tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

People who wear glasses are disabled, BTW. We need disability aids to function as an active part of society. If you wear glasses, you are disabled; your disability is just one that happens to be highly (if not totally) accommodated. It is generally considered reasonable to insist that you need your glasses and cannot cope well without them, and glasses are readily available and prescriptions for them not heavily gated. Touching or taking them without your permission is considered rude and cruel.

Our contribution to the #Lines day of #30DayMapChallenge comes from @waeiski with special thanks to Oula Inkeröinen. The map shows the value of aggregation and edge-bundling for complex mobility data, such as regional student mobility across Europe. The data and methods will be published openly in the near future as a part of the #MobiTwin project.

When you use an LLM for summarizing your email, the data center that runs it is simultaneously summer-izing the climate.

“Oxfam identified 23 superyachts owned by 18 billionaires and estimates the average annual carbon footprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tonnes, which is more than three times the emissions of the #billionaires’ private jets... This is equivalent to 860 years of emissions for the average person in the world, and 5,600 times the average of someone in the global poorest 50%.”

#ClimateEmergency

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-are-the-one-case-where-personal-choices-can-affect-climate-change-2000518380

Don’t be like the Lebanese sectarian movement that kills Syrians and is allied with the Iranian theocratic dictatorship, be like the Azerbaijani one-man dictatorship that commits genocide against Armenians

A very canny strategy—buying shares to gain inside information and propose changes at shareholder meetings—has revealed that Microsoft's deals with fossil fuel extractors contradict their carbon-friendly claims.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/microsoft_greenwashing_ai/

The Extreme Weather Report, only this week...

Sometimes it's the only reframing that helps me not to drown: I'm not waiting for the catastrophe. The catastrophe has already happened. We are living the apocalypse. How do I make my life and the lives of others as bearable as possible in the aftermath?

You know what takes courage - trying to be a mature human in a system that is operating in domination and separation mode.

Tons of great Sophos research is dropping today which I’ll link in thread. China goes brrr.

I want to give them particular credit for directly talking about the cyber industry elephants in the room, both in the research and during media interviews

e.g. insecurity in appliances, need for industry change, monitoring threat actors through telemetry etc etc.

It’s really refreshing as they’re talking about what is *actually happening* - not all vendors do this.

https://www.wired.com/story/sophos-chengdu-china-five-year-hacker-war/

I hesitate to offer "biggest takeaways" because the case is so convoluted, but one key observation is that the duo's legal victories in Western courts seem to rely more on the ill repute of Russia's justice system (which would love to arrest Z&L) and not the merits of the bankers' case, per se. Amplifying this is the fact that several of the FSB officers and regulators who eventually cracked down on Probusinessbank are suspects in the Magnitsky case.