During the last Canadian election?—Off the agenda.
At the G7?—Nary a mention.
And at the annual COP climate meetings?—Virtually torpedoed by Big Oil.
Even Greta is off doing other things.
Yet the scientific reports keep piling up, atmospheric CO2 levels have breached 430 ppm and are accelerating, oceans are heating up at an alarming rate.
What will it take to return climate change to front and centre on the world’s agenda?
#ClimateChange
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I am really enjoying the 1981 book on Petri nets I picked up over the weekend. It's not directly useful to me but it's well-written and doesn't get too bogged down in graduate level math. They devote a short appendix to bag theory, basically set theory but lifting the restriction of unique elements. They need that for representing the inputs and outputs of a transition. It's all laid out incrementally and logically, surprisingly easy to follow.
And once they've established the structure of a Petri net, they introduce the concept of 'markings', how state is represented in a Petri net and how the the dynamic behavior of the network relates to the markings and sequence of transitions. A state machine is essentially a one-token marking of a Petri net where transitions have single (unique) entry and exit points. You have the same reachability concerns as you have with state machines (cue REM's "Can't get there from here"...) but with the added complexity of having enough tokens in the right places to enable transitions. There's a bit of Conway's Game of Life in here - Conway used a regular grid of places, a uniform pattern of transitions between a place and its eight neighbors, and a marking limited to one token per place. There's probably a method for generating the sequence of transitions as well - I've just hit the dynamic aspects of Petri nets and it wouldn't surprise me if the book used the Gane of Life as an example in the coming sections.
Petri nets have a strong connection with games and I think if a gamedev can get past the formal math, there are some really interesting ideas and a solid theory underpinning certain game mechanics - this could be useful as a tool or just as something to help you think about mechanics in a different way.
Math can be really interesting and even fun if you can disconnect it from the drudge of formal education.
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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
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Life is not a pony farm. *Wanting* to be online is quite different thing from *getting* to be online.
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I am waiting for the time when people with a wire cutter and a soldering iron will make good money by lobotomizing "smart" devices. I'll be there, offering my services (I am great at removing stuff ...). It will be a great preparation for the time when we will all scavenge the ruins for items to re-use. After the fall, I mean.
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@glitzersachen @lori I watched a video last night from a guy "repairing" his IoT outdoor grill that wasn't syncing with his web-app by taking a second grill's working control board and swapping the firmware. Presto, his grill now queries AWS every 20 seconds like it was designed to.
One, what the eff. And two, you could have extracted two perfectly functional ESP32's *and* made your grill work by ripping all that junk out instead.
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#Teamsters #union #pride #fair #wages #job #security #slow #walking #negotiations #pay #below #minimum #wage #Kroger #greed #grocery #price #eggs #trucks #food #inflation thestreet.com/retail/kroger-fa…
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This is the military taking part in civilian law enforcement.
"Detention" is breaking the law. You know, when people cared about that.
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The President’s invasion of Southern California continues apace.Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows | Reuters
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BOOM! I was looking for some way to say somethin like that but you said it better. They absolutely derive power from it. In fact, they feed on our revulsion. So calling them hypocrites is just flattering these malignant scumbags.
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The most important part of any international tragedy is finding the Canadian that was affected, and reporting on it.
Mission accomplished.
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Toronto dentist among 242 aboard crashed Air India plane; British national only survivor, airline says
The London-bound flight crashed into a residential area five minutes after taking off from the local airport in Ahmedabad, India.The Toronto Star
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Silly socialist, you lack ambition! 😋 /s
As hell-fires rage, Canada sees national unity in pipelines - Toronto Star
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Linda McQuaig: As climate induced hell-fires rage across the country, Canada looks to build pipelines — in the name of national unity
Even as the hell-fires rage, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, the media barely mentions climate change, presumably due to fear of being accused of destroying the new-foundThe Toronto Star
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Oh dear, he was rude to the fascists. Now I guess I am on the fascist's side. /s
NOT.
More people should be rude to fascists.
Too many of my buttons have been pushed. Please try not to burn anything down that poor people own or need.
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“When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”
– Harry Stonecipher, former Boeing CEO
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One of the things I find most upsetting about the current US regime is their concerted attack on science and education. That alone, is going to have generational consequences, and the dismantling of organizations like the EPA, CDC and NOAA will affect not just the United States, but the whole world.
Today's blog post collects a few links documenting the US regime's war on science.
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#science #environment #space #nasa #ClimateChange
Dispatches from the War on Science
One of the things I find most upsetting about the current US regime is their concerted attack on science and education. That alone, is going...coredump3.blogspot.com
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A small group of users are trying to create alternative-subreddits covering major cities, where the posts are all right wing, pro-Trump, anti-human talking points.
Interestingly, these users all appear to be associated with Palantir, the Peter Thiel supported private surveillance agency.
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Trump's Fort Bragg speech was a Nuremberg Rally.
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Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.Konstantin Toropin, Steve Beynon (Military.com)
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Any comments from healthcare professionals with regard to RFK Jr’s firing our advisory board personnel, to be replaced with his own quack loyalist?
How is the medical profession going to come to terms with this change of affairs? I know the AMA has been posting updates with regard to contagious diseases, but that’s sort of a stop gap.
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The ability to protest is protected in a democracy. Without protest - hell without a riot or two - more than half of Americans wouldn't have the right to vote.
On that note, a riotous Pride to everyone out there. Fight the power, eat the rich, and all that jazz.
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Stephen Miller can't make America white. LA is paying for his impotent rage
#FailedPolicies #ImpotentRage #ImmigrationReform #StephenMiller #RacialJustice
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Stephen Miller can't make America white. LA is paying for his impotent rage
Mass deportations were never going to work, so Trump and Miller resort to authoritarian theaterSalon.com
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June 14th
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My 7 year old saw a “no kings” sign on an overpass and we started talking about Hamilton and how America “doesn’t do kings”
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Trump and ICE unlawfully using military against US citizens protesting in California for political purposes.
Is this the end of the beginning, meaning real fight starts now against taking down American fascism?
Or, the beginning of the end, meaning American Fascism prevailing and America has fallen?
Only "We the People" can answer those questions with our actions ......
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Apparently (per #ytdlp) #YouTube is A/B testing #DRM on all videos:
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[YouTube] DRM on ALL videos with `tv` (TVHTML5) client · Issue #12563 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Checklist I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site I've verified that I have updated yt-dlp to nightly or master (update instructions) I've checked that all provided URLs are playabl...GitHub
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“What’s the new gadget? The domey thing, I mean. Heh; looks a bit like a Demon Core”
“It is.”
“Fuck off!”
“It’s an essential tool for the modern jeweler!”
“For Eris’ sake, why?”
“Finsibs. Back in the twenty-first the dominance flex for a certain kind of overmoneyed dipshit was having the thinnest mechanical wristwatch. They blew past 2mm and talked of one. Cost in the millions.”
“Well, better wasting money on jewelry than splattering themselves on Mars, I guess. Again. But, Demon Core—spill!”
“Servicing. Micron scale gear trains run up against the problem that solvent molecules and ultrasonic waves are bigger than some of the parts. This century your modern Rich Asshole Horology needs a whole different cleaning approach.”
“So what, then?”
“Prompt neutrons. Pass me that screwdriver.”
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NBC News reporter who Trump border czar called ‘very dishonest’ fires back: ‘It’s right there on tape’ | The Independent
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NBC News reporter who Trump border czar called ‘very dishonest’ fires back: ‘It’s right there on tape’
“I don’t know what Tom Homan had seen, but we were very clear in giving the full context of the statement he had made,” Jacob Soboroff stated on MondayJustin Baragona (The Independent)
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Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza
We write because of the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month, which is broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organizations as constituting genocide.Alex Neve (Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along)
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in reply to jd 🔆 • • •To answer your question?
Nothing. The good guys were always losing and now they formally lost. It doesn't help that in most countries, it came down to parties who paid lip service to climate change while still making things worse, and parties who denigrated climate change while making things very much worse.
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in reply to jd 🔆 • • •Thought leaders have done their bit - it's stalling at the grassroots level.
Heating engineers do not feel motivated to reschool themselves to know how to install heatpumps, so they keep fitting fossil fuel furnaces. Doug Ford stopped the mass installation of charging stations, so Ontarians are afraid to get an EV.
No one has yet made a film that makes a teenage boy on an ebike sexy, the way dozens of films have done for jalopies or motorcycles.