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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

@purplepadma Commercial entities use it to advertise into the void.. But as a research scientist myself (and usually the one who does the hiring/firing/promoting) I can assure you, it does absolutely nothing to advance your career, and if it does anything it might even hurt it these days.

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Mongabay

Carbon-rich peatlands continue to be cleared and drained in an Indonesian protected wildlife reserve known as the “orangutan capital of the world,” with 26 kilometers (16 miles) of new canals dug so far in 2023, up from 9 km (5.6 mi) in 2022, according to an investigation by the advocacy group Rainforest Action Network (RAN).

by Hans Nicholas Jong
news.mongabay.com/2023/09/defo

#News #Conservation #Environment #Indonesia #Deforestation #PalmOil

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Paul Sutton

Anti-gay discrimination not qualification for asylum, says Suella Braverman

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-669

So asking on here, as I may get a more reasonable debate from it. Does she have a point, but not in the way she should like us to think. (she is anti immigration)

The UN resolution she is refering to and wants to change, was written and signed back in 1951

Since then the world has changed, we still have wars, and this still causes displacements of people

We have seen the rise in Communism (China, N Korea)
We have seen the fall of communism (Russia)
We have made huge medical strides so people live longer, there is less need for lower skilled jobs that would have been filled by migration BUT we have seen a greater demand for higher skills, which countries need to seek out the best talent from around the world
Populations are aging, so we need a working population too, It seems Japan has a big issue with the number of people who are retired are more than the people of working age.
We have seen the rise of globalisation,
Fall of empires (The British empire for one)
Corporations now call more shots and control much of our lives, they care for profits not the lives of people they employ or even serve.
Inequality is STILL a massive issue for many.
Racism is STILL happening despite it being 2023.

Being LGBTQ is now legal in many more countries than it was back in the 50's and is more widely accepted, however it is still illegal in many and people are risking execution or torture (so Bravermans argument is less valid) Recent events in the USA highlight that the safeguards and laws that are in place can't be maintained or taken for granted.

Weather events are going to be more extreme, the world is heating up and we know why, this is going to cause problems (e.g) for food production etc and if it is too hot for people to live they WILL migrate

Attitudes towards the environment have changed, information age means more people know what is going on,

So the world has changed, and as a result migration has, I guess also changed, so looking at the convention as to what is a refugee, perhaps should be looked at in the context of 2023, and see what has changed so these documents reflect the needs of people today.

Anoter point she seems to be wrong on

"She said: "As case law has developed, what we have seen in practice is an interpretive shift away from 'persecution', in favour of something more akin to a definition of 'discrimination'."

From this side of the atlantic, I would see the policies of DeSantis et al to be persecution and not just discriminatory. People face being arrested and executed in Iran just for not wearing the right clothing, I see discrimination and denying someone a product, or service for falling within a particular group (granted it IS more complex than that).

We need a world wide refugee policy that is fair to all, but perhaps what we need is to start at home, tax the corporations and use the money to invest so that people all over the world can benefit from the global tech age in the right way.

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Free Software Foundation

We love freedom 0, the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. Boost this post to share the message with others! Read about the four freedoms of #FreeSoftware: u.fsf.org/2cj

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Doctor Biobrain

Everyone feels justified in what they want to do. That’s why we need core values and rules to judge our own behavior. But righties are inherently selfish and justify everything they do.

So a computer repairman is allowed to access all your data, give copies and the password to anyone, and those people can share anything on it as well as getting more passwords from the laptop to access more data.

Now they’re all getting sued and think they’re the victims. Waah! 😭

emptywheel.net/2023/09/26/hunt

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Dave Johnson

The UK was a wealthy country. Then conservatives imposed austerity to "save money."

Now the UK is largely a poor country. Outside London it is poorer than Mississippi. NHS being killed off. Schools, infrastructure, etc.

But the rich are doing very, very well indeed.

#austerity #uk

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Free Software Foundation

This week's the week -- it's #GNU40! Tomorrow, September 27, is the GNU Hacker's Meeting in Biel, Switzerland, and this Sunday, October 1, is Hackday in Boston, MA. Read more: u.fsf.org/40k #FreeSoftware #GNU #GNUforty #SoftwareLibre #Hackday #HappyHacking

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Dave nλ=2dsinθ :protein:

100% this.

Rising number of 'predatory' academic journals undermines research and public trust in scholarship
theconversation.com/rising-num

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Mark 🦆

Ghoulish and immoral: “After botching a series of executions by lethal injection, the State of Alabama is planning to use nitrogen gas to put condemned prisoners to death. The first execution will amount to a human experiment, because neither Alabama nor any other state has ever tried to kill people this way.” nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion

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Keri Svendsen

Okay listen up college students and soon to be. Do everything you can, community service, clubs, internships, jobs etc. It all matters, and you need experience to get a job. You can't come out with just a college degree and no experience and land a job. In fact, with no experience you can't even get into grad school either if that is in the plans. Grad schools ask for a resume, so just take these pro tips from a masters degree holder. Please share widely. I want to see students succeed!!!!

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Steph (slightly better version)

New instance #introduction!

I'm Steph (they/them) and I'm an astronomer! Mostly what this means for me is that I write code, develop open source software, wrangle huge datasets, and swear at the supercomputer. I do these things to further the knowledge of small solar system objects (especially the really far away ones) and exoplanet atmospheres (especially the big hot ones).

When I am not doing these things I am probably playing video games. Or thinking about playing video games.

Hi! 😊

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Josephine of the Spirits

I need someone to diagnose me with hysteria and send me to a retreat by the sea for a few months please and thank you, DM me if you have a medical degree
#today

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David Whittle

OSIRIS-REx's Asteroid Samples Are Finally Down to Earth: scientificamerican.com/article

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🏳️‍⚧️ Ginny Mae (dork)
My first ever Mastodon post turned out to be the most important thing I've ever written.

RE: https://tech.lgbt/users/ginny/statuses/109554728553857315
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Dan Gillmor

That "smart lighting" from Philips is about to spy on you in new ways you can't control -- naturally the company is claiming it's to protect you. This is Trump-level lying.

home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09

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ZZ Bottom

#SteveSchmidt
Steve Schmidt explains why Rupert Murdoch's retirement could mean the end for Fox News
youtube.com/watch?v=LIRVlxfRvT

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Avoid the Hack! :donor:

FTC Warns Tax Prep Companies Against Invasive #Online #Tracking

From @themarkup

Last year The Markup revealed that tax prep companies sent sensitive personal information/tax related info/financial info to #Facebook without clear disclosure or expressed consent. This was primarily happening because of the #Meta Pixel, which collects data on websites that implement it - regardless if you have a Facebook/Meta company account.

Afterall, who files taxes and expects that information get straight to Facebook/Meta when using a tax prep software?

#privacy #privacymatters

themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/

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Ned Yeung

I am a parent. I have kids. I stand for human rights.

My children's future, as their rights, are more important than my own. "Parental rights" are for assholes.

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Kenneth John Bardsley

@zleap
No we can't. We HAVE to di it and take the hit. Every day that passes makes things worse. Enough. The time to act is long past. It has to be NOW ! NOW ! NOW !

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IT News

EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle - Makers won't be able to pull wool over consumers' eyes, though critics say it hasn't gone... - go.theregister.com/feed/www.th

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