Maria Dyshel

@mdyshel
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Should I stop eating meat? Climate scientists set a deadline for curbing the meat and dairy industries.

How to slash meat’s carbon footprint: produce a lot less of it — and by 2030. The onus is on the companies to reach peak meat, and soon.

Vox
From Firefox 120's release notes:
Firefox supports a new “Copy Link Without Site Tracking” feature in the context menu which ensures that copied links no longer contain tracking information.
Nice.
@markwyner
Bet you'll like this one optical illusion but don't put it in your web designs please @mdyshel
@JenYetAgain

What an awesome way to summarize everything that's wrong with ChatGPT: "it's a little like that relative at Thanksgiving who's watched enough Grey's Anatomy to sound confident with their medical advice".

Credit goes to https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-amazing-wrong

ChatGPT from OpenAI is a huge step toward a usable answer engine. Unfortunately its answers are horrible.

Need ideas? Great! Need facts? Stay away!

Mashable
300 days of war in Ukraine. 300 horrible days. Hope 2023 brings us some peace.

Honestly thrilled to see this, especially after the completely disingenuous PR campaign Microsoft launched a few days ago and how susceptible so many people who follow and cover games were to it.

Phil Spencer is a corporate executive, not your gamer buddy. This isn’t just about whether Call of Duty is multiplatform, but Microsoft’s push for consolidation to dominate the subscription future it sees for the industry.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/8/23498224/ftc-microsoft-activision-blizzard-legal-challenge-sues-block

#xbox #microsoft #tech #ftc #antitrust #gaming

The FTC is suing Microsoft to block its Activision Blizzard purchase

The FTC has sued Microsoft in an attempt to keep it from acquiring Activision Blizzard, owners of Call of Duty and King games. The Xbox owner was hoping to purchase the gaming titan for almost $69 billion.

The Verge

I asked #ChatGPT to rewrite Bohemian Rhapsody to be about the life of a postdoc, and the output was flawless.

#nlproc

Study confirms it. The floating garbage patch in the Pacific is nearly all fishing gear. It's not consumer waste.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16529-0

Eat less fish, their populations are crashing anyway

Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre - Scientific Reports

The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ropes while the rest is mostly composed of hard plastic objects and fragments, sometimes carrying evidence on their origin. In 2019, an oceanographic mission conducted in the area, retrieved over 6000 hard plastic debris items > 5 cm. The debris was later sorted, counted, weighed, and analysed for evidence of origin and age. Our results, complemented with numerical model simulations and findings from a previous oceanographic mission, revealed that a majority of the floating material stems from fishing activities. While recent assessments for plastic inputs into the ocean point to coastal developing economies and rivers as major contributors into oceanic plastic pollution, here we show that most floating plastics in the North Pacific subtropical gyre can be traced back to five industrialised fishing nations, highlighting the important role the fishing industry plays in the solution to this global issue.

Nature

Just discovered the 5 levels of delegation framework:

https://fullfocus.co/the-five-levels-of-delegation/

Food for thought for all the people managers out there.

The Five Levels of Delegation

Delegation is critical to leadership. You can’t take on more responsibility unless you are willing to delegate to others. But that doesn’t mean it is easy.

Full Focus
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards are out! A bit of nature's gorgeousness to reconnect with the majestic beauty of this Earth: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery?tags=award.ctgrywnnrs,award.wldlfphtgrphrfthyr,award.yngwldlfphtgrphrfthyr&tags=ed.current
Gallery | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum

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