Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org

Sometimes, the best way to protect a replanted forest is to log some of it.

New research from Smithsonian Institution scientists shows that paying people who replant tropical forests with some of the timber has benefits for both #ClimateJustice and the ecosystem, as it can lead to longer-term sustainability as participants feel a sense of pride and responsibility for the project’s success.
https://theconversation.com/paying-people-to-replant-tropical-forests-and-letting-them-harvest-the-timber-can-pay-off-for-climate-justice-and-environment-219894
#trees

This strategy of silencing criticism has extended into the digital realm, with X CEO #ElonMusk’s platform playing a pivotal role in the Indian gov’s transnational repression. At the Indian government’s behest, Musk’s platform deleted hundreds of posts sharing a #BBC documentary exposing Modi’s role in a 2002 anti-Muslim massacre that unofficial estimates indicate as many as 2,000 lives.
https://truthout.org/articles/free-speech-absolutist-musk-is-abetting-modis-suppression-of-voices-in-india/

Camera, Action!

https://crimethinc.com/CameraAction

On January 26 and 27, during the first International Gathering of Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian Practices against Borders in Tijuana, Mexico, the Ex-Worker Podcast will present a curated series of anarchist films from around the world. In addition to showing our own published shorts and debuting some new material, we will curate a series of anarchist features, dramas, video propaganda, oddities, and experiments.

You're invited to submit your work!

Here, we present our submission parameters and review some of the precedents for anti-border gatherings like this one.

"right-wing political violence accounted for more than 90% of all attacks or plots in the first half of 2020, far outpacing terrorism from any other source since 1990.

And since 2020, it’s gotten increasingly worse. A Reuters investigation published in August found that U.S. political violence is worse than it’s been at any point since the 1970"

https://inthesetimes.com/article/far-right-mainstream-media-right-wing-tea-party-oath-keepers

#extremism #RightWing #InTheseTimes

@glennf You may appreciate this history I made, which combined YahooPipes with Delicious for doing monitoring work:
https://bureaucracksy.constantvzw.org/delicious-user-guide/

Did you love Yahoo! Pipes and miss it? I sure did. I wrote this history of the graphical web-based processing tool that sure seemed like the future when it was introduced! https://retool.com/pipes I interviewed the core team and several other folks so we could finally have a definitive history. (And forget my words, even—the illustrations are amazing!)

This is part of a series at Retool, a visual programming tools company, that decided to make sure the past wasn’t forgotten.

We are on the cusp of creating a world where it will be normalized for Mastodon users to follow Threads users and where it will feel strange that a Threads user can’t follow a Twitter user. This is the a vision that many of us have been pushing Meta on for at least 15 years (remember OpenSocial?)

It’s ironic then that the biggest opponents of this future are Mastodon admins who have blocked Threads integration with their slice of the Fediverse.

Who would have expected this outcome?

I’m in the process of moving all of a parent’s credit, banking, online ordering, and medical accounts over to my phone number bc they (my parent) can no longer deal with five-step logins and mandatory SMS codes across wildly inconsistent patterns and hoooooo boy are the tech companies and systems unprepared for what is about to hit them, generationally.

It took five phone calls, three codes, and two emails to change just one account over.

@jlroberson @Npars01 @scalzi

It's very reductive to think of the decent people still on Twitter as shallow idiots.

As was said earlier a oot of networks and communities are vanishing from the platform. Guess what's happening to the remaining members who don't know how to find safe alternatives elsewhere? Or whose friends a support networks are only easily accessible via Xitter?

Many of them are victims of that takeover, I think they deserve a bit more kindness...

This is unprecedented as far as I know. It is, in fact, historic. Biden staffers organized a vigil outside the #WhiteHouse calling on their boss to call for a ceasefire.
Wow!
And to the staffers, thank you so much!

#CHR2023 has been a very rich experience! Already looking forward to CHR2024 in Aarhus where we'll have some first results from the GOLEM project golemlab.eu

Btw, we're also hiring a PhD to work on the computational analysis of narrative in argumentative text

https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AI7P

#nlproc