Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org

The whole ecosystem is "marked" by radioactive particles globally distributed by nuclear weapon testing:

"Anthropogenic uranium signatures in turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles from nuclear sites"

There are countless species, flora and fauna, with studies tracking this. Interested in more on this, read my book *Nuclear Bodies*

#Anthropocene #nuclear #NuclearTesting @histodons

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/8/pgad241/7244772

There’s no duller category of #mastodon post than “Twitter is bad and so are the people posting there.”

Good morning folks... today we're launching our new (free, browser-based) game Trust & Safety Tycoon. Please go check it out. Everyone thinks they know how trust & safety should work, but very few have actually done the job. Now's your chance! trustandsafety.fun

So this looks very fun to play, I'm very impressed by it all things considered! https://trustandsafety.fun

Here's @mmasnick with some details into the creation of this trust and safety-themed challenge of a game. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/17/trust-safety-tycoon-try-your-hand-at-managing-a-social-media-trust-safety-team/

A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The #Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him.
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Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let #murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.

#StLouis #Missouri #Crime #CriminalJustice #Courts #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/homicide-detective-st-louis-refused-testify-roger-murphey-kim-gardner?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

1/ Russia's Southern Military District is witnessing an explosion of murders committed by serving soldiers. Cases have increased at a rate that is unprecedented in recent years, up by more than 2,400 per cent in a single year. It's a direct result of the war in Ukraine. ⬇️

Nice quote on LLM "AI" for coding:

> One of the things it does it regurgitate the old patterns you want to stop using and not the new stuff you do. Basically it's a copy pasta tech debt generator.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832050

Not quite what I expected the result of this decision to be

Sumar: EU’s double standards in Israeli-Palestinian conflict are unacceptable https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/sumar-eus-double-standards-in-israeli-palestinian-conflict-are-unacceptable/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I wanted to consolidate a few thoughts on google, misinformation, large language models, enshittification, and the fate of the web as we know it.

It started when Carl Zimmer shared this remarkable example of Google being fooled by machine-generated bullshit online.

"The analysis, conducted by researchers in the US and UK, found that the carbon footprint of each satellite constellation is potentially 14 to 21 times higher per internet subscriber than the emissions associated with land-based."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394949-starlink-carbon-footprint-up-to-30-times-size-of-land-based-internet/

#Satellites #Space #SpaceSustainability #Starlink #SpaceX

If you're into #maps or #geography, this #FollowFriday is for you.

@coreyspowell — Award-winning science writer, co-founder of OpenMind magazine

@floledermann — Researching & teaching interactive maps at TU Wien

@GIS_Bandit — Product manager at #GIS software company Esri

@GregCocks — Researcher & spatial data scientist at U.S. Geological Survey

@History_of_Geology — A channel dedicated to the history of #earth sciences

@opencage — Provider of geocoding and geo-search using open data

International mission finds that Turkey’s press freedom crisis has deepened

Journalists continue to face harassment, arbitrary imprisonment and prosecution. Those responsible for attacks and threats against the press enjoy alarming levels of impunity.

https://ifex.org/international-mission-finds-that-turkeys-press-freedom-crisis-has-deepened/

Twitter/X is now removing headlines from links and Threads/Meta is prohibiting searches of public health terms like Covid and vaccines.

Billionaires are dangerously restricting people’s access to news.

It looks like the recently launched iOS 17 has reenabled a couple of privacy settings behind its users' back. These include Significant Locations and iPhone Analytics. For increased privacy, security experts have always advised to have both options set to OFF: https://archive.ph/2AcSI

@kellylepo @astro_jcm

Really good to combine with "before"

Ex. from:me before:2023-04-04

#MastoTips

#Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report | X (formerly known as Twitter)

> A report ranking #climatechange #misinformation gave Twitter (recently rebranded as X) only a single point out of a 21-point scorecard when assessing policies aimed at reducing inaccurate information – the worst out of five major tech platforms.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/20/twitter-x-musk-climate-misinformation-social-platforms #ElonMusk