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internetarchive, 9 hours ago to random

Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

futurebird, 11 hours ago (edited 11 hours ago) to random

Trump has said FOUR times that he will withhold federal funding from schools that require vaccines. Not just COVID. ALL.

This is most schools. This is hitting me where I work. This will lead to children dead from measles. It's obvious, inevitable.

Someone on here said they just couldn't bear to vote for Biden to keep Trump from office since at least under Trump there were better masking rules.

I hope that person sees this.

Worse is worse.

edit: because I don't know measles from smallpox

mia, 8 hours ago to random

We need unions.

And we also need employee-owned collectives that reject eternal growth, increased production, and shareholder profit as the goals of our labor.

The infinite growth model is destroying our world. We can build alternatives.

JohnBarentine, 5 hours ago to space

"'It’s difficult to say exactly how many asteroids will be lost… but preliminary results suggest that for every five near-Earth asteroids we discover, we lose one solely due to constellation interference. That’s if no mitigation measures are taken.'"

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-18/spacex-satellites-threaten-to-hide-asteroids-that-pose-danger-to-humanity.html

#Space #Satellites #PlanetaryDefense #NEOs #Asteroids #Astronomy #Starlink

BenHigbie, 3 hours ago to folk

This is a 43 x 54 in (109 x 137 cm) quilt created by my mom, check it out, it is available, along w/many others, I posted them in the comments section below; msg me if u see one that u'd like to know info on, it is really easy for my mom to box up one or several of these & send them out to you! ✨✨✨ #quilts #quilting #quilter #quilters #textile #textiles #handmade #artsandcrafts #decor #interiordecorating #folkart #folk #artist #artforsale #artfinder #artmarket #mastoart #artistsonmastodon

raf, 3 hours ago to random

The problem I have with posts like https://kolektiva.social/@mbrewer/112463705590614409 is they give no agency to Arab people. All violence is directly or indirectly the Zionist's fault. So even the Arab world ethnically cleansing itself of Jewish people, that's just because "Zionists were assholes"

If we are only committed to a sanitised form of history where one side never does wrong and another side never does right we aren't educating each other or having a dialogue. We are just spreading propaganda to well-meaning but gullible bystanders.

ericmacknight, 4 hours ago to Economics

"Modern #economics does not distinguish between renewable and non-renewable materials, as its very method is to equalise and quantify everything by means of a money price. Thus, taking various alternative fuels, like coal, oil, wood, or waterpower: the only difference between them recognised by modern economics is relative cost per equivalent unit. The cheapest is automatically the one to be preferred, as to do otherwise would be irrational and ‘uneconomic’."

—Schumacher, "Small Is Beautiful"

18+ leighelse, 4 hours ago to random

Japan's food culture is a recent invention, and it has helped prevent the obesity epidemic suffered by western nations. The use of healthy school lunches to develop a love of fresh, simple food has been a key part of the country's success. https://time.com/6974579/japan-food-culture-low-obesity/

Healthy school lunches SHOULD be a key part of Aotearoa New Zealand's plan for a healthier population too.

This is a great read.

odile31, 4 hours ago to random French

Plus de 300 scientifiques du climat terrifiés par l’avenir de la planète https://reporterre.net/Depressions-abandons-Plus-de-300-climatologues-terrifies-face-a-l-avenir-de-la-planete

yo_bj, 1 day ago to privacy

How many libraries had "police having the tech to scan the RFID of a library book in a moving car" in their list of threat scenarios? :yikes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/05/14/police-car-surveillance-tech-uncovers-phones-pet-trackers-and-library-books/

Non-paywalled archived version - https://archive.is/bYszD

#libraries #privacy

davidho, 1 day ago to random

I will never forgive Elon Musk for making Twitter so terrible that people think LinkedIn is acceptable to use.

nileane, 1 day ago to random

I feel the same way about AI that I did about crypto when it started becoming a thing:

• All of the moral practices that make it possible are fucked beyond repair.

• It’s spawning some of the worst companies, and enriching some of the worst billionaires in the world.

• While there are some genuinely useful, practical applications for it, there are so few of them, and they have had so little positive impact so far, that it doesn’t even seem like it’s going to be worth it anytime soon.

Strandjunker, 1 day ago to random

The fact that I know more about Hunter Biden’s private parts than I do about the numerous crimes committed by Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas and their wives shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

EUCommission, 1 day ago to random

Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

stux, 1 day ago to random

A thing that worries me a bit is with AI in rise so much, many people and companies talk about it like "their AI". Like it's their property and they own the code but it's not..

There are only a few companies on the planet who are "in control" of the code and data, those are the ones who "own AI", not the consumer

There is no "your AI", there is only "their AI" that you work with, don't forget that!

mastodonmigration, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia

GossiTheDog, 1 day ago to random

Companies monetising all your cloud data for their own benefit

noharmpun, 1 day ago to random

So, I realized something while listening to the Kan news report from Israel last night:

Western pro-Palestinian protesters don't think that Hamas exists as a unified fighting force.

Many probably don't even believe that Hamas is an elected government that represents the people and fulfills governmental duties.

I think they probably think of Hamas as "a few dozen" extremists, rather than having a membership (prior to the war) of around 40,000, with a trained and well-armed military fighting force in the thousands.
And, polling in Palestine shows Hamas with over a 70% approval rating among the civilian population! During the war!

My brain just didn't realize that protesters would ignore or reject the truth, or I guess that they would unquestioningly repeat their assumptions as truth.

lynn, 1 day ago to random

#harrisonbutker

grivettcarnac, 1 day ago to ontario

I don’t know if we’re prepared for how many people do not and will not give a fuck about serious transmissible infectious disease outbreaks and future pandemics. Considering #covid is already over according to every government and no one is seriously grappling with what happened over the past four years, I’m not hopeful on a large scale #cdnpoli #onpoli #ontario

https://apple.news/AUeBgc2hJSsO0j0QsJdT1sg

GIFS_of_Puppets, 1 day ago to random

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

GIF of three Muppet birds hopping and dancing on telephone wires from The Muppet Show by adam807

timo21, 1 day ago to USpolitics

#USPolitics June 2, 1924: Congress enacts the Indian Citizenship Act. Only 100 years ago. Just a reminder that the constitutional definition of 'people' to include all humans is a very recent event, less than 160 years. It's not that long ago. My grandmother (RIP) was born in 1898. The current conservative backsliding on who gets to be 'people' under the constitution needs to be stopped. Don't vote conservative. Reform the Supreme Court. #democracy
https://www.history.com/news/native-american-voting-rights-citizenship

Dseitz, 1 day ago to random

Whenever I mention climate change some pissbaby insists it's not a problem in Real America. And then I ask them how much their homeowners went up.

https://gizmodo.com/how-kitty-cats-are-wrecking-the-home-insurance-indust-1851480937

ErrantCanadian, 1 day ago to philosophy

Now that it's been accepted to ACM FAccT'24, I've updated the preprint of my paper on why artists are right that AI art is a kind of theft. I hope this promotes more serious thought about the visions of generative AI developers and the impacts of these technologies.

https://philpapers.org/rec/GOEAAI-2

@philosophy @facct #AIEthics #philosophy #sts

Snoro, 1 day ago to generationx

Nearly half of Gen Z and millennial workers have left a job, or plan to, because of climate concerns
BYOrianna Rosa Royle
4–5 minutes

The era of “global boiling” is here, sending shivers down young worker’s spines. But instead of sitting with their anxiety, Gen Z and millennials are trying to save the planet by quitting jobs that aren’t eco-friendly.

https://fortune.com/2024/05/17/gen-z-millennial-sustainability-jobs-climate-change-deloitte/

#job #GenZ #millennial #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate