Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org

8 days. https://www.effinbirds.com/pages/books-and-calendars

@jacobschumer It’s kind of amazing that a law firm has *already* been caught filing a brief with fake legal authorities generated by #ChatGPT.

Good evening pachyderms. I became exasperated with crypto people telling that Tether was safer than banks because banks are fractionally reserved but Tether is "overcollateralised". So I've written a piece explaining exactly why Tether is fractionally reserved like banks and no safer than banks. Paywalled, I'm afraid, but I hope worth the small subscription!

https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/tether-is-fractionally-reserved?sd=pf

How does foreign direct investment #FDI impact the local labour markets in #Africa? Find out at our upcoming #brownbag with Margherita Tambussi @unitorino

📅30 May 2023
🕐12:15
📍WTI, Bern or Zoom

✍https://bit.ly/3OC1joU

Elon Musk is launching the presidential campaign of Ron DeSantis, the man working to make The Handmaid’s Tale a reality in the US.

At least the Germans had guns to their heads if they opposed the Nazis. What exactly is your excuse for continuing to support this man and his social network?

https://www.inkl.com/a/XYJygRUYwaY

#ElonMusk #RonDeSantis #Twitter #fascists #fascism

The Big Q&A is a series of The Big Picture where we sit down with some of the most important voices of our times to ask them the big picture questions. Today’s interview is with former mayor of Campbell, California and current member of the California State Assembly, Evan Low.

In 2016, New York Magazine identified Low as a potential future United States presidential candidate and in the 2017-2018 session, The Sacramento Bee recognized Low as California's most prolific lawmaker with the most bills signed by the governor.

This is a not-to-be-missed interview with an up-and-coming Democrat with a bright future. We hope you share it far and wide: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/big-questions-answers-evan-low

To UK academics (students and staff).

⚠ If you're offered work marking in the next months, please say no!

It's likely an attempt to break our marking and assessment boycott, our most effective industrial action to avoid threatened pay cuts.

Please boost if you have UK followers.

#ucu #ucurising #academicchatter

Stripping abortion rights away nationally, imposing their beliefs on every American--that is their true goal. And the GOP won’t stop until it's achieved.

The fact is, the Republican Party has been hijacked by a White Christian nationalist movement that wants to impose its own “morality” on the entire country, not merely red states: https://bit.ly/3WmTdlX

Prequels

This is perhaps an unpopular opinion, but a sincere one.

Star Wars (and, no, not "A New Hope" thank you) was better without prequels

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a far more wonderful story with no origins for the lamppost, Narnia, the witch and indeed the wardrobe.

Even prequels by the author undermine the original piece of work

Hard to think of many prequels in film or literature that are worthwhile and do not diminish

Godfather perhaps, maybe? But other than that?

Perspective: The 1980 eruption of #MountStHelens #otd vented approximately 10 million tons of #CO2 into the atmosphere in only 9 hours. However, it currently takes humanity only 2.5 hours to put out the same amount.

https://universeodon.com/@DeerWhispers/110390594501980889

U.S. Geological Survey https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcanoes-can-affect-climate#

Here are some questions you can ask yourself for every #GAAD announcement you encounter today. https://ericwbailey.website/published/global-accessibility-anger-day/

Happy CPCAAD!

(That’s “Companies Pretend to Care About Accessibility Day”.)

Truth:

We’ve added the energy of 25 billion nuclear bombs to the Earth system in just the last 50 years.

Almost all of this energy to date has been taken up by the oceans. https://theconversation.com/two-trillion-tonnes-of-greenhouse-gases-25-billion-nukes-of-heat-are-we-pushing-earth-out-of-the-goldilocks-zone-202619

As Earth system modeler making climate change projections, I am used seeing them as possible scenarios.

However seeing how our climate change projections unfold in front of us, new records and extremes being reported nearly daily, makes my blood freeze.

#ClimateDiary #climatecrisis #climatechange

Day 2 - Closing Plenary
Anuna De Wever

'We are fundamentally rethinking the global economy, because we must'

'Who are we growing this economy for and what stories do we

'If we move beyond growth we need to acknowledge what lays behind: white supremacy, colonisation, and imperialism'

'There is no degrowth without decolonisation'

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth