Huge inequality in emissions will,sooner or later, trigger public demand for climate justice. Worldwide,the richest 10% produce 50% of consumption-related CO2, while the poorest half produce only 10% of emissions.Wanna check where you stand?Check👉 https://wid.world/income-comparator/
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Helen Ault wrote on Facebook:

"I am starting a petition to no longer refer to AI "art" as AI art, but instead as computer-rendered artifical pictures (CRAP). Pass it on."

#NoAI #MastoArt #humanMadeArt

Stepping into Shirokuro, the new Japanese omakase restaurant in New York City, you’d be forgiven for thinking you wandered into a sketchpad or a black-and-white storyboard.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/shirokuro-sketchbook-restaurant/

#drawing #restaurants #design #food

"Author-Paid Publication Fees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned" by Morgan & Smaldino with clear recommendations for different OA policies: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3ez9v_v2

Cool #transit paper alert! 📔🚨

"ProxiCycle: Passively Mapping Cyclist Safety Using Smart Handlebars for Near-Miss Detection"

«To address this issue [of route familiarity and associated risk/stress], we develop a novel handlebar attachment to passively monitor the proximity of passing cars…We deploy this sensor with 15 experienced cyclists in a 2 month longitudinal study…We then compare this signal to both historic collisions and perceived safety reported by experienced and inexperienced cyclists.»

https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713325

#BikeTooter #FediBikes #Cycling #Urbanism

Mir platzt grad echt der Kragen. Achtung, Rant folgt.

NDR hat vor ein paar Tagen eine Reportage "Hamburg für Reiche" veröffentlicht.
Darin zu sehen ist ein Personal Shopper vom Alsterhaus, der einen seiner "besten Kunden" betreut. Soweit so gut.

Der Kunde ist Ron A. Callsen. Gründer und Geschäftsführer eines Pflegedienstes.

Never know what to make of guys complaining that women have cats and sex toys as options, my man if you’re getting outplayed by the combined forces of “runs on batteries” and “shits in a box” that’s a you problem, work on the you problem.

In Denmark, the second largest city, Aarhus, stops using Microsoft software to avoid dependency on American tech giants.

As Trump promised: “We will finally be respected again” and “There will be so much winning.”

Source:
https://www.version2.dk/artikel/aarhus-vil-droppe-word-og-outlook-vi-har-vaeret-afhaengige-af-de-store

The stages of debugging a race condition:

2. anger
4. depression
3. bargaining
5. acceptance
1. denial

(Netzfund, nicht von mir)

look what they did to monopoly

Inside you there are two wolves.

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I absolutely want a stronger Canadian tech scene, but I absolutely do _not_ want sycophantic emulation of the Silicon Valley model whose economic and moral hollowness is now visible to everyone with the courage to see it. Short-term thinking, monopolization enabled by regulatory capture, enriching the few at the expense of the many: it has failed everyone except a handful of VCs and tech bros who will never admit their success has mostly been a matter of luck and privilege. 1/2

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If you’re using this tech in your work, then step-by-step, as the US shifts more and more authoritarian, your work will be pulled with it and trying to continue to be equitable about equality, LGBT rights, and race will be an increasing struggle.

But because “less effort” is exactly what this tech is for, most will just let the US pull you into their automated bigotry.

I’m a big Neal Stephenson fan. He posted his remarks on AI from a recent conference. You should read the whole thing, but this was particularly concerning. It aligns with what I hear from the students I speak to. https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/remarks-on-ai-from-nz

Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass medical school, so you better start riding a bike and eating healthy now.

There is an attitude in UX design and programming I truly hate. It's "we need to make all decisions for the user, because the user does not actually want to think[is a silly little consumer, actually]". It's the same attitude that gave us brain-numbing algorithmic Tiktok brainrot, surrender of all our digital sovereignty to big corps and general enshittification of computer-related things. And it drives me crazy to see it in action in FOSS (rant sponsored by reading https://www.vtrlx.ca/posts/2025/less-features-more-productivity/ )

I think we should tell Gen Z that Head Cleaner's "Play Both Sides" was the 🔥 album of 1986