Maybe he needs to get ratioed to even feel anything now.

Cars and vans bobbing in flood water in an Edwardian suburban street.

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it"

Or till the background is the street you grew up in. Hits home.

Mmhm. Being given an assignment in university that required us to parse records in the GEDCOM format sure gave me a wild rabbithole to fall down.

BTW extensive family tree stuff exists largely because of the rite of Baptism for the Dead in the Church of Latter-day Saints, a practice that has compelled the collection of several tens of billions of genealogical records.

As far back as 2023 (a year after parliament protest) this infographic captures the domestic+transnational #disinformation ecosystem linked to Cyclone Gabrielle. The report has much more detail. Climate change denial's scale, & sophistication in NZ is far greater now, which I also flag. #nzpol

The I've-read-too-much-Cyberpunk part of my brain wants to call it "vibe fade".

I suspect that it may indeed be a dopamine hangover.

Half of it reads like a drunken book report, and the other half like a gushing Microsoft Copilot sales brochure, with their "commitment to educate" hundreds of thousands of us about "AI skills" and not a gramme of substance to back that up.

That just sounds like a sales target to me.

The article is bizarre in reporting on a report without actually naming it or linking to it, too. It's kind of like hearing the general plot of a movie from someone in a bar, five drinks in.

Does anyone know what "acing the pivot" means? Or indeed which report they're referring to? This report on the report doesn't actually say.

Clémence-Auguste Royer and the Rise of Aryan Ideology The relationships between social Darwinism, eugenics movement and Nazi ideology presents a highly discussed and controversial issue. Many representatives of social Darwinism, especially in Germany, Fr...

Mmhm. See also: www.academia.edu/109665077/Cl...

That reads like a student writing a school essay who's trying to pad the text to a word limit.

Lessons from the Pacific for a warming Aotearoa | E-Tangata “Sensible, precautionary investments will do much to help us manage climate change’s worst impacts on our health, saving the country’s health budget and our wellbeing well into the future.” — Lucy Cas...

“Sensible, precautionary investments will do much to help us manage climate change’s worst impacts on our health, saving the country’s health budget and our wellbeing well into the future.” — Lucy Cassels.

Ah hell. I hope it abates soon.

They are the goon squad and they're coming to town, beep-beep!

A "Preference/Information" popup modal dialog on drawio-app.com. There is a short introduction, then "Strictly Necessary", "Statistics", "Marketing" and "External Media" headings in a row, none of which do anything. Below, an orange bar with white text that says "I accept all". Below that, a white background with difficult-to-read light grey text that says "Individual Privacy Preferences" and "Accept only strictly necessary cookies". Below that are three more options: * "Preferences/Information" (goes to the same place as Individual Privacy Preferences) * "Privacy Policy" and "Imprint" (go to a Seibert Group website, in German)

What kind of terrible dark pattern marketing cookie UI have you wrought here, @drawio.bsky.social?

Please give people readable, accessible options with good contrast. Und vielleicht eine privacy policy in the same language as the website they are visiting, bitte.

After that length of time, it sounds a little more like a vote of grudging acceptance with no firm alternative.

Just in case any of the tourists is interested:
elections.nz/democracy-in...

We've only gone and cooked it, haven't we.

"Just Grow a Garden": The Advice That Refuses to Die New Zealand's food insecurity crisis has more than tripled since 2017. So why are people still telling struggling families to plant vegetables?

Nearly 10 years on, we've gone backwards - and a lot of that has occured at pace the last 3 years under National:

#nzpol

open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Indeed. And yet far from jovial.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Southern Pacific Ocean showing a lot of strange weather patterns colliding with each other in wet and turbulent ways.

Southern Pacific sure looks like a mess right now, eh.
earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

The full story is much more interesting than the gushing puff piece, eh.

In case the robot logistics, battery swaps etc. are of interest:
www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o...

At seven “supply stations” where robot batteries could be replaced, robots performed a “resurrection (full-blooded revival)” by replacing their main batteries on their backs within 10 seconds to 1 minute without powering down. Teams were allowed to switch “athletes” to the same model robot twice during the race, with a 5-meter safety distance between robots. Around 50 “volunteer robots” were also deployed to guide human runners, clean, and provide meal services.

Some more details about the battery logistics etc. here:
www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o...

This question reads like the surveillance capitalist version of "why do you people hate our freedoms?"

You try to screw too much profit out of "convenient", and people will revert to something that gives them simplicity and personal agency.