Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

“Wild groves of olive trees have been harvested by inhabitants of the region for thousands of years, dating back to the Chalcolithic period in the Levant (4,300-3,300 BCE), and the razing of such groves has had calamitous environmental consequences. “[The] removal of trees is directly linked to irreversible climate change, soil erosion, and a reduction in crops,” according to a 2023 Yale Review of International Studies report.”

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-killing-of-gazas-environment/

Via Tamar Hallerman:

Just in: #Fulton Judge McAfee is granting #Trump defendant Shawn Still's request for a stay from "all aspects of the case" until April 18, a few weeks after the legislative session ends. Still, who was charged for his role as a Trump elector, is a state senator #Georgia #TrumpIndictment #legal

https://www.europesays.com/997354/ Political prisoners in Belarus #europe

EA on Monocle Radio: #Israel-#Gaza --- Why #AntonyBlinken's "Show and Little Substance" Visit Will Not Stop The Killing (Scott Lucas w Emma Nelson)

https://eaworldview.com/2024/01/israel

I hope that this can garner some attention since global warming is such a bigger issue than is anything else going on, but I know that climate advocacy isn't as popular as is the cause du jour sadly.

The American oil lobby has launched an eight-figure media campaign this week gaslighting the idea that fossil fuels are “vital” to global energy security when in truth it's the exact opposite.

I wonder if it's $10,000,000 or ninety million?
#ClimateAction #ClimateProgress
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/oil-ads-lights-on-energy

Still true.

QT Michael Busch @michael_w_busch
2022 July 28
#subtweet

Space based solar power is great for powering things in space.

It is not useful for powering things on Earth.

And groups still trying to make it happen seems like a distraction from actual efforts to switch to more sustainable energy sources on the ground.

Have you noticed food products cheating on their labelled content?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90l3HqztTHo
#skimpflation #food #groceries #inflation #reporting #CBC

Love truth, but pardon error. Voltaire, French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)

I was reminded today of a Wallace and Gromit short film that my son used to watch repeatedly when he was a small child. Our favourite bit came at the very end of the video, and it still makes me laugh so much that I'm now just playing that one small segment repeatedly (ffwd to 1:15 if the timestamp in the link doesn’t work):
https://youtu.be/2igRcGxlshA?si=cKlg642TLVhvI03W&t=75

Internal DOD watchdog launches review into Pentagon’s handling of Austin’s hospitalization https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/11/dod-watchdog-pentagons-austin-hospitalization-00135054?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

An Open Letter to Women’s Magazine Editors: It’s Time to Save Reproductive Rights https://msmagazine.com/2024/01/11/womens-magazines-abortion-maternal-health/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #leftistnews #news #VSN

TIL That Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't been part of Planet Hollywood since 2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Hollywood#Public_corporation
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1947jws/til_that_arnold_schwarzenegger_hasnt_been_part_of/

RT @StefWKight: New: Mayorkas has agreed to appear before Congress to defend himself against impeachment efforts by House Republicans https…

There are insurrectionists, charged and uncharged, administering elections across the country.
#fascism #MAGAcoup #gop

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/11/january-6-maryland-elections-official/

Science fiction is a fun and useful way to tell parables about our current technologies. But it's not a roadmap for the future. The fact that sf writers like me found AIs as useful measures to describe Earth's dominant artificial life form - the limited liability corporation - doesn't mean that superhuman AIs should - or *can* - be created.

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Calling All Feminist Students: Join the Young Feminist Leadership Conference in D.C. March 23-25 https://msmagazine.com/2024/01/11/national-young-feminist-leadership-conference/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #leftistnews #news #VSN

Red-whiskered bulbul at the Huntington Gardens last week

https://flic.kr/p/2prcQWk

#naturalist #birds #photography #LosAngeles

'DEFCON-1 warning' in Trump trial argument: analyst https://www.rawstory.com/trump-trial-argument/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Covid wastewater for Palo Alto, California, has exceeded all its previous covid peaks (ever). Source: Stanford University https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater