Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Schools in England told to be ready to evacuate buildings at risk of collapse:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/30/dfe-urges-schools-make-contingency-plans-crumbling-concrete

"Given the unfortunate continued #misinformation from The Good Food Institute and other private PR armies of the #cellmeat #slimefood conglomerates, it's important to keep in mind that none this has anything to do with #climate, #health, or the #environment, and everything, instead, to do with the complete conversion of #protein into #intellectualProperty - or, basically, #software as #food"(from LinkedIn) https://sethitzkan.medium.com/opinion-software-to-swallow-impossible-foods-should-be-called-impossible-patents-71805ecec9de
#EnvironmentalEthics #FoodEthics #Ethics #Sustainabity @philosophy

Conservative Web Outlets See Traffic Plummet Last Month, Per Report https://www.mediaite.com/media/conservative-web-outlets-see-traffic-plummet-last-month-per-report/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Is there any fediverse alternative to LinkedIn?

45 climate scientists were asked what we thought of this years' climate disasters. Here are the highlights.

We all pretty much agree that "despite it certainly feeling as if events had taken a frightening turn, global heating to date is entirely in line with 3 decades of scientific predictions. But being proved right is cold comfort, as our warnings had so far been largely in vain."

"Climate science’s projections are pretty robust over the last decades. Unfortunately, humanity’s stubbornness to spew out ever higher amounts of greenhouse gases has also been pretty robust." @meinshausen

"What we are seeing this year is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of what we expect to happen,” says Natalie Mahowald, and "this will become the average summer in 10 years’ time unless the world cooperates and puts climate action top of the agenda" adds Piers Forster.

As Gavin Schmidt said previously, we are not surprised, but we are shocked. Krishna AchutaRao agrees, adding that "the impacts are frighteningly more impactful than I – and many climate scientists I know – expected.”

As a result, psychological distance is decreasing. “I do think we are hitting a tipping point in global consciousness,” I said. “Nearly everyone can now point to someone or somewhere they love that is being affected by wildfire smoke, heat extremes, flooding, and more.”

And we all agree about what needs to be done. “We need to stop burning fossil fuels,” says Fredi Otto. “Now."

* By "we," we mean starting with the biggest emitters. As Paola Arias says, "We need a just + equitable transition. A very small % of the population is responsible for most greenhouse gas emissions.” [specifically, Oxfam finds that the richest 1% produce 2x the carbon of the poorest 50%]

Read:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Blaise Pascal: Archimedes shared discoveries, didn’t fight battles https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/blaise-pascal-archimedes-shared-discoveries-didnt-fight-battles/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #peace #antiwar

UK Government Serves Up Possibly-Illegal Amendments To The Investigatory Powers Act - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/28/uk-government-serves-up-possibly-illegal-amendments-to-the-investigatory-powers-act/ good summary of UK gov's latest delusions of grandeur... #encryption

GNU is an operating system that respects your freedom. With GNU, you can control your computing and use software without restrictions. Join the free software movement and embrace software freedom! #GNU #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

Not gonna post a screenshot because you already know what he says, but Trump is ranting and spewing hate judge Chutkan, Jack Smith, and many others on his crappy website.

He’s going to keep doing this unless they put him in jail. Anyone else who did shit like this would already be in custody.

Trump constantly whines and cries that he’s a victim, but the truth is he’s getting unbelievably lenient treatment.

They are required to administer an "adult content" block by Ofcom (UK Government). Any oversight of this arms-length Government censorship is opaque. There is no way to see what is blocked or why. And it seems they'll even outright deny blocking domains despite their branded "adult content block" page being what you get when you try to visit (and doesn't if you use a VPN). Designed so that everyone can deny any responsibility whilst censoring stuff that isn't "adult".