Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

The success of the campaign is made even more amazing by the fact that Mastodon does not use an algorithm to push posts in front of eyeballs. A post can only go “viral” if it is shared by people that the user knows, and then they share it to their network.

Mastodon users donate a quarter million dollars in 2 days for VP Harris #MastodonForHarris
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/25/2257916/-Mastodon-users-donate-a-quarter-million-dollars-in-2-days-for-VP-Harris-MastodonForHarris

Congrats #MastodonForHarris on the fundraising numbers!

Let’s talk about next actions. Not everyone has a lot of money to give. But we do have time and energy and passion to volunteer.

I’ve been involved with enough campaigns over 2 decades to know that Democrats need more than money to win.

We win when we have enough volunteers to knock on doors and talk to voters each weekend.

We have 8 weekends before early voting starts.

Sign up for a shift near you:
👉 https://www.mobilize.us

With the #MastodonForHarris fundraiser approaching $300,000 (!), I thought I'd say a little about why I am going to keep it going, most likely all the way through Inauguration Day. 1/
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

This is pure cartel behavior: Reddit and Google have cut a deal that freezes out all other search engines from indexing Reddit, where volunteers do essentially all the work.

This should not be legal.

It is VITAL to replace Reddit, and it will take a global village to do it. If we don't, the cartel wins.

https://www.404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-that-works-on-reddit-now-thanks-to-ai-deal/

If you want to understand the reality of the nuclear power industry, listen to this interview with the editor of The World Nuclear Industry Status Report, Mycle Schneider and the very pro-nuclear editor of Power Magazine.

#NuclearPower @sts

https://www.powermag.com/analyst-says-nuclear-industry-is-totally-irrelevant-in-the-market-for-new-power-capacity/

Truly terrifying stuff.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

BREAKING!

The Antifa Turtle on #Twitter shared a Twitter API okta leak that shows there is a list of "protected accounts", all of them right wing, who are allowed to break #X Terms Of Services without consequence and includes a list of whitelisted slurs they are allowed to use.

The whistle-blowing Twitter account was suspended by mods shortly after.

#elonmusk #freespeech #whistleblower #leak @UnicornRiot @freedomofpress @OffTheHook

Vice President Harris watched President Biden’s address to the nation from Houston, Texas, where she is spending the night after visiting the city’s Emergency Operations Center to receive a briefing on the ongoing recovery efforts following Hurricane Beryl. Prior to departing Houston tomorrow, she will also deliver the keynote speech at the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th national convention. - White House

Today, we sat down and reviewed NeoDB, a #Fediverse review system that lets you track books, movies, music, tv shows, games, podcasts, and more. There's some really incredible ideas beneath the surface.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/07/neodb-review-culture/

The Metals Company is desperate to start mining the deep ocean, so it funded research to prove its plans would have a low environmental impact.

Instead the scientists it funded found the metals produce oxygen that could be essential for the survival of deep-sea creatures.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/oxygen-ocean-study-conflict-1.7273929

#mining #tech #evs #ocean

A half dozen guests at Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress were arrested and charged today.

Among those arrested was Carmit Palty Katzir, an Israeli whose father and brother were both hostages killed in Hamas captivity. https://t.co/iXmXtQu7g2

Wish I had gotten more pics of these #Mushrooms

#Fungi #Photography

Taking extended time off to welcome a newborn is crucial for the health of parents, babies and businesses, but the U.S. still has no federal law mandating paid family leave https://t.co/WymDOHkWdh

The "Mastodon for Harris" group has been doing a tremendous amount of work with raising funds today through ActBlue. So far, the 1200+ donors have pledged over $88,000. The initiative only started yesterday. Most of that figure was raised today!

You can take part here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

Special thanks to @heidilifeldman for organizing this! #MastodonForHarris

EU renewables compatible with food production, nature protection – and maybe humans https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/eu-renewables-compatible-with-food-production-nature-protection-and-maybe-humans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“We started seeing a series of children, preteens mostly, shot in the head…The families told one of two stories: they were playing inside when they were shot by Israeli forces, or they were playing in the street when they were shot by Israeli forces” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697

"The platforms have rigged things so that you must have an account with them in order to function, but they also want to have the unilateral right to kick people off their systems. The combination of these demands represents more power than any company should have, and Big Tech has repeatedly demonstrated its unfitness to wield this kind of power..." @pluralistic

https://dice.camp/@pteryx/112831326650512796 #cloud #crowdstrike #tech #business

You may be surprised to learn China is not doing this to be woke. They're doing it because it's the cheapest way to generate power. We're behind, and Trump will make sure we never catch up.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640

Brown & Cusati 2024: "Exploring the Evidence-Based Beliefs and Behaviors of LLM-Based Programming Assistants" https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13900 "We investigate 17 evidence-based claims by empirical SE research across five LLM-based programming assistants. Our findings show that [they] have ambiguous beliefs regarding research claims, lack credible evidence to support responses, and are incapable of adopting practices demonstrated by empirical SE research to support development tasks." #nwit