Notices by David Ho (davidho@mastodon.world)

Look people, no matter how much we destroy the Earth by polluting it with CO₂, microplastics, PFAS, etc. everywhere, and even if AMOC shuts down and both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt, the Earth will still be infinitely more habitable than Mars. Mars is a shithole and we're not going.

There are parallels between climate change and the fascist takeover of the US. We talk about them as looming threats but they’re already here. It’s just that some people feel them more acutely than others, but they will affect us all. And of course the fascists will make climate change worse. We have to stop them both now.

Say goodbye to 1.5°C. But remember, the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.

Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

https://on.ft.com/45pMG0h

"This type of crime is now possible because ICE agents insist on going around like masked thugs."

https://www.commondreams.org/philadelphia-immigration

Ahem, switch to @signalapp.

Meta plans to introduce ads on WhatsApp that will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram.

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/helping-you-find-more-channels-businesses-on-whatsapp/

Modern academic publishing means I don’t have access to the published version of my own paper. 🥲

For accuracy, white supremacists should be the villains in more American movies.

“Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.” 😱

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-06-12-dreamliner-gave-boeing-manager-nightmares-just-crashed-air-india/

As climate scientists, we can only tell you why climate change is happening and how severe the consequences will be. It takes voters to choose politicians who will listen and enact policies to avoid the worst possible outcomes.

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.

If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.

📊: @neilrkaye

Does anyone remember when the Marines were deployed to Los Angeles during the 1992 riots? In response to a domestic violence call, they fired more than 200 bullets into a house…

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/limiting-militarys-role-law-enforcement

The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

It's everywhere! No, I just want to have a video call. Why does it need AI?

How many steps is it from sending the military into an American city to cancelling elections? Asking for a democracy.

F that

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/

No words.

"…U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students…"

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/new-visa-policies-put-america-first-not-china/

So…about AI’s energy use…

“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

https://mashable.com/article/energy-ai-worse-than-we-thought

Microsoft has blocked emails with the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” and “Genocide” in the subject line or in the body of the message from being sent to recipients both inside and outside the company. 🫠

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email