"In 2020, nearly one in four Americans reported some form of energy insecurity, meaning they were either unable to afford to use heating or cooling equipment, pay their energy bills, or pay for other necessities due to energy costs. By 2024 that number had risen to a third.

Even doing everything right wasn’t enough to save customers in the end — households that cut their electricity use still saw their bills rise by an average of $20 a month."

https://heatmap.news/energy/energy-poverty-summer

"Work to reduce excess flammable vegetation in forests warded off the release of 2.7 million tons of carbon dioxide, averted nearly 60 premature deaths and avoided $2.8 bn in damages in the Western U.S., according to a new study from the University of California, Davis. 

Forest fuel treatments—prescribed burns and mechanical forest thinning operations—during a six-year span prevented more than 25,000 tons of fine particle pollution from being released into the air."

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20052026/wildfire-management-prevents-carbon-emissions-and-billions-in-damages/

The thing I learned at Twitter about building reliable systems wasn’t how to keep them up, but how to correctly deal with their failure.

Keeping a system up isn’t hard. Dealing with random failures is.

And when you have hundreds of thousands of systems, it’s always failing.

This was The Lesson of the Fail Whale.

**JUNE SOLARPUNK BOOKCLUB**
Saturday, June 20th, 4pm ET

The Beginning Comes After the End by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

It's the most recent in her rainbow collection, so reserve soon at the library!

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RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116658112078254531

Join us tomorrow!

PSA

Buy books on paper, no DRM.
Buy music on vinyl, no DRM.
Buy a rooftop antenna, no DRM.

The OG options never went away. In my life, I've never paid to stream. That's more than paid for all my physical media.

BONUS: Still works during a cloud/net outage.

EDIT: Also have no qualms about downloaded copies of physical media for serving up by Emby

#drm #selfhosted #physicalmedia

I expect the impact of agentic coding and challenges to surmount are different for big tech versus smaller companies.

For big tech I expect headcount to shrink as it’s harder to justify large orgs. But agentic coding won’t accelerate product development unless they change internal processes. Coding speed isn’t the issue at 10K+ engineer companies.

Smaller companies will hire more as they now get more value per engineer but only if they can create processes to manage AI generated code quality.