Mike - Human Scientist

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Where will I doomscroll now? Social scientist focused on population impact. I study mobile health interventions by day and produce podcasts about the internet by night
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/there-are-no-girls-on-the-internet/id1520715907

#GavinSchmidt

Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

Taking into account all known factors, the

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z

#Climate #2023 #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating
#ClimateCrisis #climatechange #ClimateDisruption

Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.

an episode of Black Mirror where everyone learns the prompt that caused an AI to generate them
Necessity is the mother of invention... whut?!
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

The U.S government wants to crack down on the ballooning energy consumption of Bitcoin miners.

Tom's Hardware
Took the kids down to the zoo today to watch them toss all the leftover groundhogs into the big cat habitat.

What if Schrödinger's box had a third option

#caturday

Horrified to learn about this new trend that combines for-profit weightloss companies with online gambling and social media. Three separate industries with a track record of exploiting vulnerable people, now combined in a convenient one-stop location where you can lose money AND feel bad about your body!
https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/weight-loss-betting-companies-are-targeting-tiktok-and-meta-users
Weight loss betting companies are targeting TikTok and Meta users

Media Matters for America
Too late now because the propaganda is out in the public creating the lie.

Checked in to a hotel yesterday afternoon. Settled in to take a nap. Shortly thereafter, what sounded like a 727 engine started up outside my door. Tried to ignore it until the periodic banging on the door started about 15 minutes later. Turned out to be this little fella, “Rosie 1049” which ran into the room as soon as I opened the door. I quickly got dressed and carried it to the elevator.

The robot uprising is going to be amazing.