Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

fedex just texted me that my package will be delivered about 2-4 hours ago from now

“We found that the wealthiest 10% contributed 6.5 times more to global warming than the average, with the top 1% and 0.1% contributing 20 and 76 times more, respectively,” the write in their paper, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Co-author Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, said: “If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50% of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990"

The only dangerous minority are the rich.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/two-thirds-of-global-heating-caused-by-richest-study-suggests

@tay I always make sure to post some very unhingedly horny stuff if one of my tech posts escapes containment.

Either it scares off the people who follow for the tech post, or it awakens something. Either outcome is acceptable to me 🤣

hi reddit, I'm disarming a bomb. should I cut the red or the blue wire?

edit: wow this blew up

Apropos the UK's ARIA doing crazy funding here's a link to a paper I'm a co-author on (soon to be accepted I think) where we argue against polar #geoengineering in rather strong terms.

TL;DR:
"We evaluate five highly-publicized polar 'geoengineering' proposals and point to significant issues and risks relating to technological availability, logistical feasibility, cost, predictable adverse consequences, environmental damage, scalability (in time and space), governance, and ethics. According to our assessment, no current geoengineering idea passes an objective and comprehensive test regarding its use in the coming decades. Rather, many of the proposed ideas are environmentally dangerous. Given their feasibility challenges and risks of negative consequences, these ideas should not distract from the priority to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385550908_Safeguarding_the_polar_regions_from_dangerous_geoengineering

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/us_dod_software_procurement/

There's something kind of hilarious about calling the current software security practices "outdated" and then arguing for a return to the known-broken processes (like origin-based security assurances) that organizations have been trying to move away from for the past two decades...

But then it's entirely on-brand for fascists to try and market old, failed ideas as if they are some kind of novel innovation, isn't it

immediately closing tech articles and blog posts that use ai slop imagery

not interested in what a person has to say if they aren't interested in conveying their point like a fucking human being

Good usage of a train station is only when every platform is having an active countdown

movie programmer, smug: i pulled it off with a hack

irl programmer, deeply ashamed: i pulled it off with a hack

My favorite random local news station in a place I don't live is KTVB in Boise. Yesterday, they reported that the City of Boise made the #pride flag an official city flag so that they aren't prohibited from flying it by the state of Idaho.

#LocalMatters #LGBTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFuUKY9tWIU

wait what happened to my phone keyboard

Boiling water and then never making tea

We really went from AI means you’ll only have to work 3 days a week to AI is going to take your job unless you work harder, faster and more efficiently in the blink of an eye.

It's never too late to start using content warnings. Go ahead and give it a try!

Don't listen to what these companies say. Watch what they do.

When they say "all code will be created by A.I.", are they hiring software engineers?

When they say "AI will replace SaaS", are they acquiring SaaS products?

It occurs to me that if your "A.I." code generation technology really worked, you wouldn't pay $3 billion to acquire a software product. Especially one that does "A.I." code generation.

Printed and laminated a prototype of my solar slide rule on 350g A3 at the local print shop and it works fairly well! Correcting sextant height for index error, temperature, refraction, height of eye and lower limb is fast, as is computing latitude from the noon sight. Computing Hc and Z is a bit more involved (using additional scales on the reverse side)

Beware of "compostable" products that aren't actually compostable at home. In digging through my compost pile this week I unearthed 3 forks (from takeout food I purchased several years ago) that I think were made by the California-based company, Karat Earth (aka Lollicup). On Amazon and elsewhere the sentence the company uses in marketing is "simply toss the fork into a compost bin when finished." And the forks themselves have the text, "compostable" embossed on them. On company's own website, however, is a logo from the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) indicating, in a small font, that forks are "commercially compostable only," which means they only begin to break down at ~190 °F (88 °C). Somebody needs to file a class-action lawsuit to force greater transparency on marketing materials. #compost #composting #fork #takeout #food #psa #plastic #restaurants #greenwashing #polymer #corn #bioplastic

A quadriplegic man named Normand Meunier died via MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being neglected for 4 days in ER. He was denied a specialized mattress, wasn’t turned & ended up with terrible bed sores.

His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him.

Everyone who’s involved in the assisted dying debate, both disabled and non disabled, should be following this inquest.

People need to understand that you can’t ethically administered assisted death if you aren’t committed to helping patients live as well

Mr Meunier didn’t want to die. His condition wasn’t terminal.

He suffered such severe neglect that he couldn’t bring himself to return to the hospital.

His pressure sores couldn’t be treated at home, so he opted to end his life rather than face returning to the place that harmed him

No one should suffer like this, yet disabled people know all too well the level of neglect that can occur in the hospital.

They know how important it is to have an advocate, but they also understand that your advocate can be removed at any time.

The imbalance of power is huge

With just a bit of compassion and care, Mr Meunier would still be with us.

Instead he fell through the cracks, suffered the consequences and then the government stepped up to end his life.

It feels very wrong that the same system that neglected him also ended his existence

I will be following the inquest closely & hopefully writing an article about it.

I support the right to die, but we need to have some very tough conversations about how to protect disabled and marginalized people from neglect, coercion & abuse.

We’re failing at that right now. Let’s change things.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quadriplegic-man-medical-assistance-in-dying-coroner-inquiry-1.7526270

#MAiD #assisteddying #ableism #disability #chronicillness #eugenics #disabilityjustice