Pietro @TopT326@qoto.org

Tra le differenze direi che Mastodon è un social network, mentre Twitter è un social media.
Non sono sinonimi: il social media massimizza il coinvolgimento del singolo, mostrandogli più spesso utenti e contenuti divisivi. Facendo così ha spazi pubblicitari più ambiti, ma viene meno alla funzione di essere una piattaforma paritaria di discussione.
Moderazione e rimozione dei contenuti divisivi tengono pulito un social network, ma per il coinvolgimento serve indignazione
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03697.pdf

In addition to my book recommendation yesterday (https://qoto.org/@bloc/109377741972697407), I'd like to share this gem, even if the original article is in German:

https://www.handelszeitung.ch/politik/klima-auto-schlagt-velo-und-ov-545475

This one is a textbook example of bullshit, although a pretty obvious one. For those not capable of the German language:

A professor of financial and economics tries to work out the numbers showing why bicycle and public transport are worse options going by car in terms of climate effects.
For public transport, he argues that even why those may be powered by green, locally generated electricity, this electricity could otherwise be provided to the power grid, therefore public transport was the reason CO2-intensive power plants could not be taken of the grid.
For bike, he compares the CO2 footprint of a 5 Liter per 100 km (app. 47 mpg) car with 4 passengers (no, this is certainly not the standard here) to the additional food intake a biker would need to handle longer travels (seriously!), which, for the calculation to carry home the point, is assumed to be almost pure beef.

#callingbullshit @ct_bergstrom #climatechange

NEW, BY ME

The UK now has an experienced king and a novice PM.

And this power imbalance at the heart of the executive may have important consequences.

How King Charles outplayed Rushi Sunak over COP27.

At Al Jazeera.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/11/21/the-uk-now-has-an-experienced-king-and-a-novice-pm

Musk has used "Vox, populi, Vox Dei" to justify reinstating Trump on #Twiiter. But the quote is from a letter from Alcuin to the Emporer Charlemagne urging him to resist such ideas, "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." Which translates as "And do not listen to those who keep saying, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God', because the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."

Posseggono il Verbo ma non sanno coniugarlo.

Perspectives.

La crisi energetica che viviamo anche in conseguenza della tensione geopolitica aggrava il problema nell'immediato, ma potrebbe essere vista come un incentivo ad una soluzione più rapida ed efficace: la ricerca di nuove fonti e/o di alternative non è "solo" ambientalista. 🧵

I didn't take this photo but I was with my husband when he did. It was breathtaking up on Stenbury Down on the Isle of Wight, watching the mist roll in at sunset. The sheep were surprised to see us and for once the weather did what we'd hoped it would do! #SheepofMastodon

Red roof cottage. Looking towards Shieldaig, with the Torridon mountains in the background.
Taken right now by Sam Bilner.

Rum from Laig Beach on Eigg. #Sunset #Scotland #SmallIsles

"Non abbiamo l'onere della prova inversa", è un'offesa al metodo scientifico oltre ad essere un'affermazione illogica.

Non avere chiaro il concetto di Scienza, della vaccinazione ed i suoi effetti sul SSN, è semplicemente immorale.

La Storia non vi assolverà...

"Dante, what are you doing?"

"I'm adding a circle of hell for assholes!
Here go the conspiracists, here those who share fake news, here those who got a degree on Facebook!"

Morning everyone! Here’s another #space #picture for you all! This one is the Cygnus wall, it’s a part of the recognisable North America Nebula . It is an area of star formation which is about 20 light years long! I used a Dual band narrowband filter to cut through the Birmingham light pollution and moonlight to capture this shot
Scope was my 200mm f/5 Altair newt aka big bucket! Camera was the awesome Altair hypercam 26C
#astronomy #astrophotography #astrodon #universe

(Secondo me questa è la cosa più bella, dopo le persone, che vi possa capitare di vedere.)

https://johnhw.github.io/umap_primes/index.md.html

Revealed: the £30bn cost of #LizTruss’s disastrous mini-budget | Liz Truss | The Guardian

Right-wing #libertarians are a blight on the plolitical landscape and create a black hole for the economy.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/12/revealed-the-30bn-cost-of-liz-trusss-disastrous-mini-budget

#UK #Politics #Tories