keverets @keverets@librem.one

Right, time for a next step. I sold my car last year and I haven’t really missed it at all. I manage fine with pt and the ocasional taxi or car service but I think I’d like to get a bike. Probably electric and, while not necessarily a cargo bike, something I can carry groceries and other stuff on easily. Now for the hard part, I’m 4 foot 9 inches and that definitely restricts me from lots of makes and models. Would really appreciate feedback from anyone who has experience with electric bikes who has found something that work for super short people! #ElectricBicycle

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Exhibit 1: a paper explaining how C)2 concentrations in offices are associated with significant measurable cognitive decline.

https://dash.harvard.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/7312037d-db2a-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b/content

Exhibit 2: Aranet sensors are on sale right now.

https://aranet.com/en/home/products

Putting these together, I would like to propose that anyone championing the mandatory-commute, return to office approach to management who isn't carrying one of these on their person at all times is engaged in professional negligence.

Conference organizers planning events in the US should either be offering virtual attendance or consider moving their event elsewhere

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

French food seems a lot less fancy when you realise that a Croque Monsieur is literally a "Mr. Crunchy".

For those younger, Nazi shit used to be siloed in places like Stormfront. In the 2010s the Silicon Valley techbros discovered that hate&rage was very addictive and started feeding people more and more fringe content to addict them to their sites.
Pervasive hate was normalized to maximize profits.

1930s nazis relied on IBM.
Modern nazis relied on Google and Facebook and Twitter.
Capitalism unmoored from morality always delivers horrors.

welcome to 2025 where mainboards have 7 different kinds of USB ports

I feel seen

@rlounsbury @Daojoan I'm in the midst of transitioning away from as much big tech as possible; it's definitely possible and not nearly as much of a compromise as it might have been a decade ago.

It isn't just an issue of morality, an issue of privacy, and an issue of being able to own your data.

Sure, trying to go 100% cold turkey is daunting, but you don't have to do it all at once. Setting up your own homelab or a hobby server outside the US has never been easier. If you can migrate away from even one big tech online service, you're one step closer.

The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.

Google earned $26.5B last quarter, a mere 27.51% profit margin, and they’re doing layoffs today and have a founder telling people they need to work 60 hour weeks.

Imagine having all the resources and talent you could ever ask for, just a tectonic amount of resources and having no idea what to do with them at all beyond making a line go up for people who don’t even work there.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/what-if-we-could-weaponize-empathy/

⚠️ 🇨🇦 ⚠️ Canadian Sovereignty is under threat. 🇨🇦 ⚠️

Federal Election at any time this year

Expect information to be weaponized.

These publications are owned by Post Media,
which is 66% owned by an American media conglomerate with close ties
to the Republican Party. Check to see whether YOUR local paper is on the list.
Advertising Postmedia owns newspapers that serve smaller
communities across Canada, including:

The Flyer Force
GolLocal Airdrie Echo (tabloid)
Bow Valley Crag and Canyon (tabloid)
Publishing Brockville Recorder and Times (broadsheet)
Broadsheet dailies and weeklies Chatham This Week (tabloid)
Clinton News-Record (tabloid)
National Post Cochrane Times (Alberta) (tabloid)
Financial Post Cochrane Times-Post (tabloid)
(administratively part of the National Post) Cold Lake Sun (tabloid)
Belleville Intelligencer Drayton Valley Western Review (tabloid)
Brantford Expositor Edson Leader (tabloid)
Calgary Herald Elliot Lake Standard (tabloid)
Cape Breton Post Fort McMurray Today (tabloid)
Chatham Daily News Fort Saskatchewan Record (tabloid)
The Chronicle Herald (Halifax) Goderich Signal-Star (tabloid)
Cornwall Standard Freeholder Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune (tabloid)
Edmonton Journal Hanna Herald (tabloid)
Kenora Daily Miner and News High River Times (tabloid)
Kingston Whig-Standard Hinton Parklander (tabloid)
London Free Press Kincardine News (tabloid)
The Gazette (Montreal) Kingston This Week (tabloid)
North Bay Nugget Lakeshore Advance (Grand Bend; tabloid)
Ottawa Citizen Lloydminster Meridian Booster (tabloid)
Regina Leader-Post Mid-North Monitor (Espanola; tabloid)
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) Mayerthorpe Freelancer (tabloid)
Sault Star Nanton News (tabloid)
Sudbury Star Owen Sound Sun Times (broadsheet)
Timmins Daily Press Peace River Record-Gazette (broadsheet)
Vancouver Sun Pincher Creek Echo (tabloid)
Windsor Star Red River Valley Echo (tableid NE
Sarnia Observer
Tabloid dailies Sherwood Park News (tab id)
Simcoe Reformer ftabloid) \
Calgary Sun St. Thomas Times*Journal (tabloid) \
Edmonton Sun Stratford Beacon:Herald (broads
Ottawa Sun Vulcan Advocat
The Province (Vancouver) Vermilion Standatd (tabloid)
Toronto Sun Whitecourt Star (tabloi x
Winnipeg Sun Winkler Times (tabloid)
Woodstock Sentinel-Rexdéw

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Here's how the "Ship of Theseus" page looked in July 2003 when it was first created! Since then, the article has been edited 1792 times and 0% of the original phrases remain.

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for Carbon Brief providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-emissions-fall-3-6-in-2024-as-coal-use-drops-to-lowest-since-1666/

#climate #GHG #science #GoodNews

Please stop calling newsletters "Substacks" --

The vast majority of blogs are created using WordPress software. No one calls their blog a "WordPress" for the very good reason that there are other ways to create and publish blogs.

So if you've been gaslighted into calling someone's newsletter their "Substack' just because they use that platform, please stop. You're just doing PR for a company that manifestly doesn't deserve it.

Why is that?
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At the start of COVID, we all learned how to beat airborne viruses like the flu: by wearing masks and staying home when we are sick. It's a real shame we haven't translated those important lessons into long-term behavioral change.