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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greenland</a> is getting greener. That could have huge consequences for the world By Angela Dewan, CNN Published February 13, 2024"Warmer air temperatures have driven <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IceLoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IceLoss</a>, which has in turn raised land temperatures. That has caused the melting of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/permafrost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#permafrost</a>, a frozen layer just beneath the Earth’s surface and found in much of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arctic</a>, and that melt releases planet-warming <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonDioxide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarbonDioxide</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#methane</a>, contributing to more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalWarming</a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PermafrostMelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PermafrostMelt</a> is also causing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandInstability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LandInstability</a>, which could impact infrastructure and buildings."'We have seen signs that the loss of ice is triggering other reactions which will result in further loss of ice and further ‘greening’ of Greenland, where shrinking ice exposes bare rock that is then colonized by tundra and eventually shrub,' one of the report’s authors, Jonathan Carrivick, said in a press release. 'At the same time, water released from the melting ice is moving sediment and silt, and that eventually forms wetlands and fenlands.'"The loss of ice is creating what’s known as a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FeedbackLoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FeedbackLoop</a>. Snow and ice typically reflect the sun’s energy back into space, preventing excessive heating in parts of the Earth. But as ice disappears, those areas absorb more solar energy, raising land surface temperatures, which can cause further melt and other negative impacts."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IceMelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IceMelt</a> also increases the amount of water in lakes, where water absorbs more heat than snow, which increases land surface temperatures."Greenland has been warming at twice the global mean rate since the 1970s, and the study’s authors warn that more extreme temperatures in the future are likely."Greenland is the world’s biggest island and is mostly covered by ice and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/glaciers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glaciers</a>. Around 57,000 people live in the country, which is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Much of the population is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indigenous</a> and many people there rely on natural <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a> for their survival."Michael Grimes, the report’s lead author, said that the flow of sediments and nutrients into coastal waters was particularly problematic for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousCommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousCommunities</a> that rely on fishing, as well as for hunters on other parts of the island."'These changes are critical, particularly for the indigenous populations whose traditional subsistence hunting practices rely on the stability of these delicate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a>,' he said."'Moreover, the loss of ice mass in Greenland is a substantial contributor to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalSeaLevelRise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalSeaLevelRise</a>, a trend that poses significant challenges both now and in the future.'"<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/climate/greenland-ice-loss-vegetation-climate-intl/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/climate/greenland-ice-loss-vegetation-climate-intl/index.html</a>

CelloMom On Cars" A sweeping global research review of the links between climate and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#agriculture</a> reveals the likelihood of an emergent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FeedbackLoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FeedbackLoop</a> whereby, as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CimateChange</a> puts more pressure on the global food supply, agriculture will, by necessity, adopt practices that may exacerbate its environmental impact. "<a href="https://www.eurasiareview.com/15092024-impact-of-climate-change-on-agriculture-suggests-even-greater-challenges-to-environment-global-food-supply-and-public-health/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eurasiareview.com/15092024-impact-of-climate-change-on-agriculture-suggests-even-greater-challenges-to-environment-global-food-supply-and-public-health/</a>

Karsten SchmidtMy general <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> maintainer conundrum:I love, love, love sharing my knowledge, learning from others & seeing how some of the libraries & tools put out over the years have been enabling and having positive tangible impact on the practice of others. It's one of the joys in my life! I also do want to work more on docs & examples and consider this work very important (and rewarding).Yet, let's consider:- the massive scale of the <a href="https://thi.ng/umbrella" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thi.ng/umbrella</a> meta-project (currently ~190 sub-projects) - a combined 157+ million NPM downloads so far, with some individual packages having 500k+ downloads per month (though most have less) - ~3300 stars on GitHub (~5000 for all thi.ng projects combined)...there's generally very little feedback/contribs/discussion (or it comes in very shortlived salvos/bursts that I sometimes can't keep up with context switching, though very rarely).Those few of you, who've been supporting this all financially: 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏To me this situation means I cannot justify spending an ever increasing amount time on these aspects in this social vacuum (even though I've been doing a lot of that work anyway). At the same time, I'm absolutely more than happy to do so once I hear from people about concrete needs/issues/questions etc. For example, this week alone, two new interesting example projects resulted from those interactions... (one about GPGPU, the other about data viz, see previous posts)Objectively, I think thi.ng/umbrella is unrivalled in terms of scope, composability, interoperability, educational cross-references & examples provided. I also genuinely believe (and know from others) this is a high value resource and set of tools/patterns for a huge number of purposes. Still, what's offered is seemingly not enough to get people interested to the extend they start contributing and/or forming more of a community (that is without me having to be the bottleneck and answer every single question whilst also being the main/sole developer, documenter, etc.)Already for almost 25 years, I've been trying hard to "pay it forward", sharing my knowledge (and income), creating thousands of code snippets, mini tutorials in readmes (~50k words), forums & docstrings, building hundreds of larger, commented example projects (~30k lines of code) to help teach/illustrate concepts/techniques, syntax, use cases, usage patterns, run workshops. With that I also hoped to maybe entice _at least some_ people to contribute & share their knowledge with any of these projects (and with others, in any form, incl. docs/examples/discussion...), but I still don't understand why this hasn't really been happening more... not to the extend I'd hoped for, by far!Maybe it's my autism, but sometimes it feels I'm the only person who can't see the writing on the wall, can't see the elephant in the room and/or this all is a chicken & egg problem:In the survey run earlier this year, some people said it's about entrenchment (of other more popular tools), about the "bus factor", others said it's the lack of docs or prerequisite knowledge. When asking for concrete help/advice to improve the situation, there're mainly only handwavy responses (w/ extra effort implicitly delegated to me, rather than involving offers to contribute)...Apart from this project becoming financially more sustainable (more chicken & egg), currently I don't see a way to justify prioritizing _more_ of my time on these aspects, instead of working on features & other maintenance (of which there's both plenty). This important research (but mainly development) is also needed for many other projects I've been working on, incl. those which are providing at least potentially some income (e.g. my art projects) to continue re-investing & working on thi.ng...As you might know, a while ago I've started working on creating some courseware, but it's been on the back-burner since realising this is a hugely risky undertaking considering the lack of general feedback. All of these things are interrelated...🐓🥚<a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/ThingUmbrella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThingUmbrella</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Community</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Documentation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/FeedbackLoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FeedbackLoop</a>

@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differentlyWhen the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/feedbackloop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feedbackloop</a> of the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MarketPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarketPlace</a> hits the 🛫🛬 <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CSAMCEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CSAMCEO</a>'s 💥👎

Serge from BabkaLet me explain a feedback loop using a non-technical example.The router is warm, therefore the cat sleeps on it.The cat sleeps on it, making it warm.<a href="https://babka.social/tags/FeedbackLoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FeedbackLoop</a>

NonilexBannon represents a clear thru line from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/grievance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grievance</a>-driven <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> base to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congress</a>. & his role in the meltdown that played out this wk in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#House</a> helps explain why the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republican</a> Party appears to be eating its own. He is a vital part of a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FeedbackLoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FeedbackLoop</a> of red-meat <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> hits & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> posts, online <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fundraising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fundraising</a> & unfettered preaching to an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/angry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#angry</a> & fervently <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RightWing</a> base that rewards <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disruptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disruptions</a> & detests institutions.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChaosCaucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChaosCaucus</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyCaucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConspiracyCaucus</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Extremism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a>

chris h - authorPositive feedback loops adding fuel to future wildfires.<a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/29/canadas-hellish-wildfire-season-defies-the-calendar" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2023/09/29/canadas-hellish-wildfire-season-defies-the-calendar</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/StitchedInkMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StitchedInkMedia</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/feedbackLoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feedbackLoop</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#World</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wildfires</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Smoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Smoke</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inflation</a>

@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently<a href="https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mathowie</a> This is a neat take on the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ITCrowds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ITCrowds</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/secretmillionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#secretmillionaire</a> 👍👀👀WOT a great <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/feedbackloop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feedbackloop</a> for relentless <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/customerservice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#customerservice</a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#support</a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/productmanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#productmanagement</a> 🧐

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