Jussi Pasanen
@jopas.bsky.social
A designer who would like to ensure that there remains a liveable world for our kids to enjoy @jopas@mastodon.social x.com/jopas
100 years of July sea surface temperature anomalies... you'll see important patterns of regional climate variability as the animation evolves, but ultimately, the story behind the long-term trend toward record warmth is driven by human-caused climate change. Data from @noaa.gov ERSSTv6. 🌊
My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
'Samalla se kuvaa osuvasti myös sitä, miten seuraamme maastopaloja uutisista ja sosiaalisen median syötteistä turvallisen välimatkan päästä. On vaarallista, jos oranssina hohkaavaan tulimereen turtuu.' *kun Kuvavirta palavasta Euroopasta turruttaa ja tuskin muuttaa mitään www.hs.fi/nakemys/art-...
I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live
Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant
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El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe, according to the WMO. The forecast comes as blistering heat shatters temperature records from Europe to Asia.
In an Already Broiling Summer, El Niño Is About to Turn Up the Heat
Temperatures forecasted between August and October of this year. Red areas are projected to be far warmer than normal. World Meteorological Organization
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Photos: Wildfires Burn Through Spokane Neighborhoods - Tens of thousands of residents have been forced to flee as fast-moving fires burned through forests and residential areas in Spokane, Washington, over the weekend. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
'GEO-7 says the world is approaching a series of climate-related thresholds from which there may be no return.'
UN Environment Programme@unep.org · 2d agoOppressive heat. Species extinctions. Pollution-choked skies. This will continue and worsen unless humanity takes drastic steps to end a series of mushrooming environmental crises, finds #GEO7. See more: https://unep.org/news-and-stories/story/without-big-changes-what-environment-will-look-2050
PBS 🙌 (Also, imagine if pricing labels for all products were required to disclose the Full Cost inclusive of what economists like to call "externalities" – societal, environmental, etc.)
Stu Marshall@hypoxicchicken.medsky.social · 3d agoI will always be incredibly grateful for our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). This drug that keeps my tumour load down so I can live an (almost) normal life and without having to worry where to find an extra $78k per year. #Auspol #Medsky
There is just an amazing desperation to paint lower house prices as awful
Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia
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"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
londoncentric.media
Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
(1/2) The Iran war is a redistribution machine: Big oil profits have shot up to historic highs. Our research shows that 50% of fossil fuel profits go to the richest 1% in the U.S. The rich are the ultimate beneficiaries of the war windfalls.
„Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world“ (Anthropic).
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4mo agoText mining before the age of LLM training.
Alexander: 'In many contexts, growth appears ‘rational’ from the standpoint of the individual actor, firm, or state, even when the aggregate result is ecological overshoot and eventual destabilisation. The tragedy is not that people fail to understand the danger …' rwer.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/n...
new issue of RWER – #114
real-world economics review issue 114 download whole issue Game Theory and the Dilemma of Degrowth: Why Embrace Degrowth if Other States or Societies Do Not? Samuel Alexander The Dis…
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"Microsoft warns that consumers aren't buying enough of the thing they don't want."
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
'buying physical books, slicing off the spines to more efficiently scan the pages, then pulping the remains…The practice is now understood to be widespread among generative AI companies, and…reports suggest intermediaries are stepping up to facilitate the process' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
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Standard Operating Procedure: Privatise profits, socialise losses www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Adani to pay no company tax despite $1bn revenue from Queensland coalmine
Indian conglomerate offsets earnings from Carmichael mine to report $340.6m loss, after promising billions in taxes and royalties
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There's so much talk about societal resilience, crisis preparedness etc by European governments But the same governments immediately enter panic mode after a single incident like this
Paul T. Levin@paultlevin.bsky.social · 5d agoI’m not the only one suggesting that Ceuta might have been a case of migrant weaponization: “It is impossible for nearly 50,000 people to cross the border between Morocco and Spain in a single day without Morocco having a hand in it.” Lorenzo Gabrielli, Pompeu Fabra University.+
'You could say the same about any public service, or anything at all of public interest. The demands of capital owners trounce all other considerations, degrade the service and transform it into something with an entirely different purpose. UEFA's succinct critique of capital should be framed.'
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d agoNeoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
3 years delay seems pretty minor compared to, say, 14 years www.globalconstructionreview.com/14-years-lat...
14 years late, Finland’s new reactor, Olkiluoto 3, starts generating power - Global Construction Review
The 1.6GW Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor began producing electricity yesterday, 18 years after the project broke ground and €8bn over its original €3bn budget.
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Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 7d ago"Four new reactors of 1 gigawatt each are now estimated to cost $14.4 billion -- 55% of more than the 2024 estimate." Even India can't stop spiraling costs of nuclear plant build out. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
digitaldigging.org
'A polar bear cools down on a pile of ice cubes in its enclosure at the Prague Zoo on July 30, 2026, as temperatures were expected to reach at least 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit' [36°C] by Michal Čížek / AFP / Getty
!['A polar bear cools down on a pile of ice cubes in its enclosure at the Prague Zoo on July 30, 2026, as temperatures were expected to reach at least 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit' [36°C] by Michal Čížek / AFP / Getty](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xenxq2udu45qjhmbyyfceed3/bafkreiesjgheovida37iogtdyeyp7x2m5kgzejgljiss2fomskkiasmnda)
Alan Taylor@kokogiak.bsky.social · 6d agoPhotos of the Week: Heat Wave, Buck Moon, Alphorn Ensemble - An Alpine ascent at the the Tour de France, “The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever” dance event in England, World Fencing Championships in Hong Kong, a mud festival in South Korea & much more. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
