🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@LaD_Hallo By every definition we already are well into a mass extinction event.

For some background we are currently 100x to 10,000x the background extinction rate (typically its 0.1 to 1 species per million per year, and we are currently seeing 100 to 1000 extinctions per million per year). The proper units for this is E/MSY so we are seeing 100 to 1000 E/MSY right now compared to a background of 0.1 to 1 E/MSY.

If we compare that to the rate during the big-5 mass extinctions it is as high, or significantly higher. The late devonian extinction rate (the slowest) was 70 E/MSY, meanwhile the end-permian extinction rate (the highest of the 5) was ~300 E/MSY.

Yes we are **well** within a mass extinction, and if we do not correct things immediately after 100 years at the current rate we will see the same overall extinction as these mass extinction events.

@freemo @lnxw37a2 Oh I missed that reply.

Yeah and that's the funniest thing about this whole conversation: I don't support #Trump anymore, and haven't for months if not years (I don't remember exactly when I stopped supporting him but it was sometime during the 2024 election cycle). I've hated #MAGA for even longer than that.

The Israeli military is preparing to expand and intensify its assault in Gaza as it calls up tens of thousands of reservists.

Under the plan, the military said it would operate in new areas and "destroy all infrastructure" above and below ground.

The announcement follows growing international pressure on Tel Aviv to lift the total food and aid blockade it imposed two months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ZDbDl-ntE

#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Writing High Quality, Well Scoped, Commits
In modern software projects, a clean Git history is more than just an aesthetic choice – it is a cornerstone of maintainable, collaborative development. Practitioners across the industry (from Linux kernel maintainers to Google’s Angular team) advocate for atomic commits: each commit being a focused, self-contained change that can stand on its own.
This article outlines widely accepted conventions and best practices for writing such commits in a language-agnostic context, drawing on official guidelines and community consensus.

Read more here:
https://cleverthis.com/news/writing-high-quality-well-scoped-commits/

#Best Practices #CleverThis #ML #MachineLearning #AI #AGI #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #SemanticWeb

Putin's agent in the White House, Donald Trump, demands nothing from Russia, but offers Putin more than 20% of Ukraine as a gift for invading Ukraine and bombing to oblivion European cities in Ukraine.

Trump to let Putin keep land seized from Ukraine

Seven-point plan gives Kyiv no clear security guarantee from the US
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/22/trumps-plan-to-let-putin-keep-land-seized-from-ukraine/

Whistleblower reveals evidence on how Elon Musk's DOGE team extracted 10 GB of sensitive data about American citizens from a government agency, and then deleted accounts and logs to cover their tracks.

Then, when the whistleblower tried to report the data breach, he received a threatening letter containing pictures taken from a drone watching him walking his dog.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

"When you say "illegal aliens can be ejected w/o due process" what you really mean is,"the govt doesn't have to prove you're an illegal alien before ejecting you."

#Dueprocess literally just means "the govt has to prove it's a reason for what it's doing." disappearing ppl w/o due process was literally one of the things the American Revolutionaries listed in the Declaration of Independence why they weren't taking orders from King George III anymore-."
-M Chapman
#Constitution #Immigrants #USPol

@tzudad

I mean if we were expanding the list to including anyone who should be a political enemy I'd have to say it would be:

* Trump
* Vance - for assisting trump
* Musk - For assisting trump
* Biden - For being a raging racist who spent a career supporting segregation, for renewing patriot act
* Obama - For intentionally killing a 15 year old usa citizen without due process, for renewing patriot act
* Bush Jr - For starting partiot act, and torturing muslims

I'd be all for putting them all in a deep dark jail, maybe our country could heal.

@AJ_andrew69

All that happy talk about RFK Jr supporting the measles vaccine was bunk. The full transcript & subsequent reporting and actions make clear he’s deeply invested in proving vaccines are the problem, not the solution.

It’s part of a much bigger blow to American HC that’ll reverberate for decades.

“Truth & transparency aren’t desired by this sec.” (& throughout the Trump regime)

A sicker, poorer electorate is easier to rule. It’s a Putinesque.

#Health #Autocracy #USPol
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-be-fooled-rfk-jr-kennedy-is-still-talking-down-vaccines-hhs-cuts-measles-cdc

@leonerd

Thats because they dont stand for what you think!

Here is what the letters mean:

R - Rainforest Green
G - Garnet Red
B - Beryl Blue