https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/04/exxon-chief-public-climate-failures

https://www.vulture.com/2024/01/in-the-know-animation-zach-woods-mike-judge-stop-motion.html

Alle drei republikanischen Kandidaten bei den US-Vorwahlen treten nachdrücklich für eine weitere Steigerung der Förderung von Öl und Gas ein. Sie wollen Subventionen für erneuerbare Energien und Elektromobilität zurückfahren. Nur für 13% der republikanischen Wähler ist die Klimakrise eine Top-Priorität. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/trump-republican-rivals-climate-crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel

Geplante Klima-Regulierungen der Labour-geführten Regierung Australiens würden es dem Guardian zufolge ermöglichen, dass zehn Kohlekraftwerke ihre Emissionen bis 2030 weiter steigern. Blieben sie unter den festgesetzten Limits, könnten sie Verschmutzungsrechte lukrativ an andere Unternehmen verkaufen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/03/labor-coalmine-safeguard-mechanism-climate-scheme-emissions-benefits

Die globale Erhitzung droht die Anzahl der Organismen in den tiefsten noch vom Licht erreichten Zonen (200-1000m) in diesem Jahrhundert um bis zu 40% zu reduzieren. Bei höheren Temperaturen zerfallen Mikroorganismen schneller, so dass weniger Nahrung zur Verfügung steht. Diese Zone ist eine wichtige CO2-Senke. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65460128

I took along my son, who had never had any fresh water up his nose and who had seen lily pads only from train windows. On the journey over to the lake I began to wonder what it would be like. I wondered how time would have marred this unique, this holy spot--the coves and streams, the hills that the sun set behind, the camps and the paths behind the camps. I was sure that the tarred road would have found it out and I wondered in what other ways it would be desolated. It is strange how much you can remember about places like that once you allow your mind to return into the grooves which lead back. You remember one thing, and that suddenly reminds you of another thing. I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen. The partitions in the camp were thin and did not extend clear to the top of the rooms, and as I was always the first up I would dress softly so as not to wake the others, and sneak out into the sweet outdoors and start out in the canoe, keeping close along the shore in the long shadows of the pines. I remembered being very careful never to rub my paddle against the gunwale for fear of disturbing the stillness of the cathedral.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-book-for-our-times-peter-woods-1620-skewers-1619-project/

A miserable sniveling little piece from someone who seems to be missing a larger rhetorical point. They barely peck at any actual argument, but resort to tangential ad hominem attacks in an attempt, yet again (should we be surprised?), to quite the voice of a Black woman who's simply trying to tell a story, and far succeeding the writer at it.

As an aside there's a lot to also be said about the presentation of this on the page as I'm viewing it. It's topped by a middle-aged white man with a paunch, ostensibly attempting to appear intelligent in front of a book shelf covered with world history texts which are ostensibly about "White" Occidental history. Further down the page all the ads scream at me with White Nationalism including t-shirts oozing with the American flag and white Christian symbolism. The amount of cruft and crap on the page seems to indicate that the NR is gasping for breath to put their ideas onto a page that's overcrowded with ads.

I'd also add [learned helplessness] (https://www.britannica.com/science/learned-helplessness) - the constant need for entertainment is definitely a problem, but if we take a deterministic view of these broader design trends the long-term ramifications are even more disturbing - the rise of Web 2.0 has seen a massive shift towards user-friendly platforms, but in addition to cultural infantilization we are seeing a significant decrease in tech literacy - and sometimes these trends manifest simultaneously. For instance, I'm writing this annotation in Chrome, but if I lose internet access my browser tab would allow me to play the endlessly addictive "Chrome Dino" browser game until my connection was restored - this is a fairly innocuous little easter egg (not coincidentally a term also used by Yelp UI designer Yoni De Beule in one of the articles I linked to above), but it does raise some broader questions about the amount of tech literacy and user autonomy these companies want us to have - features like these suggest that passivity is their preferred state for consumers, which is troubling.

This code looks useful as a learning resource, but where does "hal" come from? <br>Something is missing!<br>The blue-pill-quickstart repo uses the stm32f1xx-hal crate, but this doesn't have a module: stm32f103xx.<br>Maybe posting you cargo.toml would help

This code looks useful as a learning resource, but where does "hal" come from? <br>Something is missing!<br>The blue-pill-quickstart repo uses the stm32f1xx-hal crate, but this doesn't have a module: stm32f103xx.<br>Maybe posting you cargo.toml would help

This code looks useful as a learning resource, but where does "hal" come from? <br>Something is missing!<br>The blue-pill-quickstart repo uses the stm32f1xx-hal crate, but this doesn't have a module: stm32f103xx.<br>Maybe posting you cargo.toml would help

So true!

My review of Chavisa Woods's book is here.

Since interviews is no longer a tab on your site, maybe introduce them on the home page and explain how you used that content throughout the site?

Increase in use of telecommunications seems a little unnecessary to be featured in the timeline and is also a little confusing with the layout of the timeline since it's a large period of time to cover, whereas other items are more like moments in time.

honesty or lawfulness of purpose

This makes me think of Mark Zuckerberg's claim that Internet connectivity is a human right. What do statements like this mean to people who aren't already technologically literate? I have grown up alongside the modern Internet and I still don't understand such a statement. It feels like there is a steep hierarchy of access to information about how to use computers in beneficial ways. Those with a college education in computer science, an already privileged group, are positioned at a further advantage because of their increased control of online resources.

You mean Alexa?

Bitcoin

... and, what FB does

What Facebook has been able to do.

Ah, THIS highlights a common discussion among IC people.

Note the similarity to how Reddit is organized.

How has the evolution of online communities been shaped by the fact that the "product" of the earliest communities, the thing they "grew," was conversation? Correspondingly, what role has conversation played in the development of geolocated communities? How are utopian visions and speech connected to one another?

Compare H.G. Wells' idea of a "world brain".

Also mind boggling, and perhaps the main thing that separates Paul and I from the rest of you. When we were in college, we didn't have this access. Now you do. The best fictional account of this is the novel Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson. I highly recommend it.

Brewster Kahle is also the founder of the Internet Archive.

The essence of the net-neutrality question.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc.html

"Free as in speech, not as in beer."

This reminds me of how Craigslist looks today. The same sort of organization but localized to regions

There are still social markers that come across in "cyberspace," from vocabulary to language to names to assumptions. I'm not convinced that this is a real distinction that can be made.

Oldenburg's argument is that these are three essentially distinct places. Considering that many people now work online, it is worth asking whether this model holds up when the Internet serves as both workplace and "third place."

This seems somewhat idealistic and based in the assumption that parenting can be separated from politics, which is not necessarily true. I don't believe that this is a barrier that is inherently easier to handle online than in in-person community.

There are many different kinds of hardwoods that they use.