⏰ "The Countdown to Save US Libraries"
4⃣ days left before courts deliberate on the future of libraries
✊ I wholeheartedly support @aaronsw's @openlibrary, the @internetarchive, and believe in @library_futures
📚 My take:
https://t.co/Cx97jGQkAJ
100 years of September sea ice - another one of those wait-until-the-end animations...
Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: https://t.co/7q9EnNgpQa. I also have another version at https://t.co/ysoGwwYtqb.
"Every day digital design leaders around the world wrestle with software, which at its core is twenty years old and incapable of the potential of multi-core computing and graphics power designed to process within today's real and virtual workstations" - the state of CAD :(
"Knowing" with Nicolas Cage is a terrible movie, but it's worth watching for the scene where he flashes his MIT badge like he's an FBI agent and it just reads: "ACADEMIC"
This proves the point. Antigen tests in Germany are US$0.88 each. Here in US, Binax (the one vendor allowed to sell at $12 in entire country) is out of inventory. No one else approved. Our HC system is completely “captured.” https://t.co/xe2LuZBLTi
And of course, behind all the detailed scientific analysis a simple message rings loud and clear: it's real, it's us, experts agree, it's bad, but there is still time to do something about it. Our climate future is, ultimately, up to us to decide. https://t.co/6hXqHNivaZ 27/
Sometime next month, for the first time, the government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead. Arizona and its farmers will get hit first, but the water crisis will touch everyone.
Inside the Southwest’s two-decade mega-drought. https://t.co/VwGtet8DKC
I really wanted to write about something important: do we actually know how to recognise if a fossil fuel company is actually transforming?
So, I dove into an obvious example, from my current home, Norway: Equinor. Want to pull on this 🧵with me?
https://t.co/doVIXqR9kG
Tibetan woman in Sichuan salvaging mining machines after China banned bitcoin mining, the cords forming a bouquet. Caixin's Ding Gang 丁刚 consistently snaps photos that tell you so much in 1 single shot. Story of the end of an era by 萧辉 Xiao Hui here https://t.co/FHSCYSyjLe
Biden wants to decarbonize the U.S. economy by 2050. My 401k assumes I’ll retire six years later.
Ambitious goals have turned reaching net zero into the work of a lifetime—*my generation’s lifetime,* people born from 1980 to 2005. I wrote about it:
https://t.co/gSQccYnmtO
6/Geothermal capacity in California today is effectively ~2000MW, but the state has the resource to produce over 15,000MW, and potentially far more than that with new technology, as @Sammy_Roth covers here. https://t.co/8bcRvpd3cc