Notices by Christopher Mims (mimsical@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft so you're saying I need a treadmill

a beautiful, if somber, meditation by @AlexSteffen on the way the climate crisis has become the primary, underlying threat to us all, whether we acknowledge it or not

"We certainly have been (and still are) transforming the Earth on vast and pitiless scales, in ways that will go on unfolding for millennia. But what is far more pressingly true for us is by altering the planet, we have made our lives no longer what they were."

https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/coming-back-to-when-we-are

WSJ proper may be paywalled, but all our podcasts are free.

Here's an episode I helped with, for our awesome series The Future of Everything, about my experience with an EV with such extreme range that it can go all day without stopping to recharge.

The experience was wild. And it taught me A LOT about what it's going to take to make America's auto fleet go full EV.

Take a listen here:

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/wsj-the-future-of-everything/no-more-charging-stops-we-take-a-road-trip-in-an-ultralong-range-ev/7dd7c647-acd6-4bd7-a416-078f32f549fd

YIKES.

Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation

Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election

"The evolution of the companies’ practices was described by more than a dozen current and former employees... The new approach marks a sharp shift from the 2020 election."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/25/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk/

@Gargron make more pins please!

not sure I’ve ever read anything in my life that made me sadder or angrier than this account in the Post of the testimony of 4 women in the trial in Texas seeking clarification on the state’s abortion law, so doctors might possibly be able to give necessary care again

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/20/texas-abortion-ban-hearing/

Reddit's ongoing implosion is accelerating, somehow

"Just to give a sense of the scale here, r/MildlyInteresting has 22 million users. It’s now closed down completely, with no mods and no new posts. I really can’t overstate how disastrous this is going."

https://www.garbageday.email/p/criticism-is-wwe

Every unjust detention is tragic.

But of all the people Russia’s successor to the KGB could grab, it is absolutely heartbreaking to me personally they took Evan, a man so dedicated to writing about a country he loved.

Please share this.

#IStandWithEvan

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-reporter-evan-gershkovich-detained-russia-cd03b0f3

For me personally Mastodon has reached a tipping point where a significant portion of the people who I wish were on here, are on here.

Enough that I'm like "well, if the rest don't show up, whatever"