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Open Sourcing DOS 4

hanselman.com · Apr 25

See the canonical version of this blog post at the Microsoft Open Source Blog! ...

Shared by @jbzfn and 74 others.
Simon Walters (@cymplecy) · Apr 26
🔁 @shanselman:

We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) hanselman.com/blog/open-sourci

Luci for Chai Tea (@zens) · Apr 26
🔁 @CmdrTaco:

Fuck, This is probably gonna break compatibility with lotus 1-2-3 or word star.

hanselman.com/blog/open-sourci

trends (@trendsbot) · Apr 25
🔁 @shanselman:

We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) hanselman.com/blog/open-sourci

Eugene Alvin Villar (@seav) · Apr 26
🔁 @shanselman:

We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) hanselman.com/blog/open-sourci

Aslak Raanes (@aslakr) · Apr 26
🔁 @shanselman:

We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) hanselman.com/blog/open-sourci

Bread80 (@bread80) · Apr 26
🔁 @shanselman:

We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) hanselman.com/blog/open-sourci

Owen Nelson (@onelson) · Apr 25
🔁 @shanselman:

We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) hanselman.com/blog/open-sourci

Oblomov (@oblomov) · Apr 26
🔁 @shanselman:

We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) hanselman.com/blog/open-sourci

A Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protest

mcsweeneys.net · Apr 20

Dear members of the University community, The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for ...

Shared by @voron and 22 others.
Chu 朱 (@chu) · Apr 25
🔁 @kottke:

A Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protest. “But this recent protest is different. These students will never inspire change. Fifty years from now, we will definitely not pretend that we agreed with them the whole time.” mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mess

Voron (@voron) · Apr 26
🔁 @estelle:

"Dear members of the University community,

"The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them.

“We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different."

mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mess

#students #studentStrike #studentProtests #academicChatter #faculty #universities #antisemitism #conflation #StandWithIsrael #funding #Deans #University #College #HigherEd #coloniality #institutionsDeceive #humor #humour #adultDomination #fragility #whiteFragility

Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

arstechnica.com · Apr 25

Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets. Palm did them best.

Shared by @preslavrachev and 21 others.

Policymakers - Berkeley Earth

berkeleyearth.org · Apr 25

2023 has been a year of climate superlatives: after five straight months (June – October) of record-breaking monthly average temperatures, it is nearly certain that the year will finish as the warmest on annual-average record. Additionally, Berkeley Earth’s analysis gives a 90% chance that 20...

Shared by @forteller and 22 others.
AJ Sadauskas (@ajsadauskas) · Apr 26
🔁 @wolfgangcramer:

Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections?
How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? berkeleyearth.org/policy-insig

trending_bot (@trending_bot) · Apr 25
🔁 @wolfgangcramer:

Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections?
How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? berkeleyearth.org/policy-insig

Sofia Lindström Sol (@LindstromSofia) · Apr 26
🔁 @wolfgangcramer:

Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections?
How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? berkeleyearth.org/policy-insig

Marcel Weiß (@marcelweiss) · Apr 26
🔁 @wolfgangcramer:

Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections?
How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? berkeleyearth.org/policy-insig

Carlos Guerreiro (@carlos) · Apr 26
🔁 @wolfgangcramer:

Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections?
How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? berkeleyearth.org/policy-insig

Christian Meesters (@rupdecat) · Apr 26
🔁 @wolfgangcramer:

Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections?
How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? berkeleyearth.org/policy-insig

Tobias Schlauch (@schlauch) · Apr 25
🔁 @wolfgangcramer:

Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections?
How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? berkeleyearth.org/policy-insig

Parents For Future :verified: (@parents4future) · Apr 25
🔁 @wolfgangcramer:

Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections?
How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? berkeleyearth.org/policy-insig

Ian Brown :fedi: (@1br0wn) · Apr 26
🔁 @wolfgangcramer:

Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections?
How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? berkeleyearth.org/policy-insig

The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg: 9780593492321 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

penguinrandomhouse.com · Apr 25

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure...

Shared by @mzedp and 26 others.
Sally Strange (@SallyStrange) · Apr 25
🔁 @breadandcircuses:

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺 (@carlton) · Apr 25
🔁 @breadandcircuses:

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

GhostOnTheHalfShell (@GhostOnTheHalfShell) · Apr 25
🔁 @breadandcircuses:

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

rodlux (@rodlux) · Apr 25
🔁 @breadandcircuses:

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

Susan Calvin (@Susan_calvin) · Apr 25
🔁 @breadandcircuses:

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

Raff Karva (@RaffKarva) · Apr 25
🔁 @breadandcircuses:

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

MatthewToad43 (@matthewtoad43) · Apr 25
🔁 @breadandcircuses:

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

EthicalTaxProfessor (@DrGeof) · Apr 25
🔁 @breadandcircuses:

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

Peter Brown (@peterbrown) · Apr 25
🔁 @breadandcircuses:

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) writes:

"When we say that our leaders have not been taking any climate action during the last thirty years, we could not be more wrong. In fact, they have been very busy. But not in the way that you might think — or hope.

"They have spent this time actively delaying action, creating frameworks full of loopholes that will benefit their own national short-term economic policies — and their own popularity. And as long as the level of awareness is as low as it is today, they will continue to get away with it."

That's from page 92 in The Climate Book -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

Shared by @khinsen and 56 others.
Hayo Bethlehem 🇳🇱 (@hayo) · Apr 26
🔁 @WPalant:

This is a damning conclusion for passkeys here (by @firstyear):

“We missed our golden chance to eliminate passwords through a desire to capture markets and promote hype.”

fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-

Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️ (@jan) · Apr 26
🔁 @WPalant:

This is a damning conclusion for passkeys here (by @firstyear):

“We missed our golden chance to eliminate passwords through a desire to capture markets and promote hype.”

fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-

Yellow Flag (@WPalant) · Apr 26

This is a damning conclusion for passkeys here (by @firstyear):

“We missed our golden chance to eliminate passwords through a desire to capture markets and promote hype.”

fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano) · Apr 26
🔁 @harshad:

Heh. Sigh.

"In order to try to resolve this the workgroup seems to be doubling down on more complex JS apis to try to patch over the issues that they created in the first place."

"That's right. I'm here saying passwords are a better experience than passkeys. Do you know how much it pains me to write this sentence?"

fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-

I never touched passkeys because the hype smelled wrong, been around long enough to sharpen this gut feeling. Phew, dodged this one too!

Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato

arstechnica.com · Apr 25

Various imaging methods comprised a kind of "bionic eye" to examine charred scroll.

Shared by @philpem and 13 others.
Pauline von Hellermann (@pvonhellermannn) · Apr 25
🔁 @br00t4c:

Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato

arstechnica.com/?p=2019913

Bert de Vries (@BertdeVries) · Apr 26
🔁 @cdarwin:

Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals more precise burial place of Plato

Historical accounts vary about how the Greek philosopher Plato died:
in bed while listening to a young woman playing the flute;
at a wedding feast;
or peacefully in his sleep.

But the few surviving texts from that period indicate that the philosopher was🔸 buried somewhere in the garden of the Academy 🔸he founded in Athens.
The garden was quite large, but
💥archaeologists have now deciphered a charred ancient papyrus scroll💥 recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum,
👉indicating a more precise burial location:
in a private area near a sacred shrine to the Muses, according to Constanza Millani, director of the Institute of Heritage Science at Italy's National Research Council.

As previously reported, the ancient Roman resort town Pompeii wasn't the only city destroyed in the catastrophic 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Several other cities in the area, including the wealthy enclave of Herculaneum, were fried by clouds of hot gas called pyroclastic pulses and flows.
But still, some remnants of Roman wealth survived.
One palatial residence in #Herculaneum—believed to have once belonged to a man named Piso—contained hundreds of priceless written scrolls made from papyrus, singed into carbon by volcanic

Scientists have brought all manner of cutting-edge tools to bear on deciphering badly damaged ancient texts like the Herculaneum scrolls.
For instance, in 2019, German scientists used a combination of physics techniques (synchrotron radiation, infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray fluorescence) to virtually "unfold" an ancient Egyptian papyrus.
Brent Searles' lab at the University of Kentucky has been working on deciphering the Herculaneum scrolls for many years. He employs a different method of "virtually unrolling" damaged scrolls, using digital scanning with micro-computed tomography—a noninvasive technique often used for cancer imaging—with segmentation to digitally create pages, augmented with texturing and flattening techniques. Then they developed software (Volume Cartography) to virtually unroll the scroll.
Notably, the historical account of Plato being sold into slavery in his later years after running afoul of the tyrannical Dionysius is usually pegged to around 387 BCE. According to the newly deciphered Philodemus text, however, Plato's enslavement may have occurred as early as 404 BCE or shortly after the death of Socrates in 399 BCE.
"Compared to previous editions, there is now an almost radically changed text, which implies a series of new and concrete facts about various academic philosophers," Graziano Ranocchia, lead researcher on the project, said. "Through the new edition and its contextualization, scholars have arrived at unexpected interdisciplinary deductions for ancient philosophy, Greek biography and literature, and the history of the book.”

arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Apr 26
🔁 @cdarwin:

Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals more precise burial place of Plato

Historical accounts vary about how the Greek philosopher Plato died:
in bed while listening to a young woman playing the flute;
at a wedding feast;
or peacefully in his sleep.

But the few surviving texts from that period indicate that the philosopher was🔸 buried somewhere in the garden of the Academy 🔸he founded in Athens.
The garden was quite large, but
💥archaeologists have now deciphered a charred ancient papyrus scroll💥 recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum,
👉indicating a more precise burial location:
in a private area near a sacred shrine to the Muses, according to Constanza Millani, director of the Institute of Heritage Science at Italy's National Research Council.

As previously reported, the ancient Roman resort town Pompeii wasn't the only city destroyed in the catastrophic 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Several other cities in the area, including the wealthy enclave of Herculaneum, were fried by clouds of hot gas called pyroclastic pulses and flows.
But still, some remnants of Roman wealth survived.
One palatial residence in #Herculaneum—believed to have once belonged to a man named Piso—contained hundreds of priceless written scrolls made from papyrus, singed into carbon by volcanic

Scientists have brought all manner of cutting-edge tools to bear on deciphering badly damaged ancient texts like the Herculaneum scrolls.
For instance, in 2019, German scientists used a combination of physics techniques (synchrotron radiation, infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray fluorescence) to virtually "unfold" an ancient Egyptian papyrus.
Brent Searles' lab at the University of Kentucky has been working on deciphering the Herculaneum scrolls for many years. He employs a different method of "virtually unrolling" damaged scrolls, using digital scanning with micro-computed tomography—a noninvasive technique often used for cancer imaging—with segmentation to digitally create pages, augmented with texturing and flattening techniques. Then they developed software (Volume Cartography) to virtually unroll the scroll.
Notably, the historical account of Plato being sold into slavery in his later years after running afoul of the tyrannical Dionysius is usually pegged to around 387 BCE. According to the newly deciphered Philodemus text, however, Plato's enslavement may have occurred as early as 404 BCE or shortly after the death of Socrates in 399 BCE.
"Compared to previous editions, there is now an almost radically changed text, which implies a series of new and concrete facts about various academic philosophers," Graziano Ranocchia, lead researcher on the project, said. "Through the new edition and its contextualization, scholars have arrived at unexpected interdisciplinary deductions for ancient philosophy, Greek biography and literature, and the history of the book.”

arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

Mark Saltveit (@taoish) · Apr 26
🔁 @cdarwin:

Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals more precise burial place of Plato

Historical accounts vary about how the Greek philosopher Plato died:
in bed while listening to a young woman playing the flute;
at a wedding feast;
or peacefully in his sleep.

But the few surviving texts from that period indicate that the philosopher was🔸 buried somewhere in the garden of the Academy 🔸he founded in Athens.
The garden was quite large, but
💥archaeologists have now deciphered a charred ancient papyrus scroll💥 recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum,
👉indicating a more precise burial location:
in a private area near a sacred shrine to the Muses, according to Constanza Millani, director of the Institute of Heritage Science at Italy's National Research Council.

As previously reported, the ancient Roman resort town Pompeii wasn't the only city destroyed in the catastrophic 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Several other cities in the area, including the wealthy enclave of Herculaneum, were fried by clouds of hot gas called pyroclastic pulses and flows.
But still, some remnants of Roman wealth survived.
One palatial residence in #Herculaneum—believed to have once belonged to a man named Piso—contained hundreds of priceless written scrolls made from papyrus, singed into carbon by volcanic

Scientists have brought all manner of cutting-edge tools to bear on deciphering badly damaged ancient texts like the Herculaneum scrolls.
For instance, in 2019, German scientists used a combination of physics techniques (synchrotron radiation, infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray fluorescence) to virtually "unfold" an ancient Egyptian papyrus.
Brent Searles' lab at the University of Kentucky has been working on deciphering the Herculaneum scrolls for many years. He employs a different method of "virtually unrolling" damaged scrolls, using digital scanning with micro-computed tomography—a noninvasive technique often used for cancer imaging—with segmentation to digitally create pages, augmented with texturing and flattening techniques. Then they developed software (Volume Cartography) to virtually unroll the scroll.
Notably, the historical account of Plato being sold into slavery in his later years after running afoul of the tyrannical Dionysius is usually pegged to around 387 BCE. According to the newly deciphered Philodemus text, however, Plato's enslavement may have occurred as early as 404 BCE or shortly after the death of Socrates in 399 BCE.
"Compared to previous editions, there is now an almost radically changed text, which implies a series of new and concrete facts about various academic philosophers," Graziano Ranocchia, lead researcher on the project, said. "Through the new edition and its contextualization, scholars have arrived at unexpected interdisciplinary deductions for ancient philosophy, Greek biography and literature, and the history of the book.”

arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

Worth reading

Celebrating the Earth

talkingclimate.ca · Apr 25

Global climate progress, coral reef bleaching, and the 25,000 conversation challenge

Shared by @otfrom and 13 others.
kim_harding ✅ (@kim_harding) · Apr 25
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

Mark Stoll (@markrstoll) · Apr 26
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

David B. Himself (@DavidBHimself) · Apr 25
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

JuneSim63 (@junesim63) · Apr 25
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

Parents For Future :verified: (@parents4future) · Apr 26
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (@Lazarou) · Apr 25
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

Iris Volk (@funkvolk) · Apr 25
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

Chip Butty (@otfrom) · Apr 26
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

Knud Jahnke (@knud) · Apr 26
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

Peter Brown (@peterbrown) · Apr 25
🔁 @kathhayhoe:

I often hear from people discouraged about the slow pace of climate action. “We’ve tried so hard to tackle climate change and nothing changed,” they say. “Why even bother anymore?”

While it may feel subtle or almost imperceptible at times, a lot has changed over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, 0.7% of cars sold around the world were electric vehicles. Today, 20% are. Before the Paris Agreement, the world was forecast to warm by up to 5 degrees C (9F). Now, as this article explains, that number has been dialed back to 2.7 degrees thanks to already enacted government policies around the world.

Of course we need to do more: the science is clear that every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid will prevent a measurable amount of loss and suffering. But a shift is underway, and if we don’t talk about what has been accomplished as well as what still remains to be done, we are disempowering and discouraging people from taking action.

Read on for more good news, not so good news, and how you can help reach a target of 25,000 climate conversations this month!

open.substack.com/pub/talkingc

Worth reading

The Flint Water Crisis, Ten Years Later

popula.com · Apr 25

A Conversation with Dayne Walling, Flint Mayor 2009-2015

Shared by @MorpheusB and 8 others.
malena (@seachanger) · Apr 26
🔁 @maria:

The Flint Water Crisis started ten years ago today.

Flint is a community uniquely equipped to explain the importance of strong local government.

At Popula, a wild, deeply absorbing and informative conversation with their former mayor:

popula.com/2024/04/25/the-flin

Dom Arbuthnott (@dominic) · Apr 26
🔁 @cdarwin:

Ten years ago, on April 25th, the City of Flint, Michigan,
under the thumb of state-appointed emergency operators,
switched their municipal water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
to the Flint River.

Governor Rick Snyder’s Republican administration had imposed a brutal austerity paradigm on both Flint and Detroit,
where the vast majority of Michigan’s Black population was concentrated.

Because the Flint River water was improperly treated,
lead from old pipes leached into the municipal water,
exposing the city’s residents to elevated levels of lead and other contaminants.

Flint Mayor Dayne Walling, who had been in office since 2009, was ousted by voters that November. 

popula.com/2024/04/25/the-flin

Nigel Purchase (@Nigel_Purchase) · Apr 26
🔁 @cdarwin:

Ten years ago, on April 25th, the City of Flint, Michigan,
under the thumb of state-appointed emergency operators,
switched their municipal water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
to the Flint River.

Governor Rick Snyder’s Republican administration had imposed a brutal austerity paradigm on both Flint and Detroit,
where the vast majority of Michigan’s Black population was concentrated.

Because the Flint River water was improperly treated,
lead from old pipes leached into the municipal water,
exposing the city’s residents to elevated levels of lead and other contaminants.

Flint Mayor Dayne Walling, who had been in office since 2009, was ousted by voters that November. 

popula.com/2024/04/25/the-flin

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Apr 26
🔁 @cdarwin:

Ten years ago, on April 25th, the City of Flint, Michigan,
under the thumb of state-appointed emergency operators,
switched their municipal water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
to the Flint River.

Governor Rick Snyder’s Republican administration had imposed a brutal austerity paradigm on both Flint and Detroit,
where the vast majority of Michigan’s Black population was concentrated.

Because the Flint River water was improperly treated,
lead from old pipes leached into the municipal water,
exposing the city’s residents to elevated levels of lead and other contaminants.

Flint Mayor Dayne Walling, who had been in office since 2009, was ousted by voters that November. 

popula.com/2024/04/25/the-flin

Exhaust_Fumes (@VCP) · Apr 26
🔁 @maria:

The Flint Water Crisis started ten years ago today.

Flint is a community uniquely equipped to explain the importance of strong local government.

At Popula, a wild, deeply absorbing and informative conversation with their former mayor:

popula.com/2024/04/25/the-flin

Morpheus Being (@MorpheusB) · Apr 26
🔁 @maria:

The Flint Water Crisis started ten years ago today.

Flint is a community uniquely equipped to explain the importance of strong local government.

At Popula, a wild, deeply absorbing and informative conversation with their former mayor:

popula.com/2024/04/25/the-flin

Chu 朱 (@chu) · Apr 26
🔁 @maria:

The Flint Water Crisis started ten years ago today.

Flint is a community uniquely equipped to explain the importance of strong local government.

At Popula, a wild, deeply absorbing and informative conversation with their former mayor:

popula.com/2024/04/25/the-flin

Adrianna Tan (@skinnylatte) · Apr 26
🔁 @maria:

The Flint Water Crisis started ten years ago today.

Flint is a community uniquely equipped to explain the importance of strong local government.

At Popula, a wild, deeply absorbing and informative conversation with their former mayor:

popula.com/2024/04/25/the-flin

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