Notices by Jack of all trades (jackofalltrades@mas.to)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested that one of the aims of the Russian drone provocation over Poland may have been to slow the delivery of air defence systems to Ukraine.
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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/09/11/7530414/

#Ukraine #Russia #Poland #war

Norway, the most environmentally superior country on Earth.

https://youtu.be/zYjooTz_1lA

#Norway #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EVs #oil

Defeated the Red Wolf and now exploring further. There are long stairs with an Indiana Jones style boulder rolling from the top and a knight that parries my attacks, bastard.

Raya Lucaria is fun. There was a hidden passage leading to a room with another hidden passage.

FromSoft games have this perfect combination of wonder and bullshit.

#EldenRing

Decided to explore rooftops of Raya Lucaria for some reason. Cutting it a little close, and finally dying to a little crystal crab. 🦀

#EldenRing

Collected my souls, killed the crab, and then died not much further up. Got one-shot by this unassuming guy shooting an explosive straight to my face. 😆 Time for round two...

#EldenRing

Front-row seats to the apocalypse!

https://fediscience.org/@MartinStendel/114890626087160257

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #collapse #Greenland

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From 2005 to 2017, the amount of electricity going to data centers remained quite flat thanks to increases in efficiency, despite the construction of armies of new data centers to serve the rise of cloud-based online services, from Facebook to Netflix. In 2017, AI began to change everything. Data centers started getting built with energy-intensive hardware designed for AI, which led them to double their electricity consumption by 2023.
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https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

#electricity #AI

Looking good and ready for the Godrick fight. Had to put some points into Endurance to carry all that weight. 😅

#EldenRing

Ok, Jesus.

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“I have said many times that I consider the Russian and Ukrainian people to be one nation. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours,” Putin said.

“There is an old rule: ‘Where a Russian soldier sets foot, that is ours.’” An audience of Russian politicians and business figures responded to the president’s words with applause.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-ukraine-russia-war-peace-talks-b2774375.html

#Putin #Russia #Ukraine #war

Another perfect headline for my collection.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o

#NotTheOnion #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #COP30

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In early April, a Chevron well on a pad near Galeton suffered a “blowout,” and spewed water, chemicals and crude oil uncontrollably for nearly four days. The spill reached an elementary school, roadways, multiple properties, and created an oily sheen in nearby waterways.
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https://www.cpr.org/2025/05/15/chevron-oil-spill-clean-up-5-years/

#oil

What a set of headlines, can't get any more dystopian than that. The rich go into vanity trips into space, while the common people down below drown.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climate #space #spacex

Oh no, not the oil!

https://globalnews.ca/news/10636678/extreme-weather-oil-and-has-impact-canada/

#Canada #oil #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #NotTheOnion

Wtf who are these people.

"Seven in 10 hiring managers say that they believe the practice is morally acceptable."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-job-listing-ghost-jobs-cbs-news-explains/

#hiring

Look at the Pope going full doomer.

"Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. It's sad, but that's what it is. Global warming is a serious problem. Climate change at this moment is a road to death."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-urges-action-on-climate-change-its-a-road-to-death/

#pope #PopeFrancis #doomer #doomerism #collapse #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

"How do you lead your daily life and at the same time participate in one of the largest killing machines in the history of mankind?"

Arguably, this is what all of us are doing right now, only the killing is predominantly on the other side of the world and delayed into the future.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1082564304/billions-of-people-are-in-danger-from-climate-change-u-n-report-warns

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #collapse #holocaust

In the past, countries used fossil fuels to develop, as these happened to be the energy sources available. Now we have renewables, so we can abandon fossil fuels.

Environmental destruction is not inherent to industrial civilization, but is caused by capitalism. The growth imperative is a feature of capitalism and not part of any unchanging human nature.

By adopting a different economic/political system we can resolve all ecological tensions.

Is this story true? How would I know if it is?

@uanrah @tobi82 @gerrymcgovern @Chee_Koala

That's the thing though: "everyone will be free to decide for themselves" is mostly incompatible with "regulation is dearly needed". You either allow everyone to freely decide or limit (regulate) their behavior in some way.

Today, with scarcely any regulation, people (with the means) are free to choose, and they choose to travel regardless of the environmental damage it causes.

@tobi82 @uanrah @gerrymcgovern @Chee_Koala

Unfortunately that seems to be the case:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/02/many-europeans-want-climate-action-but-less-so-if-it-changes-their-lifestyle-shows-poll

It's not the minority of "laggards" that doesn't want to change, it's the majority. Democracy is necessary to enact and legitimize these changes, but at the same time it means only small incremental changes are being accepted.

In the words of William Rees: "The politically acceptable is ecologically disastrous, while the ecologically necessary is politically impossible."

I guess that's the last place we haven't exploited yet...

😔

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/11/russia-uncovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-british-antarctic/

#Russia #UK #Antarctica #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary