ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

Just getting started on “Architecture - from prehistory to climate emergency” and it’s got a great expression of why fossil fuels are so addictive: our oil use is equivalent in energy terms to every person on the planet having 50 personal servants.

#introduction I am a public historian and archaeologist at Salem State University, exploring material life in the 17th century Atlantic World, mostly from the perspective on non-Puritan northern New England. I also write about #witchcraft and #countermagic in #Salem and elsewhere. I am a former museum director, dean, and vice provost. Always wondered what it was like to be part of a Great Migration, now I get to find out, with thanks to @lizcovart @jmadelman & @kawulf #histodons

@tchambers @blaine My Bundesland (=state) Baden-Württemberg https://bawü.social/directory is not open for everyone, but it isn't state entities only either. Universities, Student association, libraries and other organizations are on that instance. There is a large range, what the state government and the federal government can build besides a press release hub with comment functions.

This is what can happen when one person owns and control *our* words.

Scientists discover the first evidence that #marine conservation helps to reduce #climate change.

Marine protected areas act as a safeguard for oceans, seas, and estuaries. A group of experts describes how marine protected areas support ecological and social adaptation to #climatechange and help in the sequestration of carbon in a study that was recently published in the journal One Earth.
https://scitechdaily.com/does-marine-conservation-mitigate-climate-change/

Kevin McCarthy still doesn’t have the votes to become Speaker 😆

My career as a disabled artist who makes art about my experiences as a disabled trans person can be summed up via an excerpt from the last grant rejection letter I received:

“…while the members of the selection panel felt your art was evocative, accomplished, and beautiful, we collectively felt the subject matter of disability would disturb and upset art patrons. Your work was ultimately rejected because we felt it wouldn’t resonate with the public.”

…My reality.

#MastoArt #disabled

The fact that for 4 years this anti-American psycho narcisist had the launch codes to their nuclear arsenal is probably the most terrifying thought possible. #Trump

Elon (Twitter) has been recommending newly restored account of neo-Nazi (Anglin) to everyday users - Elon is now Twitter. So I think it's fair to consider every Twitter recommendation to be a recommendation from Elon. - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/03/twitter-antisemitism-violence-jan-6/

Cardea, our little black fox of a dog, died in her sleep last night. She was 14+, had been with us since she was 9 weeks. We collected her at Christmas she has gone to sleep close to Christmas. She is our last dog. We have no more now. Samson went on ahead of her a few months ago. I feel rather sick and shaken, especially as we were not at home to be with her for her last breath. Here she is smelling the almond blossoms. Rest in peace, little girl.

Recently the European Commission published a short article which is basically blatant propaganda for #chatcontrol. Almost every sentence is wrong or misleading in some way. I wrote a blog post detailing what's wrong with their article: https://maxim.tips/chatcontrol-lies/

The original article by the Commission (also linked & fully cited in the blog post): https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/detection-systems-online-child-sexual-abuse-are-reliable-and-save-lives-2022-12-01_en

#Chatkontrolle

From the Dept. of Unconscionable Stupidity, parents refuse vaccinated blood to save their baby ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/30/new-zealand-parents-refuse-use-of-vaccinated-blood-in-life-saving-surgery-on-baby

If we are not able to ask sceptical questions…, to be sceptical of those in authority, then we are up for grabs for the next charlatan…who comes ambling along. —Carl Sagan https://youtu.be/3HU8kCX7tiI

Was sent a Twitter link where a Mastodon post of mine got shared.

I'll now respond to a counter-argument:

1. In the case of Twitter, media ownership literally is like land ownership because:
2. Elon owns the server farm that hosts your tweets
3. "The Cloud" is not some ethereal thing, it's physical
4. Elon Musk has hegemony because he has physical access to Twitter -- you do not
5. You're dismantling nothing by staying on Twitter

See screenshot of argument to my post.

@pvonhellermannn

31,824 new #COVID19 cases (4,213 symptomatic and 27,611 asymptomatic) reported in #China (12/4/22)

2 new deaths (1 in Shandong and 1 in Sichuan)

Source (NHC, China): http://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqtb/202212/28e1dd700f754528bf521edc54e3ff47.shtml

Chart: @OurWorldInData@twitter.com

When teaching the postgraduate students at ANU's School of Cybernetics this year, I introduced them to the idea of "goal perversion" - turning a benevolent AI goal into something rather more malevolent. There was a great paper about this in Nature in February. Scary stuff.

And now, this:

https://zacdenham.com/blog/narrative-manipulation-convincing-gpt-chat-to-write-a-python-program-to-eradicate-humanity

Which is a step-by-step tutorial on how do perform goal perversion with #chatGPT.

Eep.

Sinterklaas festival in Rhinebeck NY!

More info about it - https://sinterklaashudsonvalley.com/the-story/

Via @andrewstroehlein: UN official ‘alarmed’ by jailing of climate activist who blocked traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge | Human rights groups around the world express outrage over ‘disproportionate’ punishment of Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/03/un-official-alarmed-by-jailing-of-climate-activist-who-blocked-traffic-on-sydney-harbour-bridge #ClimateActivistJailed #Australia #Auspol #UN #HumanRights