infuriatingpixels

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Previously @edfrench on twitter
Engineer, Investor, Entrepreneur
So storj.io is a file datastore company.
On its website is a link to a "Canary" to indicate if they've been compelled to provide gov't access:
https://www.storj.io/canary.txt
Does this mean what I think?
#nsa #Surveillance
When I die I want someone to take the flowers off my casket and toss them into the crowd to see who's gonna be next.
@revk looks good!

I am about to kick some journalists in the nuts real hard.

YOU failed to report on the dire warnings of scientists the past *checks the 6 IPCC reports* 33 years with your bloody "both-sideism" and now it's our fault?

Fuck you, the Hill. Fuck you very very much.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

Catch-22: Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas

Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists have soft-pedaled the kinds of catastrophic risks most easily headed off by cutting emissions. While scientific communication has improved in the 2020s, this…

The Hill

Just wow.

The 1997 #ElNino was 2.4C. The strongest ever recorded was 2.6C in 2015.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology currently predicts this El Nino will break that record sometime in August, then grow to 3.0C by October, and 3.2C by November.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ENSO

I don't understand this one... if the WhatsApp messages are personal, then either he was using private messaging to do government business, or was using a government account to do private messaging. Either one should be a problem.

What happened to the need to maintain secure, recorded communication in government?

COVID inquiry: Government stands by refusal to hand over Boris Johnson's 'private' WhatsApp messages following criticism | Politics News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-inquiry-government-stands-by-refusal-to-hand-over-boris-johnsons-private-whatsapp-messages-following-criticism-12893290

COVID inquiry: Government stands by refusal to hand over Boris Johnson's 'private' WhatsApp messages following criticism

Sky

When the cupboard was (almost) bare.

@openDemocracy forced the (so-called) #EuropeanResearchGroup to make their 'research' public after an #information rights tribunal ruled that as the ERG has been drawing #taxpayers' funds it cannot refuse access to its documents;

Of course, what this (further) confirmed is that the ERG's 'research' is nothing of the kind.

Now we can all see the actual sand on which their 'positions' rest, not that it'll be a surprise

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/tax-funded-research-by-rees-moggs-erg-must-be-released-tribunal-rules/

Tax-funded research by Rees-Mogg’s ERG must be released, tribunal rules

Long-running openDemocracy investigation sees ruling that the public has a right to see research produced by the pro-Brexit European Research Group.

openDemocracy

"One study by the London School of Economics suggests that as a direct result of Brexit, British households have collectively spent £7bn more on their food bills than they would have otherwise done since December 2019."

~ The Guardian

#Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/28/observer-view-on-tories-disastrous-economic-legacy

The Observer view on Britain’s economy: it is very sick, but there are remedies

Austerity, Brexit and catastrophic fiscal decisions have inflicted long-term damage to Britain’s productive capacity. Labour is offering the renewal it so badly needs

The Guardian
@fifilamoura @jramskov @Adam_Cadmon1 AFAIK most recycling of plastic waste is by extrusion with a blowing agent to create plastic panels. I don't think this creates microplastic contamination? I suspect agrochemicals might be the main source in water and soil?
@revk I always take mismatched adverts as a sign I'm doing data hygiene right, and well targeted ones are much more of a worry!