z377
@z377.bsky.social
Fix things. Be a Lorax. Challenge disinformers. Own your data and defend others'. Join your Green Party. Run Debian.
From Steven Donziger @sdonziger.bsky.social
Musk’s $277 million “investment” in the Trump campaign allowed him to ingratiate himself to the inner circle. His net worth has since risen $170 billion to $455 billion — a roughly 600x rate of return.
Musk’s $277 million “investment” in the Trump campaign allowed him to ingratiate himself to the inner circle. His net worth has since risen $170 billion to $455 billion — a roughly 600x rate of return.
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
From Steven Donziger @sdonziger.bsky.social
Musk’s $277 million “investment” in the Trump campaign allowed him to ingratiate himself to the inner circle. His net worth has since risen $170 billion to $455 billion — a roughly 600x rate of return.
Musk’s $277 million “investment” in the Trump campaign allowed him to ingratiate himself to the inner circle. His net worth has since risen $170 billion to $455 billion — a roughly 600x rate of return.
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It's not about efficiency.
It's about the Holy Grail of the Oligarchs: Government with no other purpose than to funnel money from taxpayers to private corporations.
It's about the Holy Grail of the Oligarchs: Government with no other purpose than to funnel money from taxpayers to private corporations.
February 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It's not about efficiency.
It's about the Holy Grail of the Oligarchs: Government with no other purpose than to funnel money from taxpayers to private corporations.
It's about the Holy Grail of the Oligarchs: Government with no other purpose than to funnel money from taxpayers to private corporations.
From Jim Means on Fazebuk.
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
From Jim Means on Fazebuk.
I've been using Linux on my home computers since 1993. I use it because I trust the community that creates and maintains it more than I trust any corporation. Meta seems to think talking about it is a security threat. Or something.
www.notebookcheck.net/Facebook-cen...
www.notebookcheck.net/Facebook-cen...
Facebook censors Linux posts, calls FOSS project "cybersecurity threat" with mysterious inconsistency
Facebook's parent company, Meta, has blocked posts mentioning Linux, citing cybersecurity concerns. Meta confirmed after manual review that Linux is on the list of cybersecurity-related topics, and it...
www.notebookcheck.net
January 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I've been using Linux on my home computers since 1993. I use it because I trust the community that creates and maintains it more than I trust any corporation. Meta seems to think talking about it is a security threat. Or something.
www.notebookcheck.net/Facebook-cen...
www.notebookcheck.net/Facebook-cen...
Merry Christmas. Have an easter egg on me.
December 22, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Merry Christmas. Have an easter egg on me.
Righteous rant from Rebecca
youtu.be/A1WFmsH30dg
youtu.be/A1WFmsH30dg
Hydroxychloroquine Study Retracted After Nearly FIVE YEARS
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
youtu.be
December 21, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Righteous rant from Rebecca
youtu.be/A1WFmsH30dg
youtu.be/A1WFmsH30dg
Some asshole is DoS-ing Wikipedia now. And Archive.org is still under attack. Who wants to take down the Web's history book and global encyclopedia? A state actor? Someone who didn't want an ongoing TELEVISED GENOCIDE recorded in detail for historians perhaps?
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza
There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territ...
news.un.org
December 5, 2024 at 4:58 AM
Some asshole is DoS-ing Wikipedia now. And Archive.org is still under attack. Who wants to take down the Web's history book and global encyclopedia? A state actor? Someone who didn't want an ongoing TELEVISED GENOCIDE recorded in detail for historians perhaps?
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Exxon lobbyist company hired mercenary hackers to spy on environmentalists who were suing them.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Did your favorite newspaper cover this?
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Did your favorite newspaper cover this?
Exclusive: Exxon lobbyist investigated over hack-and-leak of environmentalist emails, sources say
The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter.
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Exxon lobbyist company hired mercenary hackers to spy on environmentalists who were suing them.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Did your favorite newspaper cover this?
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Did your favorite newspaper cover this?
Permafrost thaws, releasing iron that stimulates bacteria that release metallic poisons into streams. Exposed pyrite acidifies the water. Seen in google earth across the Yukon and British Columbia.
"North America's Ongoing, Ignored Disaster"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxfp...
Acid rock drainage.
"North America's Ongoing, Ignored Disaster"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxfp...
Acid rock drainage.
December 1, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Permafrost thaws, releasing iron that stimulates bacteria that release metallic poisons into streams. Exposed pyrite acidifies the water. Seen in google earth across the Yukon and British Columbia.
"North America's Ongoing, Ignored Disaster"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxfp...
Acid rock drainage.
"North America's Ongoing, Ignored Disaster"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxfp...
Acid rock drainage.
The official history of Silicon Valley is more false than true.
November 30, 2024 at 1:43 AM
The official history of Silicon Valley is more false than true.
Is this a nightmare? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says it's 90 seconds to midnight. During the Cuban missile crisis, it was seven minutes. Tell me this is only a bad dream.
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
It is 90 seconds to midnight.
thebulletin.org
November 25, 2024 at 4:50 AM
Is this a nightmare? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says it's 90 seconds to midnight. During the Cuban missile crisis, it was seven minutes. Tell me this is only a bad dream.
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
Resist planned obsolescence. MSFT ending Wndoz10 will send 100millions of perfectly good PCs to the dump.
Save yours with free software. debian.org
Many choices. https//distrowatch.com
Save yours with free software. debian.org
Many choices. https//distrowatch.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Resist planned obsolescence. MSFT ending Wndoz10 will send 100millions of perfectly good PCs to the dump.
Save yours with free software. debian.org
Many choices. https//distrowatch.com
Save yours with free software. debian.org
Many choices. https//distrowatch.com
I see Potus-elect wants to put a pseudoscience crank in charge of NIH and FDA. Last time, he put a crank in charge of NASA but the guy came around on global warming, didn't wreck the agency. Will the scientists be able to mitigate the disaster of RFKJr as well?
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pseudos...
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pseudos...
Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience describes any belief system or methodology which tries to gain legitimacy by wearing the trappings of science but fails to abide by the rigorous methodology and standards of evidence tha...
rationalwiki.org
November 17, 2024 at 8:31 PM
I see Potus-elect wants to put a pseudoscience crank in charge of NIH and FDA. Last time, he put a crank in charge of NASA but the guy came around on global warming, didn't wreck the agency. Will the scientists be able to mitigate the disaster of RFKJr as well?
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pseudos...
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pseudos...
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We have an opinion piece at the NYT on the need to operationalize some aspects of climate science. 🧪
Thoughts welcome!
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...
Thoughts welcome!
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...
Opinion | Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet
We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
We have an opinion piece at the NYT on the need to operationalize some aspects of climate science. 🧪
Thoughts welcome!
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...
Thoughts welcome!
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...
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On a Wednesday in February 1938, Guy Stewart Callendar stood before a group of leading scientists, members of the United Kingdom’s Royal Meteorological Society. He had a bold idea to share:
Humans’ burning of fuel was making the planet warmer.
nautil.us/the-part-tim...
Humans’ burning of fuel was making the planet warmer.
nautil.us/the-part-tim...
The Part-Time Climate Scientist
A humble steam engineer put humans in the driver’s seat.
nautil.us
November 13, 2024 at 2:54 PM
On a Wednesday in February 1938, Guy Stewart Callendar stood before a group of leading scientists, members of the United Kingdom’s Royal Meteorological Society. He had a bold idea to share:
Humans’ burning of fuel was making the planet warmer.
nautil.us/the-part-tim...
Humans’ burning of fuel was making the planet warmer.
nautil.us/the-part-tim...
I've been citing this article a lot recently.
The author is recognized as a particularly clear and insightful thinker. He won the Nobel in physics for discovering the photoelectric effect, which we exploit in solar panels.
monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...
The author is recognized as a particularly clear and insightful thinker. He won the Nobel in physics for discovering the photoelectric effect, which we exploit in solar panels.
monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...
Monthly Review | Why Socialism?
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.… Clarity about the aims and…
monthlyreview.org
November 15, 2024 at 2:09 AM
I've been citing this article a lot recently.
The author is recognized as a particularly clear and insightful thinker. He won the Nobel in physics for discovering the photoelectric effect, which we exploit in solar panels.
monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...
The author is recognized as a particularly clear and insightful thinker. He won the Nobel in physics for discovering the photoelectric effect, which we exploit in solar panels.
monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...
The Emperor's new Climate Scenarios
Actuaries say we're figuring climate risk all wrong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FJ...
Conservative science demphasize their most fearsome scenarios, the ones actuaries find most important.
Actuaries say we're figuring climate risk all wrong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FJ...
Conservative science demphasize their most fearsome scenarios, the ones actuaries find most important.
The money men know THE TRUTH about planetary boundaries!
Scientists have identified nine so-called 'Earth System boundaries' beyond which life on our planet will become extremely difficult for many species, not lea...
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2023 at 3:40 AM
The Emperor's new Climate Scenarios
Actuaries say we're figuring climate risk all wrong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FJ...
Conservative science demphasize their most fearsome scenarios, the ones actuaries find most important.
Actuaries say we're figuring climate risk all wrong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FJ...
Conservative science demphasize their most fearsome scenarios, the ones actuaries find most important.
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One critical question around climate tipping elements is the type of threshold behavior - do global temperatures need to only temporarily pass a critical level, or do they have to stay there for centuries. Thankfully for Greenland it seems to be the latter: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Greenland’s massive ice sheet is melting — here’s how to save it
The ice sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overshoots climate targets, but even then quick action could stabilize it. The ice sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overs...
www.nature.com
October 19, 2023 at 7:29 PM
One critical question around climate tipping elements is the type of threshold behavior - do global temperatures need to only temporarily pass a critical level, or do they have to stay there for centuries. Thankfully for Greenland it seems to be the latter: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Climate scientist facing big fines for nonviolent, nondestructive protest.
Dr. Abramoff got thrown off stage (and fired) at a geophysics conference last year, for unfurling a banner with Peter Kalmus.
She researches biogeochemistry and soil modeling.
heated.world/p/why-did-th...
Dr. Abramoff got thrown off stage (and fired) at a geophysics conference last year, for unfurling a banner with Peter Kalmus.
She researches biogeochemistry and soil modeling.
heated.world/p/why-did-th...
Why did this climate scientist chain herself to a pipeline?
Rose Abramoff is determined to stop fossil fuels from destroying a livable climate, no matter the personal cost.
heated.world
September 12, 2023 at 8:14 PM
Climate scientist facing big fines for nonviolent, nondestructive protest.
Dr. Abramoff got thrown off stage (and fired) at a geophysics conference last year, for unfurling a banner with Peter Kalmus.
She researches biogeochemistry and soil modeling.
heated.world/p/why-did-th...
Dr. Abramoff got thrown off stage (and fired) at a geophysics conference last year, for unfurling a banner with Peter Kalmus.
She researches biogeochemistry and soil modeling.
heated.world/p/why-did-th...
Ramaswamy isn't just any climate science denier. He's running the campaign against socially conscious investing.
heated.world/p/how-vivek-...
heated.world/p/how-vivek-...
How Vivek Ramaswamy makes money from climate denial
At Wednesday's debate, Ramaswamy said he was the "only candidate who's not bought and paid for." That couldn't be further from the truth.
heated.world
August 29, 2023 at 3:30 AM
Ramaswamy isn't just any climate science denier. He's running the campaign against socially conscious investing.
heated.world/p/how-vivek-...
heated.world/p/how-vivek-...
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I see a certain cohort still believes climate science was wrong in the '70s. Because ICE AGE SCARE was all over the tabloids and TV. Nope, it was a mass media stampede to a false story. Today, "skeptics" collect the back page CYA stories magazines ran.
arstechnica.com/science/2016...
arstechnica.com/science/2016...
That ’70s myth—did climate science really call for a “coming ice age?”
Claims that scientists flip-flopped on climate don't reflect the science.
arstechnica.com
August 26, 2023 at 10:43 PM
I see a certain cohort still believes climate science was wrong in the '70s. Because ICE AGE SCARE was all over the tabloids and TV. Nope, it was a mass media stampede to a false story. Today, "skeptics" collect the back page CYA stories magazines ran.
arstechnica.com/science/2016...
arstechnica.com/science/2016...
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Sigh: “After COVID hospitalizations climbed nearly 22% this week, the CDC is predicting further increases over the coming month as new variants spread. This replaces previous projections from the agency that admissions would "remain stable or have an uncertain trend."
Is masking coming back? As new COVID variants emerge, here's what experts say.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not announced new mask mandates, some experts say you may want to consider it, depending on your situation.
www.cbsnews.com
August 26, 2023 at 12:37 AM
Sigh: “After COVID hospitalizations climbed nearly 22% this week, the CDC is predicting further increases over the coming month as new variants spread. This replaces previous projections from the agency that admissions would "remain stable or have an uncertain trend."