Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

Ok, it's official now: I'm going to give a talk about satellite pollution at a UN (!!) workshop.

I have very mixed feelings about this! It's 100% in person, which is SO much stupid travel pollution (in order to try to stop so much stupid satellite pollution, ugh). But it's in Milan!! I've never even thought about going to Milan, it's just so fancy and out of reach. So... wow.

@euronews the headline of this article might as well be full hybrid car sales taking over the EU market. Between people's desire to move away from fossils and the disappointing electric vehicle promise, the Toyota-led middle way is showing to be the most realistic. It is by far not enough, but at least it is making headway towards finding an alternative.

@mike @jejord @AileenLalor @miaq @marci

If following Lemmy communities is a possibility from flipboard, then please take a look at https://fediverser.network/communities. This is part of my https://fediverser.io project which aims to make migration from Reddit to the Fediverse more seamless. It lets people automatically discover all the Lemmy communities that correspond to their favorite subreddits.

1/21 #WhiteSupremacy is not passive; it is proactive, violent, and pathologically relentless.

I don't know who created the attached image but, in researching them, I discovered others that were not represented.

As we look more closely at a few specific events, we will keenly recognize some common threads, but I'd like to start with one that is not depicted in the image, but is really the best place to start - the #ConfederateStatesofAmerica and the American #CivilWar!

I will now stop using laundry pods.
Even while acknowledging that their contribution to microplastics is small.

The major contributors to microplastics in the oceans:

Synthetic textiles
(They make me sweat unpleasantly, so I stay away from those, too),

Car tires
(why I bike: skinny tires, a lot less wear!)

City dust
(Guessing that includes the two above, plus house paint and such).

From:
https://www.statista.com/chart/17957/where-the-oceans-microplastics-come-from/

A major example of how Telegram's opt-in secret chat encryption has gone seriously wrong before: https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/.

The practical near term threat is for the vast majority of chats without end-to-end encryption: 100% of Telegram group chats and the regular 1-to-1 chats.

What has worked to fight climate change? Policies where someone pays for polluting, study finds

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-price-hike-policies-emissions-1d211ff66f7ab768a69466b9af281c79

https://erinkissane.com/fediverse-governance-drop

So relieved and delighted to have this stuff out into the world where it can help new (and maybe also some experienced) fedi admins and mods think through their work. And maybe help convey to others at least some of what makes the fediverse such a structurally interesting place.

I'm even more optimistic about the fediverse than I was when we jumped into this—and sobered, too, by how much work there is to be done. But I think it's doable.

UK – Three in 10 users of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, say they are considering leaving the site, according to research from Savanta.

Savanta found that Musk was also deemed personally unpopular with the UK public ...

Musk is currently less popular with the UK public than all Conservative leadership candidates except Priti Patel (-30 ).

https…www.research-live.com/article/news/almost-a-third-of-x-users-in-uk-considering-leaving-finds-savanta/id/5129343

Oh my word. FUCK YOU DISNEY

'The lawsuit claims that Dr. Kanokporn Tangsuan suffered a fatal allergic reaction after eating at a Disney Springs restaurant despite repeatedly informing the waiter of her severe allergy.

Disney is calling for the lawsuit to be dismissed because her husband signed up for a one-month trial of the Disney+ streaming service years prior.

The company says signing up for the trial requires users to arbitrate all disputes with the company.'

https://longisland.news12.com/disney-asks-court-to-dismiss-wrongful-death-lawsuit-of-long-island-doctor

A huge thank you to @dansup for adding #Pixelix to the apps section on https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps ♥️

Signal is blocked in several countries but you can set up a proxy server to help people access Signal no matter where they live. Here’s how:

https://signal.org/blog/proxy-please

Thank you for helping keep Signal available for everyone who needs it.

To share your proxies use #SignalProxy

Everyone deserves to feel safe and respected online.

That's why we're introducing new comment controls to Pixelfed next month.

This new safety feature puts you in charge of your interactions, creating a safer and more welcoming space for everyone.

#pixelfed #commentControls #safety

As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.

@fraying My grandma always told us that one of the first things she did after moving to Los Angeles from Alabama in 1936 was register to vote. She voted for FDR in the election that year. She couldn't do that in the South. She voted in EVERY LA election until her death in September 2008. Right before Obama got elected.

A post about how I got started in SciViz and DataViz

When I was much younger than I am today...

..I was so very young when AIDS hit San Francisco, and the Noe Valley neighborhood I lived in at the time.

I saw my neighbors and friends suffer, and die.

When I finally went away to college and learn about molecular biology, this included the molecular biology of HIV and many other diseases.

But I paid even more attention to HIV, because I saw what it did.

I primi 6 mesi di Bologna Città 30: meno incidenti, morti e feriti, meno traffico, meno inquinamento. Insomma: un successo da molti punti di vista

https://benzinazero.wordpress.com/2024/08/04/i-primi-6-mesi-di-bologna-citta-30-meno-incidenti-morti-e-feriti-meno-traffico-meno-inquinamento/ #città30 #traffico #automobile #bicicletta #pedoni #sicurezza