Notices by kim_harding ✅ (kim_harding@mastodon.scot)

@CelloMomOnCars “black swan"? We have known for 30 years that #GlobalWarming will increase storm intensity, How can this be called a "black swan"? The only thing the models got wrong was to underestimate the sheer levels of fossil carbon releases, after the warnings were sounded...

Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/14/trump-project-2025-climate
Experts say climate policies contained within right-wing manifesto would wreck US climate targets and cost jobs

New solar farms can benefit nature – here’s how
https://theconversation.com/new-solar-farms-can-benefit-nature-heres-how-235991

Led By Donkeys - We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬

Health benefits of pedestrian and cyclist commuting: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e001295

Major study explores the experiences of delivery cyclists in Edinburgh and Glasgow
https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/news/2024/july/major-study-explores-the-experiences-of-delivery-cyclists-in-edinburgh-and-glasgow/
In the first major study of its kind, our new report explores the experiences of delivery cyclists navigating Edinburgh and Glasgow. We delve into the challenges they face and the insights they offer for improving urban infrastructure.

Signal has been blocked by Venezuela and Russia
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/9/24217008/signal-blocked-venezuela-russia
For those affected by the blocks, Signal recommends turning on its censorship circumvention feature

Reform UK tracked private user information without consent
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/10/reform-uk-tracked-private-user-information-without-consent
Observer reveals potentially millions of people had data shared with Facebook for use in targeted advertising

Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/
Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.

Great Replacement & boogaloo: The ideology driving the modern far right
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right-riots-great-replacement-boogaloo/
As Islamophobic and racist violence grip the UK, we look at the modern far right’s beliefs and racist aims

X Reportedly Refusing to Remove Posts the UK Deems Threat to National Security
https://uk.pcmag.com/social-media/153774/x-reportedly-refusing-to-remove-posts-the-uk-deems-threat-to-national-security
Meta, Google, and TikTok take down posts that have led to real-world violence, but X pushes back as Melon Husk tweets insults at the UK's prime minister and posts 'civil war is inevitable.'

So Melon Husk is trying to start a civil war? Quelle surprise...

Feds Arrest Nashville Man for Helping North Koreans With Remote Work Scam
https://uk.pcmag.com/security/153798/feds-arrest-nashville-man-for-helping-north-koreans-with-remote-work-scam

The 38-year-old was arrested for allegedly running a 'laptop farm' to help North Korean workers living in China pretend to be US-based IT workers.

The Extinction Solutions Index (ESI): A framework to measure solution efficiency to address biodiversity loss
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2688-8319.12358

Google Breaks Promise to Block Third-Party Cookies
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/google-breaks-promise-block-third-party-cookies

But then, that is what Big Tech does best, breaking promises...

Multimillion pound investment in cargo bike couriers
https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2024/07/multimillion-pound-investment-in-cargo-bike-couriers/
The UK’s largest cargo bike delivery network Zedify, which has a base in Edinburgh has secured a further £4m investment from Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital, Mercia Ventures, the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) and Green Angel Syndicate.

A massive new cycling route linking eight European countries opens this week
https://www.timeout.com/news/a-massive-new-cycling-route-linking-eight-european-countries-opens-this-week-073024
The Trans Dinarica trail meanders through national parks, forests, inland villages and the Adriatic coast over a whopping 5,000km

New study explains why ‘doomscrolling’ is bad for your brain
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/new-research-explains-why-doomscrolling-is-bad-for-your-brain-b2588402.html
Constant consumption of negative media can have a detrimental effect on the human brain

Original research paper here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245195882400071X?via%3Dihub

Air pollution makes it harder for bees to smell flowers
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/air-pollution-makes-it-harder-for-bees-to-smell-flowers/
Contaminants can alter plant odours and warp insects’ senses, disrupting the process of pollination.

Original research paper here https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/116896/3/116896%20VoR.pdf

Vienna named the world's most liveable city again in 2024 ahead of three other European cities
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/28/vienna-named-the-worlds-most-liveable-city-again-in-2024-with-europe-dominating-the-top-3

The other European cities being: Geneva (5th), Zurich (3rd), and Copenhagen (2nd).

Renewables overtake fossil fuels to provide 30% of EU electricity
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/30/renewables-overtake-fossil-fuels-to-provide-30-of-eu-electricity
Report finds 13 member states generated more energy from wind and solar power than coal and gas for first time in 2024