Mark Zuckerberg:
“I think a lot of the corporate world is pretty culturally neutered. It’s one thing to say we want to be kind of, like, welcoming and make a good environment for everyone, and I think it’s another to basically say that 'masculinity is bad.'"
“I think having a culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive,”
Also Mark Zuckerberg:
B👀bies! OMG, B👀bies!
https://www.tiktok.com/@thesun/video/7462099250818731297
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AirBnB can go right straight to hell for what they've done to our housing market. Now they want to act like the good people saving displaced folks from the wildfires...
Notice they are not giving up on their profit and paying for longer stays themselves. They are asking for you and I to pay the hoarders of homes to allow evacuees and first responders to stay longer. They, of course, will take the tax credit and profit.
[#]LAFires
[#]ClimateChange
[#]LateStageCapitalism
[#]HousingHoarders
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Just a reminder that, come Monday, a large proportion of people in red USian states are going to feel miserable and helpless about the direction of the country, but we will still exist and resist. Don't give up on us.
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Lol. Let's hear it for the men!
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/01/17/ladies-its-time-hand-country-back-men-column/
[#]oligarchy
[#]masculinity
[#]broligarchy
[#]kleptocracy
[#]equity
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Slack changed their rules again. A few years ago, a Ph.D. student in my research group set up slack for our group and it had been pretty nice for a while with some fun channels in addition to lab stuff. But now students can't really distribute documents over the service because they get deleted after a period of time (which may change).
[#]slack
[#]communications
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Just a reminder that the dry season in California, when wildfires normally happen, is from May to September. Late fall and winter are crucial for filling reservoirs and building snowpack.
We cannot let the news media normalize this as a "natural disaster" and erase the normal seasonality of these events.
https://www.drought.gov/dews/california-nevada
[#]ClimateChange
[#]ClimateDisaster
[#]ClimateEmergency
[#]CaliforniaFires
[#]LosAngeles
[#]wildfire
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The comments...(and the post) 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
via @vkc
https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/113771605658095099
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Damn.
[#]BicycleLife
[#]BicycleCommute
[#]FlatTire
[#]CommuteByBike
[#]BetterByBicycle
[#]StillCheaperThanACar
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Remember when people were arrested from throwing soup on paintings to protest #ClimateChange? Yeah? Well I wonder if everyone who wanted them arrested is starting to do the math.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/grounds-of-getty-museum-in-la-catch-fire-the-washington-posts-cartoonist-quits-over-censorship-1234729430/
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Today in billionaire news:
A billionaire who could end hunger at least in the United States wants to buy TikTok instead.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/billionaire-frank-mccourts-project-liberty-proposes-bid-tiktoks-us-assets-2025-01-09/
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This is similar to how they filled arenas in the U.S.A. and got enough votes to win the election.
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113800010789767388
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Essa música me pega toda vez #musiquinta
https://youtu.be/YBcdt6DsLQA?si=KRoKhUKf3RRmsR_c
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My take that no one asked for: we should be paying Brazilians more for the oxygen that their forests produce than for the steaks that they produce after cutting down the forests.
How much do we pay for oxygen? $0. Does that mean it is devoid of value? Of course not. It simply means that our markets are centered on absolutely the wrong things.
https://newsie.social/@allthebrazilianpolitics/113798471684837521
[#]deforestation
[#]agriculture
[#]meat
[#]LandUseChange
[#]ecocide
[#]ClimateChange
[#]oxygen
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Been seeing a lot of fun poked at Meta this week because they announced the end to fact checking.
But we don't have fact checking #OnHere.
Been also seeing increased commentary about "well, actually..." culture in the #Fedi.
Without fact checking we have to decide what content to trust and what not to trust. That can lead to community self-policing. I wonder if a lack of fact checking results naturally in well actually culture increases...
[#]WellActually
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Feeling a bit despondent today.
Because of the hurricanes, I can't work in my office because there is mold remediation happening in the building.
Because of the hurricanes, we have to remove an 80 year old oak tree that is leaning toward our house, one that will almost certainly crush half of our house in another hurricane.
So I have to witness the massacre of this great tree while I try to work from home. It is snowing sawdust. Chainsaws groan and scream. Loud thuds let me know every bough that is felled. It really sucks to be responsible for the dismantling of a great tree. I feel like we should be dismantling the house instead.
[#]HurricaneMilton
[#]ClimateChange
[#]trees
[#]ThickTrunkTuesday
[#]sad
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Here is the link to the article in Nature that the Tampa Bay Times refers to. Nature is a magazine which charges exorbitant fees to view the published works within, even if those works were funded in the public domain. Sadly, there is a good chance that this is paywalled :(.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01807-8
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It also underscores the importance of maintenance of information, libraries, archives, etc. The contributors to this 19th century publication probably had little idea how important it would be to researchers today! (It is like a dream for all of us scientists that our publications will have any relevance after 25 years, let alone almost 2 centuries!).
[#]libraries
[#]archives
[#]InformationSecurity
[#]InformationPreservation
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All that to say that this publication from the mid 19th century is a gold mine for climate change research. In this case, the Tampa Bay Times article refers to a research paper published in the journal (magazine) Nature that used the data in the old publication to test the predictions of phenologic models. These models try to understand the timing and cyclicity of processes such as migration, bloom, seasonal die-off, etc. and how these cycles will be affected by climate change. These studies can be quite a bit more challenging for finding an adequate baseline for comparison than, say, a temperature record. That is why this is so cool!
[#]phenology
[#]ClimateChange
[#]ClimateDiary
[#]NorthAmerica
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This is really cool research. One fundamental question with climate change is how will we tell if it is actually happening. It sounds ridiculous, but by definition, a change in climate is a change from a robust average of meteorologic conditions. How well that average is defined is of utmost importance when we make such a comparison, but, for a lot of observations we are able to make today, we were not able to make those observations long ago. Therefore, we do not generally have a strong, well-defined baseline climate for a lot of time periods and places. Regions like Europe have long temperature records that are generally comparable with those today. Areas of the ocean, including deep waters, do not. This is problematic because the ocean is the single most important driver of Earth's climate system. We often have to seek oral histories and other non-normalized, but important data types, in order to compare with our instrumental record.
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The ultimate #ClimateDiary entry - 600 pages of N. American plant data from nearly 200 years ago!
https://www.tampabay.com/news/weather/2025/01/06/smithsonian-institution-climate-change-florida/
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