Mastodawn

…“The sad and cold reality is that neither private insurers nor governments are prepared for the exponential increase in losses related to climate risk”

Arthur Charpentier (July 2023):

“Our house is burning, we hope our insurer doesn’t look elsewhere”

https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/67288

“Notre maison brûle et”… nous espérons que notre assureur ne regarde pas ailleurs

Cet article est la version initiale, sourcée, et un peu plus longue, d’une tribune publiée dans Le Monde, ce dimanche 9 juillet 2023. En 2015, à la veille de l’ouverture de la COP21, Henri de Castries, PDG d’AXA affirmait qu’“une augmentation de deux degrés de la température moyenne dans le monde peut encore être assurable, … Continue reading “Notre maison brûle et”… nous espérons que notre assureur ne regarde pas ailleurs →

Freakonometrics

gam3 Mar 13

#TuckFrump Feb 9

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months https://twp.ai/E6FQ2A

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation

The Guardian

Trump appointed Kari Lake to shut down American run news channels Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia.

A judge now says her mass layoffs were illegal, as she was not appointed by Congress to this job.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/07/media/kari-lake-voice-america-usagm-judge-trump?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=youtube

Judge says Kari Lake unlawfully ran USAGM, voids Voice of America layoffs

In a victory for Voice of America staffers, a federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully ran the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year.

CNN

gam3 Mar 6

Dan Gillmor Mar 5

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116178635828161083

This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.

gam3 Mar 6

Show thread

Jason844 🙃Mar 6

@paul I'm with Afroman on this. It's free speech. We'll see how corrupt the courts are by how it's handled.

#USPol

gam3 Mar 3

The War on Cars Mar 3

New bonus episode coming tomorrow. Become a Patreon subscriber for access.

https://www.patreon.com/c/thewaroncarspod

gam3 Mar 1

Democracy Labs Mar 1

How Israel and the Saudis pushed America into attacking Iran: Follow the money
https://thedemlabs.org/2026/02/28/operation-epic-fury-roaring-lion-us-israel-joint-strikes-iran-2026/
@gailwaldby #OperationEpicFury #RoaringLion #IranStrikes

gam3 Feb 16

Dan Gillmor Feb 16

The Trump regime is routinely telling US judges to go screw themselves -- ignoring and violating court orders, and flagrantly spitting on people's constitutional rights.

So far, not even one regime apparatchik has been held accountable in any serious way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/africa/us-secret-deportation-cameroon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVA.rP52.v68z1-9CPLv1&smid=nytcore-ios-share

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

Most had court orders protecting them from removal to their home countries, so they were sent to detention in Cameroon.

The New York Times

gam3 Feb 11

JA Westenberg Feb 11

The reason Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon don't feel like Old Twitter is simple sociology: Community is path-dependent. It’s a specific web of 10,000 micro-transactions of reciprocity that happened over a decade.

You can move the people, but you can't move the history.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/communities-are-not-fungible/

Communities are not fungible

There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured

Westenberg.