Rebecca Li

@aaronsw @openlibrary @internetarchive @library_futures Already, @internetarchive & @openlibrary have been forced to remove 500,000 library books from lending, including 50+ year old literary classics, like Fahrenheit 451 & 1984. Sign the open letter, urge publishers to #LetLibrariesLend & #LetReadersRead: change.org/LetReadersRead

⏰ "The Countdown to Save US Libraries" 4⃣ days left before courts deliberate on the future of libraries ✊ I wholeheartedly support @aaronsw's @openlibrary, the @internetarchive, and believe in @library_futures 📚 My take: mekarpeles.medium.com/the-countdown-…

100 years of September sea ice - another one of those wait-until-the-end animations... Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: carbonbrief.org/guest-post-pie…. I also have another version at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice….

ripe for disruption!

"Every day digital design leaders around the world wrestle with software, which at its core is twenty years old and incapable of the potential of multi-core computing and graphics power designed to process within today's real and virtual workstations" - the state of CAD :(

@Ben_Reinhardt I never learned more about how to tape and which tape to use than when I worked at an aviation startup

Apparently it's speed tape en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_tape (Which feels like it should be in a skit about someone putting tape racing stripes on a car or wrapping themselves in it before a race)

The wing of the airplane I'm on has several patches of tape, which is vaguely terrifying but at the same time kind of awesome.

"Knowing" with Nicolas Cage is a terrible movie, but it's worth watching for the scene where he flashes his MIT badge like he's an FBI agent and it just reads: "ACADEMIC"

This proves the point. Antigen tests in Germany are US$0.88 each. Here in US, Binax (the one vendor allowed to sell at $12 in entire country) is out of inventory. No one else approved. Our HC system is completely “captured.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulator…

And of course, behind all the detailed scientific analysis a simple message rings loud and clear: it's real, it's us, experts agree, it's bad, but there is still time to do something about it. Our climate future is, ultimately, up to us to decide. ipcc.ch/assessment-rep… 27/

First review of Electrify, out October 12 from MIT Press. artsfuse.org/232988/book-re… #electrifyeverything @rewiringamerica

Sometime next month, for the first time, the government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead. Arizona and its farmers will get hit first, but the water crisis will touch everyone. Inside the Southwest’s two-decade mega-drought. bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-…

I really wanted to write about something important: do we actually know how to recognise if a fossil fuel company is actually transforming? So, I dove into an obvious example, from my current home, Norway: Equinor. Want to pull on this 🧵with me? medium.com/lobbywatch/the…

Everything you need to know about the Delta Variant Quick summary thread 🧵 unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/delta-varian…

Learn about fighting climate change through a board game :) kickstarter.com/projects/solut…

Tibetan woman in Sichuan salvaging mining machines after China banned bitcoin mining, the cords forming a bouquet. Caixin's Ding Gang 丁刚 consistently snaps photos that tell you so much in 1 single shot. Story of the end of an era by 萧辉 Xiao Hui here weekly.caixin.com/2021-07-10/101…

@lilkuo There was a really cute photo of them sleeping the other day too! If this migration has been good for anything it's top tier elephant content!

Biden wants to decarbonize the U.S. economy by 2050. My 401k assumes I’ll retire six years later. Ambitious goals have turned reaching net zero into the work of a lifetime—*my generation’s lifetime,* people born from 1980 to 2005. I wrote about it: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

@starsandrobots Pink taxes come in all shapes and sizes <3

I try not to use my Twitter for cranky purposes. This broke me.

“To help provide a level playing field...” Today I learned that the cost to “certify” your business as woman-owned is $3,500. 💯🤑🤮

6/Geothermal capacity in California today is effectively ~2000MW, but the state has the resource to produce over 15,000MW, and potentially far more than that with new technology, as @Sammy_Roth covers here. latimes.com/environment/st…