Dead? No, it's not dead yet. It's just pining for the fjords.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/

Imagine writing a law in 2023, with only 27 words, to regulate weapons built by future generations in 2255—despite your zero knowledge of tech 232 years in the future—and no other context is available.

That's how absurd it sounds when people today claim a 1791 Amendment encompasses all weapons in 2023 and cannot be questioned in any capacity.

Another global sea level rise update for 2023...

This graphic is produced by https://aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/ocean-indicators-products/mean-sea-level.html

More than 2,000 women are taking the Swiss government to court claiming its policy on climate change is violating their right to life and health.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65107800

The case is the first time the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will hear a case on the impact of climate change on human rights.

#climate #humanrights #Switzerland

The red line is when Republicans ended the national assault weapons ban.

Source:
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-does-gun-control-work
Also, https://www.instagram.com/p/CeEZJNJu5X2/
Note: In 2004 the Republican Congress refused to renew the assault weapons ban

*sigh*

#Australia has caught the nonsensical #SUV bug, and their emissions are shooting through the roof as a result. #ClimateEmergency

Note: a per capita #emissions chart might show a different picture considering the US caught that bug some decades ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/28/rise-of-fuel-guzzling-suvs-costing-australians-13bn-extra-at-the-pump-per-year-report-finds

For the past 6 hours, there’s been 2,000+ Mastodon account creations per hour.

This hasn’t happened since December 2022.

@mmasnick predicted that Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue policies would result in another Mastodon migration, and it looks like he’s right.

Once Twitter effectively becomes “pay to play”, Mastodon suddenly becomes more appealing.

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110102918619817258

@fediversenews

So look—I've never been quite as big a fan of Steven Wolfram as Steven Wolfram is.

But credit where due: if you can get past the idiosyncrasies, in this piece he does a better job than I could of trying to explain from the ground up what it is that ChatGPT is doing.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

The brutal truth is that last week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report didn’t have the effect it should have had, or that its authors clearly intended. Produced by thousands of scientists who synthesized the work of tens of thousands of their peers over the last decade, & meticulously drafted by teams of careful communicators, it landed in the world with a gentle plop, not the resounding thud that’s required

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/27/older-people-climate-protest-banks-ipcc

#ecology #environment
#ClimateChange #Climate