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Posted in News Roundup at 1:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Gemini* and Gopher

Politics and World Events

• Over a month ago, a report was published by the Environmental Protection Agency evaluating the government’s plan. The headline claim was that “EPA analysis shows that planned climate policies and measures, if fully implemented, could deliver up to 29 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 compared to 2018, a reduction of 4 per cent each year from 2022 to 2030. This is insufficient to achieve the ambition of 51 per cent emissions reduction in Ireland’s Climate Act.”

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• Since the publication of the EPA report, policians have occasionally appeared on the media to answer questions about what their plans are to address climate change.

• I LOVE the Red Rising series, and I’m glad that someone has brought it up here. I’m not sure if the OP will read this post but I highly encourage going through the entire series because it gets intense. I lost a lot of sleep staying up reading this book series and couldn’t wait for the next ones to drop.

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• I agree, it does start off slow, but once you get into the next book it starts picking up. I do like how it had a bit of a Hunger Games feel to it, and show the maturation and molding of these young warriors.

Technology and Free Software

• Awakening early allowed me to coffee and eat sooner, opening the door to getting a bunch yard waste street side, and the jumping right into mowing the lawn after enjoying some Scott Adams on YouTube.

• Actually, that was interrupted about 2/3rds through the show by a central AC service call, which resulted in the worst possible diagnosis: the need to replace the entire unit. Ugh.

• But, you know, isn’t it rather silly for an NPC to sweat such details?

• We neutralized any possible fretting attacks by hitting the beach, which was glorious. I’m guessing the water temperature was maybe 75F. Grant it, we were parked in front of a sandbar, the water is generally warmer than in the deep. But it was fun noodling around, swimming under water, digging in the lake sand for handfuls of rocks, watching the sand sift through the fingers while raising the hand to the surface, occasionally finding treasure in the palm of my hand.

• Hi. I’m just a developer spending an evening at the pub. I decided I wanted to use the keyboards I build for something other than writing code at work.

• Despite having built 10 or so keyboards with different layouts and materials, I can’t really say I’ve found a favorite. So, I hoard them in drawers and swap them around my desks when I remember they exist. When the urge to swap keyboards comes over me, I’ll stumble into here and press some buttons.

Internet/Gemini

• First post on midnight pub! I might use this as a backup for my main gemlog, and definitely to interact with folks in this space (so many cool people here)

• For me it began with a high school friend’s unbeknownst-to-me-(via-vodka-in-milk)-inebriated father who was also perpetually high on Gurdjieff/Ouspensky material.

• I mean, okay, I was somewhat fascinated by astrology even earlier in life. But it doesn’t take long immersed in the likes of Gurdjieff/Ouspensky before broad categories of people seems silly.

• I’m on the record as a lover of email. Communications these days are all too… immediate. Urgent. Grabbing your attention away from the day-to-day and demanding you give over your soul to the neverending stream of thoughtless messages, gifs, and links. It’s exhausting. Working in Slack channels is a surefire way to get a migraine (or worse).

• Email, meanwhile, is more patient. Emails come in and sit there until you’re ready to deal with them. There is an expectation that emails will take longer to write and contain a greater level of thought than the average instant message. You also get the benefit of truly contextual communication.

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