Sylvain Miermont @miermont@qoto.org

“It’s not too late. It’s not fine. It’s exactly the time to demand a better world.”

Love this by @ClimateAdam and Rosemary Mosco (Bird and Moon Comics).

The news and our anxiety about it can seem devastating and overwhelming - but there's more to the story. The action we take now will and is making a difference, and, at the same time, much more needs to be done, by more people to make the difference that's needed.

And you don’t have to do it on your own, find or start a local Transition group and together reshape your community to be more resilient, fairer and thrive for the future.

https://transitiontogether.org.uk/groups/

#climateaction #community #itsnottoolate #transitiontown #climate #climatechange

Discarded products are often viable goods that are often tossed prematurely.

By repairing them, we will save €12 billion for consumers in the EU per year!

Soon, you will benefit from new consumer rights that make repairs more appealing and straightforward after the legal guarantee has expired.

Together, we can make a difference.

#EUGreenDeal

once again floored by Bell Labs gorgeous artist renderings of possible future scenarios. this image is from 1969 and imagines the future of the Picturephone - revolutionary for getting people to think, for the first time, about "face-to-face" interactions over phone lines #othernetworks

Yes, heat pumps also work in cold climates.

Almost 5 million heat pumps have been installed in Finland, Sweden and Norway with 10 million households combined.

My article for Carbon Brief here:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-heat-pumps-became-a-nordic-success-story/

Just finisihed this & it's brilliant: Katalin Kariko's story of her life. She was convinced that mRNA therapies could work decades ago & did the foundation work, all while being ignored, never promoted & struggling for jobs.

Today, millions are vaccinated with mRNA vaccines & she has a Nobel prize.

It's a great story, and leaves a lot for the scientific system to think about. Highly recommended.

#books #mRNA #science #biography

A cool lil training station where you can practice mounting your bike to a bus in peace.

TELEZ BioReactor Controller by 1bit controls a collection of pumps, load cells and other hardware. Integrates with Particle Electron for cellular connectivity.

Article by @ishotjr https://www.pjrc.com/telez-bioreactor-controller/

Detailed Info:
https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/telez-teensy-realtime-raspberry-fileserver-particle-cloud-connection.45513/

Enjoying posting this to Mastodon, which I have been informed by Chris Dixon is a failure.

He's real mad Mastodon won't use a blockchain, btw.

Hurricanes are becoming so strong due to the climate change that the classification of them should be expanded to include a “category 6” storm, furthering the scale from the standard 1 to 5, according to a new study.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/hurricanes-becoming-so-strong-that-new-category-needed-study-says

Happy birthday RepRap, thank you for you stunning work and approach of the industrial world. RepRap is so much more than a bunch of machines, it is a different way to see how human kind could move forward better. 💚💚💚

https://reprap.org/wiki/Wealth_Without_Money

#reprap #3dprinting #opensource #selfreplicating @3dprinting

"The emission savings from replacing all those internal combustion engines with zero-carbon alternatives will not feed in fast enough to make the necessary difference in the time we can spare: the next five years. Tackling the climate and air pollution crises requires curbing all motorised transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possible"

#Cycling
#ClimateEmergency

https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163

The stylish, unknown & extremely rare SEGA AI COMPUTER (1986) promised natural language processing and "artificial intelligence" via its Prolog interpreter.

We're making available today, for the first time ever: system roms, game cards, tapes recordings, scans, photos, MAME driver & more: https://smspower.org/SegaAI

I would like to ask the people who marvel about the Fermi Paradox and hope to one day communicate with an extraterrestrial civilization what they think about our inability or unwillingness to communicate with the other technological civilization we have right under our noses on Earth: the termites.

Douglas Allchin, Jonathan Osborne, and I have a new paper out about teaching science in this age of online misinformation.

The idea is simple: we tell people to trust the science, but we rarely teach students about the social processes that make it trustworthy.

https://carlbergstrom.com/publications/pdfs/2024JCST.pdf

This passage from @debcha's "How Infrastructure works" is such a truth that often gets forgotten or ignored on the hunt for profit. It's a very familiar and recurring theme in resilience engineering texts and research. And it also rings true for me in this current trend of continuous layoffs that take more and more slack and capacity out of tech systems being maintained (in addition to the human cost) as remaining humans need to do more work in the same amount of time.

Look, the amount of road wear increases exponentially to weight. Road damage is proportional to weight per axle to the 4th power. bigger cars means more road work, more repaving, more taxes to pay for all of that overbuilt nonsense. All while just the same number of people are being transported.

SUVs and "light trucks" should be taxed on a curve which represents the roads which they rely on to exist as a transit method, and the dumbasses actually buying the SUVs should pay that tax instead of literally all of the rest of us including those who don't even own cars.

We're gonna need a term for "absolutely beautiful but catastrophically inappropriate for the season" weather. This century is so stupid already

@jlsksr The city of Melbourne used FPGA based PDP-11 emulator boards because you can no longer buy PDP-11's so they could contiinue to use their train control software https://webinfo.uk/webdocssl/irse-kbase/ref-viewer.aspx?refno=1559669757&document=2.10%20strangaric%20-%20legacy%20train%20control%20system%20stabilisation.pdf

@technicat the original Mac UI devs noticed and solved so many problems in *1986* that more recent Web 2.0+ frontend devs just ignore -- like this one, *drag delay* -- solving the problem that when the user moves their cursor towards an item on a popup menu, the mouse may drift outside the lines momentarily *en route*, so you should make sure not to close the menu prematurely; these days lots of popup menus instantly pop closed if you stray outside their bounds #UI #UX

Related to LNG:

The world’s 1,300 largest methane-polluting sites have been identified from space, thanks to an endeavor by environmental intelligence company Kayrros.

Thanks to satellite surveillance, the exact sources of potent planet-warming pollution are finally exposed. “Previously, we could measure the amount of methane in the atmosphere, but now we really know exactly where it’s coming from,”

Open access datalike this can have a big impact!
#ClimateSolutions #ClimateProgress #Methane