James GleickAt least now we know the correct term for leaving the hellsite formerly know as Twitter: š-it
As in, the great š-it is under way.
Hercule Parrot
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šµš·Just a friendly reminder!
Bread and CircusesCanada is still on fire, along with Greece, Spain, the Swiss Alps, and many other places. š„š„š„
In Canada, the total is now over a thousand active fires, with 680 burning out of control. More than 11 million hectares of Canadian forests and grasslands have been consumed by flames, WAY above all previous records.
SOURCE ā https://ciffc.ca/
Our world is burning. But that will never stop us, of course, from carrying on with Business As Usual. That is, it wonāt stop the oil industry from drilling and fracking and from mining tar sands. Why? Because capitalism!!š°š°š°
#Canada #Greece #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Maria PopovaAstronomer Vera Rubin, who confirmed the existence of dark matter (and should have received a Nobel), would have been 95 today. Her inspiring story, and then an animated poem about dark matter read by Patti Smith: https://t.co/wjAgeo7ZvR
Let There Always Be Light: Dark Matter and the Mystery of Our Mortal Stardust (Patti Smith Reads Rebecca Elson)
āFor this we go out dark nights, searchingā¦ for signs of unseen thingsā¦ Let there be swarms of them, enough for immortality, always a star where we can warm ourselves.ā
Andrew KurjataI'm reading this book right now, in a city roughly the same size as Fort McMurray in the midst of an unprecedentedly hot and dry summer surrounded by fires and... Even though I've been living with this for years, it's still eye-opening
// āFire Weatherā is a gripping narrative and a loud wake-up call
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/06/07/fire-weather-john-vaillant-fort-mcmurray-review/
br00t4cKamala Harris Slams Florida's New Black History Curriculum: 'History With Lies'
Dr. Jack Brown 
Tommy Tuberville, Brett Farve, and Herschel Walker are just three reasons why Americans should never equate sport accomplishments with anything other than sports accomplishments.
Dan Gillmor"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon ā¦) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
Judd LegumThe audience for the CNN townhall w/Trump will be 400 Republicans & GOP-leaning independents
Allowing Trump to appear in front of an audience exclusively comprised of people who are likely sympathetic to Trump -- and then turn over the questions to that group -- is irresponsible
The Tyee#New: Auditors investigating BC Housing have found a pattern of mismanagement including āmissing important financial infoā as well as spending millions of dollars without proper scrutiny, Premier David Eby told the legislature today.
