Is the Mozilla organization generally responsive to social media? I have had a hard time trying to figure out where the organization responds to publicly, generally.
I would love to have a Mozilla hosted email and calendar service from them, for example. I don't understand why they aren't branching out into more common web citizen needed services.
I realize that this article is about Wind + Solar, but given this breakthrough, can anyone who is an authority on the subject explain if EGS is also set to take off?
I've wondered if such systems could act as thermal batteries. That is, use industrial heat pumps to generate moderate temperature steam, inject that into fracked rocks, then recover later as geothermal steam. The storage time constant of the rocks scales as the square of the linear dimensions, and can easily be many years (that's why geothermal works.)
For extra fun, do this in rocks that contain subeconomic levels of some interesting mineral resource and use the hot fluids to transport that mineral out of the formation for recovery.
To create a space that holds together information of a varity of data (types, format, unit, etc). This would enable a more holistic approach to themes that include multiple points of content, which itself can be linked to several themes.
Example: Download a PDF of a book. Read it. Notes derive from that. Those notes can concern a diary, quote for some other work, inspiration for art, language learning, etc. The book itself can contain text, data entries, tabular, photo, etc.
There is a multitude of possibilities to find categories for every aspect of this 'idea'. The goal is to find a (not 'the') abstraction to handle data so it is possible to work with it. As someone already mentioned, even if such a system can be found, it is unclear if this would make it easier to work with all it contains, than how we do it conventionally.
Addit: DevonThink comes closest to what I described.
Fair point, I might not made the other aspect clear enough. This database includes data points of any kind. From tabular about financial planning to health data to calendar and time management. Not only can it hold data, but also modify (calc) entries. Things can be automated.
What this leads to ('what I imagine'), is a modular system. Very bare bone in its core form. Data is processed with editors for each data type. Editors come in the form of addons to the system. Data (and meta, params, etc) would always have to remain human readable - comparable to MarkDown or something. As you must've figured by now, I don't have a definitive picture in my head. All of this must sound very delusional or dreamy ... :)
I realize that there's a million obvious answers; but as I type this in the part of the country currently roasting by the heatwave in the United States: will something like this ever happen for climate efforts?
It depends. If enough millennials and GenZ suddenly decide to vote, we might get enough representation in congress to override both the "Jewish Space Laser" MAGA chuds and the elderly Democrats who think there's no particular rush. Otherwise, no, this will not be treated as the emergency it is.
Putting someone on the Moon takes a certain number of people, and it's a thing, and you can do it and be done with it. Less than a hundred thousand people, probably. A fixed budget.
Addressing climate change means suddenly stopping everyone from doing certain things. It's much broader in scope and involves forbiddance, long-term. It's a near-endless stream of don't: don't burn that coal, don't leave that light on, don't drive so much, don't use that plastic bag, don't have that many kids, and so on. This goes across billions of people and it won't ever end.
Sorry, but that's both false and defeatist. You personally not leaving a light on for a few hours is going to make fuck-all difference. You know what _would_ put a dent in it? Restricting private jet travel. Instituting some kind of time or fuel constraints on that would be worth a zillion peons turning off their lights more often.
Addressing climate change largely doesn't require personal sacrifice, and personal sacrifice may in fact be counterproductive. We have to identify the actual major sources contributing to it and fix those. There aren't really that many! They're just rich and powerful and they want you to feel like changing a lightbulb in your house is actually doing something. And it is, but it's not doing as much as grounding Musk's private plane forever would.
Private jets are quite inefficient but it's just a minor one of many emission sources. It should be blamed but just banning private jet doesn't end global warming.
It's not, though it does get partial funding from the US government. I've been for a few weeks now to try and unpack the ramifications of public funded social media.
The most common refrain that I get whenever this topic comes up is "First Amendment" - meaning that public funded social media should not be in the business of moderation; though I often wonder how come NPR, PBS, BBC and so on don't run their own social media websites (based on your deciding flavor of ActivityPub instances.)
I believe the German and Dutch governments run their own Mastodon instances, I don't understand at the moment why other governments don't follow this path.
