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Kevin Barron

@kevinbarron.bsky.social

Either we choose to evolve/hack our culture to reintegrate within nature, or we prematurely go extinct. Individually we may feel powerless, but TOGETHER we can regain our keystone role, and maybe even achieve our evolutionary potential. 🍉

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Kevin Barron@kevinbarron.bsky.social · 3d ago

“One reason this simple physical story became blurred was the success of the personal carbon footprint. Popularised by BP’s “Beyond Petroleum” campaign in the early 2000s, it encouraged people to focus on their own emissions.” Here in a nutshell is how the oil lobby continues to blame shift.

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.

theconversation.com

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 5d ago

9 killed, 27 injured in Kyiv as Russia launches 2nd major attack in 48 hours. Russia struck Kyiv again w/ballistic missiles, the second major assault in just 48 hours. “Civilians in homes were torn apart while families slept. Rescue teams clawed through shattered concrete searching for survivors.”

9 killed, 27 injured in Kyiv as Russia launches 2nd major attack in 48 hours

At least nine people have been killed and 27 others injured in the ballistic missile attack, including four children, authorities reported.

kyivindependent.com

Andrea Pitzer@andreapitzer.bsky.social · 5d ago

We will never get to real democracy until public figures learn how to handle disingenuous concern-trolling by bad actors on behalf of people those bad actors don't actually give a shit about.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last wk.

“U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on Wednesday demanded ​documents and answers from Elon Musk about the ‌environmental and public health impacts of his xAI Colossus data center operations in Tennessee and Mississippi.” 7/29/26

US House Democrat asks Musk to answer for polluting xAI data centers

U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on Wednesday demanded ​documents and answers from Elon Musk about the ‌environmental and public health i...

reuters.com

Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w ago

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

climateintegrity.org

Kevin Barron@kevinbarron.bsky.social · last wk.

While there needs to ne studies where N > 26, this research begs the question, what could we do if we really put our minds to work. If this can be done in 10 weeks, what could we do with 12 years (K-12)!? Maybe we wouldnt have to burn up the planet to reach AGI - by creating NGI (Naturally)!

Humans Can Learn to Echolocate in Just 10 Weeks, And It Rewires The Brain

Echolocation is a fascinating way that animals like bats and whales find their way around the world.

sciencealert.com

Taulby Edmondson@taulby.bsky.social · 2w ago

Find an Irish national and tell them the British government wasn't responsible for any deaths when it cut off food aid programmes during the famine.

Emma Evans@trance.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imagine you live in old timey times and your town gets it's supplies by train every quarter. And the winter shipment doesn't come. And you're told yeah no we decided not to send it. There's no time to do jack shit, and winter is here. People will die. is that not murder? We did worse.

Kevin Barron@kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the beginning there was the internet - it was going to change everything; then there were platforms - AOL was going to change everything; then there was VRML - 3D is really it; then there was the Metaverse; then there was… But this time we mean it - Ai is changing everything. And $trillions later

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w ago

But of course, read the whole thread. Grateful for Cory Doctorow, and grateful he writes about Silicon Valley with a flamethrower....

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/