Education isn’t just learning knowledge, it’s also skills and thinking. But it is usually restricted to a limited domain…

There will be some corals that survive, and some that migrate poleward or into deeper water. But yeah, large reef ecosystems are definitely screwed at +2°C, and probably even at +1.5°C (it’ll take some time though).

Mmm. I would guess that the difference between 5 degrees colder than now and 5 degrees hotter than now is quite different for human physiology. There will certainly be places some of us can still live, but lots of equatorial places will become uninhabitable

Use less fossil fuels. We have the technology to have electrified public transport, for instance. We just don’t have the political will or the financial backing. This is not really a problem that scientists are well equipt to solve.

They are trying, but… I was at a talk by a leading coral reef scientist last year, he said it would if it worked well, doing enough of it to maintain the Great Barrier Reef would cost on the order of ten trillion dollars a year…

What? When?

We definitely still use the term climate change.

Climate scientist here: what is there to reconcile? Slowing and eventually stopping warming is definitely possible, even inevitable, the question is just when and how fast we can do it, and what the repercussions are. Every fraction of a degree warmer is worse, so we should be taking as much mitigation action as fast as we can. Mitigating earlier is better than adapting later.

Zotero

Marketing is a valid use for AI (because bullshit was always thewod anyway)

Migration and transplanting of cultures has massively increased in the last 100 years though… Shit changed a lot slower in the past.

Yeah, best politics of any centralised social media by a long shot.

Also, threatening to do it is plausible just because texts relating to that are present in the training data. It doesn’t mean that an LLM actually knows what blackmail is, let alone is capable of doing anything about it.

LLMs are not magic

It’s true! It’s a relatively minor complaint really. Let me pivot: fuck social norms around early starts 😅

Right, but I mean, the platform was originally designed without them in mind, and there’s no real reason why every piece of software needs to have every piece of functionality… I’m can see why they wouldn’t be prioritising it

I suspect I would love it if groups were in mastodon, but I’m not entirely sure it won’t backfire in some horrendous way (this is social media after all)

Jealous

Mastodon doesn’t have groups?

“This kind of thing” being big picture dynamics of how to run a social media project.

I’ve also had a mastodon PR stall, but I think they get so many, many with competing demands, and have so few staff, that it’s not really surprising that it’s a bit mess on that front…

That first post is very good. I really appreciate the way he’s handled the first 10 years, and I hope he has fun doing whatever he does next.