mastodon - Link to source

#Tuvalu, likely first modern country to become uninhabitable, has new plan for keeping control of fishing rights even if its land disappears by #climatechange.

#LawOfTheSea treaty says sea territory, fishing rights only exist with reference to land territory, but is silent on what happens when land changes, disappears. Tuvalu has multi-pronged strategy to form intl consensus that sea borders remain if their land disappears.

reuters.com/investigations/sin… #geography @geography @geopolitics #ocean

#climatechange #ocean #tuvalu #lawofthesea #geography @geography group @geopolitics group

mastodon - Link to source

Two and a half weeks are left, to make the official European Citizens Initiative #TaxTheRich work!

We still need 690,000 signatures, which sounds like a lot, but for a union of 450 million people, it should be a piece of cake!

We also still need 4 more countries to reach their national threshold of supporters:

BE, NL, IT, ES, SE are on a good way.

If you are an #EU citizen, and have not signed yet:

What are you waiting for?

eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/…

#EU #taxtherich

mastodon - Link to source

“Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants | CIO”

cio.com/article/3540579/devs-g…

> Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel, a company providing insights from coding and collaboration data.

Like I've been saying for a while, feeling productive is not the same as being productive

reshared this

mastodon - Link to source
It’s very rarely that I am left shaking after reading something. This article outraged and frightened me, and it’s a striking example of why so many blind people will be outside the HQ of Uber and Lyft in October.
We have every right to expect that we can go about our business without fear, and that the law will be enforced.
nfb.org//images/nfb/publicatio…

reshared this

mastodon - Link to source
Puppy Pics

Sensitive content

#dogs #pets #puppies
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

mastodon - Link to source

En X, Adolfo Núñex explica con ejemplos reales por qué la prohibición de VMP en transporte público es absurda, desproporcionada y no pone el foco en la seguridad objetiva.

Si no queréis pasar por X, ya os hago yo el spoiler: «Murcia ha prohibido el acceso de los patinetes eléctricos a autobuses y tranvía, porque se incendian y prima la seguridad»; durante un mes se han incendiado cero patinetes eléctricos y nueve coches de combustión (cero coches eléctricos). No es un mes raro. El 99,99 % de los vehículos que salen ardiendo son turismos convencionales. Y a nadie se le ocurre prohibirlos dentro de gasolineras, garajes o túneles.

Los ataques continuos contra la micromovilidad nacen del lobby cochista, que se ha dado cuenta que cada VMP que se vende reduce las ventas de sus sofás con ruedas. Con toda la educación de que soy capaz: que les jodan. Que les jodan fuerte. Están destrozando el futuro y frenando la sostenibilidad.

x.com/nofloda/status/183961220…

mastodon - Link to source

A Stanford University study in 2017 said Indonesians walk so much less than the world average.

When suburban roads typically look like this and only 610km of Jakarta’s more than 7,000km of roads have sidewalks, nobody should be surprised that nobody wants to walk in the city.

The strong lobby from motor vehicle companies also means that the city is home to 19 million motorcycles and 4 million cars. That’s almost 2 bikes per person in the city.

The city has 44 thousand buses, 4.5 thousand of which are full sized buses for TransJakarta network, and the bulk of the rest are likely the mini 8-10 person capacity buses (angkots) that have no schedule.

#TootSEA #Indonesia

A suburban street with a large, uncovered holes on the sidewalk next to the curb. The holes are over a drainage system. The street is lined with residential houses, and electrical wires are visible overhead.
A suburban street scene showing multiple uncovered drainage holes along the sidewalk. A motorbike and cars are passing by, and a bodega called "Toko Qiana 2" is visible on the right side of the road. There is greenery on the left side of the street, including banana trees.
#indonesia #tootsea
⇧