change compounds all other known human security issues and serves as an accelerant towards negative security outcomes. No country will be immune from climate change or associated risks."
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/climate-change-threatens-canadian-security-prosperity-warns-stark-spy-agency-brief/article_c990e7f7-ffa1-5637-8ab2-10158eac88bc.html #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction