"Modern climate change is 27x faster than historic global warming mass extinction events":

Modern climate change is 27x faster than historic global warming mass extinction events

I first posted a version of this in 2019, at my old Wordpress blog, The Cottonwood Post. All of my recent postings (since December 2024) have been ...

Featuring one of my least favorite graphs (shown below). This is for anyone who wants to compare current warming to periods of warming in the past. As the author writes: "Climate change during these past events, considered rapid in geologic time, would have scarcely been noticed by animals on the ground. Animals did not go extinct by dropping dead; they just had a lower reproductive rate such that their populations slowly declined until none were left." So yea, all us animals noticing climate changes within our lifetime - this shows just how different the current changes are compared to previous periods of warming. #ClimateChange #climate #science #ClimateDiary

from @Cory Doctorow : "The fact that someone did something tells you nothing about whether they *chose* to do so – to understand whether someone was coerced or made a free choice, you have to consider the power relationships involved. Conservatives hate this idea. They want to live in a neat world of "revealed preferences," where the fact that you're working in a job where you're regularly exposed to carcinogens, or that you've stayed with a spouse who beats the shit out of you, or that you're homeless, or that you're addicted to Oxy, is a matter of *choice*." -

Pluralistic: Google’s new phones can’t stop phoning home (08 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#power #politics #USPol #tech #surveillance

me listening to an audiobook, amazed at the inventiveness of the author: "some people get all the imagination, don't they?!" 😅 meanwhile i'm like...wringing out my brain, going "gimme just a teensy bit of creativity...just a wee bit!" i just have to accept that whatever i lack in imagination, i make up for it by being able to help the plants grow. just gonna lean into that one lol...i'll *imagine* the plants saying "thanks for the soil top-up, pal!", or "oh thanks for the water - i was parched!", or "thanks for moving me over to this shadier spot. i was dying in the sun over there!" #imagination #creativity #gardening #writing #plants #books

Happy caturday from Tiggy, Anza, and Star, who are all siblings. #caturday #cats

Waipiʻo Valley last week ❤️ #hawaii #nature

For any folks on the big island, you are invited to the upcoming concert of the gamelan of the molten blossom! it'll be in hilo at the EHCC on first friday, sept 5, at 5pm. the concert is free and i'll be performing! we have a bunch of new pieces prepared and we're very excited to share them with you 💗 . (seating is outdoors, so you may want to bring an umbrella!) #hilo #hawaii #BigIsland #music #gamelan

Afternoon kitten time ☺️ #cats

art announcement: i'm very happy to announce that i have graduated from zine to MEGA-zine! "keep dreaming of structured settings" is a 44 page full-color magazine of original collages on the theme of living in space and living under the ocean. from the back cover: "The year is 2025. The Amazon burns. Time is running out. How will humans live? The world is desperate for solutions. In this magazine, you'll discover wondrous new opportunities for continued human life! Living with the dolphins, your own personal pool on Mars, exploration without limits, and so much more. Join artist Marina Kukso on this new visual/textual adventure into the possible and ask yourself: is this a world you want to inhabit?" it's available on etsy right now for only $10, so please consider getting one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4316916338/mega-zine-keep-dreaming-of-structured ❤️ 🌌 🌊 #art #collage #space #solarpunk #SF #scifi #clifi #fiction #dystopia #environmentalism #zines

A banyan tree growing on top of the ruins of an old sugar mill that shut down in the 1900s. Located on the farm of @npub14lsr...cydh 's friend. Here's a history of the mill and plantation it was a part of: https://www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/p_kauhut.html It's in a very remote part of the island. It's hard to get to today, and I can't imagine how hard it was to get there back in the early 1900s. But that's how profitable it was to farm sugar. Colonials established plantations in the middle of the Pacific ocean, on other people's land, growing a plant not from there, bringing in laborers from various other countries, and shipping the output to other places. All of this was vastly profitable, until it wasn't, and they shut everything down and left. That's extractivism. The banyan (another non-native plant) has the last laugh. #hawaii #history #plants #sugar #colonialism #empire #labor #ecology #agriculture

"I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job – it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job" - @Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#tech #AI #ML #labor