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Your son is 14. He wants to download a game his friends are playing.
The app asks for a face scan to verify his age. You are told it is to keep him safe. You hold the phone while he looks into the camera.
His face is now in a database. Tied to his name. Tied to every account he opens. For the rest of his life.
Years later, that profile decides what he can access. What he can say. What he can buy.
You did not protect him. You helped enroll him.
This is what online child safety laws are building. A digital ID for every person, starting with our children.
Share this with a parent who thinks age verification is harmless.
Follow me. Every day I show you what is coming and how to stop it.
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New study estimates the risk of triggering an #AMOC shutdown as >10% if the world ramps down emissions to net zero by 2060, and 80% for a high emissions path.
It’s based on one model, but is plausible based on overall knowledge on how fragile AMOC is.
e360.yale.edu/digest/amoc-co…
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Vernünftige Politik würde den Einbau von #Klimaanlagen zum #Kühlen __UND__ #Heizen fördern speziell in Schulen, Kindergärten, Krankenhäuser, ...
Und übrigens: #Klimaanlagen heizen und kühlen in jedem Gebäude. Auch in einen Altbau!
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Scary ! France's most famous weather presenter @EvelyneDheliat presented a landmark prediction in 2014 on TF1 of what French weather could be like in a 2050 heatwave
Here she runs the tape back on her 2014 self and compares it with 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 actual figures👇
My English s/t
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What if canvas apps could talk to each other?
OCIF (Open Canvas Interchange Format) is a file format that lets tools like Excalidraw, TLDraw, Obsidian Canvas, and others exchange canvases — nodes, connections, resources, and all.
We just released v0.7.0.
Here's what's new. 🧵
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It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.
Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.
As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.
It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.
Anybody with a #w3c account here, who would support the creation of a W3C community group on "Infinite Canvas' (stuff like @InfinityMaps, @tldraw, @excalidraw ). Gives us a 🎁 and sign here w3.org/community/blog/2025/1…
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Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
washingtonpost.com/climate-s…
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„Wir haben in den letzten Jahren eine so starke Erwärmung wie noch nie, seitdem wir Temperaturen messen. Und wenn wir in der Erdgeschichte zurückgehen, haben wir so etwas noch nie in den letzten 800.000 Jahren gehabt.“
Harald Lesch
Du bist oder kennst einen Autor:in, welche:r über VG Bild Einnahmen erhält? Nun, die sind unter Umständen nicht korrekt berechnet worden. fragdenstaat.de/a/338525
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Die #KleiKo will neue Langfristverträge für fossiles Gas abschließen (Laufzeit mind. 15 J).
Dabei soll der 🇪🇺 Bedarf bis 2027 schon so stark fallen, dass selbst bestehende Verträge überflüssig werden.
Wem nützt die schwarz-rote Gas-Renaissance??
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This new study found a flaw in most econometric analyses of future damages from climate change. They used a different modelling approach that incorporates global economic interconnectedness, and found when you do this, projected damages are much greater than originally estimated.
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