"Climate Shift Index (CSI) levels of 5 — the highest possible — are forecast across the eastern United States, meaning human-caused climate change made this extreme heat at least 5 times more likely. This signals an exceptional climate-influenced event." 🔥
➡️ Learn more: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert/Climate-change-fuels-extreme-July0Fourth-heat-wave-across-US
Lots of small arc tiles make up this big Truchet tile rug plot giving a very textural feel.
CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI
"Google’s cumulative emissions have risen more than 80 percent since 2019, the baseline year for the company’s “intentionally aspirational” pledge to cut its operational emissions and certain supply chain emissions in half by 2030. Google’s electricity demand leapt 37 percent for the year, the largest increase in its history. Since 2019, the power consumed by its products and services has increased by 250 percent."
https://trellis.net/article/googles-ai-expansion-weighs-heavily-on-climate-goals/
From Wednesday onwards, the European Union is introducing a new €3 customs duty on low-value parcels entering the bloc from outside the EU – will you end up paying for this?
https://euobserver.com/225068/listen-who-will-benefit-from-the-new-e3-tax-on-small-parcels/
A hard ban on LLM/"AI" use in a FLOSS project is the moderate stance. I am not a moderate person.
Giving space to these machines is throwing the millions of people whose work they stole, the millions of people who suffer under their crawlers' assault under the bus.
We do not throw each other under the bus in a civil society. I hope you understand this to be the bare minimum.
I'm hiring 👀🐙⚡
This is a rare opportunity to join the Data Visualisation team at Octopus Energy, the largest (and most exciting) energy supplier in Britain.
It's a tiny team with a big remit and an outsized impact. You'll be working directly alongside me to help shape how the public understands the energy transition.
You'll turn complex energy data into clear, compelling stories; working closely with senior leadership, marketing, policy, press and product teams.
https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/bc8c843f-5f07-4522-8da8-d27f0ceeed1b
We report: where the river meets the sea, there is something in between mist and a light drizzle. It stays right here, a light blur on the horizon, the air brinier than ever. The ducks are searching the silt for snails and worms. Our expert‘s hair is curling around their face.
Zionism will still be hated after the sun engulfs everything
Link to un-paywalled full article: https://archive.is/20260624131604/https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/06/24/safety-is-when-theres-no-one-dying-lebanon-children/
Gestern gabs #Marillenknödel mit einem Kern aus #Walnussmarzipan. Das fein gemahlene #Altbrot als #Mehlersatz hat auch hier beträchlich zum #Aromenspektrum beigetragen. En Guete! 🥳👻🤓
RE: https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/116840496001165566
Y'all, you have to look at this. Granted, I know very little about #quilts or #quilting, but this is the most amazing thing. I just want to stare at it and marvel that it was made by human hands.
Humans can be pretty cool sometimes. Maybe we don't need the giant meteor yet.
@NickGates in aotearoa we got pre-lizards who have been around since before the dinobots
they have a third “pineal” eye which they use to monitor the spirit realm, and they are generally kick ass little characters (but they like sitting very still, nocturnally hunting for bugs, and tend to do their ass kicking in very short very energetic bursts)
give it up for - tuatara
Another naturally framed view of the north end of Coopers Beach this morning. #photography #trees #beach #aotearoa #doubtlessbay
The convoluted roots that anchor a "horizontal" #pohutukawa tree at Coopers Beach today. #photography #aotearoa #doubtlessbay #tree
Leaving his letter to Frodo in the care of the Prancing Pony’s landlord, Barliman Butterbur, Gandalf rides south from Bree at dawn. Though Isengard is more than a week’s ride to the south, Gandalf hopes he can reach the wizard Saruman before the Nazgûl learn the Shire’s location.
Just finished listening to a Great Courses audiobook called Major Transitions in Evolution. Which sounds like the the most triggering possible title if you're a Christian Nationalist.
Morning, your #BadNewsOfTheDay are here.
1. #collapse is here, & it's starting in the oceans:
"A record global average sea temperature in June had pushed the world into 'uncharted territory'. Daily sea surface temperature had surpassed the previous monthly highs."
https://www.ft.com/content/857d4917-b04b-4349-b90a-7f3cf7aabd3f?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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2. And that's a really big deal:
"When the previous ocean record for June was set in 2023, scientists described the trends as “terrifying” and “bonkers” bc they were so far outside their expectations. That presaged an El Niño and a period of devastating global heatwaves, floods and storms."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/01/ocean-surface-temperatures-hit-a-record-high-for-june
Help test OpenSSH 10.4 ahead of its release: https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=178278879685375
Neue #opendata Anwendung: Make Vienna Cool - eine quelloffene, mobilfreundliche Karte, die Menschen in Wien dabei hilft, während Hitzewellen Orte zum Abkühlen zu finden https://www.data.gv.at/applications/eb1846d0-dce1-42f5-90ac-82a70ee408d7?locale=de