Zoe @ekg@librem.one

@maggiejk @samohTmaS @covid_stats I don't know if they still test the sewage water, but that is a common and effective way to estimate population level infection.

@impactology @scienceforthepeople tragedy of the common can only be observed when their exist a barrier to corporation, like when Nepal band the communal management of the forest and lost large part of it.

@mekkaokereke this is what people miss about DEI/EGS, it's literally an investment in a more palatable organisation.

Everyone that understands this, predicted Twitter's revenue drop and valuation drop well in advance. 🙋🏿‍♂️

If you drive away the people that create disproportionate amounts of fun, engaging content (Women, Black folk, young folk, LGBTQIA), then engagement will go down.

If you increase the people who create politically divisive content (yes, this is a euphemism for racist and transphobic content) then you will also drive away advertisers.

What does this have to do with Mastodon?

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@karolherbst It said that progress occurs one death at a time. These is why experts are so important, if you don't live and breath these things it's much easier to continue to belive what you already do. Especially if you are financially well off; it has worked fine for *me* all this time, why change it now?

@ShadowJonathan @realn2s yeah, absolutely. It just that anyone that start their campaign now, and hire competent people, will be told beyond all doubt that neoliberalism is dead.

Imagine a world leader on a neoliberal campaign is as crazy to me as having one run on replacing NASA with astrologist.

@raven667 as I mentioned otherwise. Neoliberal belief lends them self well to justifying empire. Value is inherently plastic and can be shaped by the dominant power, mening people can be made lesser by defining their labour, resources, and capital as less valuable.

@ShadowJonathan fascists also loves these ideas, they are very used to twisting their interpretation to call some less then humans. The motivation for empire is built on ideas like competitive advantage, and (un)equal exchange. As a result of value being built on Fiat (belief) they can simply define some peoples labour, and resources as less valuable.

@ShadowJonathan @Patricia I treat it as an fascist dog whistle, it's useful to call poor people "unrational" if you want to dehumanise them.

@karolherbst people can't afford food, they aren't doing well.

Russian propaganda is designed to look organic, don't be fooled.

@karolherbst A Recommendation

Ryan McBeth @ YouTube has done excellent things about russian propaganda.

@Patricia
This is what the war in Ukraine is about, Russia is one of the last holdouts concerning neoliberal ideals. The the war is Democracy (The west) vs. Neoliberalism (Russia), and neoliberalism is losing.

Russia is very good at propaganda and has done everything in their power to keep neoliberal ideas alive, because they believe they will destroy the west. Witch is true neoliberal ideas if genuinely believed will destroy everything, including Russia.

@Patricia Economics as you know it is. After the 2008 financial crisis actors like The World Bank, IMF, and IBS riped up the textbooks and started anew. Thats why I was malding so hard the other day when you were talking shit about the IMF, they have completely change their tune since the incidents you recalled.

@malwaretech

Pro-life has turned anti-birth not even allowing abortion in cases where the fetus is unavailable and threatens the mothers future fertility is not only evil, but also a betrayal that this has nothing to do with preserving life.

@jwildeboer The funniest and most depressing part about that is that a lot of the debates over using content warnings would be solved by people actually using it as a subject field, which would in turn naturally end up covering the content warning functionality as an incidental side-effect much of the time!

Tell you what, being vocal about Health & Safety has been a very useful filter.

It's the same way being vocal about Codes of Conduct was 10 years ago.

Turns out, if somebody has an allergic reaction to proactive measures to keep a community healthy and safe, then they're probably not safe to have around in the first place.

#HealthAndSafety #Community #OpenSource #FOSS

Ledare: 700 personer om året stressar bokstavligen ihjäl sig – så kan det inte fortsätta -> https://www.dn.se/ledare/700-personer-om-aret-stressar-bokstavligen-ihjal-sig-sa-kan-det-inte-fortsatta/

If the idea of violent protests don't make you at least little scared I wonder how well you know history. At the same time, real change almost never happens without people putting their bodies on the line.

The right understands this far better than your average liberal/moderate. To be a moderate is to trust that existing systems will (mostly) work.

If those system fail? What then? To even consider this is moderate treason.

(Cartoons by Mattie Lubchansky https://thenib.com/author/mattie-lubchansky/ )

Wow - #LK99 not only successfully synthesized, but also showing larger levitation angle at room temperature than original paper, providing further support for the claims of room-temperature #superconductivity.

This is starting to get veeeery exciting!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01516