Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

New post to my ShadowHaunted blog!
https://shadowhaunted.com/2022/11/30/murder-cult-now-on-mastodon-and-tumblr/

I'll share here a reminder I also periodically fired off on birbsite - If you are feeling overwhelmed by stuff I, or anyone, is boosting - head to the user's profile, click on the 3-dots, and "hide boosts" from the account. You'll still see their own posts, or things they embed in other ways as they wish to comment.

But it'll filter out those of us just quickly firing off a boost to share/mark for ourselves/acknowledge a post.

Puerto Rican municipalities have filed a lawsuit in federal court saying ExxonMobil Corp, Shell Plc, Chevron Corp and others colluded to publicly downplay the risks of their fossil-fuel products on climate change and are financially responsible for damages from the devastating 2017 hurricane season, which was made worse by global warming

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/puerto-rican-towns-sue-big-oil-under-rico-alleging-collusion-climate-denial-2022-11-29/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate #PortoRico #Caribbean

A #buck seen in Walnut Creek as it readies for another cool evening in Contra Costa county. The average lifespan for a deer in the wild is 3-6 years. Deer use body language to communicate with each other. They can run up to 40mph, and jump up to 10ft high. Yes, that’s its tongue sticking out at me. Guess it’s time to move on. #deer #wildlife #walnutcreek #ContraCostaCounty #hoof #

Thanks, Alito.

35,432,153 more Americans have contracted COVID, and 230,552 have died since the Supreme Court rejected the vaccine mandates. #ThanksAlito

@emptywheel followers. It is much easier to read text based images with image cropping disabled. If you are seeing cropped images that make the text impossible to read, you can turn off cropping in Preferences.

Reportedly the leaked personal data (name and phone number) of 250+ million #whatsup users has been scraped through search engines such as google with `site:wa.me "+country-code"`

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pHu0_ksUAbQ

If you are an affected user then be careful about who's calling you as this information can be used for "spear phishing"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing#Spear_phishing] meaning someone calling your phone number and addressing you by your name to scam/blackmail you.

#xp #security #whatsup #meta #privacy #dataleak

There's a certain Twitter migrant who likes Twitter but hates Elon Musk.

For me, I just hate Twitter.

Elon Musk is therefore a useful illustration for why centralization and corporate control over social media is terrible.

But Twitter has always been evil—whether or not Elon Musk runs it.

And post.news is evil for the same reason Twitter is: it's corporate-run centralization of social media.

Some people actually want that because they're not convinced that Twitter was always evil.

Give a man a fish. Sure, why not? Go around giving strangers weird fish gifts. Who cares

We've seen this illustrated again & again in recent years: reactionaries can only tear down & destroy. They can't build anything. Selfish, resentful, dull-minded people who define their whole identity around victimhood ... are not built for creativity & adaptability.

@jwz So many people, who should know better, blogging about their switch to Hive on the basis of user experience or some other vacuous crap, and not fundamentals like, “Is this monetized, and if not yet, when how and who?” or “who runs this?” or “is it sane to choose another set of castle walls to live as a peasant within?”

#Cryptocurrency mining in #Texas currently uses about 2,000 megawatts of power ... out of approximately 80,000 megawatts total on the Texas grid during peak demand.

“It is primarily used for speculation. I think that’s important to realize. And that is somehow worth the electricity usage of small countries? That blows my mind,” said crypto skeptic Molly White/ https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-is-becoming-a-bitcoin-mining-capital-can-the-grid-handle-it/

#Bitcoin #Environment #Energy #News

I stopped posting on Twitter a week ago because I don’t want to help a nazi sympathizing billionaire man-baby with his website. Feels good to not be doing that. Can I get an amen?

For all arguments about staying on Twitter, I’d just quote what someone on here said earlier:

When a Nazi buys your bar and starts inviting over all the other Nazis, it’s a Nazi Bar. I wouldn’t go to a Nazi Bar.

That’s it.

Excited to be hosting a small workshop after #AAS241: SETI with LSST! Jan 13, at UW.

This remarkable new telescope and survey will open up so much exploration space! Reach out if you’re interested
#astronomy #AstroDon #telescope #science #PNW

Purr Division - Unknown Whiskers
#caturday via @thekittencovers@tumblr.com

#Caturday teaser