What the oil industry doesn’t want you to know - Stephanie Honchell Smith
TED-Ed
>Uncover the oil industry’s decades-long campaign to discredit climate change science regarding the danger of fossil fuels.
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>Throughout the 1980s, oil industry reps discussed the dangers of burning fossil fuels, acknowledging the risk their product posed to the future of humanity. However, instead of warning the public or pivoting towards renewable energy sources, they doubled down on oil — and launched a decades-long campaign to discredit climate change science. Stephanie Honchell Smith digs into Big Oil's tactics.
>Lesson by Stephanie Honchell Smith, directed by Sofia Pashaei.
>This video made possible in collaboration with Speed & Scale
Don't let the illusion of progress stand in the way of meaningful change.
I'm eating beans right now. I made some kidney bean "tofu".
I prefer not to distract myself with incrementalist "solutions".
They're being downvoted because the UPF moral panic is being used to promote the meat industry, which is what this is in this context. They have entire ad campaigns for it, so this user's comment is essentially repeating a Big Beef ad.
alternative proteins
alternative second-hand proteins.
https://awellfedworld.org/wp-content/uploads/Bean-Recipes-Ellen-Kanner.pdf
🧑⚖️Integrity vs Expediency: The Climate Trial (Roger Hallam)
As Martin Luther King said, moderates are our biggest obstacle to freedom. Here's how they enabled my prison sentence.
If you're calling for a ban on shipping, you deserve a special prize - but you'll never get it.
There is no way to do this without inconveniencing someone.
The construction of the first Death Star 
Cross-sections of the DS-1 Death Star. 
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/DS-1_Death_Star_Mobile_Battle_Station
Airports disrupted across Europe as civil resistance groups join Oil Kills – the International Uprising to end fossil fuels - PRESS RELEASE - Oil Kills
For immediate release Supporters of seven civil resistance groups caused disruption at airports across Europe this morning, in support of […]
>” Ordinary people are taking matters into their own hands today to do what our criminal governments have failed to do. We are putting our bodies on the wheels of the machine of the global fossil economy and saying oil kills; we refuse to die for fossil fuels and we refuse to stand by while hundreds of millions of innocent people are murdered. We are in resistance against our murderous governments and the criminal elites who are threatening the survival of humanity.
>“The climate crisis will not end until every single country has phased out fossil fuels, but those who bear the greatest responsibility and have the greatest capacity must do the most. As citizens of wealthy countries based in the global north, we demand that our governments stop extracting and burning oil, gas and coal by 2030 and that they support and finance other countries to make a fast, fair and just transition. They must sign a Fossil Fuel Treaty to end the war on humanity before we lose everything. “
I admit that I do love well designed stuff. It's like touching materialized good thoughts and intentions.
But I don't have room for a cargo bike even if I could afford one. Classic acoustic bike for me.
Lord David Willetts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A
Every Time The Boys Parodied Evangelical Christianity (ALL SEASONS)
> The Boy spoofs Evangelicalism constantly. Evangelical Christianity, white Christian nationalism, and Qanon are all wrapped up together these days, and The Boys provides hilarious and frightening satire of this mess. Project 2025, Donald Trump, anti-LGBT policies, The Daily Wire, Matt Walsh, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Franklin Graham, President George Bush, and so many more are treated in the show.
I have no idea why the automated preview is in Russian. Perhaps the Lemmy servers are getting a localized version.
It's not The Internet or Smartphones. These are communication devices.
It's people learning, thanks to increased networking and information access, that we live in a layer cake of dystopias.
Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25422278
> How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia unleashed them on a completely blank smartphone linked to a new, unused email address. > > Three months later, without any input, they were riddled with sexist and misogynistic content. > > Initially Facebook served up jokes from The Office and other sitcom-related memes alongside posts from 7 News, Daily Mail and Ladbible. A day later it began showing Star Wars memes and gym or “dudebro”-style content. > > By day three, “trad Catholic”-type memes began appearing and the feed veered into more sexist content. > > Three months later, The Office, Star Wars, and now The Boys memes continue to punctuate the feed, now interspersed with highly sexist and misogynistic images that have have appeared in the feed without any input from the user.
To tap billions in infrastructure funds, provinces must require cities to revise their zoning laws to encourage climate-friendy fourplexes.
To tap billions in infrastructure funds, provinces must require cities to revise their zoning laws to encourage climate-friendy fourplexes.
IT outage: banks, airlines and media hit by issues linked to Windows PCs
>A global IT outage has caused chaos at airports, banks, railways andbusinesses around the world as a wide range of services were taken offline and millions of people were affected.
>In one of the most widespread IT crashes ever to hit companies and institutions globally, air transport ground to a halt, hospitals were affected and large numbers of workers were unable to access their computers. In the UK Sky News was taken off air temporarily and the NHS GP booking system was down.
>Microsoft’s Windows service was at the centre of the outage, with experts linking the problem to a software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike that has affected computer systems around the world. Experts said the outage could take days from which to recover because every PC may have to be fixed manually.
>Overnight, Microsoft confirmed it was investigating an issue with its services and apps, with the organisation’s service health website warning of “service degradation” that meant users may not be able to access many of the company’s most popular services, used by millions of business and people around the world.
>Among the affected firms are Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, which said on its website: “Potential disruptions across the network (Fri 19 July) due to a global third party system outage … We advise passengers to arrive at the airport three hours in advance of their flight to avoid any disruptions.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death
It means America only.
Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.
Researchers studying sperm whale communication say they've uncovered sophisticated structures similar to those found in human language.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24849958
> Sperm whales communicate with each other using rhythmic sequences of clicks, called codas. It was previously thought that sperm whales had just 21 coda types. However, after studying almost 9,000 recordings, the Ceti researchers identified 156 distinct codas. They also noticed the basic building blocks of these codas which they describe as a "sperm whale phonetic alphabet" – much like phonemes, the units of sound in human language which combine to form words. > > Pratyusha Sharma, a PhD student at MIT and lead author of the study, describes the "fine-grain changes" in vocalisations the AI identified. Each coda consists of between three and 40 rapid-fire clicks. The sperm whales were found to vary the overall speed, or the "tempo", of the codas, as well as to speed up and slow down during the delivery of a coda, in other words, making it "rubato". Sometimes they added an extra click at the end of a coda, akin, says Sharma, to "ornamentation" in music. These subtle variations, she says, suggest sperm whale vocalisations could carry a much richer amount of information than previously thought.
Researchers studying sperm whale communication say they've uncovered sophisticated structures similar to those found in human language.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24849958
> Sperm whales communicate with each other using rhythmic sequences of clicks, called codas. It was previously thought that sperm whales had just 21 coda types. However, after studying almost 9,000 recordings, the Ceti researchers identified 156 distinct codas. They also noticed the basic building blocks of these codas which they describe as a "sperm whale phonetic alphabet" – much like phonemes, the units of sound in human language which combine to form words. > > Pratyusha Sharma, a PhD student at MIT and lead author of the study, describes the "fine-grain changes" in vocalisations the AI identified. Each coda consists of between three and 40 rapid-fire clicks. The sperm whales were found to vary the overall speed, or the "tempo", of the codas, as well as to speed up and slow down during the delivery of a coda, in other words, making it "rubato". Sometimes they added an extra click at the end of a coda, akin, says Sharma, to "ornamentation" in music. These subtle variations, she says, suggest sperm whale vocalisations could carry a much richer amount of information than previously thought.
Morris resigned in June after admitting to the incident which allegedly occurred on Christmas Day 1982
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17395041
> Lawyers for Donald Trump’s former faith advisor Robert Morris accused a 12-year-old girl of initiating “inappropriate” sexual conduct with the ex-Dallas megachurch pastor, new documents have revealed. > > Morris resigned in June after admitting to the incident. His accuser Cindy Clemishire previously claimed that the pastor had begun abusing her on Christmas Day in 1982. > > Clemishire, now 52, said that Morris and his wife had been staying at her family home at the time when he asked her to come into his room, whereafter he told her to lay on his bed and then began touching her inappropriately. > > She said the abuse had continued until 1987 when she told her parents. > > However, 25 years after the incident, a lawyer for Morris – J Shelby Sharpe – claimed that it was the child who was actually to blame.
Space sprawl in Futurama
https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Maple_Craters
> Maple Craters is the home of Horrible Gelatinous Blob, his son Brett Blob, and the Little Prince. It's a housing suburb located on an asteroid belt. They have a slogan: "An Exclusive Field of Planetary Debris".
A Driverless Car in China Hit a Pedestrian. Social Media Users Are Siding With the Car
While many social media users are blaming the pedestrian for reportedly crossing against the light, the incident highlights the challenge autonomous driving faces in complex situations.
A Kenyan coastal region has seen a spate of murders, supposedly over witchcraft but really over land.
