C'était il y a 10 ans : Aaron Swartz se suicide le 11 janvier 2013 à l'âge de 26 ans !
It was 10 years ago: Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11, 2013 at the age of 26!
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This bombshell from @jtemple points out so many things that are wrong about Make Sunsets, a startup that claims to have released sulfur particles into the atmosphere for solar geoengineering and is trying to sell “cooling credits” on its website.
One tricky thing about the #mastodonmigration: leaving ranking behind. It's convenient to have platforms predict what we want to see. They're good at it! But we're probably better at it.
Still, curating your own TL takes work (which we are not used to)! I'm doing this largely through building out lists, which I wish we could share/follow, as you can on the other app. It would also be great to have a "priority follow" option, too (short of turning on notifications for a profile).
I can get as excited as the next person at cutting edge clean technologies. But I also love the simple solutions, the folk wisdom, the public domain knowledge that we can apply to live well and equitably within planetary limits. Here are a few of my favorites - what are yours?
- the bicycle
- the cover crop
- the compost pile
- the hand-me-down chain
- the mending circle
- the live music evening
- the repair cafe
- the library
- the shade tree
- the rain garden
- the sidewalk
This seems like it could be good. If it checks out it might be worth the heat of my personally vetting and selling Far-UVC fixtures.
RT @chrischirp@twitter.com
New preprint from the UK Far-UV air sterilisation team (inc @CathNoakes@twitter.com & @EwanEadie@twitter.com), successfully simulating removal of airborne pathogens, matching previous experimental data.
Concludes that Far-UV even more effective than thought - this could genuinely be a gamechanger! 1/2
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1604784154134319104
In a world of scientific misinformation that can lead to nationwide vaccine refusal, climate change denial, and any number of other problems, we need to do more than train a subset of the population for scientific careers. We need everyone in the country to be fluent in the sphere of science.
But the reason that we should trust science over other forms of knowledge is not because someone follows a particular set of steps in the laboratory. It's because the social institutions of science have proven highly effective at developing (at a bare minimum) empirically adequate theories to the explain the world.
What we don't teach is how science functions as a social institution that allows tens or hundreds of thousands of individuals to work together collectively to undercover the workings of the physical universe. Everything we teach about the process of science involves that which one can do alone at night in an empty laboratory.
To dispell disinformation about science, we need to teach people why science is trustworthy. Right now, I think we're failing to do that in the K-12 classroom and even at the college level. We teach the settled facts of science: how does photosynthesis work, what is special relativity, what explains the often exquisite fit of organisms to their environments.
In addition to all of these, I think that there reasons specific to science why people struggle to see through lies like these. I believe that misinformation and disinformation about science spreads because our current system of science education is inadequate. Last year I joined a Moore Foundation working group charged with identifying the ways in which science education needs to change to adapt to our current misinformation environment.
Switzerland (finally) gets a nice energy dashboard.
Late, but thankfully very nice bonus points for including lake levels for hydropower, gas import/export flows, savings target, EU gas storage levels …
"12 ways to reduce cars in cities" ranked by effectiveness.
Really interesting combination of carrots and sticks, with the sticks having higher overall effectiveness. Most likely, need to use both in combination. HT @BrentToderian , @giulio_mattioli FYI https://theconversation.com/12-best-ways-to-get-cars-out-of-cities-ranked-by-new-research-180642
Companies have poured millions of dollars into forest carbon offsets so they can keep emitting greenhouse gases.
It's not working.
Scientists at @nasa and the University of California Irvine looked at 37 forest carbon offset projects across #California. They found the amount of carbon stored isn't increasing and logging isn't slowing down over the past decade
From @TheConversationUS, edited by our #Climate editor @smorford@sciencemastodon
https://theconversation.com/satellites-detect-no-real-climate-benefit-from-10-years-of-forest-carbon-offsets-in-california-193943
#NetZero #ClimateChange #Offsets
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Any conversation about “better” cars HAS to be in the context of real, ambitious strategies to achieve FEWER cars. As I put it recently in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles [that was their stated goal]. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250K electric vehicles. The answer HAS to be FEWER cars and LESS driving.”
#ElectricVehicles #EVs #cars #cities #urbanism #transportation
Probably part of the reason why the Dutch have high car emissions per capita despite all that cycling
RT @xruiztru@twitter.com
Love this map! 🇳🇱
Map shows the roads Dutch people use for their holidays (every blue dot is one person using a traffic app).
RT @printablescom@twitter.com
Official 3D printable replacement parts, accessories, and fan models? We're excited to announce that we've partnered with some of the biggest names in various industries to make this a reality!🎉
https://blog.prusa3d.com/starting-a-3d-printing-revolution-introducing-official-brand-profiles-on-printables-com_73408/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/printablescom/status/1603759400136720386
Three weeks ago, @notjustbikes published an excellent and accessible Youtube video about #ThirdPlaces, what they are, what is they place in #urbanism, and why they matter a lot for #cities.
This is an important topic, so I have edited a transcript to make it easier to read. Sent it to people you know prefer a quick read rather than a 13 minute video.
https://rentry.co/NotJustBikesThirdPlaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvdQ381K5xg
#community #walkableCities #suburbia #resilience #Cheers
Extremely online electronics engineer, PhD in #microelectronics (low-power digital systems architecture), #LoRa pioneer.
Co-founded a #hackerspace, co-founded an industrial #company, interested in #manufacturing (traditional and distributed), frugal innovation, durable and resilient sociotechnical systems.