Caesar Schinas
@caesar.dev
Geek, sailor, nature lover. Struggling with solastalgia and trying to do my bit for the planet and our future. 🌳🌲🌴🍄 🌐 https://caesarschinas.com 🐘 https://indieweb.social/@caesar ✅ https://keyoxide.org/hkp/5119c11d57d14127aca1b6cfeab09a2560ec3bc6
If you don't want to be seen by a doctor because of their skin colour, you do not deserve to be seen by any doctor.
NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients
Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff
theguardian.com
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
It says a lot about Clacton when 70% of people would rather vote for the trash rather than the guy who is seeking to take it out.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
"You should support climate action, for your children and grandchildren" is a bit shortsighted. You should support it for everyone living now, especially those already taking the hardest hits all over the world. And neighbours, friends, family, yourself. And future generations. And other species.
We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.
Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 2d agoAnd why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?
The nasty little thing with climate change is that the situation progressively gets worse as long as we emit greenhouse gases, and that is irreversible. So there's no happy message "Let's bring emissions to zero and then everything will be alright" Nope, everything will be worse than it is now. 1/
The fact that AI farms are valuing pre-AI test so much as to undertake this destructive scan endeavour is revealing of something much more important and daunting - that the value of text is dropping precipitously as a result *of their own actions* and *they know it*.
By now, it seems that #Spain has been very able to manage the crisis, and no other member states were negatively affected in any way. The reactions from Italy & Co. have been truly shameful. This is how you destroy trust and solidarity in the EU.
Lorenzo Piccoli@lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 5d agoIf the concern is Spain’s capacity to manage an exceptional number of arrivals, there are other ways to respond, including supporting Spain, without restricting free movement across an internal Schengen border.
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
A lot of folks like to shout that climate change is “worse than scientists predicted!” But that’s not really true. It’s largely unfolding just as the science has predicted for many decades. My colleague, the brilliant Dr. Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social explains…
Project Drawdown@projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 5d ago🚨 Scientists have been warning for more than a century that catastrophic weather events were inevitable if humanity kept emitting GHG's. But is it worse than even they expected? Climate scientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social shares her expert perspective in our latest Insights: https://bit.ly/4wsYPMw
Just discovered @sill.social and I'm absolutely loving it. Every link shared by those I follow across Bluesky and Mastodon, ranked by how many people have shared it, with all the conversation handily compiled into one nice UI. Where has this been all my life?
France's wildfires already are the most widespread in modern records. (In other 'news', climate deniers in the UK and from the Trump regime deny the severity of the situation). www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no...
We don't need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to how we own water. Scotland has already shown us what to do: PUBLIC OWNERSHIP It's the simplest, cheapest and most efficient choice for Andy Burnham to make now - first Thames Water, and then the rest of our water
Drought in the Netherlands: precipitation deficit* now double that of the peak in a median year, well within 5% driest years territory. Further increase predicted. *) evaporation minus rainfall
This is why blindly using generative AI is a very, very bad idea. It doesn’t *know* anything… “A Reuters analysis found the image of the map … contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
theguardian.com
ban this trash too
AkaSci@akasci.bsky.social · 4w agoThe FCC approves the deployment of the first Reflect Orbital satellite, which will provide sunlight-on-demand to customers, dismissing objections from over 1,600 public comments on potential harm to astronomy and the environment. www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-app... #Astronomy
A properly made website works well for AI agents ... and search engines, and LLMs, and above all, for actual people. If you're trying to fix accessibility issues by making a separate "agent-friendly" version, you are just building technical debt. You'll have to redo it multiple times. Just fix it.
Stef Walter@stephaniewalter.bsky.social · last mo.Sad truth: we are making the web accessible for AIs, not for people. Some sites now offer a text version for LLMs, but still skip real accessibility needs like proper heading structure, landmarks that screen reader users need.
A quick reaction to this amazing Politico story in which the head of Europe's biggest data centre lobby group just.............................................admits it www.politico.eu/article/euro... Longer version here w/ reckons on why GenAI ❤️ fossi lfuels so much youtu.be/FjfTm5NoOUY
Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network out of goats in Age of Empires II to critique AI science "A machine's behavior should never be explained by higher cognitive processes when a simpler explanation works." […]
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Russia was removed from Eurovision in 2022 over its invasion of Ukraine, but Israel is still allowed to compete despite being an apartheid state committing a genocide in Gaza. Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.
Spain, Ireland and Netherlands to boycott Eurovision after Israel retains place
Major European nations pull out of song contest after calling for country’s exclusion over conduct of war in Gaza
ft.com
Excellent design work, #Apple. Fantastic attention to detail. BTW are you hiring for your design team? I have zero experience, I think I'd be an excellent candidate.
Electrification + efficiency — not rolling back climate policy — is the real path to a competitive European industry. High fossil fuel prices hit industry hardest, not the Green Deal. Undermining clean-energy commitments would only push investment elsewhere. euobserver.com/green-econom...
Why electrification, not repealing green laws, will save Europe's industry
According to Oxford professor of energy Jan Rosenow, rapid electrification of Europe's industry, not rolling back the EU's Green Deal, will save European industry.
euobserver.com
Verra recently announced that more than half of the credits from the Kariba REDD+ project don’t represent real climate benefits. Our new commentary explains why carbon market participants should treat Verra’s proposed solution to excess crediting with skepticism.
Verra doesn’t have a good solution for excess crediting – CarbonPlan
Verra recently acknowledged the existence of millions of excess credits issued to the Kariba REDD+ project. Rather than resolving the issue, Verra’s proposed solution exposes a fundamental structural ...
carbonplan.org