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  "Reminds me of all the de-crufting you’ve always needed to do when you install Windows. Looks like we’ve gotten to the point on macOS too, where you need to run third-party scripts on a new OS installation to gain back control of your system resources and remove unwanted crapware." https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/10/command-line-tool-quickly-removes-apple-intelligence-from-macos-27/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_...

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  Im März meinte Maja Göpel #Übergewinnsteuer wäre Branchenübergreifend relevant. Und nennt damalige Zahlen: noch bevor der Mangel aus dem USA Krieg gegen Iran und #Hormuz real akut wurde, haben die fossilen Konzerne 27 mio € am Tag draufgeschlagen. Jeden Tag. Einfach so. Jeden Tag. Davon hätten wir pro Tag 46 e-Busse kaufen können. Jeden Tag! Vom letzten Tankrabatt wären es 2800 eBusse gewesen, als Steuerzahler den fossilen Profiteuren 1.6 Mrd € schenkten. Kauften wir täglich 46 neue eBusse v...

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  https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/aramco-halts-october-crude-deliveries-some-european-refiners-after-pipeline-2026-09-18/ How to blow up a pipeline ^^ Saudi Aramco thinks, the pipeline and 3 pumping stations damaged by drone attacks will be repaired within 6 weeks but shipments to two EU refineries (Poland and…) won't come in October. With all this #Hormuz crap going on, I wonder how many Germans still installed new oil-fired heaters this year and whether oil bills for heating cance...

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  Nepal . Sequence of events: chunk of the mountain side broke off and took the glacier on top of it with it. Ie, not the glacier collapsed but its rock foundation did. Expert forensics base this interpretation on the kinetic energy necessary to be registered as 5.7mag quake: https://www.science.org/content/article/how-scientists-unraveled-cause-devastating-flood-tibet-and-nepal A Tibetan tour guide filmed the location after the break off and NYtimes posted the video: https://bsky.app/profile/n...

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  RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger/117184208616376124 7 t … In his youtube "pop-up session" about Nepal, Daniel Swain showed flood footage where a boulder tumbled in the water. That boulder was about the same length, but it was round and also smooth. So an estimated double the weight wouldn't be far from reality. Stunning. It got tumbled around in the racing water as if it were a bath toy. Daniel's comment was something like: geomorphology in acti...

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  On glacial lake outbursts from 2025 https://risingnepaldaily.com/news/65374 Begins with a list of then-recent events in Nepal. July 7 2025 also swept away the bridge before the big border building Nepal/Tibet we saw getting buried on Wednesday. Then it summarises recent research. But Wednesday was a mountain fall, no glacier collapse nor a lake. Wednesday morning at 9am, a huge chunk of the mountain broke off and crashed into the valley 1km below. It pulled with it the glacier tongue. The ic...

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  Good reporting again by APN https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-flash-floods-7262dac22e31258955efa5c28c8fe917 Draws the climate connection to other recent events in the same region, and to the Himalaya as a whole where #glacier melt has doubled since 2000. Many hydro power plants are located in the mountains, in areas now especially vulnerable to rockslides and glacial lake outbursts. Risk of dam collapse increases, threatening communities downriver, and electricity generation coun...

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  Eine Flasche Schampus für die Moderatorin, die die Lügen von Thorsten Frey direkt im Interview mit Fakten widerlegt https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/stimmung-in-kabinett-und-koalition-interview-thorsten-frei-cdu-fraktionschef-100.html Sein Lügen kommen sehr deutlich raus, danke DLF. Kann's trotzdem nicht zuende hören ohne unaushaltbaren Wutanfall. Thorsten Frei ermordet mich da mit seinen Lügen. Ermordet mich aus niederen, ja widerwärtigen Beweggründen. Und mit Heimtücke, weil er lügt. Dich e...

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  https://www.atmo-magazin.de/gespraech/cdu-meets-fff-die-debatte Wenn Frau Winter den Herrn schMerz ablöste und ein Kabinett gemäß ihrer Prioritäten bildete, gäbs ein Fünkchen Hoffnung, dass man ihre Regierung mit viel Arbeit und Fakten, Fakten, Fakten auf ein zivilisationsrettendes Niveau pushen kann. So wie sie heute denkt, wäre Kollaps aber ebenfalls garantiert. Die Winter meint Klima zu priorisieren. Täte sie das wirklich, müsste man doch in ihren Äußerungen eine umfassende Klimaklugheit er...

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  Paul Behrens is the expert on food systems at November's UK National Emergency Briefing. But this great interview is about The New Abnormal (no new normal, he says, it's only getting more and more abnormal as long as CO2 is emitted), and its impacts on food security, and what we, or at least, the UK need to do to adapt. Starts at 9:00min, ends 25:00mins https://www.youtube.com/live/206_bow3_Vc My takeaways: He explains how UK crop yields are impacted by heat and drought this year, and...

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  RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@beandev/117064881961040816 Nur noch heute! ePetition für Strafverfolgung von Autogewalt per default. Bisher tun Staatsanwaltschaften nix, da "kein öffentliches Interesse". Das Quorum ist auch nicht erreicht… scheint, als ob die Staatsanwaltschaften Recht haben. Jetzt, heute, mitzeichnen und teilen, teilen, teilen 🙏🏽 https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2026/_05/_26/Petition_201482.nc.html

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  1:45h for an evening off this week, getting informed and entertained? Didn't know host Aaron Bastani, nor that political journalists can be this climate-savvy. He and Kevin Anderson leave the watered-down, at best half-true phrase soups in traditional media behind to cook a nourishing climate potluck. Here's where our debate begins. Really begins to matter. Kevin's typical meta level bits also show up ( eg, global -8% per year CO2 emissions, countries like UK -13%/a for keeping with...

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  @MatthewToadAgain@climatejustice.social @Beldarak@mastodon.gamedev.place Much appreciated, thank you for your thoughts. Don't want to be a nuisance. But let me point to where I think your vision would benefit from more realism and less Hollywood-ism. You do mention global supply chains. It's where I think you could put in more thought. Because this, "I fear that the survivors may make the situation worse by yet more use of fossil fuels, deforestation and mining." can'...

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  Oh, sh*t. How they narrated the socio-economic pathway SSP3 "National Rivalry" for the United Kingdom. Ceases to exist in 2040, and by 2100 "a return to subsistence lifestyles is widespread across the (former) UK." source: https://bsky.app/profile/jmbecologist.bsky.social/post/3mlzs7tk27k2w James Bullock: "Looking again at the IPCC socioeconomic scenario SSP3 which we adapted for the UK a few years ago. Everyone said it is highly unlikely…"

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  Nino and Nina compared. Nino seasons have deep consequences in rain amounts. And with all the talk about the forecasted Super-El Nino, I wanted to know what the differences were. You too? Here you go. Maps show seasonal differences between Nino and Nina anomalies. The first image shows rain data from #GHCN weather stations and sea surface temperature from ErsstV6. The second image shows tmax from the weather stations and sst. The underlying data are anomalies over 30-year running averages fr...

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  In Bower et al 2019 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JC015014 one learns that water or particle transport from near Africa's coast to Brazil takes 6 to 8 years. Getting from Brazil to just across the equator takes another 6 or 12 years for "warm" or "cold" particles respectively. Not as continuous flow (drip ^^) but occurs in bouts of sprints and crawls. The water flows into the Atlantic from the warm Indian Ocean or through the...

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  RE: https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/116935538264736579 I see the BBC article actually as top example for anti-alarmism and impact denial. He uses rhetorical tools to obfuscate facts, falsifies facts so impacts sound even desirable, attests decades of experience to Prof Waters but none to Stefan, … In nearly every paragraph you find deliberate lies and impact denial. He claims that some studies would show that AMOC has not slowed down. But avid followers of Rahmstorf know: every study agrees...

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  Cool article about 2 new papers, one a literature review and one a paleo view https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis Good German article https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000319484/new-orleans-muss-in-absehbarer-zeit-wohl-umgesiedelt-werden But in sea level articles I always miss why this should be a problem and be addressed today. 30cm for New Orleans by 2100 doesn't sound much. What are the actual impacts? A flooded base...

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  India and Pakistan suffer a too-early heatwave again. Kachelmann has station measurements for cloudiness (Bedeckungsgrad des Himmels", relative humidity ("Relative Luftfeuchtigkeit") and temperature https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/messwerte/suedasien/bewoelkungsgrad/20260426-0700z.html During the midday 3-hour period today, quite a few weather stations in the Northern parts reported the lethal outdoor-combination in %rel.humidity with °C for old people age 65+....

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  RE: https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/116463894436844451 Such an intriguing talk about archeo-genetics. I had no idea that the notion of Neanderthals mixing with arriving modern humans was so new, only since 2010 apparently. https://bigthink.com/the-well/your-ancestors-arent-who-you-think-they-are/ David Reich speaks of his personal research biases and surprises, makes it all the more intriguing and humbling. Where he says, something must be missing? I have my theory that the man-ape Udo who lived i...

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  https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/friedrich-merz-im-spiegel-gespraech-kein-bundeskanzler-vor-mir-hat-so-etwas-ertragen-muessen-a-c8cf97a6-fe6f-4f21-9600-f95204917df6 Für wen machen die einklich Journalismus? * Da faselt Merz was von "bevor uns das Bundesverfassungsgericht dazu zwingt" und die 3 (!) Journos haken nich nach, obwohl Gerichtsverachtung der Regelfall bei Merz & Co. ist. Related: 0 Klimafragen. 0 Klimafragen. 0 Klimafragen. 0 Klimafragen. *Für ihre...

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  Real cool. Post-Roman collapse 450CE, there was no wave of hordes of barbarians. Instead ze local Germans finally and suddenly mated with migrants from NL, UK, who had arrived much, much earlier but had (been) kept separate for unknown reasons https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10437-3 Had those fled rising sealevel? 🤔 Press release in English and German https://press.uni-mainz.de/after-rome-genomic-insights-from-southern-germany-on-the-formation-of-central-european-societies/ #archeoge...

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  dafuc?! UK National Emergency Briefing promotes an alleged German spin-off. But look who is booked as speaker and probably also organizes the briefing. Two neoliberals and a … performer of Ballads Of Utopia. NEB should really get trademark protection for what they put together. So that dangerous idiots like Messner and Edenhofer can't claim to be doing anything remotely resembling what NEB did. We simply don't have the scientists landscape in Germany. They're all cudd...

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  I dreamed that climate change made ocean water heavier – which then toppled such flimsy subsurface rock formations – which caused tsunamis – which then rolled ashore and ended civilisation within hours. In my dream, I was angry about it because it didn't leave me time enough to yell "See? I told you so!"

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  The Good Ancestor Every day I walk a hundred years to the hill where my great great granddaughter sits. I carry words of blessing and reach to touch her back. But feeling me near she turns sad eyed and heavy with grief "What was it like?" she asks "when the great whales swam when the birds sang you awake when the rains came soft and the soil smelt sweet underfoot?" And the blessings catch in my throat. On darker days she turns, her famished face charred and...

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  1/2 #Palantir ? They tweeted their agenda. Note point 8: public servants can not be our priests because they don't earn enough. It follows: everyone with a salary > 500k is our priest. ^^ Here goes: Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel ag...

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  Global sea surface temperature, sst? Preliminary data says, Friday was an all-time record high, surpassing even bananas El Nino year 2024. But we're in a receding La Nina year. So the image below puts 2026 side by side with 2023. Plus 2016 as the year with the than-highest "normal" sst. The #Pacific today looks more like an intensified version of the El Nino year 2016 than like 2023. The North #Atlantic too. The South Atlantic sst anomaly is one huge warm blob this y...

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  https://www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-scientists-tell-colombia-fossil-fuel-transition-summit-to-halt-new-expansion/ Im kurzen Radiobeitrag von Frau Büüsker: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/petersberger-klimadialog-sucht-wege-raus-auf-fossilen-energien-100.html "Petersberger Klimadialog sucht Wege raus auf Fossilen Energien" wird der fast zeitgleich stattfindende, erste Kongress der Climate Coalition Of The Willing nur am Rande erwähnt. Mich macht die terminliche Überschneidu...

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  Haha, G7 meets for environment topics, but omits climate change to 'protect this forum'. All nations send enviro ministers. But USA sends "Usha-Maria Turner, assistant administrator for the Office of International and Tribal Affairs at EPA." https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260423-g7-climate-change-omits-paris-meeting-us-france 'Protect this forum' when USA ridicules it by sending a lowly and off-topic official ? Replace🇺🇸with Brazil and fo...

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  Assume AMOC stop as inevitable and the drop to 5sv occurs by 2125. It cools the NH slowly and does the other changes slowly. Once AMOC stops, a 2nd rapid cooling + rapid changes occur, eg., rapid Antarctic heating by 6C, even 10C in some places. The higher the CO2 concentration, the s-lower the cooling and other changes. But: the higher the CO2 concentration, the hotter the Southern Hemisphere gets. Now consider Solar Radiation Meddling, SRM. SRM could only be worth a debate if it could be ap...