ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

I can't call my doctor today because voice calls are broken on pmOS.

I don't emphasize the importance of prioritizing mobile phone functionality to throw shade at pmOS, but because it's important for people's lives.

;#KimStanleyRobinson's 2020 novel #MinistryForTheFuture was a groundbreaking work: it's the tale of a detailed, plausible transition from a world on a collision course with civilization-ending climate catastrophe to one where the challenge is met, with humanity collectively deciding to save itself:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/ministry-for-the-future/#ksr

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The biggest constitutional change for a century?

Labour’s report would transfer major powers from Westminster to nations and regions, and formalise and protect the constitution.

#Labour
Via @bylineseast@mas.to
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/the-biggest-constitutional-change-for-a-century/

Would be great to see #governments not so blatantly endorse a product. 48 CFR § 1452.203-70 prohibits. #Microsoft
#Word should be replaced with something else. Maybe #OpenDocument Text? Wouldn't you agree @libreoffice?

In my news feed at the same time:
In Ukraine: There is no power, but fortunately people can still shop for food using flashlights and cash.
In Denmark: Danish trade association HORESTA is making yet another effort to convince politicians to allow businesses not to support cash payment anymore — while there is an actual war going on in Europe.

I am on my way to the #Biodiversity #COP15 in #Montreal. I am looking forward to meeting wonderful friends and colleagues, but I also go with a bit of a heavy heart. We need #transformative proposals that tackle the root causes of the destruction of #nature, not more of the same. ☘️❤️

Accelerating Antarctic ice, liars headed to court, spacecraft, snowmaking machines and trying our hand at --intentionally-- tampering with the atmosphere are only a few of the explosively complicated effects of anthropogenic climate change covered in this week's Skeptical Science New Research, #49 for 2022 and counting back up to #1.

There are 142 articles published in 57 journals with ~1,011 contributing authors in this week's edition.

Russia's barbaric bombing continues in Ukraine.

We are making the Kremlin pay for its cruelty and stepping up our pressure.

Today we propose the 9th package of sanctions.

It complements the existing sanctions that are already biting hard.

#StandWithUkraine

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1600538807744577548

Today, DOE "proposed a rule requiring electrification of all new & renovated federal buildings. Starting in 2025, those buildings would be required to reduce their on-site emissions tied to energy consumption by 90%, and 'fully decarbonize' by 2030." https://www.enr.com/articles/55531-us-proposes-energy-efficiency-standards-for-federal-buildings#:~:text=Additionally%2C%20the%20U.S.%20Dept.%20of,%E2%80%9Cfully%20decarbonize%E2%80%9D%20by%202030.

This is possibly the most depressing thing on the internet right now but I'm afraid we're going to have to face up to it...
https://www.biodiversitystripes.info/
#biodiversity
#biodiversityStripes

Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.

When I hear about the coup attempt in Germany & the desire of these violent extremists to insert Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss as the leader after a planned execution of the German chancellor, it sounds ludicrous, laughable. But that's the thing: These people are deadly serious.

Because the plots of these anti-democratic extremists often seem so ludicrous, they can succeed because the public--& too many leaders--don't take them seriously enough. This tendency is how Trump got as far as he did.

An awful lot of people do not understand algorithms, Section 230, or the 1st Amendment... and it seems that basically all of them filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court today. This could very much be the end of Section 230 if the Supreme Court buys their arguments.

What a mess.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21-1333.html

The spirit of this little waterfall in early summer on a rainy, foggy day was so lively and cheerful! The #moss and other plant beings were loving it! This was taken on the Bruce Peninsula on the Georgian Bay shoreline just below Gillies Lake. Water from the lake percolates through the Karst topography of the limestone Niagara Escarpment and a little stream emerged from the steep rocky rise about 50 metres from the shoreline just above the Cabot Head Road. This photo was taken on June 12, 2010, one of my earliest waterfall photos and first for #WaterfallWednesday on Mastodon.

#nature #forest #waterfall #natureconnection #naturephotography #landscapephotography #mosstodon #photography #pagan #animism @animism

USA: President attempts coup. He leaves office and continues grifting and lying and sowing division and is now running for re-election.

PERU: President attempts coup. He's impeached, arrested and thrown in jail.

Several Mastodon instances (including Newsie) have come under cyber-attack recently by state-level actors.

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Today's #SCOTUS hearing left @marcelias cautiously reassured: "There seems little chance that the Court will deny state courts their traditional role of interpreting and applying their state constitutions to state laws governing elections."
://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/headed-toward-a-middle-ground-todays-argument-in-moore-v-harper/

Uh, anyone know what happened to Lawfare? @arozenshtein? @klonick?