I just finished watching Life on Our Planet https://www.netflix.com/title/80213846), maybe the best nature/science doc I have seen. If you can't watch all 8 episodes, at least watch the last 6 min of the last one. Of course, the first 7+ episodes lead you there. There have been 5 mass extinctions, all by natural events, humans are well into the 6th one.
Ken Goldsholl
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Escaped from NJ a long time ago. Used to work only on hardware, now at transact.io, postd.io, notd.io. If I post too much about one of these companies, please don't block me, just mute me for a day or two, it's usually just taking advantage of some bad thing another company has done.
whether it's politics or tech, it seems 90% of the media reports on 10% of the news. So much news goes unreported or unseen (if it's covered by publishers with small audiences). People complain about the algorithms used by social media, but the algorithms used by news editors might even be worse (even if they are manually implemented instead of by software).
While there are economic & technological causes for the decline of news, the managers of news publishers are not blameless.
@pluralistic has brought enshittification to the FT: https://on.ft.com/3SQN80K
Starraven
I just moved from vivaldi's mastodon server to mastodon.social. Apparently, they did not like 6 posts I did on Thursday recommending people move from the newsletter service that collaborates with nazis to the network I run (notd.io). They limited my account, so here I am. Hopefully this server can tolerate the occasional burst of promotions from me (I thought social networks were used for that).