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w7voa, 2 days ago to random

Washington Post: At Mar-a-Lago, Trump asked oil CEOs to raise $1 billion for his campaign and told them if he gets back in the White House he'll immediately reverse dozens of Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted. https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

dgar, 2 days ago to random

pvonhellermannn, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

#ClimateDiary How dystopian is this.

Saudi authorities have permitted the use of lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, an ex-intelligence officer has told the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68945445

mcc, 2 days ago to random

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

raph, 2 days ago to Israel

Student protestors are portrayed as anywhere between naive and brainwashed. Now listen to this. Nothing naive here.

#Israel #Gaza #Chicago #Palestine #StudentProtests

Interview of a student in the University of Chicago confrontation with the police. The student shares very clearly why the students are protesting and why he doesn't fear disciplinary retaliation by the university.

grammargirl, 2 days ago to random

Any "Dune" fans here?

Tomorrow I'm interviewing big-time audiobook narrator Scott Brick, who narrates the "Dune" books, and Kevin J. Anderson who has written many "Dune" books.

Do you have any questions you'd like me to ask them (I'm especially interested in questions about the language of "Dune").

faraiwe, 2 days ago to Russia

"Hi, I am [ ], I lve in warm waters oblast in Amerika. I am Amerikan voter. I will not be voting for Biden"

#russia #UkraineWillWin #NAFO

eaton, 2 days ago to random

A few years back, I wrote that the right wing in America believed that human rights were a reward for ideological correctness, rather than a baseline all persons were entitled to. The designation of “stateless” enemies who could be targeted for assassination, and the insistence that noncitizens have no claim to humane treatment or protection under the law, would inevitably slide into arguments that “insufficiently loyal” citizens have no rights.

Keep an eye on this one.

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jack-hibbs-says-campus-protesters-have-no-constitutional-rights/

nordicnews, 2 days ago to random

Eurovision 2024 Live: Gaza protest in Malmö over Israeli entry https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/eurovision-2024-live-gaza-protest-malmo-over-israeli-entry-2024-05-09/ (🔒)

gimulnautti, 2 days ago to scifi

People who #folllow #amreading

How many times have you read ”Culture” series by Ian M. Banks?

#scifi #bookstodon

benroyce, 3 days ago to random

The Fermi Paradox says we should have contacted alien life by now

The Great Filter says we haven't because a civilization's capacity for self-destruction increases to certainty over time

I thought for us it would be an exotic technology or scientific discovery that instantly destroys on a large scale

Nope. Far more depressing and mundane

We simply watched ourselves destroy our climate and lacked the will to do anything about it because someone was making money off it

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

skykiss, 2 days ago to random

Rachel Maddow discusses her research into fascism, disinformation, and propaganda.

It's not merely an attempt to foster animosity towards a particular group. Fascist disinformation is to erode our democracy by convincing us that a specific group is perilous, untrustworthy, and should be disenfranchised.

What has transpired since 2016 with the former president is not just the vilification of ethnic minorities. He, along with Fox propaganda and other purveyors of disinformation, have escalated lies and disinformation into a violent domestic terrorist movement and a MAGA-driven fascist party. The presence of Republican fascists is a reality now.

👇
Fascism ... is about getting us to undo #democracy and we shouldn't stand for it.

#disinformation #maga #propaganda #violence #unAmerican #election

Rachel Maddow discusses her research into fascism, disinformation, and propaganda. Rachel is sitting on chair and helping to educate Americans about the rise in hateful republican-fascism.

skykiss, 2 days ago to random

Republicans are owned by the rapist, killer and war criminal. It's obvious.

KallionRosa, 2 days ago to random Finnish

Vornanen. Vornanen! Vornanen!! VORNANEN!!! - Samaan aikaan eduskunta: poisti lakko-oikeuden 107 - 57.
Hyvin taas vedettiin. #lakkooikeus #lakko #vornanen #hallitus #yleislakko

faustosterling, 2 days ago to random

My experience as an African researcher trying to travel to a conference in a wealthy country is not an isolated one. Of 10 invited speakers from low & middle income countries only 4 got visas"

#blackinstem
#racisminscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00892-1

Downes, 2 days ago to random

I used to be involved in political demonstrations a lot more when I was younger. I still see their value.

People would tell me, I shouldn't expect the demonstration to 'work', ie I shouldn't expect it to change the thing I'm protesting. I don't.

My take has always been that we demonstrate mostly to change ourselves, to give each other courage and resolve to do the small day-to-day small things and work that create real change.

That's still why I get up each morning. The work still needs doing

w7voa, 2 days ago to random

Hong Kong court bans a protest song, claiming it could be used as a weapon. https://hongkongfp.com/2024/05/08/breaking-govt-bid-to-ban-glory-to-hong-kong-protest-song-approved-by-appeals-court/

tiffanycli, 2 days ago to random

You know those kids’ movies where a magical being can only survive if everyone truly, truly believes? That’s democracy.

Free_Press, 2 days ago to news

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The EU will allocate 90% of the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine's military needs.

European Union countries have agreed to transfer 90% of the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine for defense purposes, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said in Riga during the meeting with prime ministers of Baltic states.

According to him, it is about "significant sum, amounting to several billion per year."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia

senficon, 2 days ago to opensource German

Das ist die genialste Aktion der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen seit Langem: Eine gemeinsame Streaming-Plattform, als #OpenSource. Davon profitieren alle – sogar private Medien, die sonst gerne auf ARD und ZDF rumhacken. Ich hoffe, es wird ein voller Erfolg! https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/in-eigener-sache/zdf-ard-mediathek-streaming-100.html @leonido zu den Hintergründen: https://netzpolitik.org/2024/neues-aus-dem-fernsehrat-105-ard-und-zdf-praesentieren-streamingos-auf-open-source-basis/

north, 2 days ago to Cybersecurity

I'll give this a shot.

I'm looking to #GetFediHired for a role in #cybersecurity. I've done both offensive (see e.g. https://github.com/qwell/disclosures/) and defensive security work, and have over 20 years of software development experience in many different languages.

ISC2 CC

DMs always open.

#FediHire #FediHired (we should pick a hashtag and stick with it) #InfoSec

arstechnica, 2 days ago to random

FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole

Putting applications into fast lanes would violate FCC's no-throttling rule.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/fcc-explicitly-prohibits-fast-lanes-closing-possible-net-neutrality-loophole/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

freezenet, 2 days ago to news

As TikTok Moral Panic Spreads, EU to Probe Meta for Failure to Curb Foreign Interference

The EU apparently believes that Meta has insufficient moderation to curb ads that undermine the electoral process. Nice timing.

https://www.freezenet.ca/as-tiktok-moral-panic-spreads-eu-to-probe-meta-for-failure-to-curb-foreign-interference/

#News #Technology #Europe #Facebook #Meta #probe #TikTok

MarvinTheMartian, 2 days ago to Ukraine

How Ukraine's Refinery Strikes Destabilize the Entire Russian Economy
by #WilliamSpaniel
19:16

Ukraine's attacks on oil refineries raises questions about the "Dutch disease" that Russia faces, how the Russian Central Bank resolved it and how Ukraine's bombing campaign puts it back into focus.

🇺🇸 🇺🇦
William Spaniel is professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He makes research on war, nuclear security and game theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TBoN2wjkh0

#Ukraine
#russia
#Ukrainerussiawar
#Youtube #NAFO

MAKS23, 2 days ago to Denmark Ukrainian

🇱🇹 #Lithuania is prepared to send its soldiers to Ukraine on a training mission, - FT

🇩🇪 Ukraine will receive ~90% of the revenues from Russian frozen assets in the West, - #Scholz

🇩🇰 #Denmark allocates a package of humanitarian aid to Ukraine for 33.5 million euros.

🇱🇻 #Latvia handed #Ukraine communication equipment worth about 100,000 euros.