a year ago i asked some friends 'do you know any product jobs in climate tech that aren't about greenwashing, or trading carbon credits' and it was 'uh not really'
anyway, today i am very glad i ended up where i did because if i had to live through *all of this* while *hating my job* (or having none, which would have meant i couldn't stay), it would have been much, much harder.
I keep hearing it said
that at this point
we are “post-Covid”
but whenever I scroll
through social media
I keep seeing people
post about
how they have Covid.
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A compendium of the 286th week of plague poems…
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Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-Sixth Week
A word of advice to teachers and students who are still masking: when you are asked (and you will be asked) why you are still masking, calmly and politely explain that you are masking because you h…LibrarianShipwreck
Canada to give automakers a break on EV sales target as US tariffs weigh
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Canada to give automakers a break on EV sales target as US tariffs weigh
Canadian PM Carney also announced a fund of $5 billion Canadian ($3.6bn US) to help firms in sectors hurt by tariffs.Al Jazeera
Puglia, Decaro scioglie la riserva: 'Guido il progetto della Regione' - Notizie - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2025/09/05/puglia-decaro-scioglie-la-riserva-guido-il-progetto-della-regione_2089b2f2-2ac3-41a8-a124-31bac203cf1f.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Puglia, Decaro scioglie la riserva: 'Guido il progetto della Regione' - Notizie - Ansa.it
"Non potevo girare la spalle alla mia terra e al mio popolo". Emiliano torna in campo in zona cesarini (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
El verano más cálido impulsa expectativas récord para la vendimia 2025 en Reino Unido
Las altas temperaturas y la vendimia temprana auguran una añada de calidad tras un año previo marcado por las lluviasVinetur
AI enhanced psychosis is not a great thing.
AI Psychosis sounds like a sci-fi problem, but it is real, and present tense.
Turns out AIs like ChatGPT, and their propensity to lie and their lack of actual intelligence, comes with costs.
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AJAX-DNA, GRODITECH y URAPHEX ganan los Premios Ingenia Startup a la innovación alimentaria
Las startups finalistas presentarán sus proyectos en Alibetopías 2025, donde se anunciarán las categorías Oro, Plata y BronceVinetur
This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.
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"In a time of misinformation, in a time of suppression, having this place where people can come and bring knowledge and share knowledge, that is a statement."
How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.Josh Dzieza (The Verge)
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here's my favorite line: "By 2005, the pages where editors stipulated policy and debated articles were found to be growing faster than the articles themselves. Today, this administrative backend is at least five times the size of the encyclopedia it supports."
I've always argued that the tools we build at the WMF sometimes are too focused on "encyclopedic content" and neglect the fact that the MediaWiki platform is used 5x more often for the meta-work of administering the project. Collaborative tools are important for organizing the work, even if they are not used directly to write the encyclopedic content.
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“Di ruolo oggi a un passo dalla pensione”. La storia del prof di religione precario da tutta la vita
Marco Burdese insegna dal 2001 e ha superato insieme ad altri 22 colleghi il concorso straordinario indetto dopo vent’anniValentina Moro (La Stampa)
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Colombia Resumes Talks With Venezuela to Plug Gas Shortfall
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AI enhanced psychosis is not a great thing. AI Psychosis sounds like a sci-fi problem, but it is real, and present tense. Turns out AIs like ChatGPT, and their propensity to lie and their lack of actual intelligence, comes with costs. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/t...#tech
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Por cierto, esta mañana publicamos nuevos cupones de descuento para todos los cursos de #juncotic! 😃
Si les interesa los temas de GNU/Linux, redes TCP/IP, Wireshark, Python, Flask, SSH, firewalling, etc... pueden encontrar los enlaces promocionales en nuestro sitio web 👇 👇
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Mentre il genocidio in corso contro i palestinesi di Gaza condotto da Israele e sostenuto dagli Stati Uniti entra nel suo terzo anno, anziché por fine alla loro complicità con Israele gli Stati Uniti hanno imposto sanzioni ad Al-Haq, Al-Mezan…
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L'appello dei difensori dei diritti umani palestinesi colpiti dalle sanzioni USA
Mentre il genocidio in corso contro i palestinesi di Gaza condotto da Israele e sostenuto dagli Stati Uniti entra nel suo terzo anno, anziché por fine L'appello di Centro Palestinese per i Diritti Umani, Al-Haq eMaddalena Brunasti (Pressenza)
We Track Sales For A Living — These Are The Best Amazon Deals To Shop This Week
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We Track Sales For A Living — These Are The Best Amazon Deals To Shop This Week
From Amazon’s legendary “adult baby blanket” to a powerful electric toothbrush, these are the deals you should snap up ASAP.Marquaysa Battle (HuffPost)
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Kneeling down, picking up some dirt and letting it fall through my fingers as I smell the air
“There was a great turmoil here”
UN Chief Guterres advocates for climate justice and financial reform
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UN Chief Guterres advocates for climate justice and financial reform | Africanews
Before his departure from Papua New Guinea, the Secretary-General appealed once again for climate justice and emphasized the need for international financial systems reforms, so that developing countries can have a stronger voice.Africanews
"Engraçado" como Deus está sempre a prometer aos brancos terras que pertencem a outros". #politica #colonialismo #ReligiaoEPolitica
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris's Water-Based Building Cooling Network - Slashdot
Networks of pipes and heat exchangers can transfer excess heat from buildings into nearby bodies of water -- but as the world warms, the cooling potential of some water courses is now diminishing, Wired reports.news.slashdot.org
Gravity Storm – First Mission just landed on Steam today—a 2D run-’n-gun platformer with a gravity-flipping twist.
Think Mega Man with VVVVVV’s inversion gimmick. That’s the DNA here. You run, jump, shoot, and dash like the Blue Bomber, but you also slam gravity on demand—dropping to the ceiling or crashing back down—turning every corridor into a puzzle of timing and positioning.
Story is wafer-thin: you’re Project Gravity Storm, a machine built to manipulate gravity. But nobody comes here for lore.
The real star is the level design—tight, clever, grin-inducing. Five stages, two bosses, and a grab-bag of modes: Story, Time Attack, Score Attack, Custom, and even a Boss Rush. There’s also a built-in art gallery featuring community illustrations.
Visually, it doesn’t chase the NES look. Instead it feels like early 90s DOS shareware—closer to Alien Carnage or Bio Menace, though a bit smoother.
Audio is pure modern chiptune. Not era-perfect, but the drive is there. The sound effects, though—they do have that crunchy DOS vibe, like something you’d have heard through a Sound Blaster 16.
Controls: yes, you can do keyboard, but it gets busy with all the gravity flips, dashes, and supers. The dev openly recommends a gamepad, and both Xbox and PlayStation pads work out of the box. Controls are fully remappable, vibration and screen-shake can be toggled, and there’s an in-game tutorial so you don’t fumble through.
Tech side: Windows-only natively, built in GameMaker. I got it running on Linux just fine via Proton. The footprint is tiny—200 MB install, Intel HD 4000 minimum. Basically anything from the last decade can run it.
This is Jampley Games’ first release. And while reviews haven’t rolled in yet, I’m impressed. Not just with the concept, but with the polish. It even ships with twelve Steam achievements, and the dev has already outlined a roadmap: leaderboards, an enemy bestiary, an epilogue stage, and the soundtrack release.
Price is C$8.99 (US$6.99). And with a free demo available, you don’t even need to take my word for it. But if you want my verdict? This is marvelous. A compact, arcade-forward platformer that delivers where it counts. Highly recommended.
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Gravity Storm - First Mission on Steam
Break the laws of physics, dash and shoot your way through levels full of hazards and machines gone rogue.store.steampowered.com
Argentina lawmakers overturn Milei’s veto
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Argentina lawmakers overturn Milei’s veto
The libertarian leader had sought to halt a pensions increase he said threatened to derail his austerity agenda.Jeronimo Gonzalez (www.semafor.com)
Neat. Find connections between two (famous) people through photographs.
Network Of Time
Connecting and sharing the appearances that tell the stories of encounters between notable people and historical figures.networkoftime.com
When creating products and services, whether they are #AI-based applications, social media platforms, or other #digital products, their impact on users, including their mental #health, must be taken into account.
Protecting children and young people is not just a compliance checkbox, but also a #social responsibility that must be taken seriously. #socialmedia #mentalhealth #tech
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In mezzo all'estate, un po' di soppiatto, Cassandra Jenkins ha sfornato un disco anomalo, ipnotico, struggente.
L'ho recensito per Sentireascoltare
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#photography #photogram #photo #photoedit #photooftheday #photoart #photographers #pagan #inspiration #goth #aesthetics #blackmetal #satan #darkaesthetics #witch #bnwmood #cestlavie #mementomori #grunge #surreal #witchcraft #occult #blackandwhite #monochrome #urbex #monochromatic #bnw
Adrianna Tan
in reply to Adrianna Tan • • •if you've recently lost your job, i'm sorry things suck, i've been there, don't be afraid to reach out for help, sympathy, connections.
there is nothing wrong with *you*. i had to remind myself through the constant rejections and ghosting and bad fits: i'm like a very unique restaurant serving a very specific cuisine that i like. some times in my career i can adjust it to cater to a broader audience. sometimes you have to do that. but not everybody will like what you're cooking.
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Adrianna Tan
in reply to Adrianna Tan • • •the best career advice i got was, somehow, from my immigration attorney.
he was like, 'there are tens of thousands of product managers in this city. tell me in a few words why what you do matters.'
anyway, that advice helped me get a job i like (i am a product manager with private and public sector experience, who builds great software for critical services in mission-driven orgs); and get my immigration status sorted (i am one of the few people who do this type of work who also have global experience on how to think about AI and its impact on people and society).
unfortunately, this hellscape demands that we all clamor to put a stake in the ground to show why we are special. tech especially has changed and isn't 'you can have a job if you can touch a computer' anymore.
like with many things about the hellscape, asking for help, reaching out to people, making connections if possible, are things that help. i understand it can be challenging for some people.
Jason Lefkowitz
in reply to Adrianna Tan • • •My favorite chapter from the Stephen Mitchell translation of the Tao Te Ching
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Tao Te Ching – Stephen Mitchell
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