Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@ChrisMayLA6 Tories eh? 1984 I was a teacher in a school with many leaks in the roof. Getting no-where with officials the head drove to county hall to shout at the director. He came away with £50 from petty cash to buy buckets. At my daughter's school slates were falling from the roof into the playground. The council erected barriers to stop the kids playing in the danger zone. And bought buckets. 40 years later we still let these people have power over us. Why?

mastodon needs to put on its big boy pants and realize that, like it or not, there are people now who depend on it for their literal survival

@zleap @primonatura

It doesn't matter how important it is. The fundamental problem is that it cannot be done. The first step is just accepting this fact as reality.

And even if there were a way of solving it in a short amount of time, it would simply not resemble the strategies endorsed by any environmentalist group. That is because most environmentalists are not serious people, and are basically engaging in wishful thinking. We would have to switch the entire movement to something that focuses on nuclear power, mass transit, urban redesign, as well as shifting to focusing on industrial policy and not attacking personal behavior. The last of which has an interesting parallel to anti-obesity campaigns, which often devolve into personal attacks.

Ultimately, our entire understanding of the problem must change. Once you grasp the nature of the dilemma, you will move away from looking at fantastical plans that you often hear. In particular, the focus will shift to ideas that provide long-term solutions to the problem, not short-term "fix it now" ideas which are unlikely to work despite being publicly popular. This also means accepting more painful compromises. Ideas like geoengineering, which is often seen as a dirty word, is become more and more unavoidable. More effort needs to go into mitigation strategies like drought and flood prevention tactics, rather than pretending that solutions to climate change can happen fast enough.

"Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, have been charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women, prosecutors in Romania said Tuesday." https://apnews.com/article/romania-andrew-tate-rape-trafficking-charge-fb22c837027bf44ddf0316d46dfaf2b1

The rogue 2FA app that steals scanned secrets is now ranked 18 on the German App Store for the productivity category. No wonder! The app disguises as a Microsoft app. It is the top hit when you search for "Microsoft Authenticator" and the developer has updated the screenshots in the ad card to highlight the word "Microsoft". Surprisingly, the product page of the app shows different screenshots with the word "Microsoft" removed.
The app now has 1.2K reviews, as opposed to 18 when we first addressed the app.

#privacy #security #2FactorAuthentication #iOS #infosec

MAGA Florida Man Tries To Impeach Joe Biden & Gets Just One Backer In Congress https://bipartisanreport.com/2023/06/20/maga-florida-man-tries-to-impeach-joe-biden-gets-just-one-backer-in-congress/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#space #astronomy #cosmology

The Evidence is Building that Dark Matter is Made of Axions

https://www.universetoday.com/162008/the-evidence-is-building-that-dark-matter-is-made-of-axions/ via @universetoday

#space #exploration #spitzer #TESS

Check out this article: Using data from Spitzer and TESS, scientists discover exoplanet littered with volcanoes -

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/05/volcano-covered-exoplanet/

The Matrix.org Foundation is now able to formally accept members!

Join us in our mission to make open decentralised communications ubiquitous, sustainable, for everyone.

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/06/membership-program/

@zleap @Hypx Just reading the article you attatched because I tend to not read the BBC personally.

@kim_harding @FantasticalEconomics

This is quite possibly why some of the richest men in the world have their sights set on industrial expansion into space colonising other planets.

Also, eugenics, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.