In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at the validity of vegan and plant-based diets as a solution to climate change. I dive into the human and planetary toll of the meat industry, looking at the massive emissions toll of beef production as well as the exploitative conditions in meat processing plants. Ultimately, I...
Hi, I was just browsing kbin on my work pc which is not signed into my account. While scrolling down there was a very nsfw picture (female genitalia) in the random posts sidebar. This nsfw content was, for some reason, not even blurred. I've seen this a couple times previously and am not sure where a good place to report or...
I feel like the reason #Mastodon, and the #Fediverse at large, aren't taking off has to do with the fact that they're actually social networks. People don't seem to want a social network, they want content platforms. People aren't using #Twitter or #Threads or #TikTok to keep up with their friends these days, they're using these apps to entertain themselves. And since #Facebook and every other platform that used to be a social network began pivoting toward content promotion, I think society has forgotten what a social network is supposed to actually be anymore.
Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.
Nowhere in the world has a higher rate of unsafe abortions or unintended pregnancies than sub-Saharan Africa, where women often face scorn for becoming pregnant before marriage....
SO2 actually (very temporarily) cools things down by seeding clouds and creating sulfuric acid aerosols. That's not, like, /good/, but by making more clouds (and also decreasing the size of droplets in clouds, and thus increasing their number) more sunlight is reflected to space....
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian defenders killed about 670 Russian servicemen and destroyed 88 units of various military equipment and systems at the front line over the past day (4 July).
[Video] Is Veganism Really the Answer? (www.youtube.com)
In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at the validity of vegan and plant-based diets as a solution to climate change. I dive into the human and planetary toll of the meat industry, looking at the massive emissions toll of beef production as well as the exploitative conditions in meat processing plants. Ultimately, I...
NSFW content in the sidebar random posts
Hi, I was just browsing kbin on my work pc which is not signed into my account. While scrolling down there was a very nsfw picture (female genitalia) in the random posts sidebar. This nsfw content was, for some reason, not even blurred. I've seen this a couple times previously and am not sure where a good place to report or...
A once in every 7.5 million year event is unfolding in the Antarctic. And it has scientists scrambling for answers (www.abc.net.au)
Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.
Reddit > Kbin migration script (github.com)
I didn't write it, but it seems good
KBIN running OK on $10/month managed service (elest.io)
I've been running a Kbin server on a service called elest.io for around a week....
US Religious Conservatives Lobby to Restrict Abortion in Africa (www.voanews.com)
Nowhere in the world has a higher rate of unsafe abortions or unintended pregnancies than sub-Saharan Africa, where women often face scorn for becoming pregnant before marriage....
We've been accidentally geoengineering for decades...but then we stopped:
SO2 actually (very temporarily) cools things down by seeding clouds and creating sulfuric acid aerosols. That's not, like, /good/, but by making more clouds (and also decreasing the size of droplets in clouds, and thus increasing their number) more sunlight is reflected to space....
Confederal Protocols: A Sketch | Black Sky Nexus (nexus.blacksky.network)
Federated infrastructure but user sovereignty: a “third way” between federated and P2P networks...
Is kbin.social SFW?
I see a bunch of NSFW content showing up in https://fedia.io/newest...
Can anyone write some Kbin API middleware to support this Android app?
This project https://github.com/everything-gripe seems an interesting way to re-use the infinity Reddit app...
Greenland melt just hit a new all-time daily record.
Red hat
Additional Worldnews feed, generated from /r/worldnews (kbin.social)
I made a bot to copy the top links from /r/worldnews...
An alternate reality
Russia losses 670 soldiers, air defence system and 36 artillery systems in one day (www.pravda.com.ua)
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian defenders killed about 670 Russian servicemen and destroyed 88 units of various military equipment and systems at the front line over the past day (4 July).
Antarctic sea ice extent anomalies for each year from 1979 to 2023 (satellite-era; NSIDC, DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS).
https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
July 3rd 2023, the first time on record that the Earth's temperature exceeded 17C Remember this date. Decades in the future we will look back on 17C with fondness
North Atlantic has warmed in one year by about the same amount as during the past 15 years. Rate of warming over the past 15 years was already crazy.
South Korean shoppers hoard salt and seafood ahead of Japan's release of treated radioactive water (kbin.social)
In many supermarkets across South Korea, one item has conspicuously vanished from shelves: salt.
Kpop in a nutshell
FediDB adds "Threadiverse" category to track growth of Lemmy + Kbin
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
The UK government has just quietly published estimates showing wind and solar will be several times cheaper than gas, for the foreseeable future
UK gov 2013: Offshore wind? That'll cost £150/MWh in 2025...