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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 30m

This comes from including emissions from land-use change - so logging a forest and converting it to pasture and then not only emitting methane from the cows or sheep but also the lost opportunity to sequester carbon from the forest that's now gone.

[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 34m

You and me in paaaaaradiiiise

[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 37m

Delta Force is kinda mid

It's like dollar store Battlefield?

I might play more of it just because it's free though

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5h

Tencent is investing in shooting games, traditionally dominated by Western companies, after the 2024 success of Delta Force, which still has 30M players daily (Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5h

Tencent is investing in shooting games, traditionally dominated by Western companies, after the 2024 success of Delta Force, which still has 30M players daily (Bloomberg)

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 39m

Veganism is the solution to *everything* and a lot of people don't want you to realize it

Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 4h

Research shows that if everyone in England adhered to a plant-based diet, over half a million cancer cases could be prevented, and the NHS could save over £1 billion a year.

#MetastaticBreastCancerAwarenessDay

Could Plant-based Diets Transform Health Care Spending? - OHE

In a bid to reduce health care budgets, policymakers and healthcare professionals are increasingly looking to prevention strategies.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 4h

Research shows that if everyone in England adhered to a plant-based diet, over half a million cancer cases could be prevented, and the NHS could save over £1 billion a year.

#MetastaticBreastCancerAwarenessDay

Could Plant-based Diets Transform Health Care Spending? - OHE

In a bid to reduce health care budgets, policymakers and healthcare professionals are increasingly looking to prevention strategies.

www.ohe.org

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 4h

if this is true, i think you should expect Gemini to soon dominate

we keep getting more and more confirmation that reasoning begins in pre-training

today’s evidence: arxiv.org/abs/2510.07364

maybe Gemini 3 is the tidal shift where Google gains a permanent lead

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Ivan Shishkin @ivanshishkin.bsky.social · 3h

Forest Stream
https://botfrens.com/collections/210/contents/48523

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CJ™ Ⓥ @vegancj.bsky.social · 3h

**stolen shamelessly from @heatherbivore.bsky.social 😂

#VeganMemes #AnimalRights #AnimalCruelty

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The Vegan's Voice @animalrights1.bsky.social · 3h

This article dives right into the speculative realm of extraterrestrial or AI treatment of humans, drawing parallels with our own interactions with animals. michaelcorthelll.substack.com/p/reflection...

Reflections on Morality: How We Treat Animals and How AI or Extraterrestrials Might Treat Us

A Cautionary Examination

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The Vegan's Voice @animalrights1.bsky.social · 3h

Perception

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 42m

I make $4 less but at least I'm union and not at Amazon

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 3h

Amazon plans to hire 250K workers for the 2025 holiday season, the same as in 2023 and 2024, including full-time and part-time, and will pay $19/hour on average (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 3h

Amazon plans to hire 250K workers for the 2025 holiday season, the same as in 2023 and 2024, including full-time and part-time, and will pay $19/hour on average (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

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Meng Li @mengli512.bsky.social · 2h

Gemini 3 Goes Viral Before Launch: Stunning Front-End and SVG Generation, Major Multimodal Boost, Rumored October 22 Release. Will Google Downgrade Performance Again?
#Gemini3
aidisruption.ai/p/gemini-3-b...

Gemini 3 Begins Internal Testing

Gemini 3: Google's powerful new AI excels in frontend development, SVG generation, and multimodal tasks. Internal testing shows groundbreaking performance.

aidisruption.ai

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SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 2h

Special economic zones for restoring American space dominance

Will China beat America in returning astronauts to the moon? We hear this question time and again. It is a perennial concern, both from a prestige and national security standpoint. But it is the wrong question. What we really need to…

Special economic zones for restoring American space dominance

Will China beat America in returning astronauts to the moon? We hear this question time and again. It is a perennial concern, both from a prestige and national security standpoint. But it is the wrong question. What we really need to assess is whether or not China is on track to dominate America in space.

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Tibor Blaho @btibor91.blaho.me · 2h

OpenAI and Broadcom announced a strategic collaboration to deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed AI accelerators where OpenAI will design the accelerators and systems which will be developed and deployed in partnership with Broadcom

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Life With Pigs Farm Sanctuary @lifewithpigs.bsky.social · 1h

Time to get our 2026 Calendar! This year it is a 365 day calendar which means a new animal and picture every single day! So much cuteness packed in the year!

Visit LifeWithPigs.com

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 47m

Temperatures won't be reduced

Food emissions alone (largely from meat and dairy consumption) will burn up all of the 1.5c budget by 2100

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 2h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h

go witness a reef ecosystem while you still can

Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 2h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 1h

Meta Ray-Bans: Blind User’s Experience with Smart Glasses - ABILITY Magazine https://abilitymagazine.com/meta-ray-bans-blind-users-experience-with-smart-glasses/ #AI #accessibility #SmartGlasses

Text Shot: After using the Meta Ray-Bans for a couple months, my daily life feels less stressful and more manageable. I’m still uncovering tools that affect what might seem trivial to a sighted person but are life-altering for a blind person.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 1h

It's free but also if you want to buy it anyway to have a handsome shelfpiece, that would be cool too! 😁

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 2h

👀 We heard Nintendo is bringing the Virtual Boy back to gamers. While we can't get you the new add-on, the story behind this unique platform is completely free!

@jzagal.bsky.social & @benjedwards.com's "Seeing Red" is available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204506...

Hands holding a copy of "Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy" by Jose P. Zagal and Benj Edwards. The cover depicts a Mario game in play in black and red pixels.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 2h

👀 We heard Nintendo is bringing the Virtual Boy back to gamers. While we can't get you the new add-on, the story behind this unique platform is completely free!

@jzagal.bsky.social & @benjedwards.com's "Seeing Red" is available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204506...

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The Vegan's Voice @animalrights1.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation turns conquest into divine mission, but as Heather Cox Richardson shows, mythmaking has a cost. Drawing on Emerson’s Law of Compensation, this commentary warns that a nation built on fantasy cannot endure. The truth, long denied, is coming due.

The Debt of Delusion: America’s Reckoning with Its Own Myths

Heather Cox Richardson’s take on Trump’s Columbus Day decree shows how white Christian nationalism turns history into fantasy and why truth will demand its price.

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