Ugh, yes. It's enough to make you migrate polewards. At least in Canberra the minima are not tooooo drastic. Hoping it only lasts a week... BOM's vid yesterday said something like "it might take until next weekend for the heat to be flushed out" so I hold on to that bit of hope...
not ideal but I'd bet most bedrooms have this kind of overnight cycle. HRV would help a lot
this is what happens when you don't have an air force
Hey look, it's more "cognitive amplification."
So Firefox has decided it will become an "AI" browser?
Bye, Firefox. Hello, Vivaldi.
Fantastic. And a giant middle finger to the "conservative" ghouls (looking at you, Barnaby Joyce) who tried to block the cervical cancer vaccine.
So the National Party has decided to completely abandon Australian farmers, and all their rural electoral base; they will now stand only for (the short term interests of some) miners. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"Australia is also the first nation to surpass 1 GWh of utility battery capacity per million people, launching it into a league of its own, far ahead of China and the United States, each with less than 400 MWh per 1 million people."
I wanted this to be true but this one appears to be a widely circulated myth... apparently the title should belong to the whale shark (brain:body ratio of 1 to 40,000). The bony-eared assfish has a ratio more like 1 to 4,000.
When you hear people claiming that #immigration is raising #housing prices... nope.
Cutting immigration would *raise* housing prices (in #Australia), mostly because it would increase the labour costs for construction.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”
Via @momentummag.bsky.social
When you hear people claiming that #immigration is raising #housing prices... nope.
Cutting immigration would *raise* housing prices (in #Australia), mostly because it would increase the labour costs for construction.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ten years ago, over vodkas, three Kremlin colonels joke about how to turn the US into Idiocracy - and here we are
It's "the fine aroma of the Dark Lord". Just a tip for next time.
Hell, we'll anthropomorphise a sock. Of course we believe an overpowered autocomplete script has a soul.
Well that's a handy list of whom and what to boycott. Finally something genuinely useful coming from the Trumperbunker.
In #Australia, if you drive a #petrol or #diesel #car, about 39% of the #fuel import revenue goes to fund #Russia’s war effort against #Ukraine. Yet another reason to switch to an #EV.
energyandcleanair.org/fact-sheet-a...
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
Global emissions from heating are about 4x those from cooling.
Air conditioning is an important and lifesaving adaptation to climate change.
Decarbonize the grid.
I'd say in most usage there's no difference. Unless you're New Caledonia. Or one of the bits of the UK.
Somewhere in between then, depending on what kind of site they want: Ghost, even (shudder) WordPress
People around the world are starving now because of Musk’s cuts. They are dying of disease because of Musk’s cuts. They are being born with diseases they will carry with them for the rest of their lives because of Musk’s cuts. https://trib.al/SYA9PjR
Photo of the a large group of GISS employees/colleagues in front of Toms Restaurant with a prominent street sign saying "112th St" taken from the middle of Broadway. Credit: Tricia Baron.
Last day at the GISS building (Wed. May 28th). 🥲
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
A conference in a modern venue, with attendees seated at round tables. A presenter stands at a podium in front of large screens displaying slides.
I categorically disagree with claims that CO₂ removal (CDR) is a scam. The field is full of smart people dedicated to figuring out what, if anything, works, because we’ll need CDR in the future for legacy and residual emissions. Funding via market mechanisms isn’t ideal, but doesn’t make it a scam.
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
turns out it was Canterbury RSL
The Earth seen from Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve 1968. Picture taken by Bill Anders.
At an Earth Day event this evening, I was asked to talk about the 'Overview Effect' - the profound sense of awe many people feel when seeing the Earth from space.
Advertisement for "Trumpet of Patriots" political party, with headline "We don't need to be welcomed to our own country".
Hey @canberratimes.bsky.social please stop running these racist, history-denying, white-supremacist ads from Clive Palmer's outfit. #canberra #auspol #election #canberratimes