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I'm a climate scientist by trade. Interested in interesting things. Ecology, complexity, politics, social change, music.

  • In a tent 10m from a tree that got struck directly - some bark blew off it. I was bending over at the waist to pick something off the floor and involuntarily jumped immediately. My memory is that I jumped before I could have had time to react, so I think the electrical field made my muscles spasm which made me jump. Not sure if that's possible or not though.

  • I'm very happy to criticise China, the petro-states and the US as well. Australia just gets special attention from me because it's home turf.

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  • Thought this was a biblically accurate lorikeet from the thumbnail

  • Yeah, coal is decreasing as a share of our domestic usage, but we are still one of the world's biggest coal exporters.

  • I'm Australian. I'll criticise Australia as much as I want. Both of our major parties have been dragging the chain on fossil fuels for decades. If you think Australia is going to go into that conference without a pro-fossil fuel agenda (at least relative to what is actually needed), then you are deluded.

  • Labor: no thanks, we'll just dig it all up and ship it overseas with barely any royalties and then do some creative accounting with offsets that we know are bullshit anyway.

  • There was at least a coherent rationale for the GFC bank bailouts - if you let parts of the finance system collapse a) real people lose lots of savings, and b) it might destabilise the whole system, and cause a domino effect (not saying I agree with it)

    That rationale doesn't apply for AI (though there will certainly be investment banks that collapse, I guess)

  • I hate how everything about this is makes sense including the fact that if Nazis made a time machine it would just move forward through time at a rate of one day per day.

  • Baby DM

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  • What's this a reference to?

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  • I guess it might have come across as escalating if the dad was homophobic as well as racist...

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  • Nah, he's the arsehole here.

  • It's true! It's a relatively minor complaint really. Let me pivot: fuck social norms around early starts 😅

  • Right, but I mean, the platform was originally designed without them in mind, and there's no real reason why every piece of software needs to have every piece of functionality.. I'm can see why they wouldn't be prioritising it

    I suspect I would love it if groups were in mastodon, but I'm not entirely sure it won't backfire in some horrendous way (this is social media after all)

  • Jealous

  • Mastodon doesn't have groups?

  • "This kind of thing" being big picture dynamics of how to run a social media project.

    I've also had a mastodon PR stall, but I think they get so many, many with competing demands, and have so few staff, that it's not really surprising that it's a bit mess on that front...

  • That first post is very good. I really appreciate the way he's handled the first 10 years, and I hope he has fun doing whatever he does next.

  • Eugen has always seemed pretty clear-eyed about this kind of thing.