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Online games struggle to rein in hateful usernames, report finds https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/online-games-struggle-rein-hateful-usernames-report-finds-rcna95605

The current El Niño is coming on strong. Much stronger and far more quickly, in fact, than most researchers expected.

From a report by the BBC...
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Scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding.

"I'm not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory," said Dr Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics. "If I'm surprised by anything, it's that we're seeing the records broken in June, so early in the year. El Niño normally doesn't really have a global impact until five or six months into the phase."

The average global ocean temperature has smashed records for May, June, and July. It is approaching the highest sea surface temperature ever recorded, which was in 2016.

The area covered by sea-ice in the Antarctic is at record lows for July. There is an area around 10 times the size of the UK missing, compared with the 1981-2010 average.

Alarm bells are ringing for scientists as they try to unpick the exact link to climate change.

Dr Caroline Holmes at the British Antarctic Survey emphasises it is not just a record being broken — it is being smashed by a long way.

"This is nothing like anything we've seen before in July. It's 10% lower than the previous low, which is huge," said Holmes. She calls it "another sign that we don't really understand the pace of change."

"You can say that we've fallen off a cliff, but we don't know what's at the bottom of the cliff here," said Holmes. "I think this has taken us by surprise in terms of the speed of which has happened. It's definitely not the best case scenario that we were looking at — it's closer to the worst case."
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FULL STORY -- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66229065

#Ocean #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Let me tell you the secret of the "Everything App".

It's real, it's not called X, and it's about 33 years old. It's called a Web Browser.

Despite a decade of walled gardens trying hard to ruin it, you can still do pretty much any task you need on the web.

You can even make websites into apps with Progressive Web Apps (two clicks on WordPress).

The everything app is old, and under siege daily. But it works, it's resilient, and it's magical.

#x #Twitter #webdev #tech #web

My daughter: Have you ever been to a casino?
Me: Yes.
Her: What is it like?
Me: Imagine putting your money into a gumball machine but not getting a gumball

Judge rules Kansas Highway Patrol was violating rights with traffic stops.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/judge-rules-kansas-highway-patrol?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=77302

When healthy vegetables and greens are tainted by #PFAS https://www.greenmatters.com/health-and-wellness/pfas-kale - this is far from an isolated issue. Soil, water and air are all polluted. Everything including ourselves, polluted despite efforts to always eat #vegan or #vegetarian, recycle, lower carbon footprint. This is not a reason to abandon good choices - but rather be aware of how plastics are systematically killing us all. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1105222327/epa-drinking-water-chemicals-pfas-pfoa-pfos #DrinkingWater #chemicals #pollution #plastics

I baked. 🐇

#baking #bunnies #fluffy

NEWS | LITIGATION | REDISTRICTING | ALABAMA
Alabama Republicans Send Congressional Map Without Second Majority-Black District to Governor

July 21, 2023

UPDATE: On Friday, July 21, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed the new congressional map into law.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, July 21, the Alabama House voted 75-28 to pass a new congressional map without a second majority-Black district in defiance of a federal district court order.

This new plan, called “Livingston Congressional Plan 3,” was passed by a conference committee and the Alabama Senate earlier today, so it will now head to Gov. Kay Ivey (R) for her signature. This plan has a Black Voting Age Population of 39.93% in the state’s 2nd Congressional District and 50.65% in the 7th Congressional District.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/alabama-republicans-send-congressional-map-without-second-majority-black-district-to-governor/

This cruel dumb "candidate" has completely
LOST CONTROL of his messaging from inside or outside.
He/his team are too undereducated to identify NAZI symbols.
Or maybe that’s what they stand for.
#wegottaditchhim #voteblue

I strongly recommend following @Deglassco, particularly if you are a non-Black American. You will learn all the things about Black American history that they did not teach you in high school, or probably even in college. And she ends each long thread with a bibliography for those who want to learn more on the subject. No other account has made me wish for an “unroll” function on Mastodon. I wish I could save each thread as a PDF.

If you hold a Big Mac up to your ear you can hear the sound of an employee telling you the ice cream machine is broken.

https://www.al.com/life/2023/07/did-you-see-one-of-these-contraptions-on-your-vacation-it-was-probably-made-in-alabama.html?fbclid=IwAR2rocavUCmZA-mBbnt-dEjO9ATXW3OlL0UK_P4jaRtPZCFesefs2rdrfFs_aem_AcV0McPj9wPar3qGXGmO37scPp2WD27-sUznpejFghAGCWhm1B4C4j8rs5Chsa-PiNQ&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

@tsungi

"🌲 there is no such thing as too many #trees."

In principle, I agree.
In practice, actually there is: too many eucalyptus trees. If I remember correctly, their roots go deeper than those of most other trees, thus robbing them of water.

Pence is 'nakedly lying' about Trump's intent on Jan. 6: Former Homeland Security aide https://www.rawstory.com/mike-pence-nakedly-lying/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

So last week our friend B hated Asteroid City, this evening Tom found Indiana Jones “tedious”. I agree that there were way too many car/motorbike/train/tuk tuk/plane chases and there was a heck of a lot of knocking out people with a single punch. Still, it’s good to remind younger viewers that Nazis are actually bad and deserve punching. Overall I found it quite entertaining and would give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Brilliant.

Scientists say Florida Keys coral reefs are already bleaching as water temperatures hit record highs
#News #GlobalWarming #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #coralbleaching #AureFreePress

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-scientists-florida-keys-coral-reefs.html

Record temps along Florida's coast threaten severe coral reef bleaching
#News #GlobalWarming #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187847482/record-temps-along-floridas-coast-threaten-severe-coral-reef-bleaching