ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

The biennial Living Planet report is out. Cites near 70% loss of all wildlife on this planet since 1970. Two years ago the estimate was at 68%, four years ago, it was 60%.

"Many scientists believe we are living through the sixth mass extinction – the largest loss of life on Earth since the time of the dinosaurs – and that it is being driven by humans."

Primary driver is habitat loss due to agriculture, the vast majority of it animal agriculture and livestock feedcrops.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-70-of-animal-populations-wiped-out-since-1970-report-reveals-aoe

@atomicpoet

Also there's the Texas anti-moderation bill that is a serious threat to all large social media sites.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/netchoice-paxton-first-amendment-social-media-content-moderation/671574/

Making moderation illegal is absolutely insane to anyone who understands what kinds of nightmares gets vomited up in to the moderation queues.

All the bike lanes in the Netherlands
i'm so fucking jealous this is litterally the entire country

This year alone, Mark Zuckerberg has lost $72 billion of his personal wealth. https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/mark-e-zuckerberg/?sref=eeq6exxF&leadSource=uverify%20wall

Many people ask, "Can you sell free software?" The answer is "Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software." Read the full answer at https://u.fsf.org/3kq #GNUGPLFAQ

@selea I've always loved how companies block smaller email domains like Tutanota and others for "spam", yet Gmail has more spam than all of them combined, and rarely puts any actual effort other than automation to solving it.

Unlikely that she personally contributed to the plan. Totally consistent with the wider #DraconianCrackdown since proof of age=proof of identity=no more anonymity online.
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RT @POLITICOEurope
How can we make the world a better place?

UK Prime minister hopeful Liz Truss has a plan: we break up the internet — into TWO internets.
https://bit.ly/3bycFsI
https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1556155392253693956

Emissary

The best explination I've ever seen of why the argument against online privacy is stupid:

Next person who lectures me about comparing monkey pox to COVID gets a block because:

1. I never compared monkey pox to COVID
2. Besides COVID, other illnesses can be a pandemic
3. Just because a vaccine exists doesn't mean everyone will take it, thereby preventing a pandemic

We already have 24,000 cases of monkey pox around the globe—all I'm saying is take it seriously.

Remember to post your FSF stickers

https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/gnu-press/source-files/stickers/there-is-no-cloud.svg

@atomicpoet In his autobiography Julian Cope talks about being on Top Of The Pops while also being on the dole. The label is paying for the tour and taking the money, he's not even making enough to sign off the labour list.

Wild success as a musician can get you money and groupies but moderate success won't and most musicians don't even get that.

Show business is all facade.