Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Yesterday, 25 May 2023 — For only the third time in recorded history, we had the highest average world air temperature, the lowest global sea ice extent, and the highest average ocean temperature, all on the same day.

And this is just the beginning of the dubious and destructive record-setting events we will see in the months and years ahead.

Continue to work and hope for the best, but definitely *prepare* for the worst.

#Ocean #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

For a couple of decades, even right-wingers disguised their racism in public utterances. Now, as their party actively courts the racists in our society, they've resumed flaunting it. https://www.thedailybeast.com/alabama-senator-questions-if-inner-city-teachers-can-read-and-write

Many people with a #disability could live independently, but are stuck in nursing homes they don't want to be in.

A new lawsuit in #Massachusetts could change that. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/01/26/a-lawsuit-could-force-the-state-to-help-thousands-of-people-with-disabilities-find-housing #housing

On Monday, I wrote an essay about climate and biodiversity for Scientific American. I tracked proportional engagement, calculated as (likes + shares + comments)/followers, over six social media platforms.

The winner? MASTODON, by a landslide.

Second place? INSTAGRAM. It's harder to share posts on IG, but lot of people like things there!

The loser? FACEBOOK, also by a landslide. On Facebook, I've been shadow-banned since August 2018 when they listed clean energy and climate as "socially sensitive topics" so my page there stopped growing 6 years ago and now only about 1% of my followers there ever see my posts. It's actually too bad, because that's the platform where I reach the most conservative audiences through their connections to friends and family. So even though it's dead last, I still persist.

"It's not warming-- it's cooling."

Almost unbelievably this fatuous slop is hovering at #13 our current most-accessed rebuttal topics.

Continuing our systematic updates, we've revised "Global cooling - Is global warming still happening?" to include a plain language introduction. We'd like to know if our revisions are working for our readers. What do you think? Click the link to read and review via a handy embedded form!

#ClimateMythDebunking

https://skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-basic.htm?SkS+Mastodon

Boebert defends anti-semitism as a conservative value - https://boingboing.net/2023/05/26/boebert-defends-anti-semitism-as-a-conservative-value.html

WisCon, the feminist and social justice science fiction convention, is happening this weekend in Madison, WI. If you're here, come check out the tables. To celebrate, we're offering 40% off all Outspoken Author Series books with coupon code OUTSPOKEN until 5/29. Learn more and check them all at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=77

And remember, folks: "Good for the economy" means "causes stock and other asset prices to increase," i.e. serves to transfer wealth into the hands of the already wealthy.

"Good for the economy" ALWAYS means this, whether you are hearing the phrase on NPR or reading it in the WSJ. If some media person uses that phrase non-ironically, odds are high that they are not your friend (much less your comrade).

How it started/How it's going - Inflation edition

Toronto folks -- Marcelo Vieta, @emi, and I will be presenting and discussing our book at two conferences in Toronto next week...

https://cooperativesatwork.wordpress.com/2023/05/25/cooperatives-at-work-at-congress-in-toronto/

@lightweight @strypey
There is a lot to be said for "as simple as possible, but as complex as necessary".

The interfaces I have the most trouble with tend to be those that have been grossly oversimplified, by someone who has made assumptions about a user's needs that don't match up at all with what I'm actually trying to do.

In honor of a whistleblowing legend: Announcing the
Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy. https://freedom.press/news/in-honor-of-a-whistleblowing-legend-announcing-the-daniel-ellsberg-chair-on-government-secrecy/

Attackers are now using encrypted RPMSG attachments sent via compromised Microsoft 365 accounts to steal Microsoft credentials in targeted phishing attacks designed to evade detection by email security gateways.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-365-phishing-attacks-use-encrypted-rpmsg-messages/

Outcry as #Brazil congress moves to gut environment and Indigenous ministries - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/25/brazil-congress-environment-indigenous-ministry-powers utterly disgusting

What should I be using instead of Audacity to record audio narration on Linux? I swear it has gotten buggy as all heck in the last couple years...

I have a question for any Mastodonian with DNS, email, and Thunderbird experience.

I don't have any definitive proof of this, but it _appears_ that when I send email using the Mozilla Thunderbird email client that email is more likely to be flagged as spam on the other end than if I use some other email client. Does anyone know if this is actually true, and if so, if anything can be done to stop that?

There are no other good Win/Linux cross platform email client solutions that I know of.

'Britain therefore has a monstrous problem. Before Sunak turned up in Downing Street, it was just about possible to explain the collapse of integrity after 2019 in terms of Johnson’s incorrigible personal dishonesty. But Sunak appears to be yet another compulsively dishonest prime minister. This suggests a deep-rooted structural problem not just in the Conservative party but also in the House of Commons.'

A good piece from the always interesting Peter Oborne.

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/23/boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-truth-integrity

Invasion of Ukraine ‘has fuelled funding boom for clean energy’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/25/invasion-of-ukraine-has-fuelled-funding-boom-for-clean-energy "International Energy Agency says investment will hit $1.7tn this year, well ahead of fossil fuels". that's good, much more needed