Four ways to look at global CO₂ emissions. 1. Which countries have contributed most historically? Share of cumulative CO₂ since 1750: 🇺🇸 US: 25% 🇨🇳 China: 14% 🇷🇺 Russia: 7% 🇩🇪 Germany: 5.5% 🇬🇧 UK: 4.6% 🇯🇵 Japan: 4% 🇮🇳 India: 3% 🇫🇷 France: 2.3% 🇨🇦 Canada: 2% 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 1.8%

As studies in the US by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels show, the great majority of voters possess no useful political information at all. Without the time or tools needed to understand politics, we are led blithely into the arms of people who would destroy us.

Murphy's law for centralized tech: "Anything that can be acquired will be acquired, and at the worst possible time."

Here’s where I think we now stand, and how we should respond. A thread. 1. There is a global trend towards political impunity. In many nations, politicians are testing the limits of constitutional power, and discovering they can get away with almost anything. 🧵

Any recognition of the power of open source in the world is a recognition of the power of free time and hobby as a force that changes the world.

We’d rather eat microbes than animals. Here's George Monbiot to explain why 👇 Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ny9qvG… #RebootFood

The failure is baked in. It is not an accident. It's the design. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I keep trying to tell people that the *true* benefit of PE in the modern world isn't "works without JS" but rather "drastically simplifies the mental model" epicweb.dev/the-webs-next-…

i was looking forward to github finally switching to react, but the default block for models being react-three-fiber, didn't expect that. treating files as components that can be freely defined in general is such a cool idea!

The US is leading by example - the worst possible example in an ecological emergency. We urgently need to break the global spiral of political dysfunction it is helping to drive. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

One of the BBC’s fundamental problems is that it cannot tell the difference between balance and impartiality. Here’s a concise explanation of where the difference lies:

Precious learnings from Paul Frazee ✌️ github.com/beakerbrowser/…

1. I’ve been thinking about why conspiracy theory videos get so many viewers. There are plenty of complicated explanations. But I reckon the answer might be much simpler: these videos are as reassuring as a lullaby.

vaibhav bisht dan_abramov No, in fact people don't do it enough! epicreact.dev/one-react-mist…

What is the most useful type of tests? 🔍 One of the most popular testing models out there is the testing pyramid, made popular by Martin Fowler. The larger the layer, the more tests and effort on that layer.

I had a college professor once say that your security should be such that you could give the schematics of your system to the baddies and they still couldn't get in. I agree with this.

1. Global food system collapse must rank among the top 5 existential threats we face, alongside environmental breakdown, nuclear war, AI & new pathogens. Yet, afaik, this is the 1st time it has been discussed by any legislature, anywhere in the world. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e4… 🧵

Open source continues to demonetize SaaS services. This time, maps: protomaps.com