ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

This article is great - genuinely reorienting on the entire space program and especially Mars https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

This should be the top story on every news outlet...

"Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth's wildlife running out of places to live"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-mass-extinction-60-minutes-2023-01-01/

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
-Isaac Asimov (Today is his day.)
#bookstodon

Most Americans don’t realize state funding for higher ed fell by billions | PBS NewsHour

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/most-americans-dont-realize-state-funding-for-higher-ed-fell-by-billions

copyright should be death of the author at max, probably more like five or ten years tbh

In the US, where the gap between rich and poor has grown faster than in any other country, the top 1% has captured 95% of growth since 2019. During that time, 70% of Americans became poorer.

As of March 2022, California was the U.S. state with the most multi-millionaires and billionaires and the largest homeless population, doubling in digits since Covid-19.

At what point does the greed of the ultra-rich contribute to this historic Los Angeles County homelessness emergency?

Thoughts?

@mandaroza @mandaroza@mastodonapp.uk Qoto works fine. It's probably that your friends are on servers who have blocked Qoto. We can't do much about that, and it's something that happens in the Fediverse when it is filled with all independent servers.

This is the very reason Qoto tries not to block any servers because that breaks federation as you and your friends have noticed.

The only way to test our hypothesis that changing societal expectations about the future can help change the future, is to do it.

If anyone would like to help us with that test, we would be delighted.

Thank you to everyone who has boosted our toots.

Please feel free to share the Aspen Proposal on other social media, in your local newspaper and around your kitchen tables and campfires.

http://www.aspenproposal.org

#sustainability #Nature #politics #economics #ClimateChange #biodiversity

I'm glad insulin is capped at $35 for people on Medicare. It's a bill Democrats unanimously vote for, and so-called "pro life" Republicans unanimously opposed.

But here's the thing.

Insulin needs to be free & accessible to all people. Healthcare is a human right & there's no reason why corporations should profit billions off a life saving drug, the patent for which was sold for $3.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no person should struggle with insulin access. #MakeInsulinFree

Obviously, the author leaves out, that the majority of the community moderates other inhuman attitudes such as #racism, #sexism, #homophobia and #transphobia and blocks instances which don't actively take action against this content.
That's also why radical right-wing Mastodon projects like Gab.ai don't stand a chance in the community and wither away in isolation....

Just another article filled with #bullshit...

This blog article, whose author has also written against Mastodon in the past, has several weaknesses at once:
He mixes past and present by omitting events in the past.
He also uses disinformation in the article with the misleading rendition of the underlying technology in Fediverse, the responsibilities of freely available software, and the misappropriation of the moderation mechanics and actual moderation practices in Fediverse..

"#Mastodon: A Social Media Platform Dominated By #Pedophiles & #Child #Porn"

The #disinformation at #Secjuice is quite well done: The article gives itself an #investigative veneer, there are many links, alleged evidence and screenshots. Everything seems somehow conclusive - if you read too fast....

https://www.secjuice.com/mastodon-child-porn-pedophiles/

Your periodic reminder that just because a URL is saved at archive.org doesn't mean it's going to stay there.

Last year, I wrote a series about proxy services marketed to cybercriminals, and that relied heavily on Archive.org links to document various connections. After my story ran, the person that those links concerned asked Archive to remove those links from their database, which they did. The person in question came back and said hey, what you said in your story is wrong because there's no supporting evidence and you must remove this. Archive.org confirmed they removed all of the pages at the request of the domain holder, and that was that.

If you stumble upon a page that is in archive.org and you want to make sure there is a record that won't be deleted at some point, consider saving the page to archive.today/archive.ph

Fidelity slashes the value of its Twitter stake by over half | TechCrunch

Fidelity, which was among the group of outside investors that helped Elon Musk finance his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, has slashed the value of its stake in Twitter by 56%

#MOG
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/30/fidelity-slashes-the-value-of-its-twitter-stake-by-over-half/

@erik_kwakkel suggested that I introduce myself.
I've mainly worked in the library and museum world, but have been freelance since 2006.
There's a bio on my page here: http://manuscripts.org.uk/
I blog at https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/ to share observations/discoveries that are not worth the time and effort that traditional academic publishing would require.
I like to think that I am an approachable and friendly introvert, but as one good friend once observed, I have "a low bullshit-tolerance threshold"!