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Joseph Cox

@josephcox@infosec.exchange yesterday

We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems.

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This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras

I watched Simon Weckert's 'digital camouflage' in action.

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Lorenz Keyßer

@loke@kolektiva.social 23 min. ago

‼️New paper "Global trade-offs between consumption, carbon prices and equity" out now in Nature Communications (open access)‼️
Led by Mengyu Li, with Jarmo Kikstra, Jason Hickel, Keywan Riahi and Manfred Lenzen. I'm really happy to share this with you!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75815-x

Key point imo: Using a modified integrated assessment model, we confirm previous results for Australia (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09535314.2023.2245544
& https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09535314.2023.2301443
) & from a much simpler model globally (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22884-9
) on the importance of degrowth for climate mitigation: Reducing unnecessary production & consumption in rich countries & by the rich, in an equitable & democratic way, makes alleviating climate breakdown substantially easier & less risky technologically, while at the same time safeguarding decent living standards for all (see Figs). However, this requires massive redistribution as well as confronting the powerful, as they hold a vested interest in the perpetuation of the status quo.

#degrowth #postgrowth #climatechange

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Abstract

As the remaining carbon budget continues to dwindle, economic growth strains efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 °C. Reducing unnecessary production and consumption in high-income regions and among the wealthy, and organising production more around human needs and human well-being, may alleviate pressures on technology-driven decarbonisation strategies. We employ a modified integrated assessment model to explore the interaction between converging per-capita consumption, climate policy stringency and equity. Our pathways demonstrate that lower-consumption futures are associated with substantially lower warming, 0.3–1.1 °C across different carbon price trajectories, relative to high-consumption futures. Comparatively, global convergence of incomes between regions has a small influence on global temperature outcomes (<±0.1 °C). These findings indicate that reducing high per-capita consumption in high-income regions is a primary lever for achieving futures with equitable and decent living standards while meeting global climate targets. While such transformations may face political challenges, our scenarios suggest that unconstrained growth futures make it considerably harder to remain within safe climate limits. — Screenshot with the title and abstract of the paper. Abstract As the remaining carbon budget continues to dwindle, economic growth strains efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 °C. Reducing unnecessary production and consumption in high-income regions and among the wealthy, and organising production more around human needs and human well-being, may alleviate pressures on technology-driven decarbonisation strategies. We employ a modified integrated assessment model to explore the interaction between converging per-capita consumption, climate policy stringency and equity. Our pathways demonstrate that lower-consumption futures are associated with substantially lower warming, 0.3–1.1 °C across different carbon price trajectories, relative to high-consumption futures. Comparatively, global convergence of incomes between regions has a small influence on global temperature outcomes (<±0.1 °C). These findings indicate that reducing high per-capita consumption in high-income regions is a primary lever for achieving futures with equitable and decent living standards while meeting global climate targets. While such transformations may face political challenges, our scenarios suggest that unconstrained growth futures make it considerably harder to remain within safe climate limits.

Figure 1 of the paper.

Legend: a Five distinct future archetypes emerge from the 36 modelled futures, where lines represent income per capita for each region across the study years. b Year-2100 temperature anomaly outcomes. Values refer to a 1-in-2 chance of not being transgressed by average global temperature anomalies. Roman numerals refer to the five future archetypes (I degrowth relevant, II Global South catch-up, III unequal post-growth, IV current affairs, V SSP2 narrative). Carbon prices shown are the population-weighted averages for the three carbon price scenarios: 0 (no carbon price), 60 (US$ t−1 CO2; C6‑consistent carbon price, 3 °C, >50%); 287 (US$ t−1 CO2; C4‑consistent carbon price, 2 °C, >50%); Carbon price trajectories are in Supplementary Fig. 1. Data for Fig. 1b are in Supplementary Table 1. — Figure 1 of the paper. Legend: a Five distinct future archetypes emerge from the 36 modelled futures, where lines represent income per capita for each region across the study years. b Year-2100 temperature anomaly outcomes. Values refer to a 1-in-2 chance of not being transgressed by average global temperature anomalies. Roman numerals refer to the five future archetypes (I degrowth relevant, II Global South catch-up, III unequal post-growth, IV current affairs, V SSP2 narrative). Carbon prices shown are the population-weighted averages for the three carbon price scenarios: 0 (no carbon price), 60 (US$ t−1 CO2; C6‑consistent carbon price, 3 °C, >50%); 287 (US$ t−1 CO2; C4‑consistent carbon price, 2 °C, >50%); Carbon price trajectories are in Supplementary Fig. 1. Data for Fig. 1b are in Supplementary Table 1.

Figure 3 of the paper.

Legend: a–l show 2020–2100 trajectories of useful energy per capita (GJ cap⁻¹) for the 11 MESSAGEix regions (colours in legend), across 12 combinations of global average consumption (̄c = 5, 10, 20, 50 k US$ cap⁻¹) and interregional Gini index (0, 0.25, 0.5). Results are for C4‑consistent (2 °C, >50%) carbon prices (for no and C6‑consistent (3 °C, >50%) carbon price settings in Supplementary Fig. 8 & 9). Comparison is against the Low-Useful-Energy9 value of 15–41 GJ cap−1 (purple band) and the Decent-Living Useful Energy45 range of 10–14 GJ cap−1 (blue band). Region acronyms: NAM North America, LAM Latin America & the Caribbean, WEU Western Europe, EEU Central & Eastern Europe, FSU Former Soviet Union, CPA Centrally Planned Asia & China, PAO Pacific OECD, PAS Other Pacific Asia, SAS South Asia, MEA Middle East & North Africa, AFR Sub-Saharan Africa. Data are provided in Source Data. — Figure 3 of the paper. Legend: a–l show 2020–2100 trajectories of useful energy per capita (GJ cap⁻¹) for the 11 MESSAGEix regions (colours in legend), across 12 combinations of global average consumption (̄c = 5, 10, 20, 50 k US$ cap⁻¹) and interregional Gini index (0, 0.25, 0.5). Results are for C4‑consistent (2 °C, >50%) carbon prices (for no and C6‑consistent (3 °C, >50%) carbon price settings in Supplementary Fig. 8 & 9). Comparison is against the Low-Useful-Energy9 value of 15–41 GJ cap−1 (purple band) and the Decent-Living Useful Energy45 range of 10–14 GJ cap−1 (blue band). Region acronyms: NAM North America, LAM Latin America & the Caribbean, WEU Western Europe, EEU Central & Eastern Europe, FSU Former Soviet Union, CPA Centrally Planned Asia & China, PAO Pacific OECD, PAS Other Pacific Asia, SAS South Asia, MEA Middle East & North Africa, AFR Sub-Saharan Africa. Data are provided in Source Data.

Nature

1.5 °C degrowth scenarios suggest the need for new mitigation pathways - Nature Communications

Established climate mitigation modelling relies on controversial negative emissions and unprecedented technological change, but neglects to consider degrowth scenarios. Here the authors show that degrowth scenarios minimize many key risks for feasibility and sustainability and thus need to be thoroughly assessed.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09535314.2023.2301443

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09535314.2023.2245544

Nature

Global trade-offs between consumption, carbon prices and equity - Nature Communications

The authors use a modified integrated assessment model to show that lower-consumption and more equitable futures could substantially reduce warming, highlighting the importance of reducing high consumption in affluent regions to meet climate targets.

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Anon Opin

@anon_opin@mastodon.social 2 wk. ago

You really want to know why kids are depressed and isolated? It's not social media. Or phones. Adults have created a world with fuck all future. No job security. No owning your own home. No real action on climate. Adults need to take responsibility for what they have done.

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Alex Tomlinson 🦉

@hootalex@mastodon.social 47 min. ago

Flat, colorful illustration of European Starlings superimposed on leaves transitioning to fall colors. The Starlings are also transitioning to their seasonal plumage with beaks changing to black and feathers gaining stars!

Fedi.Video on PeerTube

@fedivideo@fedi.video 35 sec. ago

Audiobook of "Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" (1893) by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Yakyu Night Owl

@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world 2 min. ago

@AnarchoNinaWrites The problem with Nazis is that one magical day in 1945 they all went back to being Europeans and disappeared into the furniture. That's not reform. It was scattering seeds.

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Wouter

@jefklak@dosgame.club 4 min. ago

For people who miss the ol' hard drive spinning up and down when powering their #retrocomputing PC: my friend Peter found a solution for that. It's called a HDD Synth
https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/08/bring-back-the-noise-with-hdd-synth/

Brain Baking

Bring Back The Noise With HDD Synth

The modernisation of some of the vintage components in old computers comes with its own set of …

Randahl Fink

@randahl@mastodon.social 33 min. ago

This poll sends shivers down my spine.

On Sunday, the German state of Sachsen Anhalt holds its state Parliamentary elections. And here is the problem:

43 percent of voters say they will vote for the ultra far right AfD party — the party with strong ties to Russia.

Was ist aus dem guten, echten Deutschland geworden?

Svend Waldorff

@swaldorff@swiss.social 1 min. ago

@randahl
I share your concern.
I think the only strategy that democratic parties are left with is to start reviewing and checking how the AfD is carrying out its promised policies from the first day. Not only the blatantly anti-democratic and anti-liberal ones, but also and specially all their "bread-and-butter" promises. Why?
AFAIK the AfD program makes policy commitments that would cost an added 900 mio. Euro yearly. No way S-A can finance that.
So keep demanding that the start delivering (+)

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Just Tom...

@tompearce49@mastodon.scot 18 min. ago

Zoe Williams gets it:

"Starmer, in short, was bad at politics in so many ways, and in ways that oughtn’t to coexist within the same politician. He wasn’t a communicator, but nor was he a meticulous or far-sighted planner. He had no backbone, and yet was incredibly rigid. He was extremely tribal in his determination to extinguish the left of his party, and yet he didn’t seem to have his own loyal tribe."

If anything, I think that she is too kind.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/02/farewell-keir-starmer-politician-u-turn-prime-minister-mp

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The Intercept

@theintercept@journa.host 37 min. ago

“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” https://theintercept.com/2026/09/02/military-boat-strikes-killings-year

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mhoye

@mhoye@cosocial.ca 15 min. ago

So, hard pill to swallow, but I think there are a class of AI enthusiasts who got that way because computing fundamentally failed them, for whom getting a computer to do anything _for them_ not being a whole-ass bullshit ordeal still deserve our empathy and solidarity. We, computer-people we, can’t escape responsibility for abandoning user empowerment in favour of corporate consolidation and vending machine interfaces decades ago, now that we’re reaping the whirlwind of mechanized capitalism.

blueberik

@bright_helpings@mspsocial.net 13 min. ago

"I didn't realize until recently," my boss just said, "that you basically grew up in Lake Wobegon."

I laughed - I hadn't been expecting this, but I had just told him that I was happy to speak to someone he was struggling to deal with, I said I'm very good at saying the meanest things in the nicest way, so maybe that's what reminded him of what he knows of rural Minnesotan culture.

(And he said he was disappointed Garrison Keillor is a sex pest. Nice when I'm not the only one thinking this!)

Alex makes autism fun

@WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop 2 min. ago

@bright_helpings re that last thing: I was a big Writers Almanac fan, and it sucks that I can no longer listen with a clear conscience

Jesse Spielman

@heavyimage@mastodon.social 4 min. ago

@thomasfuchs yes you'll note that this discussion occurred before they had decided :-)

Thomas Fuchs

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io 2 min. ago

@heavyimage I think the problem is that they’re not deciding, just blindly drinking from the poisoned well of US government data

Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥

@egonw@mastodon.social 2 min. ago

tante

@tante@tldr.nettime.org 9 min. ago

RE: https://social.lol/@brennan/117182194255361262

Everyone wants to be "punk" because of the cultural capital being "anti mainstream" can give but doing that with LLMs really misses the whole point.

Punk is about _DIY_ and LLMs/"AI agents" are the opposite of that.

tante

@tante@tldr.nettime.org 2 min. ago

The pitch of "You know three chords now you're in a band" and "make a zine on a copier and staple it together" was about you being able to do what you want your way. To actually empower you to explore what you can, want to, have to say and change in the world. The "output" is an accidental side effect of the exploration of self and (very importantly!) community. LLMs are about isolated creation of artifacts without relation to the process and the self.

LLM usage is by definition _anti-punk_.