Cosmetics industry is massive, people are willing to pay for their vanity.

They would if they could.

It still amazes me that Hurricane Helene hit Florida, Georgia and Carolina and those states still voted for a Climate Change Denier

Wow, I hadn’t seen that.

Here’s the study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03735

There is a tsunami coming in the workplace, you can already buy a humanoid robot for $16k (1), which is less than the cost of an employee. When these robots can become actually useful (instead of marketing material) businesses who use labour will not think twice about swapping over. What do we do when unemployment goes up to 25%, 50% etc

(1) https://www.unitree.com/mobile/g1

I’ve seen more and more concern about the AMOC slowdown. Wouldn’t be good if that goes away. Talking a change of -10c in Europe

We should aim for 1.6 next, every fraction of a degree makes a difference

Although the report also says they expect us to hit 3.1 based on current trends

Looks like its been removed!

640k should be enough for anyone too

coming in the next 2 years

Are those Musk years? They are longer than normal years…

Warmer air can hold more water, so humidity increases. It also drives stronger winds…

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202310954

The IPCC has always been thought of as being conservative in its estimates of climate change, so to hear Jim Skea, the Chair of the IPCC, say it’s too late is sobering

Instead we’ll build something that needs a subscription, and you can only get the filters from 1st party sources and the filters have a chip that requires you to swap them even if they are not full

This video isn’t about aliens and has an interesting message.

Unless the set top box (apple or whoever) has an aerial/satellite /Cable input you still need to use the normal TV to watch standard channels, exposing you to the UI adverts.

I had considered buying an Apple TV, but my Samsung TV does everything I want just with stupid adverts, which I won’t be able to get away from if I have to swap sources to Apple TV and back to live TV

How do you stream TV or watch catch up?

Ford are wrong, and history will prove it.

The Sunday Independent understands the Taoiseach wrote to ministers this weekend insisting social media can no longer be a “hiding place for bullies” or people with “sinister motives” who threaten and incite violence

Mr Harris is especially concerned about the slow response times from some social media companies when they are alerted to malicious material on their platforms.

“I am most concerned about families who flag a post on a school night because of an emerging bullying problem and receive no response before content is reshared and enormous damage is done,” he said.

The Taoiseach noted that while social media companies have increased their efforts to tackle harmful content it is also clear there is “too much violent, untrue, hate-filled and racist” material being used to incite violence.

“It would not be tolerated from any of our newspapers or broadcasters so it cannot continue to be tolerated from multi-billion euro social media companies,” he added.

Mr Harris’s intervention comes in a week when one man was arrested as part of an investigation into a bomb threat on his home and a separate investigation was launched into a death threat made against Mr Harris’s family via Instagram.

Social media companies, like X and Facebook, have been blamed for fanning the flames of violent protests in Ireland and the UK in recent weeks.

Last week, Tánaiste Micheál Martin said the “appalling” violence in the North and across Britain on “mindless, ill-informed stuff” was facilitated by social media platforms, stating Elon Musk’s X is particularly problematic.

Mr Martin said he was “very concerned” about what was happening in Britain and Belfast and the level of violence involved, saying governments have to tackle social media giants, only some of whom are cooperating with nations’ leaders.

‘I think Elon Musk and I think X is problematic; they have a totally different approach in this,” he said.

In his letter to ministers this weekend, Mr Harris said the key aims of his first online safety summit in the coming weeks will be to identify how to better protect children from social media, tackle the spread of misinformation and ensure laws are enforced to ensure online crime is punished.

The Taoiseach said Coimisiún na Meán’s soon-to-be-published Online Safety Code will be “at the vanguard of Ireland and the EU’s attempt to harness the benefits of social media whilst also protecting citizens from harmful content.

“The code of the independent regulator aims to do this to a much higher level than has been seen anywhere else before.

"Put simply, self-regulation from social media companies has failed, a new era is about to begin,” he said.

New figures show Coimisiún na Mean is actively investigating over 116 complaints over alleged illegal content across media platforms.

The powerful regulator is responsible for ensuring social media giants deal with illegal content on their platforms properly - such as credible violent threats, cyberbullying and attempts to stir up hatred against a specific group of people.

Coimisíun na Meán was set up last year by the Government to hold social media companies to account over not taking illegal content seriously.

Users are able to make complaints to the regulator if they suspect content illegal under EU legislation is not being dealt with appropriately on the platforms.

The commission has received nearly 300 queries at its call centre concerning suspected illegal content on social media sites, with 130 complaints which have been escalated further up the chain.

These have included 46 passed on to its user complaints team and 84 received through the European Commission’s AGORA platform, which allows member state digital services co-ordinators to share information on the enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Of the escalated complaints, 116 are “open” which mean they have been accepted as valid or are waiting for a decision. Fourteen have been rejected as not valid or incomplete.

The body has not fined anybody under the DSA, but it has the powers to not just fine but prosecute bosses of social media giants personally.

“The era of self-regulation of these companies is well and truly over,” Mr Harris said last week.

“This will be the year in which there will be binding codes, financial sanctions and personal liabilities on social media companies — and that day can’t come quickly enough.”

“If anybody in any social media company is dining out on or thinking that somehow or other Ireland will not be robust in relation to this, they’re about to find out how extraordinarily wrong they just are.”

The regulator declined to comment on how many complaints were from politicians.

“The role of Coimisiún na Meán as Ireland’s digital services co-ordinator is to supervise how online platforms comply with their obligations under the DSA at a systemic level,” said a spokesperson.

“These obligations include acting on reports of illegal content and ensuring that platforms diligently enforce their own rules about what they do or not allow on their services.”

The regulator defines illegal content as: credible violent threats; cyberbullying; threatening or grossly offensive content; threatening, abusive or insulting and likely to stir up hatred against a group of people based on their race, nationality, etc; unsolicited nude images which cause distress; offensive sexual content; intimate images shared without consent; encouragement or information that would help with suicide; child abuse material; encouragement or threat of terrorist activity.

Separately, the Sunday Independent understands the PSNI is co-operating in information sharing with An Garda Síochána about the presence of people from the south at the violent scenes in Belfast last weekend.

The PSNI has more robust laws than gardaí in terms of its oversight and monitoring powers at riots, primarily related to video footage.

Security sources say they expect this will be “helpful” as part of its investigations into member of the far-right suspected of involvement in criminality on both sides of the border.

It has emerged that Irish far-right activists who travelled to Belfast last weekend for an anti-immigration protest were hosted by a loyalist who was arrested in connection with the murders of five Catholics in a sectarian attack.