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Timo Tiuraniemi
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Press conference and live stream about the Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report will be in two hours.

This should be top news everywhere this week, time for the media to do its job.

ipcc.ch/2023/03/18/live-stream

March 20, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
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March 15, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
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I'm having a hard time accepting that "gauge" is pronounced exactly like "gage" in "engage". It's like there's no "u" even though it's right there, in the middle!

March 11, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
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March 08, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

Took too long but I finally managed to switch my web site from to . I still like Tide but there are just too many Tokio-only crates I want to use that I really had no choice.

Async Rust is great but it can also be a big time sink.

tiuraniemi.org/blog/site-setup

March 07, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

"Environmentalists do not simply express private preferences, but put forward ideas of the good, based on scientific knowledge and phrased in moral terms.” – Avner de-Shalit

February 19, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

A chilling character called The Judge in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian explains his vile reason to document all of nature:

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

These anonymous creatures may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. [...] Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain [overlord] of the earth."

February 16, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

Recent research has shown that increased logging in has collapsed our carbon sinks.

Yet during an election debate, the question "Is logging in Finland on a sustainable level?" had mostly positive answers. Whether or not something is sustainable is now just a matter of opinion.

It's increasingly obvious that has been co-opted by the hegemony, and now serves only those in power.

When talking about environmental issues the term should be avoided altogether.

February 16, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

Me: "..this is also related to China's plans for world domination."
11yo: "Why do they want world domination?"

Indeed. China wants to surpass USA (which wanted to surpass Europe), but why is it that we just accept that domination is a valid goal to begin with?

February 14, 2023
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Timo Tiuraniemi
ttiurani@fosstodon.org

This a very important and powerful manifesto from peoples of the Global South demanding a just energy transition.

Especially recommend reading to those of us living in the Global North who are constantly bombarded by technology-driven "clean energy transitions" that are touted as "win-win".

fpif.org/manifesto-for-an-ecos

February 10, 2023