Open post dfroidmont @dfroidmont@mastodon.green · 6mo ago Replying to @ZLabe@fediscience.org <p>Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me. Temperatures over 110°F (43°C) in March, shattering all-time monthly records on multiple consecutive days, and not just by a little. </p><p>➡️ I can confirm this is human-caused climate change.</p><p>Graphic by <a href="https://polarwx.com/models/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">polarwx.com/models/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p> @ZLabe Awful. We've left the realm of natural variability.
Open post dfroidmont @dfroidmont@mastodon.green · 6mo ago Replying to @plexus@toot.cat <p>It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.</p><p>How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.</p><p>But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.</p> @plexus nagel on the kop
Open post dfroidmont @dfroidmont@mastodon.green · 6mo ago Replying to @QasimRashid@mastodon.social <p>So to recap:<br />•Trump illegally bombed Iran.<br />•Iran responded by closing the Straight of Hormuz, thus spiking oil prices.<br />•Trump is now responding by lifting sanctions on Iranian oil, thus funding the regime he's bombing—all as the Straight of Hormuz remains closed.</p><p>So in short, Trump bombed Iran, raised oil prices for Americans, and gave Iran more money. Masterful gambit by the author of the Art of the Deal.</p><p>Are we great yet?</p> @QasimRashid Time to make an extension of his old boardgame: "Trump the backpedaler" He'll probably do the same thing with Cuba next.