climate

links, etc Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? – The Irish Times the ministry for the future outlined a point where attacks against conspicuious consumers/generators of CO2 were lobbed by eco-terrorist groups. in the book, drones attacked executive jets, corporations were targeted with material destruction, etc. against the backdrop of frustration against health insurance companies, political adminstrations that portray climate change as a hoax, increasing economic disparities, are we going to see MFtF type action emerging?...

links, etc Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years - The New York Times on the heels of the recent discovery of a string trio arrangement by mozart this is pretty neat news. we can only really have these “discoveries” if there’s a durable medium for preserving creative outputs. in this case paper and pen. with everything being hidden on personal hard drives and in proprietary software/file formats these days, i do find myself wondering what creative bits (no pun intended) we’re going to lose to the ravages of time and bit rot....

links, etc The Truth About Hurricane Geoengineering - The Atlantic it’s absolutely bonkers to me that this is something that requires discussion.

numbers don’t lie (vaclav smil) there’s a lot of “elite” love for vaclav smil. bill gates and steven pinker wax poetic about smil. i guess i get it. he provides a dispassionate comparison of various things and stands back all neutral-ish like. this was a quick read and the follow-up elements are well laid out if you’re keen to dig into something further. the whole book is laid out as a series of brief essays on whatever the topic du jour was a weriting....

links, etc Greening of Antarctica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent Ars Technica da fuq? seriously?