Posts by earthworm@kolektiva.social
(DIR) Post #AYtAOU8P1FNdMCx0ls by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-08-19T12:29:36Z
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This month’s record, and the longer recent period of warmth, are driven by a collection of several man-made* and natural factors acting together.- anthropogenic global warming- El niño/ la niña- Solar cycles- volcanic eruption of Hunga-Tonga- cleaner marine fuelsFirstly, man-made* global warming has been raising the Earth’s temperature by about 0.19 °C/decade (0.34 °F/decade). This is a direct consequence of the accumulation of additional greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide. This is the primary factor responsible for long-term warming.(Probably you know this already, but I liked especially the other factors, as there is often talk about them, but seldom these factors are compared...)(1/5)Source: https://berkeleyearth.org/july-2023-temperature-update/* note: usually I would edit the quote to avoid "man-made", but in this case it makes sense: most fossil executives and heads of states are and were proud ... dicks?#ClimateChange #ClimateScience #EarthClimate #SolarCycles #SolarCycle #MarineFuels #Volcano #HungaTonga #Climate #BerkeleyEarth
(DIR) Post #AYxH5x16t5OzkAUN1s by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-08-21T11:57:59Z
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'Accepting cookies' sounds so ... cute. I mean, who wants to decline cookies?If the button was 'Decline broccoli', people would choose differently.- my 12 year old daughter -🍪 🥦 🤣
(DIR) Post #AZS9ZUoYzeXHUkVxsO by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-09-04T20:07:02Z
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Reuters IMPACT summit of sustainability leaderso_O"The Future of Food, from Security to Sustainability - In partnership with Tetra Pak* " ... 🤔" Enabling Sustainability: Making Climate a Priority in Transport and Infrastructure" Among the participants: An airport CEO ... 🤨Wait. It gets even better:"Energy Transition: What’s at stake, and what will it take?• Anna Mascolo, Executive Vice President, Emerging Energy Solutions, Shell" ... 🤯The discourse is so blunt, it almost can't be even called greenwashing anymore...No, dear Reuters. This kind of events is not okay. Most of the participating corporations are not even moving into the right direction. This show will serve to deceive the public, but also to fool themselves (not all of these people are like, consciously evil) that they are on the right path and so on.Here you can watch some sessions online:https://events.reutersevents.com/impact/agenda/2022#Climate #ClimateChange #Greenwashing #London #ImpactSummit #Reuters #Reutersevents* If anybody wonders why i think that TetraPak is not one of the good guys, just ask 😘@CarbonBubble
(DIR) Post #AZuqy5pyjO1r8UOuoa by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-09-16T20:50:48Z
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For a 31% global emissions reduction you don't even need to arrest the richest 10 %. To bring them to 'the emissions of an average European' would be already enough (doesn't sound so bad, doesn't it?).This has to do with several things:1) the richest 1 % has a really horribly high footprint (greater than the poorest 50 %‼️). And the richest 10 % are responsible for 52% of the global emissions. (See figure 1, source: https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/confronting-carbon-inequality)2) Nowadays, the within inequality in a country is more relevant than the inter-country comparison. This means that every country has its rich, giving-a-fuck population. (Figure 2, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00955-z)3) Notwithstanding, there is still a substantial contry-effect (your emissions depend on where you live). E.g. North America, Australia and Saudia Arabia are king regarding emissions. And Russia too, as relatively high emissions are caused by a not very wealthy population.4) here's an infographic about income distribution (Figure 3), because especially middle-upper class people tend to think they are worse off than they are in reality (source: https://howmuch.net/articles/income-inequality-around-the-world).What to do?- #TaxTheRich- If you are rich, your personal choices matter. A lot. Stop flying, for example. And go ask your financial advisors what your money is doing. *Very* bad things, I guarantee.- where wealthier people need to reduce their individual footprint (for the ones that don't want to, we need tight laws: #BanPrivateJets), less wealthy people need sustainable infrastructure to enable them to have a lower footprint (public transport, affordable sustainable food, green electricity...)- The global poorest 50 % could increase their emissions still over 200% and were still below the 1.5 °C compatible global average. They are *not* responsible for the situation.- for the upper 40 %: #degrowth and #solarpunk. It'll make you happier to do useful things with nice people than to have boring jobs that kill the planet and drown yourself in consumerism. For the more radical folks: Sorry for my reformist arguments. If we are enough and decided, we can go much further and resolve the more systematic issues. Love and riot. :anarchoheart3: @katzenschiff @steve @largess@pmeyfroidt
(DIR) Post #AZvnHFNVHHJjZMv4rY by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-09-19T16:28:40Z
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@Mina @DiB Das krasse ist ja, dass die Autoindustriezu mächtig wurde und sich an gar nichts mehr halten musste weil sie ihre homies in den Ministerien hatte. Das hat dann dazu geführt dass sie unkontrolliert Mist bauen konnten. Unter anderem auch dazu, dass Deutschland sich immer gegen die EU-Emissionsverordnungen gestellt hat wo es ging. Durch das fehlen der Regulierung musste die Deutsche Autoindustrie sich nicht modernisieren, sie haben halt darauf gewettet dass es ewig so weitergeht. Und jetzt sind auf einmal die Chinesischen Autokonzerne viel weiter. Die Deutsche Autoindustrie muss sich jetzt aber beeilen, solange ihr noch wer die Krokodilstränen abnimmt . Dann bekommen sie die verpente Antriebswende noch mit Milliarden subventioniert.Interessant, wohin zu viel Macht führen kann...(bin ja eigentlich eh für die #Verkehrswende und degrowth, aber da die Automobilindustrie in D ein Schwergewicht mit tausenden von Arbeitsplätzen ist, sollten wir sie im Auge behalten ...)
(DIR) Post #Aa462N27msbaHMHho0 by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-09-23T17:04:53Z
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@freemo @LilHulkQ Because laws don't exist in a vacuum?Lawmakers are perfectly aware about biases in the executive and judicative. Laws are never the same for everyone, just check if in your country a rich and a poor person receive the same sentences, or even the same probablility of getting controlled by the police (in this case: getting discriminated by wannabe-cop-teachers).I am not from the US and wondered sometimes why black folks made so much fuss about hairstyles and systemic racism. Now I understand them better...What a deeply racist and garbage system 🤬
(DIR) Post #AaKxuw0wLi00VWzbkG by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-10-01T20:16:24Z
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@CiaraNi +1 for the coolest AltText I have seen so far :anarchoheart3:
(DIR) Post #AaMg5T135v48tiptFw by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-10-02T05:26:59Z
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@march Wärmepumpen funktionieren über relative Temperaturdifferenzen.Sie können unter *Energieeinsatz* Wärmeenergie von einem Ort/Gegenstand zu einem anderen verlagern.Je höher die Differenz, desdo weniger Energie ist nötig.Der Ozean ist zwar auf Rekordtemperaturen und das sind insgesamt *gigantische* Energiemengen die da absorbiert werden (sonst wäre es noch viel schneller heiss geworden), aber das sind absolut gesehen trotzdem relativ geringe Temperaturen (ein paar Grad C). Und als Wärmedifferenz taugt es glaube ich schonmal gleich gar nicht.
(DIR) Post #AaSXDucbAaUYFby8Fk by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-10-05T12:02:33Z
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@JonathanMBR Esoteric Europeans "Look, I will place these gemstones in my water bottle to charge it with positive energy and be healthier"...
(DIR) Post #AadoU4T1xpeRgTbqro by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-10-10T20:20:12Z
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The terrible surprise that Hamas was able to make is the result of profound Israeli mistakes in reading reality. There was a strategic mistake - the army and the media have failed. There is some talk about that here.
But even more important than the deep moral mistake - the Palestinians surprised us because we don't understand them. And we don't understand them because we don't care about them. Usually the "we don't care about them" comes from the fact that we cause horror every day and don't even bother to know what we are causing. But "we don't care about them" also includes the illusion that the Palestinians have no choice but to suffer and surrender. They are not willing to surrender - often they stand up for themselves non-violently. Sometimes it is in the form of terror.Today we are paying a terrible price for our own carelessness. Tomorrow our terrible revenge will come. It is already boiling. Indifference, helplessness and indifference or anger and revenge.There is a third option. What will we do to take care? Take a deep breath and write. To write what cannot be said. What happened yesterday and what continues to happen today is a horror that there are no words to describe it. There is and can be no justification for the massacre of unarmed civilians. There is and can be no justification for the abduction of unarmed civilians. There is not and can be no justification for massive bombing of residential buildings or for dropping towers onto their occupants. Benevolence does not exist. But there is an explanation. And this is the great and terrible secret that hides just behind the cries for revenge and the quenching thirst for blood. Behind the righteous anger lies the simple truth that the reality that has led to the nightmare of the last two days is entirely our own doing.We have locked up more than two million people in the largest prison in the world for 17 years to life. We hoped that they would just disappear so that Gaza would drown in the sea. We created - on purpose - the huge refugee camps and the shocking poverty, the rolling humanitarian disaster that is Gaza. We have created such utter despair, a life so unworthy of living that thousands of people showed us yesterday that they would rather go to their certain death and only that we not escape unscathed.The great shock we are experiencing, the same collapse of concept that everyone is talking about, is not a strategic collapse. It is a collapse of our self-image. We have convinced ourselves that we are invincible, that we can do whatever we want and see everybody blink. We have convinced ourselves that the nation we are destroying and ruining is resigned to its slow extinction. We are truly convinced that we are immortal and they are mortal.And it is at this moment, when the pain is so intense, when the calls for absolute cruelty are so high, when the horror is so palpable and revenge is so tempting, it is the moment for the moral backbone of the people. Right now. Not after the war is over and the bodies will pile up. Now is the time to say: the murderous siege of Gaza, the entire occupation we had to end a long time ago and we failed. It is our hubris that brought us this terrible catastrophe. Now we have to achieve the exchange of prisoners and abducted, while people are alive to exchange. Now we must face the outrage and remember that the murder of people ("wipe out Gaza") that is presented to us as the only answer is not an answer and not the only answer, it will only ensure that we wake up tomorrow and in the mirror the murderers. Now is the time to understand that the endless siege is not a solution and could never have been a solution, and that the only solution is the end of the occupation, of the siege and apartheid.The constant comparisons with 1973 remind us that the bloodbath was the only thing that made Israel withdraw part of the territory it had conquered six years earlier. Then too, as now, we were drunk with power and justification. Then, too, as now, we denied every opportunity to prevent the catastrophe.I know that what I am about to write will be difficult for many people to bear. But even in this terrible moment, I believe in people. I believe that the death of any human being is the loss of an entire world. And I believe that logic can defeat the barbaric impulse.In the words of the Palestinian poet Sohir Hamad, after 9/11."There is death in this.And there are promises of more deaths.Out here there is life.All who read me now breathe.Maybe it hurts, but you're breathing for sure. And if there is a light that comes,It will beware the eyes of those who seek peace and justice.After the ruins and the rhetoric, Japan. And the phoenix will be reborn.Make your choice in life.Now we must carry each other.Are you either for life. Or against it.Choose to live."#Israel#Gaza#FreePalestine#WeStandWithIsrael#FreeGaza#Palestine#Hamas #SolidaritätMitIsrael #SolidaridadConIsrael
(DIR) Post #AaifdqQ0xe3icdc3ay by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-10-13T06:52:16Z
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@kladtiator @MayaMitKind Hier ein nachdenklicher Artikel zum Konflikt:https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-other
(DIR) Post #Aao4PomrNVCOf8mTdw by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-10-15T20:41:38Z
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@TarkabarkaHolgy For weird reproductive strategies, I go with weird marine animals.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracerceis_sculpta
(DIR) Post #Ab7X9GHunGTIMMZy2C by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-10-24T16:10:18Z
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Puh, a really controversial topic that seems to cause strong emotions by many people on Mastodon. I am not one of the big fish involved in the discussion. But I think it is important because how our community interacts depends on ourselves.
First, I want to say that shared blockslists can make sense. Basic lists to filter out the really bad shit. And maybe some stricter versions with keywords to facilitate new instances the creation of a safe space for certain groups (ok, here we could discuss why not blocking ALL kinds of harrassment, but in practice -and in the spirit of the fediverse as a community of distinct, but federated instaces- different people have varying levels of tolerance and set the threshold differently).
Currently, I see many posts about TBS, both in favour and against.
Here I wanted to share my thoughts about TBS. I see basically the following problems:
- The trusted instances are hard-coded and not independent from each other (correct me, if I am wrong). I think that a lot of controversy about TBS comes from concerns about the influence of one of the persons at mastodon.art, both directly because they are used as trusted source but also because of indirect influence on the other instances via their moderation-discord channel. Everywhere are power dynamics. Also informal hierarchies don’t disappear if we don’t call them out.- There is no appealing mechanism (TBS-banned instances would need to go begging on their knees to the “trusted instances” power circle). There is usually no “defederation will last for 6 months” or similar.- There is no mechanism to resolve the issue of binarity of defederation: It is the nuke of moderation tools. However, the problem is that there are no intermediate tools to separate real nazi/pedo shit from “many months ago there was a disagreement regarding moderation style”. TBS was announced to be for the really bad stuff, not for more controversial/personal decisions.- Blocklists are a *huge* responsibility. It is really easy to fuck things up (on purpose and by accident), especially if the blocklists are widely adopted. It is crucial to have very, very good mechanisms in place to avoid power issues. Therefore it is important to be open to (constructive) criticism.
Just to try out, I looked how kolektiva.social (the lovely anarchist instance I call my home for almost a year now) scores on TBS.
Currently, kolektiva.social is suspended by 4 and silenced/limited by 2 of the “trusted instances serving as reference for the The TBS blocklist. If TBS would be widely dopted by the fediverse, this would mean adiós to my beloved instance*
😢 I have to admit that I lost a little bit of track of the multiple blocklist projects:
- The Bad Space https://tweaking.thebad.space/ - GardenFence: https://gardenfence.github.io/ (significant overlap with TBS, a predecessor?)- Seirdy.one’s blocklists https://seirdy.one/posts/2023/05/02/fediverse-blocklists/ (discontinued, the author’s reasons are totally worth reading)- Oliphant’s blocklists https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/the-oliphant-social-blocklist (developed on the base of Seirdy.one’s lists, not sure whether it is continued)- FediSeer https://gui.fediseer.com/ (maintained @Db0 by right now, my favourite!)
- And the good old fediblock hasthag
Pesonally, I see Fediseer as a promising project. It has the optionto select the instances you “trust” and get their blocklists. It is really not necessary (and inefficient) that the mods of *every* of the 10-20 k Mastodon instances have to dive through all the really, really bad places to block them. There is still the issue of structural power dynamics of the instances that are used by default, but I understand that you have to begin somewhere and with the really, really bad instances, there should be less of a controversy.-
However, seeing the current heat of the debate, it is important for me to make also the following statement:
The level of harassment and personal attacks that the person most visible behind TBS ( @Are0h ) is receiving from many sides is totally out of place. There are unclear power dynamics that should be addressed. Maybe this person is not the best at taking criticism, but a human being enjoying some privileges while suffering also discrimination. And also yes, Mastodon has definitevely a whiteness problem (and harassing a prominent black person provides exactly their point). Listen to black people when they talk about discrimination. Listen to queer people when they talk about discrimination.
But please, folks. Try to take a few breaths before writing an outrage post. Destructive group dynamics don’t seem to be what we need to resolve our problems. Maybe some of you will hate me for this. My apologies. I don't want to dismissing your experience, but to bring us back to the table to find ways to first keep the really bad shit out while trying to make the fediverse a more welcoming place for all.sorry for the hippie speech. English is not my first language, s
* Of course, a very valid question is also: why is kolektiva.social considered by such a considerable proportion of the set of instances that some people consider “trusted sources” as worth of being defederated because of “Moderation issues, Poor moderation, abusive/harrassment behaviour” (on mastodon.art’s ‘about’ page even “racism”). I recall a complex conflict *last year*. However, whether kolektiva.social is currently a place for abusers/racists, is not really an assessment that can o should be made by a privileged white person like me, I guess.#TBS #TheBadSpace #Federation #Defederation #Blocklists #SharedBlocklists #FediSeer #Outrage @foolishowl
(DIR) Post #Ab7x1HCU7Bz1gHtN3I by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-10-25T10:30:00Z
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@Radfahrer Wahrscheinlich ist es halt dann doch nicht rein aus Humanismus und Demokratieliebe dass die USA da so reinbuttern....Trotzdem #PutinSucks
(DIR) Post #Abk7Ph76x74xy4M3k0 by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-11-12T21:30:15Z
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@JonathanMBR A reminder that things can get worse anytime. Let us create networks and fight to make them better.
(DIR) Post #AbuK7RaNjJrz0wsBsG by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-11-17T19:39:26Z
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@aljazeera This number doesn't surprise at all. Anybody who doubts these number and dismisses them as Hamas propaganda probably was never in a hospital...There will be so many deaths in Gaza not directly from the bombs but because of the breakdown of the healthcare system, food insecurity, lack of clean water, psychological trauma...Vulnerable people (chronically ill, elder, children) are called vulnerable for a reason. 😥These deaths probably will never be counted and much less acknowledged. 🤐
(DIR) Post #AbxXsOMPQApLV2vyFs by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-11-19T08:57:35Z
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Dear @EU_Commission,Please work out how to promote #degrowth to increase our cances of survival.Hell, it is not even *necessary* to sholvel billions of public money into the bank accounts of a few already obscenely rich families to make our society work.We can do better. You can do better.
(DIR) Post #Ac5xuWIl1FvkmSa4Lw by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-11-23T10:25:32Z
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@simon @LiveOutLoud I think journalists cover with these practices their back, especially inside their community.Both in the cautious way ("I have this story and want to publish it but somehow I want to flag it as yet unconfirmed, at least for fellow journalists who then can decide whether they pick it up or not"), as well as, depending on the position, to be able to push certain ideas and framings without risking to get hold accountable. By nuancing the news with these codes, they can't get accused easily of malicious practices by colleagues when it comes out that X was talking bullshit about topic Y.
(DIR) Post #AcwnH3U7X0502QsAZk by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2023-12-18T22:01:39Z
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muahahahaha 🤣 ⬆️#AcademicChatter #ScientificPublishing #ScientificJournals @scolobb
(DIR) Post #Ade8lGLcWvBDBUqytU by earthworm@kolektiva.social
2024-01-08T07:58:51Z
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Fear no more!The Four Thieves Vinegar collective just joined Mastodon!You don't know what they do? Check out:https://fourthievesvinegar.org/"The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective dedicated to bringing access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have them."On their web are DIY instructions for EpiPencils, useful advice for medical sovereignity, abortion aid and much more.As an anarchist, I am often asked: but when Big Pharma is no more, won't many people die because nobody can produce meds anymore?Thank you, @4thievesvinegar for having our backs :anarchoheart3: