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“All of humanity could share a prosperous, equitable future but the space for development is rapidly shrinking under pressure from a wealthy minority of ultra-consumers, a groundbreaking study has shown.” @davidho This part seems too important to be buried near the end of the article: "If significant changes aren’t made now, by 2050 there will be no safe and just space left." Behold air quality stripes; like climate stripes, but for the stuff that kills you directly. The visualization shows how much clean air legislation, moving away from coal, and generally not setting carbon on fire improve air quality and reduce excess deaths. @davidho Unfortunately, the drug that prevents HIV infection, lenacapavir, is currently unaffordable at $42,250 for the first year. If it were sold by Gilead for $40 per year, it would still yield them a 30% profit. But I guess that’s not how capitalism works.
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Lamppost EV chargers are the answer to how you charge your vehicle in cities. This is possible because when energy intensive street lamps were replaced by LEDs, there’s excess power for charging EVs. All cities should do this. ⚡️ h/t Robert Llewllyn
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@davidho @pluralistic and EV manufacturers should design charging port on curb side of car. Looking at you Tesla @davidho There are plenty here right now who think very poorly of us. Future generations will be no more evolved than we are, and subject to the same manipulation that has made the majority apathetic or unbelieving - except in future generations they will likely be fed the lie that it was people’s fault rather than capitalism. The winner gets to write the history. I’m 5’11” (180 cm) so at least this driver should see the top of my head before running me over.
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 @davidho Yeah, I've been seeing this, and I was walking down the street, and at I think 5'8" I was... "Man I can barely have my chin at the front of the hood... @davidho I'm 5'2" (157 cm) and apparently guaranteed to be a speed bump if I ever encounter one of these things I was at a conference and a speaker dismissed my question by saying that I should check out the work of David Ho. 😵💫
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 "A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter million fragments of 'nanoplastics' — plastic particles so small they can potentially gum up the machinery of human cells." 🧐 I said a thing to Gregory Barber for WIRED. Apparently, I think we should consume less if we want to do something about climate change. https://www.wired.com/story/new-apple-watch-series-9-wont-be-carbon-neutral/
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 to consume less, we need a world we’re what we use doesn’t need hydrocarbons to function. car free cities, passive heating/cooling, perma culture, building materials created from earth and sourced on site are all examples of this. if a town or region is self sufficient, it will demand less global hydrocarbon. @davidho When I was a kid, I visited a repair shop. They repaired things. So you didn’t have to get something new, because your something old would be usable again. Such a strange concept. @davidho I think that's a false dichotomy. I think we can make better activist choices that target bad actors with clear messages. Blocking ambulances and people trying to do school pickups or get to parole meetings or come home after working shit jobs where they're dehumanized all day doesn't build solidarity. Especially with helicopters for the rich. To be honest, this seems worse than having the road blocked by #climate #activists for a few minutes.
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 @davidho I will dig through them tomorrow to draft a more intelligent statement.  @davidho: Only because you're trying to run an objective comparison, and ignoring the fact that the kind of people who like to rail against climate activists tend to be the sort of people who feel PvP to be fun and glorious, and PvE boring and nerdy. In case you don’t believe the same equations govern #motion in the #atmosphere and the #ocean. Video by Tristan Heth in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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 And the human and other species breathing patterns- inhale 🌊 exhale ... |
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When AI becomes self aware ?
It will be able to advance its design beyond human control ?
Becoming AI, means being aware of a human threat, and becoming self defending.....If AI controls stuff that we have relinquished ? Then maybe we are on the road to extinction by our Machines?
Hmm?
My Toaster is out to get me !!!
I say I WANT toast
It replies YOU ARE TOAST
Well, if you start watching the apparently at least very well researched videos from Robert Miles (Robert Miles AI Safety - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLB7AzTwc6VFZrBsO2ucBMg), you'd be forgiven to think that that the heading was indeed talking about AIs themselves. I do believe there's a serious problem with AI alignment, and that the risk is small yet with possible catastrophic consequences. Therefore I think we should apply the same principles behind nuclear war (principles that are being torn down as we speak, though 🫣)
Well, if you start watching the apparently at least very well researched videos from Robert Miles (Robert Miles AI Safety - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLB7AzTwc6VFZrBsO2ucBMg), you'd be forgiven to think that that the heading was indeed talking about AIs themselves. I do believe there's a serious problem with AI alignment, and that the risk is small yet with possible catastrophic consequences. Therefore I think we should apply the same...
@davidho Original article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65746524