Years ago some little punk thought it was a sick burn to say to me ‘You probably hang out with your friends making PUNS all weekend!’ Why yes, Dino, that’s exactly what I do lol
Quarterly global solar installations appear to be growing at 50% per annum over the past three years." Also, China's first half 2023 solar build jumped 154% compared to H1 2022! World may add about 390 GW of solar in 2023.
The #ClimateProgress the U.S. has made because enough Americans voted for Biden will be causing our 8% share of this graph to soon increase thankfully too!
We can't (and shouldn't) bring back the old, good internet.
We can (and must!) make a NEW, good internet.
https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b
#enshittification #interoperability #labor #news #FreedomOfReach #bossware
That's about it. Allows for the saving of old comments, pictures, data etc. I use it as a timeline reference that I can reflect on for writing or artwork.
Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66304002
Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump/index.html
Thank you, Kristen Clarke. Good to have the DOJ taking action against racist school systems, again
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/students-racist-taunts-confederate-flag-kentucky-madison-county-schools-doj-settlement/?s=09
“Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along.” Listen to these women! They’ve been sounding the alarm for a long time.
#AI #LLMs #ML #BlackMastodon https://mastodon.online/@dgodon/110880115860332495
Judge warns Trump: ‘Inflammatory’ statements about election case could speed trial - FAaFO, #AmIRight? 😂 https://apple.news/A9FQ5iCnCROK8rmLF5qMMxQ
"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."
Stories from the Country of Lost Borders
Mary Hunter Austin died #OTD in 1934. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. via @wikipedia
Books by Mary Austin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/201
“Trump appears to have given up on winning the cases against him on the legal merits and is instead trying to win by whipping up a political base to reelect him, or even to fight for him.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #Republicans
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-11-2023
@Huntn00 @MikeDunnAuthor If it had actually been fought to eradicate fascism, the allies would have finished the job by defeating Franco. But they didn't, letting down the veterans from the Spanish Civil War (which is the war the originator of the quote fought and died in, by the way) who supported the allies by joining their armies or the French resistance after fleeing the country.
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.