Why Protest?

Because it is easier than hiding a family in your attic.

#politics #Protest #RESIST #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #nazis #tyranny

I have recently been asked by @panoptykon if it was possible to create an online age verification system that would not be a privacy nightmare.

I replied that yes, under certain assumptions, this is possible. And provided a rough sketch of such a system.

But privacy is not the only issue with systems like that:
https://rys.io/en/178.html

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Web

Bett, Brot und Seife und nach zwei Wochen gibt’s auch darauf für Dublin-Geflüchtete in Hamburg keinen Anspruch mehr. Auf unsere Klage hin erklärt das Sozialgericht Hamburg im Eilverfahren: die neue Behördenpraxis ist rechtswidrig und zieht eine klare Grenze für den Schutz des menschenwürdigen Existenzminimums ✊.

https://taz.de/Urteil-in-Hamburg/!6083203/

You know about that canary in the coal mine, right?

When a canary kept inside a cage dies, the miners need to get out immediately. They are in extreme danger.

For us, the canary is coral reefs. They are dying now, at a rate never seen in human history. We are in extreme danger.

Capitalist commerce and industry are wrecking the planet's biosphere, tampering with the food chain that keeps us and millions of other species alive.

➡️ https://apnews.com/article/coral-reef-bleaching-climate-change-fdbeddf7ae3ccc9d7cf85d1c3267e581

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Hey white dudes in physics! Read this! https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03522

"Ending racism requires white people to change. Ending sexism requires men to change. Those who are oppressed are unable to fix inequity. They can give voice to it, but they alone can not end these oppressive systems."

6 recommendations for well-intentioned white male physicists to make physics better for everyone are listed toward the end of the paper

If we continue burning fossil fuels and warming the ocean, coral reefs will become a thing of the past.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/coral-reef-bleaching-worst-global-event-on-record

Atmospheric CO2 has passed 430 parts per million.

The last time atmospheric CO2 was at 430 ppm was during the ancient Pliocene Era, three to five million years ago, and humans didn’t exist.