Data discovery of the day. Check out this cool website that reveals carbon emissions of the ultra-rich, using publicly available data on their private jet usage. ✈️ Created by a 17-yo Indian-American high-schooler Akash Shendure. 👉 climatejets.org

Kuvera In this context it’s worth noting that the „Wealthiest people in the United States have an astonishingly large climate footprint, far larger than rich people in wealthy, industrialized Europe and in fast-rising China.“ #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction nytimes.com/2023/02/28/cli…

Check out this series of AI generated pictures. 💯% not-real, just computer-imagined. Impressive! 🫠

Here are the big takeaways from the IPCC Synthesis Report released today. First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

the most powerful climate report of the decade was published on monday, after 195 governments fought over the words in its summary for policymakers, and the only media allowed in the room just published its account of who lobbied for what 1/

💰🔜😇 Bis zu 46.550 Euro Förderung für gemeinwohlorientierte Unternehmen (Start-Ups & KMUs). Das BMWK erstattet Social Enterprises bis zu 95% für eine 10 bis 35-tägige Beratungs- oder Coachingbegleitung. Hier gibt's alle Details 👉 foerderdatenbank.de/FDB/Content/DE… #BCorp #ReactWithImpact

Das Highlight im politischen Berlin, der D64-Frühjahrsempfang #D64FJE, kommt wieder. Am 24.04.2023, ab 19:00 Uhr mit Jan Philipp Albrecht und Saskia Esken auf dem Podium zu digitalen, öffentlichen Räumen! Kostenlose Anmeldung zum Ticketpool ab sofort möglich! d-64.org/d64-fruehjahrs…

A most comprehensive and up-to-date overview on Large Language Models (LLMs) such as #ChatGPT. Everything explained on 116 slides, every single one absolutely worth reading. Kudos to Davis Treybig for this great piece of work! docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Technology is changing the news is changing society ...not for the better though. #journalism #monetization #clickbait

The #SudanCrisis as a 'playground' for the larger geopolitical 'game' - with grim implications for the future of Europe. I highly recommend this comprehensive, albeit partially speculative read: theguardian.com/world/2023/apr…

To strengthen the #EU as a global player, we need to reach common 🇪🇺 positions faster. Germany teams up with 🇧🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇮🇹🇱🇺🇳🇱🇸🇮🇪🇸 in a group of friends committed to make greater use of qualified majority voting in the common foreign and security policy. #qmv 1/2

They burn the gas they cannot sell 🔥 For just 1 gas field, this is more than all the emissions of the UK combined 🤯 This reckless behavior ridicules all efforts to save the climate. It's hard to not get depressed 😫 UN Climate Change Auswärtiges Amt Extinction Rebellion Global theguardian.com/world/2023/may…

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Viral graph update. The North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature is still at an extreme record high. 1.15°C above the 1982-2011 mean. Past three years showed very high autumn anomalies. What will the rest of this year bring?

It finally happened, breaking 5 sigma, the same statistical threshold physicists used to prove the existence of the Higgs boson. At 2,700,000 km² below the 1991-2020 mean, Antarctic sea ice extent was 5.14σ below the mean, roughly a 1-in-7,400,000 chance.

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🇩🇪 Über 300 Akademiker haben eine gemeinsame Erklärung gegen den EU-Vorschlag zur #Chatkontrolle unterzeichnet. Der Konsens der Experten zu diesem Thema ist überwältigend, aber einige politische Entscheidungsträger missachten weiterhin wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse. Greens/EFA in the EU Parliament 🌍

"Der Nationalsozialismus hat sich vorsichtig, in kleinen Dosen, durchgesetzt – man hat immer ein bisschen gewartet, bis das Gewissen der Welt die nächste Dosis vertrug“. - Stefan Zweig

Wir rufen die Bundesregierung auf, gegen die #Chatkontrolle zu stimmen und damit die Rechte, Freiheiten und IT-Sicherheit der Bevölkerung zu schützen buff.ly/3ELz6G1

Find me on bsky: Michael Strautmann bsky.app/profile/drstra… PS: Ich habe auch noch einige invite codes übrig, die ich gerne an mutuals verteile 😇