Rebecca Li

birds + robots + climate change

[Mek @mekarpeles]

@aaronsw @openlibrary @internetarchive @library_futures Already, @internetarchive & @openlibrary have been forced to remove 500,000 library books from lending, including 50+ year old literary classics, like Fahrenheit 451 & 1984.

Sign the open letter, urge publishers to #LetLibrariesLend & #LetReadersRead:

https://t.co/N3RfXu7L1E

[Mek @mekarpeles]

⏰ "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

[Zack Labe @ZLabe]

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.

[Rebecca Li @rmli_]

ripe for disruption!

[Rebecca Li @rmli_]

"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 :(

[Rebecca Li @rmli_]

@Ben_Reinhardt I never learned more about how to tape and which tape to use than when I worked at an aviation startup

[Alex Betsos, Marquis de Réagent @ADrugResearcher]

"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"

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

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

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

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/

[Saul Griffith @GriffithSaul]

First review of Electrify, out October 12 from MIT Press.
https://t.co/DwYop61oT0 #electrifyeverything @rewiringamerica

[Tim O'Brien @TimOBrien]

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'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky @KetanJ0]

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

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Everything you need to know about the Delta Variant

Quick summary thread 🧵
https://t.co/vkF5KD69YN

[Rebecca Li @rmli_]

Learn about fighting climate change through a board game :) https://t.co/dNcfHUD8s0

[Linda Lew 刘凌达 @Lindadalew]

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

[Nathan Ruser @Nrg8000]

@lilkuo There was a really cute photo of them sleeping the other day too!
If this migration has been good for anything it's top tier elephant content!

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

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

[Rebecca Li @rmli_]

@starsandrobots Pink taxes come in all shapes and sizes <3

[Tim Latimer @TimMLatimer]

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