"no going back to where things were for oil and natural gas"
"...powerful signal has been sent to every oil company, to every company that’s polluting, to every company that’s in the economy"
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/big-oil-exxon-climate-491104

Won't vaccinate, can't count, oh wait WILL vaccinate.

Whatever, fine I'll take it. Get shots in arms.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/ohios-53-vaccination-surge-tied-to-1m-lottery-n-y-and-md-announce-lotteries/

General Motors' (GM) ...is unveiling a new approach to staffing it calls “Work Appropriately.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/20/gms-simple-message-to-employees-about-return-to-work-work-appropriately.html

Yeah, not like we did before, phew. So wrong.

Snark aside Barra sounds like a no-BS straight shooter.

“To find truly great photographs of the Earth — portraits of our planet — we have to go back to the 1960s and 70s”
https://petapixel.com/2021/05/20/this-guy-remastered-photos-of-earth-shot-by-apollo-astronauts/
#hasselblad #photography

@sjvn caught your interview on FLOSS Weekly. Also impatiently waiting to hear from Starlink -- AT&T 1Mbps DSL modem died last week and they're of course uninterested.

Love the safety features, could do without the hype. Busses++

"industry clown prince" <snortchuckle>

https://newrepublic.com/article/162280/autonomous-vehicles-public-transportation-uber-lyft

What's slashdot up to with Linux Journal? Not letting it die, but really not supporting it. Extended sadness.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/

Corn unlocked

librarians have been saying for years that Google's search is indiscrimant high recall noise.

I do recall this, pre-Google quote:
Larry Page and Sergey Brin were originally pretty negative about search engines that sold ads.

we expect that advertising-funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers

https://calpaterson.com/metadata.html

They were adamant not to sell ads. Now Page soothes the wounds on his own private island.
#ai #metadata

Huh. vaccination hesitancy is the least of it (and stop saying that word anyway).

"Even though a majority of Black and Latino Americans want to get vaccinated — 72% in this survey — a surprising 63% said they didn’t have enough information about where to get the shot. In addition, more than 20% said they had regularly been treated with disrespect when getting health care in the past, and 20% said they have had trouble finding health care when needed."
https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/27/vaccinations-are-plateauing-dont-blame-it-on-resistance/

Meanwhile some good news from Newark.

 “Police brutality is still a problem,” he says. “But it’s fair to say the consent decree has had a real impact.”

https://www.nj.com/news/2021/01/newark-cops-with-reform-didnt-fire-a-single-shot-in-2020-moran.html

Hey @Beanc see this method for preserving #streetart ?

...team of Italian scientists described its novel, environmentally friendly new method to safely remove defacing over-paintings on street art at a meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/novel-hydrogels-can-safely-remove-graffiti-from-vandalized-street-art/

New Lancet (medical journal) article argues w/evidence SARS COV2 is predominantly an aerosol phenomenon. tl/dr; ventilate and avoid crowds.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00869-2/fulltext

2020, except fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_VdVVrkB8U

I know the pandemic has hit our sense of time but Verizon, do you know what _century_ it is?

[plan details:]
"You only talk and text, but need a little data to download ringtones."

Mexican president fulfills campaign promise to ban (Monsanto). Will cause a 300% reduction in US corn exports to Mexico.

High five, Obrador.
(pdf link)
nosanitize
https://apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/api/Report/DownloadReportByFileName?fileName=Mexico%20Publishes%20Decree%20to%20Ban%20Glyphosate%20and%20GE%20Corn_Mexico%20City_Mexico_01-06-2021

"From tomorrow morning I will be removing myself from social media until the people in power are able to regulate their platforms with the same vigour and ferocity that they currently do when you infringe copyright" Thierry Henry

Fair. Hope more celebs join.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/56528264

I hope Dominion wins a few of these suits because Fox, lindell et al deserve to lose, and then also because maybe Dominion will have enough money to build non-garbage voting systems.
For once.

https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN2BI1L7