Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

#Palestine / UN expert committee: Israel’s detention of Palestinian journalists unlawful

“The U.N. Working Group’s determination that three Palestinian journalists were unlawfully held by Israel illustrates how imprisonment is wielded to take them out of commission,” said CPJ Director of Advocacy and Communications Gypsy Guillén Kaiser. “These journalists, and dozens of others put behind bars since the start of the war, are in a black hole of potentially endless detention, where they face brutal treatment. Israel must comply with its international commitments and end these arbitrary detentions.” 

https://cpj.org/2024/10/un-expert-committee-israels-detention-of-palestinian-journalists-unlawful/

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
#IsraelOccupation
#OutlawIsrael

"The world is striving to reach net-zero emissions as we try to ward off dangerous global warming. But will getting to net-zero actually avert climate instability, as many assume?

Our new study examined that question. Alarmingly, we found reaching net-zero in the next few decades will not bring an immediate end to the global heating problem. Earth’s climate will change for many centuries to come.

And this continuing climate change will not be evenly spread. Australia would keep warming more than almost any other land area. For example if net-zero emissions are reached by 2060, the Australian city of Melbourne is still predicted to warm by 1°C after that point.

But that’s not to say the world shouldn’t push to reach net-zero emissions as quickly as possible. The sooner we get there, the less damaging change the planet will experience in the long run."

https://theconversation.com/earths-climate-will-keep-changing-long-after-humanity-hits-net-zero-emissions-our-research-shows-why-241692

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ZeroEmissions #GasEmissions

There's also "Lord of the Flies", which came out in 1954, and cemented the idea that young boys -- when removed from the moral guardrails of proper British society -- would become absolute terrors to one another

But when this happened in reality -- when six boys were marooned on a remote island for 15 months -- they all cheerfully banded together and co-operated, including carefully tending for one boy who broke his leg, while it healed: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

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Earth is racing toward #climate conditions that collapsed key Atlantic currents before the last ice age, study finds https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/earth-is-racing-toward-climate-conditions-that-collapsed-key-atlantic-currents-before-the-last-ice-age-study-finds

#GlobalWarming caused vital Atlantic Ocean currents to collapse just before the last ice age.

#WarmingClimate #FossilFuels #ClimateAction

I have more respect for Liz Cheney after refusing to be silent in the face of death threats like this from the #GOP candidate.
Vote for #KamalaHarris
Go #Kamala!

#harris
#harriswalz
#VoteBlue
#VoteBlue2024
#TrumpIsAFascist
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Outreachy is getting squeezed financially from reduced funding related to diversity programs and reduced funding for open source orgs. Can you help us spread the word about how important the program is and help us connect to folks who might contribute funding?

https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2024-08-14/outreachy-needs-your-help/

Donald Trump is a sex trafficking pedophile rapist.

He was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for 30 years.

Elon Musk & Vladimir Putin are in on it too.

It’s more horrific & treasonous than you could possibly imagine.

This is your Pizzagate.

This is your Republican Party.

Nature Is Angry! New Era Of Extreme Weather: UK Met Office Chief Meteorologist & Climate Risk Prof
"how the mega storm events we are now seeing so frequently, are generated and why they are going to get more intense and more widespread."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsJBBxNSkfk

@dmacphee "Preprints are preprints because they’re published on a platform for preprints: It’s not synonymous with un-peer-reviewed. And the screening at good preprint servers is better quality control than exists at the worst journals.
Authors can, and often do, upload new versions of a preprint after responses to the first version, or after journal peer review."

"The quality of so many of them is so high, and the quality of so many journal reports of research so low, that I don’t think publication status is a reliable distinction."

"... the onus for not misleading the public lies in vetting a preprint before publishing a news story about it. Cautioning that it’s a preprint doesn’t really get anyone off the hook."

#ScientificPublishing