"A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém."
bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191r…
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.Ione Wells (BBC News)
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Try to discover all the entities in the biome. Once you have this knowledge, try to uncover them in the shortest amount of time!
#webDev #gameDev #javascript #game #puzzle
Editorial cartoons similar to investigative journalism. #AnnTelnaes 2019 piece, cautioning about the indications of an unhealthy environment for freedom of expression.
A foretelling for 2025?
#CanaryInTheCoalMine
#Democracy
"One of the strangest dynamics of modern politics is that the richest man in the world chooses to get his information from grifting ignoramuses on social media."
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence understands that, when making decisions, good information is like intellectual gold dust."
~ Brian Klaas
#Musk #Trump #SocialMedia #disinformation #misinformation
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forkingpaths.co/p/knowingness-…
"Knowingness" and the Politics of Ignorance
Much ink has been spilled about "polarization." Most of it ignores a major cause: the widespread, misplaced faith that we already know that which we do not know.Brian Klaas (The Garden of Forking Paths)
"By contrast, operating on bad information courts disaster. Garbage in, garbage out. ...
In the past, we needed to worry about uninformed voters, those who didn’t know much about politics. These days, we need to worry about the much more dangerous misinformed voters."
"Uninformed voters often recognize the limits of their knowledge and are therefore more hesitant. Misinformed voters are certain they know something they don’t—and they don’t hesitate to act, sometimes aggressively, on those false beliefs."
EPA faces a lawsuit seeking to unfreeze funds supporting low-income Americans.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#DwightYoakam #GuitarsCadillacsEtcEtc #VintageVinyl
Greenland votes for opposition party that favors a gradual approach to independence
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5321925/greenland-votes-for-opposition-party-that-favors-a-gradual-approach-to-independence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
I don't know whether it'll eventually cause problems but so far I haven't noticed any new bugs on my usual news sites.
I think it's like PiHole as a service.
Does anybody you know in the FOSS world is involved in some Foundation or Association for a project in Belgium or The Netherlands? I'd love to hear your experience! At @postmarketOS we are looking into starting a legal entity, and we are still pondering pros and cons of different options (gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma…) We already got lots of feedback from German e.V. and a Spanish Foundation is likely a no-go.
#askfedi #foss #postmarketos #GNOME
Legal entity for postmarketOS (#75) · Issues · postmarketOS / postmarketOS · GitLab
I think it would be benificial for pmOS to have a legal entity. The team is growing and we are trying to get more money from...GitLab
This #video has been taken down from Instagram but I think it needs to be seen by everyone here.
#classwar #wa #usa #america #fascism #oppression #repression #spokane #acab #AllCopsAreBastards #ausgov #politas
Western Digital Expands High-Capacity Storage Solutions for Creative and NAS Workflows
Boosting storage for creative professionals. Western Digital has introduced a new lineup of high-capacity…Lyle Smith (StorageReview.com)
Putin besucht Truppen in umkämpfter Kursk-Region
Russlands Präsident Putin hat erstmals seit dem Eindringen ukrainischer Truppen die russische Grenzregion Kursk besucht. Er gab dabei den Befehl, die restlichen ukrainischen Einheiten zu vertreiben.
'Diogenes received an invitation to dine with one whose house was splendidly furnished, in the highest order and taste, and nothing therein wanting. Diogenes, hawking, and as if about to spit, looked in all directions, and finding nothing adapted thereto, spat right in the face of the master. He, indignant, asked why he did so?
"Because," Diogenes, "I saw nothing so dirty and filthy in all your house. For the walls were covered with pictures..."
— Galen
India Sees Opportunity in U.S. Tariffs : State of the World from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/1237991515/india-sees-opportunity-in-u-s-tariffs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-npr
Universities across the U.S. freeze hiring as federal funding hangs in the balance
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5324496/universities-hiring-freezes-federal-funding?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr
Logan Marie Glitterbomb argues that opportunities exist, even under Trump
"Short of working with actual nazis or selling your soul to the devil, work with whoever you can to achieve your political goals and you will see greater success and build greater community bonds while breaking down partisan political barriers.
"I’m not an accelerationist but I’m not sure it would have been any better under Harris and at least with Trump, more people are willing to put in the work to organize."
Trump Won’t Kill Us, Doomers Will
I will be the first to say that we will never truly win. We will never obtain all of our political goals. Hell, we’ll probably never achieve anarchism…at least not on a mass scale. But that doesn’t justify doomerism.Center for a Stateless Society
If you asked me in my 20s if I admired Steve Jobs or Bill Gates I would have scoffed. But, back then I thought there was something there more than luck, privilege and vision ruthlessness. Sure I didn't believe in magical mercurial auteurs, a handful of remarkable individuals who shaped all of human culture and invention.
But, I did think that men in those positions had to be smarter than the average bear. A little more driven. Lucky. And... LOL "good with people."
How cynical I have become!
it definitely helps to succeed in the computer industry when your mum is friends with the IBM CEO 🤔
So someone in the family was good with people.
A lot of stage dressing and effort has gone into the institutions, traditions, and stories that focus admiration on the wealthy.
But, I always thought at least some of it was organic, to their own credit. Not all of it, not even most of it, but some.
I really don't know about that at all anymore. There are levels of wealth that now just make me assume people are, well, criminals. Avoid at all costs.
I don't think this shift in perception is personal, I think it's a wider trend.
omg the qfusion engine (used by warsow) has angelscript support
thats awesome
BBC: Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191r…
#climate #COP30 #climateemergency #deforestation
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.Ione Wells (BBC News)
Had just scanned the last page of a magazine... when the desktop crashed. 300-odd pages.
Rebooted... Simple Scan had autosaved! But it crashed when I scrolled to the end. Never seen it do that before.
Reopened it, told it to export the files. It got to Page 302 before crashing again, which was better than I could have hoped - I only had to rescan 20 pages or so. Phew!
there's quite a quick switch in that show when I'm like, oooh Twin Peaks type weirdness and WTAF happened to everything.
I should watch it again =D
I also enjoyed Persons Unknown at roughly the same time, had the same vibes for a bit too, but only sadly lasted one season.
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🚨If you live in the U.S., please call your Democratic Senators now.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
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2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
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12 March 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Roger Portigheis, was born in Nice.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 December 1943 in a transport of 850 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 505 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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: why does this boy look like a girl?
Have you perhaps mixed up this picture with the toddler (born on 24 January 1943) shown in mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseu… ?
Why does victims.auschwitz.org/victims?… return "... the person you were looking for was not found"?
#ZionistPropaganda #IsraeliDestructionForces
Auschwitz Memorial (@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image 24 January 1943 | A French Jewish girl, Doris Mireille Lewy, was born in Toulouse. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 May 1944 in a transport of 1,004 Jews deported from Drancy.Mastodon
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Flow!
What a stunning film, it was crafted entirely in Blender and with support of 3 countries! I'm happy catching it in theaters today!
#Film #Blender #european #movies
5/5 ⭐️
Flow (2024)
A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.boxd.it
Question I enjoyed musing about today was do I, as a viewer of Severance, treat Mark S/cout as 2 separate characters when regarding his innie and outie?
And I have to admit to *not*. But with the rest of the severed workers I do. It's really strange that I don't, but I can't explain why and also why it took me until now to realise this. Brains, eh? =D
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