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Globally, there are 7,000 locations where governments have allowed companies to drill for oil and gas, even though they’re areas inhabited by endangered wildlife, or form a barrier against climate breakdown. The overlap between drilling and natural sites in the UK is 13,500 km²
Random thought: I think basically nobody agrees with my political perspectives because:
1. The left has a very narrow orthodoxy, and if you don't agree with it 100% then they claim to think you're a not-see. To anyone outside of the leftist bubble, this is self-evidently garbage.
2. The right has a tenancy to over-simplify problems and is attracted to "big hammer" solutions - like as if everything will be utopia if we just send the blacks back to Africa, take away women's vote, evict the jews, etc. The problem with these "simple" ideas is that if things were so simple, somewhere at some point in history, some country would have accidentally stumbled on them, thrived, and made them a universal standard.
If you approach things from a first principles perspective based on the assumption that governance is a hard problem and the best countries to live in today are already solving it as best we know how - conclusions and proposals end up being a lot different from anything that is typically discussed in the political arena.
La production en série de drones de combat MQ-9 renforce les capacités anti-sous-marines de l'US Navy dans le Pacifique
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, principal développeur du drone de combat MQ-9, a confirmé avoir démontré en décembre la capacité accrue de lutte anti-sous-marine de l'appareil. Cette capacité se traduit par un déploiement nettement amélioré de nacelles de sonobouées pour la détection de cibles sous-marines.
Les essais ont été menés avec la version MQ-9B SeaGuardian, dotée d'une autonomie de plus de 18 heures et équipée du radar 7500E V2 optimisé pour la détection de cibles de surface. Commandité par l'US Navy, l'essai s'est déroulé dans un lieu tenu secret et a bénéficié du soutien du département AIRWorks de la division aéronautique du Naval Air Warfare Center afin de certifier le nouveau système de largage de bouées acoustiques Sonobuoy Dispensing System (SDS).
General Atomics a précisé que les nacelles étaient "plus nombreuses que lors des essais précédents, doublant ainsi le nombre de bouées acoustiques disponibles", et des images montrent l'appareil transportant deux nacelles SDS. L'entreprise a étudié la possibilité de tester le lancement de bouées acoustiques depuis le MQ-9B dès 2016, l'appareil ayant démontré sa capacité à les transporter et à les contrôler tout en transmettant des informations à la station au sol par satellite. Le MQ-9B a été conçu pour voler au-delà de l'horizon via une liaison satellite pendant de longues périodes, une capacité particulièrement précieuse pour les opérations sur les vastes étendues du Pacifique. Bien que les capacités de combat du MQ-9 restent très limitées, ce qui restreint son efficacité face à des adversaires dotés de capacités antiaériennes avancées, son utilisation pour la détection de sous-marins ennemis sur de vastes zones océaniques pourrait considérablement accroître son utilité en Asie de l'Est pour des missions non combattantes.
Le MQ-9, entré en service en 2007, est très apprécié pour ses coûts de formation et d'exploitation très faibles et est rapidement devenu le drone de combat multirôle le plus emblématique au monde. Coûtant environ 150 millions de dollars l'unité, cet appareil a fait la une des journaux en 2023-2024 en raison du nombre important de drones abattus par les unités paramilitaires de la coalition yéménite Ansar Allah. Plus de dix exemplaires auraient été détruits dans la zone d'opérations en un peu plus d'un an. Son déploiement pour les opérations de lutte anti-sous-marine viendrait compléter celui d'une gamme étendue et croissante de moyens, pilotés ou non, capables d'améliorer la connaissance de la situation des États-Unis et de leurs partenaires stratégiques dans le Pacifique. Parmi ces moyens figurent la flotte de P-8 Poseidon , qui constitue l'épine dorsale des capacités de lutte anti-sous-marine aéroportée des forces armées américaines, ainsi que des drones tels que le RQ-170 et le MQ-7C Triton, conçus pour des missions de reconnaissance à très longue portée.
L'investissement dans l'amélioration des capacités de lutte anti-sous-marine du MQ-9 intervient alors que la Chine, la Russie et la Corée du Nord modernisent et développent rapidement leurs flottes sous-marines. L'US Navy perçoit une menace croissante de la part de la flotte sous-marine chinoise, dont l'entrée en service de nouvelles générations de bâtiments et d'armements associés s'effectue à un rythme sans précédent. Selon les dernières estimations, la flotte chinoise de sous-marins nucléaires est désormais la deuxième plus importante au monde , principalement grâce à la production à grande échelle du sous-marin d'attaque de classe Type 093B, tandis que la construction des sous-marins révolutionnaires de nouvelle génération, les Type 095 et Type 096, a déjà commencé. La Russie a revu à la hausse ses prévisions de production pour ses sous-marins d'attaque de classe Yasen-M et ses sous-marins lanceurs de missiles balistiques de classe Borei. Huit de ces derniers sont en service et quatre autres sont prévus, tandis que les capacités des premiers seront renforcées à partir de 2025 grâce à l'intégration des missiles de croisière hypersoniques Zircon. La Corée du Nord devrait mettre en service son premier sous-marin nucléaire avant 2030.
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The primary developer of the MQ-9 unmanned combat aircraft General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has confirmed the demonstration of the new expanded Anti-Submarine Warfare
“With this proposed Ring of Fire, with these minerals being extracted, we are concerned how it affects us as Indigenous people; our rights are being violated,” Koostachin said during a Jan. 13 webinar hosted by Above Ground and MiningWatch Canada.
“So also our land, the environment, it's going to be destroyed. So anything where there's going to be destruction is going to be devastation within the Treaty 9 area where the proposed Ring of Fire is.”
"During past century, resource extraction has doubled every 20 years or so. Indeed, humanity reached a grim milestone in 2021, when the global quantity of human-made mass — that is, the total weight of all things our species manufactured or constructed — surpassed the total weight of all living plant, animal, and microbial biomass on this planet. And worse yet, that mass of human-made stuff continues to grow, year by year, even as the natural world diminishes further."
“Utah’s leadership seems far too eager to impress AI creators so they will build here, and far too slow to make those developers impress us with their abilities to make the most judicious use of our water and power,” writes The Tribune's editorial bo…
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"Almost two decades in the making, an international agreement to protect and sustainably use marine life in international waters and the international seabed is due to come into force on Saturday, marking a major step forward in efforts to ensure the health of ocean ecosystems for decades to come." 🌊 🐬 🦑 #Oceans #Climate #Environment
Almost two decades in the making, an international agreement to protect and sustainably use marine life in international waters and the international seabed is due to come into force on Saturday, marking a major step forward in efforts to ensure the …
"For years, the discussion around data centers and water has focused on the facilities’ use of water for cooling. That use is important, but it’s only part of the picture. Ceres’ report, published in September 2025, shows that when you account for the water required to generate the massive amounts of electricity these facilities consume — as well as the cumulative impacts of multiple centers clustered in the same region — the water usage becomes dramatically larger."
Inside the invisible e-waste economy of Delhi’s Seelampur
Toxic debris from wealthier nations is redirected to informal settlements such as Seelampur under the guise of second-hand goods. E-waste markets flourish because informal, marginalised spaces allow hazardous, illicit economies to operate beyond regulatory oversight.
Connecting the Unconnected is a monthly column by the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) that explores how technology can drive inclusion and governance in In
"U.S. energy systems were not designed for this form of load growth. Federal industrial policy, state environmental law, and utility regulation are evolving on timelines measured in decades, while AI infrastructure expands on timelines measured in months. This mismatch is creating mounting stresses on regional power grids, rising costs for ratepayers, permitting backlogs, and growing legal and political conflict over who should bear the costs of digital expansion."
@Gerry McGovern You are correct, our energy systems are designed for the past and we're in the present. And even without growth we're running out of economically viable fossil fuels, therefore we need to build new base load infrastructure not based on fossil fuels.
My suggestion for this is to start with molten salt breeder reactors because they're safe, the fuel is plentiful, and they can destroy the long lived actinides in existing nuclear waste.
Then in the long term bring fusion online. If we don't do this the downside isn't just not being able to afford our artificial brains but also not being able to afford our artificial brawn that grows and transports our food.
"As artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure rapidly expands, a new white paper released today by Restore the Delta finds significant risks to water supplies, energy systems, ecosystems, and local communities as the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta emerges as a major hub for AI-driven data centers."
@Gerry McGovern 3/4ths of the Earth surface is covered in water, water is abundant, fresh water not so much but we can covert salt water to fresh water with the addition of energy and we can make all the energy we need for the next 1000-10,000 years with molten salt breeder reactors, and until the Sun consumes the Earth with controlled fusion. Instead of fearing the future, adapt and engineer it.
"AI data centers on the East Coast are gobbling up so much juice that nonprofit grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers during both heat waves and exceptionally cold weather just to protect the grid’s integrity. These blackouts would impact a staggering 67 million people in 13 states, which will no doubt fan more anger from customers and politicians who are already deeply ticked off about the mass construction of AI data centers."
@Gerry McGovern Gerry I know you don't like the idea of AI, people didn't like the idea of artificial muscle either, yet we'd be up to our necks in horseshit and unable to feed our population without it. Time flows forward only.
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"The White House on Friday announced some members of a so-called "Board of Peace" that is to supervise the temporary governance of #Gaza, which has been under a fragile ceasefire since October. The names include U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Trump is the chair of the board, according to a plan his White House unveiled in October."
⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ This guy will be an observer of a "peace" plan for Gaza.
London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service thebureauinvestigates.com/stor…
Una pregunta. Está feo si me hago yo misma retoot de publicaciones de una cuenta a la otra? Es para no repetirme más que el ajo y que no vean mis cuentas vacías
@Gerry McGovern A 1 GW generator (similar to those used in other power plants) generally uses high-purity copper windings, which can range from 50 to over 100 tons of copper, depending on efficiency requirements and generator design.
A super critical CO2 turbine is the ideal generator for a molten salt breeder reactor, uses 1/10th the copper of a steam turbine. This is where we should be going.
like, the concept of recognition for work that helps the public good is a good thing, but it loses it’s meaning when you add in pomp & circumstance around it and also by handing it to politicians.
The Peace Prize specifically is inherently political & squishy vs. science ones.
actually I think it's very ok to give away/sell the physical representation of the price. It's of no use anyway. You do not make another person the winner or make him become what you are. So that act on itself is pretty much "who cares" to me.
the FBI isn't sending you letters in the mail about your posts, they're in your mentions saying shit like the police can't see you if you put a rock in your shoe
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People don’t seem to realize that although #Fediverse has many problems to be solved, it’s the first and last free social media that we have a chance to self manage, control the flow of propaganda, increase the influence of activists, unions, revolutionaries, environmentalists, amplify the voice of minorities and freedom of information globally etc, without fascists, mass media, governments, trolls, advertisements etc. Even if this fails at least we would have tried to build something different of our own… So people that stay on #twitter #X #facebook #insta #TikTok or jump to the next new hipster trend like #threads #bluesky by fascist billionaires, in my personal and probably unpopular opinion, shouldn’t talk about how fascism, capitalism, consumption, social and mass media control and destroy our lives.
You have your chance and you throw it away. Sorry I don’t miss you here if your words have nothing to do with your actions
People don’t seem to realize that although #Fediverse has many problems to be solved, it’s the first and last free social media that we have a chance to self manage, control the flow of propaganda, increase the influence of activists, unions, revolutionaries, environmentalists, amplify the voice of minorities and freedom of information globally etc, without fascists, mass media, governments, trolls, advertisements etc. Even if this fails at least we would have tried to build something different of our own… So people that stay on #twitter #X #facebook #insta #TikTok or jump to the next new hipster trend like #threads #bluesky by fascist billionaires, in my personal and probably unpopular opinion, shouldn’t talk about how fascism, capitalism, consumption, social and mass media control and destroy our lives.
You have your chance and you throw it away. Sorry I don’t miss you here if your words have nothing to do with your actions
Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.
So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”
Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.
But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad joke they’ve become.
about 15 years ago I started buying the cheapest new phones with the best battery life, and bought myself a DSLR. I run my phones into the ground, my DSLR is still taking awesome photos.
Apple cares so much about accessibility that they are now baking accessibility needs into their interfaces just so you can experience their accessibility features.
If you’ve been tricked into updating to iOS 26 also (because, really, what numbskull in their right mind would subject themselves willingly to that Shakespearian clusterfuck?), the reduce transparency and reduce motion accessibility settings are your friend.
Sure, your phone will look and feel worse than before but that’s a small price to pay for progess, amirite? Now stop your bitching before Apple sets ICE on you or something.
Goodness those pop-up menu animations are the worst. And no way to disable them (reduce motion doesn’t affect them). Meaningless, gratuitous skeuomorphism that fails at even the basics of modeling the physical integrity of its source material. What a shit show.
Liquid Ass should be a cautionary case study in Interface Design 101.
"Lindsey Graham's seat in the U.S. Senate is up for election in 2026, with the general election scheduled for November 3, 2026."
South Carolina... DO the right thing! While Maples is a Democrat and a canine, vote for Maples for Senate. Get this four-term closet fruit out of your state, so Lady Graham can go to the Castro district in San Fran and live more happily and freely.
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"Quelques faits survenus aux USA depuis l'assassinat de Renee Nicole Good par un policier de l'ICE. L’article Quelques nouvelles du fascisme étasunien est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque."
"We are no longer fighting against war and genocide in the middle east, we are fighting against an assault on our own civil rights. It’s personal now. They’re coming for us directly." caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/0… When a Zionist complains, our first question should be: Do we investigate the complaint or the Zionist? #AusPol #Zionism #Israel #genocide #censorship
You can literally just be sitting there not saying or doing anything and still find yourself getting arrested and prosecuted for an antisemitic hate crime. They have the authority to do this presen…
Otro Verkami que me ha llegado esta semana es "Menú de Gaza" un diario-libro de recetas fruto de la colaboración de Mikel Ayestarán con la familia Hammad, en respuesta al uso del hambre como arma de guerra. Si queréis apoyar el proyecto, está a la venta aquí: revista5w.com/tienda/menu-de-g… El 15 % de las ventas va en concepto de derechos de autoría a la familia Hammad, que consiguió escapar de Gaza y ahora vive en España.
Y aprovecho para recordar que sigue en marcha esta iniciativa ciudadana europea para exigir la suspensión total del Acuerdo de Asociación UE-Israel. ¡Echad una firmita si no lo habéis hecho ya!
La Flottille pour Gaza, ou la conscience du monde legrandsoir.info/la-flottille-… C'est désormais à nous d'agir. Si nous échouons l'État de droit disparaîtra. Le génocide sera une arme de plus dans l'arsenal des pays industrialisés & les Palestiniens seront une fois de plus trahis. Rome, Italie — En avril 2026, une nouvelle Flottille tentera de briser le blocus israélien imposé à Gaza depuis 18 ans. Cette mission sera la plus grande mobilisation maritime jamais organisée en faveur de la Palestine, avec la participation de plus de 3 000 militants venus de (…) - / #Politique #Gaza
C'est désormais à nous d'agir. Si nous échouons l'État de droit disparaîtra. Le génocide sera une arme de plus dans l'arsenal des pays industrialisés & les Palestiniens seront une fois de plus trahis. Rome, Italie — En avril (…)
At the end of June, I'll whittle this down to a lucky 13 of most interesting election fights, and then a fun betting pool that anyone can join, picking a D or R. Winner gets? Uh... a giant box of raisins.
SEARCH ASSIST: In the 2026 elections, 35 of the 100 U.S. Senate seats will be contested, including 33 regular elections and 2 special elections in Florida and Ohio. Democrats need to gain a net of four seats to take control of the Senate, while Republicans are defending 22 of those seats.
@s8n Like, for example, this SHIT BAG will likely win again...
"Lindsey Graham's seat in the U.S. Senate is up for election in 2026, with the general election scheduled for November 3, 2026. He is running for re-election to a fifth term."
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"Ces dernières semaines, nous avons assisté à une révolte de la population ouvrière iranienne contre le gouvernement de la République islamique d’Iran, sous forme de grèves, de manifestations et même, finalement, de la proclamation de conseils ouvriers dans certaines régions du territoire. Les causes de ce soulèvement, comme dans toutes … L’article Solidarité avec le peuple iranien est apparu en
Estratégicamente creo que es mucho mejor promocionar instancias como red social que promocionar Mastodon. No es... "sal de twitter y ven a Mastodon", es "sal de twitter y ven a Neopaquita, que estamos guay".
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