DanDubb

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Some say the wind isn’t a reliable source of energy in New Zealand. The wind:

Season 3 Episode 1 of The Bear has just rocked me to the core. This is one of the most beautiful pieces of contemporary filmmaking I have ever seen. Just stunning.

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Bon voyage to the weird, the unexpectedly elegant, the orthogonally sympathetic characters who came out of his encounters with otherwise broken stories. No actor, however amazing, can save a script from being bad. But some actors can find something in scripts whose good qualities are buried deep.

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Everyone’s mourning Donald Sutherland by naming really great movies, and I want to point out that he was also the best thing, often the single redeeming thing, in some lousy movies that people still love because Donald Sutherland.

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Holy fuck they brought up a Magic 8 Ball! 😭😭😭

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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I wrote about how I’m personally going to force game companies to put in all the stuff you hate. Calling the CEO of video games as we speak

I’m Personally Going To Force Game Companies To Put In All That Stuff You Hatewww.thegamer.com I'm forcing game devs to make every single game woke, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

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It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.

This isn’t a movie, it’s a screensaver bgr.com/tech/movies-...

Movies may soon use AI to change the story each time you rewatchbgr.com Filmmakers are experimenting with a new type of filmmaking called generative film, which uses AI to change the film each time it's watched.

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Previously, they "didn't factor in the impacts of climate change".

Experts say thousands of home owners face property value loss due to new flood modelling. In Melbourne, the process has begun #climate

'Uninsurable' homes a real risk due to revamped flood modelling across the nation, experts warnwww.abc.net.au A new report finds that by 2030, more than 3 million Australian homes could have exposure to some level of riverine flooding and it could leave home owners in precarious financial positions.

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"The way we currently count carbon stores risk creating incentives to plant new trees rather than protect existing forests. Yet old-growth forests store vastly more carbon than young saplings, which will take decades or even centuries to reach the same size" theconversation.com/ending-nativ...

Ending native forest logging would help Australia’s climate goals much more than planting treestheconversation.com Two states have banned native forest logging, but it’s still happening in the others.

@alicefraser.bsky.social one approach to preserving your child's art

My mom came back from my sister’s and gave me these - she embroidered these car drawings that I made when I was 4 or 5

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HUGE BREAKING news from Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social Vermont's Climate Superfund Law enacted!🎉 Vermont becomes 1st state to hold Big Oil financially responsible for a fair share of climate damages!

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That this needs to be said mid-2024 shows how completely and utterly disconnected the world is with the physics driving the climate crisis! Keeping fossil fuels in the ground should have been common practice decades ago! Yet here we are, cards firmly stacked for a 2° world. 🤷🏻 #ClimateCrisis

No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study findswww.theguardian.com Researchers say world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet demand forecasts to 2050 if net zero is reached

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Seems weird to call it a war when only one side has to keep relocating civilians so that the other side can keep destroying all their homes and families, I dunno

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I've signed up with a fundraising profile for the Trans Justice Project and am lovingly asking you to donate to the project, even if it's just a few dollars! These funds go directly into the pockets of trans staff working against disinformation and for positive change! chuffed.org/fundraiser/l...

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oh my god

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"there is a whole basket of options, projects and responses that could be progressed that would dramatically improve the outlook ... improving things on the customer side of the electricity meter, such as rooftop solar, home batteries or energy efficiency upgrades." - @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social

Scaremongering won’t keep Australia’s lights on. Picking up the pace of energy transition will | Dylan McConnellwww.theguardian.com More than a decade of policy inadequacy has led to projected short-term electricity shortfalls. But that doesn’t mean blackouts are imminent or unavoidable

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Found this guy just wandering around and called the number on his tags. Owners told me he comes to the beach to watch the sunsets most nights and is home by the time the street lights come on. I think I’d like to be beach cat.

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“When climate activities suddenly paralyzed traffic instead of climate activists, the criminal laws proved to be ineffective.”

Als statt Klimaaktivisten plötzlich Klimaaktivitäten den Verkehr lahm legten, erwiesen sich die Strafgesetze als wirkungslos.

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I had a great time with a bunch of Flandrien game devs recently doing some 1:1 game story consultations. While I'm recovering from DGF and working out the big What's Next I'm open for all kinds of consultation, from 1 day, to a month or more. Sliding scale fee for indies!

💜 Delighted to share that I'm doing 2 months of narrative design support with the lovely Cardboard Computer folks on their next game! We kicked off this week and it's really exciting. 👉🏻 A reminder that I'm still looking for longer term remote narrative/lead roles. Here's my info:

JFC imagine being worse than Tony the fucking raw onion eater Abbott...

Ok you prompted me to dust off the Australian installed PV by prime minister chart script. now updated to include the Albanese govt the Albanese govt has so far presided over the poorest growth in PV (15%/y) since the start of the data next poorest was Abbott (23%y)

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“One year after purchase, users continued to be satisfied with their e-bikes, integrating them into their routines for three to four days a week. They reduced weekly car travel by an average of 48 kilometres per week, a reduction of 30-40 per cent.” news.ubc.ca/2024/04/30/e...

E-bike incentives prove to be worth the investmentnews.ubc.ca UBC study finds rebate program significantly reduced car travel and carbon emissions

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oh frig

@ryannorth.ca we are one year out from the fateful occasion :)

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“bUt HoW wiLL wE PaY For iT?” can usually be answered with “by making corporations and billionaires pay their fair share.” Climate action is necessary, morally and fiscally responsible, and should be paid for by the corporations causing the crisis.

Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’www.theguardian.com Levy on oil and gas majors in richest countries would help worst-affected nations tackle climate crisis, says report

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Idk how anyone can deny climate change is real when cop riot season is starting two whole months earlier than usual

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Just remember: Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless that Tech Bros were driven to spend billions of dollars to try and get a computer to do something that badly approximates something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date.

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"Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19 % until 2050 due to climate change, a new study published in Nature finds." www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

38 trillion dollars in damages each year: World economy already committed to income reduction of 19 % due to climate changewww.pik-potsdam.de 04/17/2024 - Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19 % until 2050 due to climate change, a new study p...

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Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2° arstechnica.com/science/2024...

Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°arstechnica.com Study tracks the past costs of climate events and projects them into the future.

Have convinced another friend to ride an ebike once. Conversion to bike nut complete.

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want to feel old? too bad. you have only occupied this body since you woke up this morning. the continuity of consciousness is illusory

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“If Esso cannot manage to decommission rig infrastructure safely I highly doubt it’s capable of carrying out risky carbon capture and storage it has planned for the region.” Esso is Australian for Exxon. And this is an excellent point.

ExxonMobil under investigation in Australia following ruptured gas pipeline - Kaieteur Newswww.kaieteurnewsonline.com The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (Nopsema), the environmental regulator in Australia, is currently investigating a potential spill from ExxonMobil’s subsid...