Clif @Clif@social.cleverlibre.org

There are a couple of reasons why @ElonMusk tweeting memes featuring Nazis is not only reprehensible, but insanely irresponsible.

I mean, his gaff, his rules, but while there's still the opportunity to call shit out, we should be obligated to take it. 🧵

NOTE: Republicans have not yet won a majority in the House.

It could happen and more races have been called for Republicans.

But Democrats also have a chance.

Votes are still being counted.

The number of delegates with links to fossil fuels at the UN #climate summit has jumped 25% from the last meeting, analysis shared with the BBC shows.
Campaign group Global Witness found more than 600 people at the #COP27 talks in Egypt are linked to fossil fuels.
That's more than the combined delegations from the 10 most climate-impacted countries.
#climate #climatechange
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63571610

Instead of a red wave, there was a “green wave” in the U.S. election, as one environmental advocate puts it. This included Democrats taking complete control of state government in four states.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09112022/state-legislature-democratic-trifectas-massachusetts-maryland-michigan-minnesota/

Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland significantly underestimated!

Or played down? We will need Ice Management or we loose our Beaches! https://www.dtu.dk/english/news/all-news/ice-loss-from-northeastern-greenland-significantly-underestimated?id=7a4b9574-092e-46ce-8dd9-1a9c2b4548a8

Communicating climate science via analogies is an ongoing series of blog posts created by two members of the Skeptical Science team, Evan (text) and jg (graphics).

The latest article is an updated version of analogy #9 "The greenhouse effect is a stack of blankets":

A few blankets over your body are a good thing on a cool night. They keep you warm and happy. More blankets and you sweat. Many more blankets and you ... You get the idea.

https://skepticalscience.com/SkS_Analogy_09_Greenhouse_effect_stack_of_blankets_2022.html

#twittermigration #mastodonmigration
Check out the new Mastodon Migration site for Quick Start, News, Guides and other resourses:
https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#43bc

I'm a brand new Mastodon user.

Earlier I promised a more thought out explanation on why it seems to me that the Mastodon model can cure the worst evils of social media and creating a genuine and workable public sphere.

A draft is here:
https://terikanefield.com/can-the-mastodon-model-cure-the-worst-evils-of-social-media/

It's a draft because there is SO much I don't know.

@antonioserrata

Here is a great thread on how to handle this: https://mastodon.social/@ifixcoinops/109311990514936150

New from me: Twitter has spent much of Wednesday battling a wave of blue-check verified impostor accounts posing as Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, LeBron James and even Nintendo — just hours after Twitter launched its paid verification feature https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/tech/twitter-impersonators-paid-verification/index.html

It's time for your evening read, friends.

Mastodon and the fediverse have existed for years. For those who were here long before it's popularity skyrocketed, it's been a mix of emotions watching it grow.

This is a really enlightening read and the best thing I read all day. Please take a moment to give it a read yourself.

Home invasion: Mastodon's Eternal September begins

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

I have given one man immense power over my social media life:

@ruud

Nope, not the wealthiest man in the world! But Ruud Schilders is doing a wealth of good running mastodon.world with good equipment and policies.

I hope my WSJ Mastodon guide helps people understand this community and the role trust + information plays in picking a server.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-have-44-billion-for-your-own-social-media-network-try-mastodon-11668002451?st=rf6shbsb89ki10i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

@mathewi

This really means a fringe case has blocked its own users from following/engaging with users of journa.host because the site manager has a chip on his shoulder. Not worth anyone's time to worry about it

Amazing beauty of the cosmos.

Early autumn sea surface temperature rankings from ERA5 courtesy of World Climate Service shows nearly all of the north Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to North America was unusually warm, with record warm #sst (compared to the past 60 years) south of the Aleutians and off the British Columbia coast.Bering and Chukchi Seas mostly near to above average sea surface temps but not dramatically so. #akwx

Yet, like with the subprime mortgage crisis, Wall Street continues to fan the flames, this time, by pouring billions of dollars every year into risky fossil fuels. Despite having made public "net-zero by 2050" commitments, in 2021 six US banks provided $63.9 billion in financing to companies that are rapidly expanding coal, oil & gas operations. This is disastrous for the long-term health of our economy & our planet

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/09/wall-street-gambling-our-future-federal-reserve-must-act-now

#pollution #ecology
#ClimateChange #climate #USA #US

The large North East Greenland Ice Stream is speeding up. It is accelerating at the front, it is accelerating in the back, and also in between. Changes to #NEGIS is important for #SeaLevelRise because it is a large part of the #Greenland mass budget.

Two new papers
* Khan and friends on how frontal changes are spreading in land: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05301-z
* Me and friends on what is happening even further back: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32999-2