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W3C sysadmin based in Squamish, Canada. Occasional photographer, mountain biker, skier, hiker; music and food enthusiast. @gerald@w3c.social

 Squamish, BC, Canada
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Joined May 2007
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It is weird to me that the people who want to treat this like an emergency are treated as radicals and the people who want to do nothing are treated as if they are moderate. Doing nothing about climate change is an absolutely radical, dangerous, deranged thing to do.
Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@EliotJacobson28 Apr 2022
No relief in sight. Day after day in range 45-50C, even 10 days out. That's 113-122F. These are temperatures that kill. Pakistan and NW India are being hit hardest, but it is brutal throughout most of India. Although there is little reporting, the death toll must be staggering.
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Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels. Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.
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I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share.
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Hey @JustinTrudeau, I wrote you a #ThroneSpeech. Feel free to take whatever you like. With many feeling down after #COP26, I think this could really help boost people's spirits. @s_guilbeault @JonathanWNV @cafreeland @pablorodriguez bits for you too 👇 nationalobserver.com/2021/11…

The climate throne speech Prime Minister Trudeau means to give

What would be the best speech from the throne Canadians could hear later this month? Here's an imaginary take on one that would put Canada on a path to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy...

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Bike lanes aren't just good policy, they're good politics. From New York to Milan, the world's most ambitious mayors keep winning reelection as the cries of backlash prove not to be the voice of voters. theguardian.com/environment/…

The bikelash paradox: how cycle lanes enrage some but win votes

Meddling with drivers guarantees a media storm, but mayors behind ambitious road reclamations are consistently rewarded

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Congratulations, @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. Our two countries are close friends, partners, and allies. We share a relationship that’s unique on the world stage. I’m really looking forward to working together and building on that with you both.
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We just have one last thing to say to Trump... – at Manhattan, NY
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And here it is, your Moment of Zen
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So ridiculous. Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Donald, Chill!
Donald J. Trump
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STOP THE COUNT!
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Biden campaign also going up on Comedy Central and Adult Swim with this animated climate change focused ad
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I can’t get over the fact that the phrase “carbon footprint” was coined by BP (!!!!) as part of a clever PR campaign to shift attention from structural shifts to individual actions as means of combatting climate change mashable.com/feature/carbon-…

The Carbon Footprint Sham

“This is one of the most successful, deceptive PR campaigns maybe ever.”

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Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era rol.st/3i9nwHa
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Today @stuartathompson and I pubbed the 1st in a series on location tracking. Based off more than 50 billion location pings we obtained covering 12 million phones. It's the culmination of months of reporting. We'll be publishing 7 stories in all this week. nytimes.com/interactive/2019…

Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy (Published 2019)

What we learned from the spy in your pocket.

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As #TheWebConf celebrates #Web30, travel back in time and watch the newly digitised footage from the 1st International World Wide Web Conference, organised by Robert Cailliau in May 1994 at CERN: videos.cern.ch/search?q=www9… home.cern/science/computing/… c/ @TheWebConf @timberners_lee

Newly digitised footage from the 1st International WWW Conference

As #TheWebConf celebrates #Web30, travel back in time and watch the newly digitised footage from the 1st International World Wide Web Conference, organised by Robert Cailliau in May 1994 at CERN.

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I'm on hold. You're already wasting my time. Please don't compound it by playing on-hold music, or periodically chiming in with advertisements or repeated instructions. I'm listening for a human voice, and you're distracting me from using my time productively.
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Facebook, Amazon, and Google have vast power over our economy and democracy. They’ve bulldozed competition and tilted the playing field in their favor. Time to break up these companies so they don’t have so much power over everyone else. #BreakUpBigTech medium.com/@teamwarren/heres…

Here’s how we can break up Big Tech

By Elizabeth Warren

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1. The unrelenting chaos that President Trump creates can sometimes obscure the big picture. But the big picture is simple: The United States has never had a president as demonstrably unfit for the office. nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opini…

Opinion | The People vs. Donald J. Trump (Published 2019)

He is demonstrably unfit for office. What are we waiting for?

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Discolored patches of wall or ground that look like shadows are often actually faint images of what's behind us or around a corner. Computer vision scientists have found ways of pulling these images out. My new story might give you the heebie-jeebies: quantamagazine.org/the-new-s…

The New Science of Seeing Around Corners | Quanta Magazine

Computer vision researchers have uncovered a world of visual signals hiding in our midst, including subtle motions that betray what’s being said and faint images of what’s around a corner.

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If you're watching tonight's meteor shower, this is an amazing graphic to see where they came from. meteorshowers.org/

Meteor showers as seen from space

Watch as Earth flies through clouds of meteors.

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