Sarah Palin's recent loss in Alaska could serve as exhibit A in the case that Malcolm Turnbull and I make in @TheGuardian for ranked choice as a possible path forward to fixing America's broken electoral system: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/28/how-australias-electoral-system-allowed-voters-to-finally-impose-a-ceasefire-in-the-climate-wars
"Should individuals bear the largest burden for climate action?" | @globalecoguy me & others in conversation with @Antony J Funnell of @ABC News Radio: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/should-individuals-bear-the-largest-burden-for-climate-action-/14100722
I do not personally feel that human extinction is likely, but I do feel we are currently on a highway to messy civilizational collapse and a long dark ages, and the key to getting off this highway is to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and ramp it down quickly. #EmergencyMode
Who can see your toots? Whose toots can you see? Found this clarifying graphic at https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/
The best way to increase everyone's feed diversity is to go follow interesting accounts on other instances :)
Climate Scientists/Activists Follow Friday …
English accounts:
@gretathunberg
@MichaelEMann
@wblau
@petergleick
@ed_hawkins
@W_Lucht
@ClimateHuman
@wolfgangcramer
@rahmstorf
German accounts:
@marcel I'm not depressed by the ones who do the research or actively fight for change. I'm depressed by the ignorance or silence of the rest. I have two kids, I cannot just skip facts about their future just to protect my mental health.
Old... learned a lot of stuff over a long time, from a lot of places.
Ranging from :
Crassulacean Acid Metabolism, mRNA, Piaget, and Parallel axis Theorem,
to: Knuth, Translator Engineering, hamming distances, and Transductive Inference. With stops along the way at Virtual Ground, Virtual Synchronous Machines, HPLC, ...
and not an expert in any of it, just been there.
A bit like the ultimate STEM Tourist with a longish sojourn in the education of myself and others.
Also got forced into learning some biostatistics, and dusting off immunology, recently... :(
Where except QOTO could I call home?