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  1. Comment on We’re about to kill a massive, accidental experiment in reducing global warming (2018) in ~enviro

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    We actually had a natural experiment with this during the COVID-19 pandemic! There was a study published last week in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science that found the pandemic shutdowns in...

    We actually had a natural experiment with this during the COVID-19 pandemic! There was a study published last week in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science that found the pandemic shutdowns in Southeast Asia greatly reduced the concentration of these short-lived cooling particles and resulted in increased climate warming since the concentration of long-lived greenhouse gases was minimally affected.

    Abstract: Anthropogenic aerosols mask the climate warming caused by greenhouse gases (GHGs). In the absence of observational constraints, large uncertainties plague the estimates of this masking effect. Here we used the abrupt reduction in anthropogenic emissions observed during the COVID-19 societal slow-down to characterize the aerosol masking effect over South Asia. During this period, the aerosol loading decreased substantially and our observations reveal that the magnitude of this aerosol demasking corresponds to nearly three-fourths of the CO2-induced radiative forcing over South Asia. Concurrent measurements over the northern Indian Ocean unveiled a ~7% increase in the earth’s surface-reaching solar radiation (surface brightening). Aerosol-induced atmospheric solar heating decreased by ~0.4 K d−1. Our results reveal that under clear sky conditions, anthropogenic emissions over South Asia lead to nearly 1.4 W m−2 heating at the top of the atmosphere during the period March–May. A complete phase-out of today’s fossil fuel combustion to zero-emission renewables would result in rapid aerosol demasking, while the GHGs linger on.

    Here's a press release from an affiliated academic institution: Reduced emissions during the pandemic led to increased climate warming

    8 votes

  2. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    I've been checking out a bunch of the bands from this /r/poppunkers post about female vocalists. Really digging Future Teens so far.

    I've been checking out a bunch of the bands from this /r/poppunkers post about female vocalists. Really digging Future Teens so far.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Tildes down? in ~tildes

  4. Comment on Calckey is a open source social media platform that is a part of the fediverse and can categories your feed to custom feeds in ~comp

  5. Comment on Calckey is a open source social media platform that is a part of the fediverse and can categories your feed to custom feeds in ~comp

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    Calckey is a fork of Misskey with various UX improvements. I believe the fork happened because the Misskey team was unwilling to implement some of the proposed changes. If you want to check out an...

    Calckey is a fork of Misskey with various UX improvements. I believe the fork happened because the Misskey team was unwilling to implement some of the proposed changes.

    If you want to check out an instance, the biggest one seems to be calckey.social

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Reddit API Changes in ~tech

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    They've explicitly said this will not impact bots/scripts/tools used to moderate the platform. This is targeting applications with heavy API usage (i.e. scraping operations and third-party apps).

    kill pretty much every bot and tool used by mods to keep reddit's site clean

    They've explicitly said this will not impact bots/scripts/tools used to moderate the platform. This is targeting applications with heavy API usage (i.e. scraping operations and third-party apps).

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Reddit API Changes in ~tech

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    Cautiously optimistic that that's the case. The Developer Platform team has been great so far, much more responsive and open to suggestions than any other Reddit endeavor I've been involved with....

    Cautiously optimistic that that's the case. The Developer Platform team has been great so far, much more responsive and open to suggestions than any other Reddit endeavor I've been involved with.

    I understand why they didn't want to outright announce "paid API required for third-party apps." But it feels like they're kinda minimizing that and pushing the responsibility for informing users on the app developers. The developers are going to be the ones that get flack for eliminating their free app tiers or raising prices.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Reddit API Changes in ~tech

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    It's frustrating that they didn't reveal details divulged privately to the Apollo developer in the announcement post. This impacts every single developer and needs to be clearly explained, not...

    It's frustrating that they didn't reveal details divulged privately to the Apollo developer in the announcement post. This impacts every single developer and needs to be clearly explained, not restricted to only the most prominent developers.

    8 votes

  9. Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery unveils new flagship streaming service, 'Max' in ~tv

  10. Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery unveils new flagship streaming service, 'Max' in ~tv

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    "Max" like "Cinemax", one of their biggest brand's (HBO) major competitors.

    "Max" like "Cinemax", one of their biggest brand's (HBO) major competitors.

  11. Comment on Nebula opens up lifetime subscriptions - $250US in ~tech

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    I wonder how Nebula is fairing with CuriosityStream massively missing earnings, seeing growing losses, and now raising their prices.

    I wonder how Nebula is fairing with CuriosityStream massively missing earnings, seeing growing losses, and now raising their prices.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on GPT-4 announced in ~tech

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    Charging almost $2.00 to submit such a prompt certainly helps.

    Pricing is $0.06 per 1K prompt tokens and $0.12 per 1k completion tokens.

    Charging almost $2.00 to submit such a prompt certainly helps.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies in ~tech

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    "The intent of the video was not to accurately portray what was available for customers in 2016. It was to portray what was possible to build into the system," Elluswamy said, according to a transcript of his testimony seen by Reuters.

    When Tesla released the video, Musk tweeted, “Tesla drives itself (no human input at all) thru urban streets to highway to streets, then finds a parking spot.”

    6 votes

  18. Comment on Adidas ends partnership with Ye [Kanye West] over antisemitic remarks in ~design

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    Reuters

    Yeezy generates about $1.47 billion in annual sales for Adidas, making up a little over 7% of its total revenue.

    Reuters

    12 votes

  20. Comment on Rooster Teeth responds to ex-employee’s allegations of harassment, grueling hours, low pay and unpaid work in ~games

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    After watching Kdin's (frankly shocking) Tatsudoshi videos, it seems they were a fitting addition to Achievement Hunter. I think a lot of Rooster Teeth fans are just in denial about the early...

    After watching Kdin's (frankly shocking) Tatsudoshi videos, it seems they were a fitting addition to Achievement Hunter.

    I think a lot of Rooster Teeth fans are just in denial about the early content of the company. There's a reason Gavin, Michael, and Geoff's apologies all mention how things were different "back then." Kdin's multiple apologies do exactly the same.

    Nightmare HR situation aside, it's pretty clear from the continued layoffs that Rooster Teeth simply does not have the money to pay its employees better. How will the community respond to even more layoffs in order to pay a few employees more money?

    3 votes