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“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.” - Kim Stanley Robinson

Bye.

I do wonder if the cost of capturing that carbon has been included in the published cost of a launch? at $0.5/kg that's $10,000,000.

One of the authors (Johan Rockström) created the planetary boundaries framework ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries ) which includes all of those. So they are bein…

ok. yep that's a thing.

I keep hearing this, and it doesn't make sense. We don't have a london-sized tent city anywhere. But we have generations that can't afford to buy a home, and the rental market is b…

I know a bit of the history with this one. Back in the day there was a smaller consultancy with awesome developers called LShift (mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_…

That's why we now have the Vimes Boot Index - https://www.vimesbootsindex.co.uk/

9 mortal men? Look out for the one ring to rule them all…

Why is reporting scientific findings considered political?

It's useful to realise that humanities yearly CO2 production is greater (by weight) anything else we make. by far. So yes, if we don't stop producing industrial quantities of CO2, …

I really prefer Ministry to termination shock. I mean, it's a fun book, but it offers no solution (eg sulphur seeding does nothing for ocean acidification, not to mention terminati…

News people don't like is often dismissed as 'hysterics', 'alarmism', etc, which is a well known cognitive bias. Nearly all people trying to improve the future do so sensibly, foll…

I guess you mean Naomi Wolf, as the sub-title makes clear? Quite different people. Klein is an excellent writer and thinker. Wolf is deep in the conspiracy hole.

There was a fascinating(!) thread here https://twitter.com/ProfColinDavis/status/165555527715073229... with a longer story: Right-wing "English Constitution Party" were going to de…

I live in (as I remember it) the prime example here. Birmingham UK. There were many articles about it some years ago. So, to fact check from the ground, there are no no-go areas. W…

True. But whenever I discuss the climate crisis/future with non-billionaires (i.e. most people I know) there's a significant population of 'don't worry we'll move to mars if it get…

Laser cutters. every library should have one. https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/en/services/urban-workshop/

We should do a thread of our favourite libraries: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Birmingham * https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/en/ * https://wellcomecollection.org/pages/Wuw…

Yes! Also https://uther.wtf/blog/the-life-changing-magic-of-refactorin...

Perhaps for you it's fine. For low lying states it's not good. Turns out that's Florida too. Australia had to add levels to their fire danger charts. etc, etc... look, on the off c…

It seem we do have the ability to control the climate, because that's what we're doing. So, we can stop making it worse which is good! But we're definitely going to have to adapt b…

Danny is awesome

Yeah I had a jacket that had worn through, and sent it back to them for repair for free. Brilliant.