Pete Willis

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Flatland Canuck. Treaty Four territory. I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob.

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This photo is pure 2024.

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Non-linear climate damages Human bodies can cope with heat up to a threshold. Past that threshold your body cannot cool itself, leading to death. As more places hit these temperature thresholds we will see more deaths of vulnerable people who cannot access cooling.

Hundreds dying every day in Karachi as Pakistan battles brutal summerwww.independent.co.uk Most fatalities in areas ‘where a lot of load-shedding is going on’, says NGO which received 427 bodies in four days

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If you remove regulation, a lot of decisions still have to be made, so something has to replace it. What replaces it is corruption.

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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

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tweeted this four years ago and it pretty much sums up my feelings on this shit

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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Nostalgia’s okay, but it used to be better

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We have the technology to find precisely what existing thing you’re looking for on the Internet but instead here’s technology that finds nothing at all and makes up nonsense instead. That will be $100 billion and all the electricity please.

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"I Saw Her Standing There," Little Richard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZDB...

Little Richard - I Saw Her Standing There (Reprise)www.youtube.com Tuff version recorded at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, 1970

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Take it all in

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Tech billionaire who hasn't talked to a normal person in 25 years: Here's what today's consumers want

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Another cloudy day, but yellow warblers are providing plenty of brightness #birds

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

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Osprey 🪶 📷 Middle Harbor

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the bubble these fuckin people live in, man. "imagine if the criminal justice system was unfair to the little guy" YES IMAGINE THAT, HOW TERRIBLE THAT WOULD BE

I cannot stress enough that as a financial professional handing off facially fraudulent records to banks and taxing authorities is not a trivial matter

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sorry, we had to boil the earth to fuel our machines that made wrong answers

Unsurprisingly, rising projections of power demand in the US are resulting in plans to keep coal-fired power stations open longer, and US states are fighting EPA power pollution rules on the grounds fossil fuel is "needed" to power AI. www.ft.com/content/ddaa...

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To repeat: generative "A.I." is not inevitable. It's a derivative, boring bullshit generator. It wallows in mediocrity and fails by design and definition. Just say no.

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Let's keep arguing about parking spaces, everybody.

Delhi temperature hits 50.5C as India’s capital records hottest daywww.theguardian.com Authorities warn of water shortages as temperatures reach nine degrees higher than expected

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RIP the Gaza aid pier. It didn't last long, it didn't accomplish anything, and it was always just a PR stunt to pull attention away from the government's support of a genocide, but at least it cost more money than the federal government spends on addiction treatment programs

US Gaza aid pier knocked out of action by heavy seas

US Gaza aid pier knocked out of action by heavy seaswww.bbc.com It is unclear when the US military's floating pier off Gaza's coast will resume operations.

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Cooper's hawk doesn't miss much #birds 🌿

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None of this stuff really matters for climate change. The big items for us as individuals are: - how much & how clean we drive & travel - how much & how clean we heat & cool our homes (and we should heat and cool as much as we need to be safe) - the carbon intensity of what we eat - do we vote

Books take a lot of resources to make. Digital readers do, too. What's the more sustainable option? The answer isn't straightforward.

What’s better for the climate: A paper book, or an e-reader?www.npr.org Books take a lot of resources to make. Digital readers do, too. What's the more sustainable option? The answer isn't straightforward.

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Kind of incredible how easy it is to identify what he means by each of these

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Lots of confusion between “every great new technology was initially resisted” and “every technology that is initially resisted will be great.”

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Whenever someone random tries to downplay confederate monuments to me and I don’t have the energy to put my work hat on, I just calmly say, “I don’t know it’s kinda like if we had statues of the 9/11 hijackers, only confederates killed more Americans.” Shuts them up every time.

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Eclipse: You shall wait for years, make careful plans, drive hundreds of miles for five miraculous minutes. Aurora: U up?

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From the beginning, the danger hasn't been Trump. He is constitutionally lazy, ignorant, unambitious and just generally not good at things. The danger is from people supposedly in opposition doing fuck all to stop the rest of his coterie, categorically more evil, ambitious and skilled than him.

I have an entire rant with several key points, but the gist is: Send Donald Trump to jail nothing bad will happen. There will be no riots, no demonstrations, nothing that can be done by the system or police or FBI or anyone to stop it. And once it happens, we’ll realize it was never scary.

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The marbled godwit is a most excellent wader #birds

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Do I have this right

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