"Both Google and Amazon released their sustainability reports this week, and the numbers aren’t pretty. Each company has pledged to zero-out its carbon emissions in the coming years, but AI has made those goals a lot harder to hit. Google’s total carbon emissions are up 25% since last year, Amazon’s are up 16%."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/a-warning-sign-about-ais-real-cost-courtesy-of-google-and-amazon/

This is a massive environment-destroying crisis caused by Big Tech. What are we going to do?

― you think you can fly that thing?

― you think you can do all that bullshit you just said?

#IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly

🎉 Big news: OSRM now has official Python bindings — pip install osrm-bindings

Native bindings to osrm-backend via nanobind, wired straight into our automatic release pipeline. Route, table, match, trip and nearest, all from Python, no server hop required.

This one's thanks to contributor Nils Nolde, who kept pushing this over the finish line through months of iteration.

Proof that persistence pays off. 🙌

https://pypi.org/project/osrm-bindings/

#OSRM #OpenStreetMap #Python #OpenSource #Routing

Happy birthday America! The United States was started 250 years ago today, but it was not finished 250 years ago today. Our story is incomplete.

Our Constitution is based on ideas from the French enlightenment. But we added racism to their ideas, and corrupted it.

We're still fixing that mistake.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109789295728917242

We are the first country to ratify those brilliant ideas into a Constitution, even beating France to their own inevitable democratic success.

But we were not the first Democracy to remove anti-Black racism from their constitution. And we still have not removed that racism and anti-Blackness.

i vastly prefer all the erotica I accidentally see on Fedi pass the Bechdel test. But also be CW'd if there's an image, because not everyone on the train behind me consented to being jumpscared by boobs.

#FediMeta #JustGirlyThings

@foone

convert -density 204x196 -units PixelsPerInch "$1" -alpha remove -resize '1728x2156!' -compress Fax fax/`basename "$1" ".png"`.tif

Is Vito Buric (The Gunrunner elusive target 2026 version) supposed to be completely invisible in hitman vision? Or is that a bug?

Makes timing an exploding vomit trash bin tricky. I probably should have used a proximity micro taser.

Too late now though.

#hitman #elusivetarget

I'm never going to medal at the #carryshitolympics but I did bring home some kitty litter and both canned and dry cat food all in one go, maybe 25 lb of cargo total.

society is currently grappling with such questions as "I want to use the plagiarism machine but in my heart I know it's wrong, how do I justify it to myself?" and "I want to use the plagiarism machine but other people might think I'm bad for plagiarising, how do I justify it to myself?" and don't forgot "there must be a role for the plagiarism machine in education but plagiarism is bad, how do I justify this to my students"

The heat came first for the elderly,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't elderly.

Then the heat came for the children,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a child.

Then the heat came for the South Asians,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't South Asian.

Then the heat came for the farm workers,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a farm worker.

Then the heat came for me,
And my government said, "Some will fall by the wayside," and did nothing.

It's quiet...

Myth: Indigenous lands are rich in biodiversity because they are remote and underpopulated

Fact: Indigenous lands are rich in biodiversity because of Indigenous knowledge and traditions that center environmental conservation and protection

just describe the image the way you would describe it to a friend on the phone

if it's just text, copy and paste the text into the image description

if it's just an image, describe what you're seeing in the image

if it's both, include both the text and the visual description

if it's a joke, describe all the components necessary for the joke to work

it's really that simple

I made this a few years ago, to compare the size of the entire screen on an original 128k Mac with the size of the Safari icon on modern macOS. Enjoy!

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html

Ok lesbians and friends what’s the best Tegan and Sara album. I only get four options on this instance so you can comment your outrage at me leaving out your fav. #lesbian

Jython was a mistake.

Hey Canada - its reported that starting next week, Australians will get 3 hours of *free* electricity each afternoon, all thanks to clean, renewable (not nuclear) energy and storage batteries.
We have the environment and locations to build wind, solar, hydro and tidal power generation, but instead, one of the first three mega-projects the Federal government is looking at funding is a place to hide nuclear waste.
And our electricity bills keep going up.

#Canada #federal #Carney #renewables #renewableenergy #nuclearpower #inflation

Global warming is going great. 🤦‍♀️

From: @AnnaAnthro
https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116805202148947240

My subtitle editor is now on PyPI.

https://pypi.org/project/subtle-gui/

It is very much in an alpha state, but I've used it quite a bit to convert Bluray subtitles to SRT (text) files for use with Plex. It requires MKVToolNix for reading media files, and Tesseract OCR for OCR scanning. These applications need to be callable from the command line. I plan to make this configurable later.

#VideoTools #Media #MKV #Subtitles #Bluray #OpenSource #Python #Qt6