Jasper @jasper@mastodon.nl

Why are we even paying taxes?

"The NYPD Banged On A Black Lives Matter Organizer's Door, Shut Down His Street, Stayed For 5 Hours, Then Left"

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-banged-black-lives-matter-organizers-door-shut-down-his-street-stayed-5-hours-then-left
#NYPD #NYC

I loved playing Creatures 3, an ancient game (1999) with some basic neural nets. I'm surprised that ML isn't a bigger deal in virtual pets today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_3

when you are to old to read the tiny fucking writing on these goddamn things

are you a miserable pile of

Hot take: burning biomass isn't practically carbon neutral on timescales we got to solve climate change.

Apparently I'm not alone: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/cop25-eu-officials-say-biomass-burning-policy-to-come-under-critical-review/

@jasper You have also https://kolektiva.media. Hopefully the two just federate.

KNMI: *De verwachte hitte van 2020 in een opwarmend klimaat*

"Het is warm in Nederland. In De Bilt verwachten we vanaf donderdag 6 augustus tot halverwege volgende week tropische dagen met maximumtemperaturen van boven de 30 graden. Vroeger waren dit soort temperaturen uitzonderlijk, tegenwoordig zijn ze vrij gewoon.

Het aantal tropische dagen was honderd jaar geleden gemiddeld net iets meer dan één per jaar. In het huidige klimaat zijn dat er rond de vijf per jaar. De verwachte acht tropische dagen deze zomer liggen daar weer ruim boven. De hoogste maximumtemperatuur van het jaar is sinds 1901 veel sneller toegenomen dan de wereldgemiddelde temperatuur. Dit aspect van de zomer is niet uitzonderlijk in de verwachting voor 2020: de temperatuur van 33 à 34 graden die voor zaterdag 8 augustus verwacht wordt, komt tegenwoordig vaker wel dan niet voor. Ook driedaagse gemiddelde hitte, die voor de gezondheid relevanter is, is dit jaar niet meer uitzonderlijk door de sterke stijging de afgelopen eeuw. …"

https://www.knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/nieuws/de-voorspelde-hitte-van-2020-in-een-opwarmend-klimaat

#Klimaatverandering #klimaatcrisis #hitte #hittegolf

Hello from up here!

The Louisiana Supreme Court just held up the life sentence of Fair Wayne Bryant, a Black man, who was convicted of simple burglary for stealing a hedge trimmer in 1997.

Five white men justices ruled to uphold the sentence. The only Black person and only woman on the court said that the sentence was excessive.

so good to finally use f-strings in python

i wonder if it can be made easily in rust macros. listing arguments at the end is Bad imo

I shared then the attitudes I see in memes now: how great it would be if England reclaimed its territory and deposited George Bush the Lesser into a cesspit. I didn't bother to learn the history of colonial exploitation or the racist present of the UK, I just congratulated myself on knowing that the silver spoon bigot was a bad man.

Casey Jones you better watch your speed

Programming in C can be very satisfying if you lower your productivity expectations sufficiently. I mean, OK it took me an hour to write the 1001st string splitting function in this code, but it's very elegant and probably only has 3 memory bugs in it.

Photos from Hiroshima, 2004.

Don't forget.

The arms of spiral galaxies are thought to be density waves where matter bunches up as it orbits the core. This bunching up sets off star formation in the gas and dust forming hot blue stars which we see as the spiral arms.

Since the hot blue stars are massive and short-lived, they tend to die off shortly after leaving the visible arms leaving cooler less luminous stars to fill the gaps between the arms.

Yet another oil spill, now in Mauritius.

🔥 Save the planet, burn the Oil CEOs 🔥

😡 @Shell@twitter.com @bp_plc@twitter.com @exxonmobil@twitter.com @Aramco@twitter.com 😡

“Defaults don’t matter, you can just change them.”

Really? Why do you think Google gives Mozilla HALF A BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to be the DEFAULT search engine on Firefox if defaults don’t matter? Or give Apple £1.2 BILLION for the same in the UK alone?

Think about it.

Are they idiots?

Or are you?