Brent Williams @hbw@social.cleverlibre.org

Amazing map: Where people are concentrated

120 years of climate change animated

Countries turn from mainly blue to mainly red in more recent years, illustrating the rise in average temperatures in that country.

For each country, the average temperature in 1971-2000 is set as the boundary between blue and red colors, and the color scale varies from +/- 2.6 standard deviations of the annual average temperatures between 1901-2000.
"Warming stripe" data: https://showyourstripes.info/c/globe
Viz: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/hdoxkv/oc_animated_map_showing_120_years_of_climate/
#Climate #ClimateChange

@tiago @lmrocha @estebanmoro @hirokisayama @PessoaBrain @danielemarinazzo

With this high level of unequal resource distribution, the admins of the largest instances also will have costs that are not even comparable to the ones of the smallest instances: the scaling is simply not that simple.

Sustainability, moderation, robustness to attacks: tons of potential problems for the #Mastodon system.

#TwitterMigration #MigrationShock #ComplexSystems

Again, a quick and dirty analysis, but if I have no bugs then the 1% largest #Mastodon instances accounts for 84% of all users.

The top 5% accounts for 97% of all users.

We can say that the system is effectively centralizing around a few instances, and this might be a problem for the overall stability and sustainability.

@tiago @lmrocha @estebanmoro @hirokisayama @PessoaBrain @danielemarinazzo

#MastoStat #ComplexSystems

Thread.

Q: “Republicans enact policies that hurt their own constituents.

So why do people vote for them?”

A: It has to do with the purpose of government.

For some people, purpose of government is to help people. We think fairness is possible and the government's job is to create fairness.

Others have a different view.

They think there’s a natural order: Some people belong on top; others at the bottom.

They think people with money and power deserve their money and power.

1/

I'm curious about the extent of political diversity in the mainstream Fediverse.

If you're in the U.S, which is the best match for your political identity?

Please boost.
#Mastodon #politics #Twitter

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Dem lawmakers give Chief Justice Roberts an ultimatum on ethics issues, in wake of reports on alleged 2014 #SCOTUS leak & lobbying of justices. You probe or Congress will, Sen. Whitehouse & Rep. Hank Johnson declare in new letter https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/20/supreme-court-roberts-whitehouse-johnson-00069673

This is the binary black hole animation I made for Black Hole Week 2021 and the reason I joined twitter at the time. So I guess it is fitting to start with it here.

We’re obviously still waiting for more details about the horrific Colorado Springs mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub, but based on everything we do know and everything we’ve seen in recent months and years, this looks like stochastic terrorism — and the persons responsible for the rhetoric are already targeting another LGBTQ org in Colorado Springs. 1/

Like birds and their plumage, Silicon Valley signaling can be a spectacle.

With all of the upheaval going on -- it's not just about Twitter failing or the other layoffs -- there's other factors in play, including stagnation.

I hope and expect to see new things built -- and maybe even a power realignment.

However, for tonight, let me show you an O RLY? moment if you know who is who.

Tintern Abbey under the stars (from MadsPeterInverse, Twitter)

When people tell me I'm overreacting to the threat posed our lack of regulations on motor vehicle size

"Mass shootings, where four or more people — not including the shooter — are injured or killed, have averaged more than one per day so far this year.

Not a single week in 2022 has passed without at least four mass shootings."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/02/mass-shootings-in-2022/