Steve HermanThe hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/22/alice-brock-alices-restaurant-dies
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SelzeroMake sure that everyone knows Theodor Meron was on the ICC panel on Netanyahu's war crimes.
Annalee Newitz 🍜We cannot let this one pass. New bathroom bill would essentially make it illegal for trans people to use bathrooms in American airports. Don't be surprised when it's followed by national bills preventing people from being trans in public. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nancy-maces-federal-trans-bathroom
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Aram SinnreichSpotify just reported record-breaking profits.
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
Ricardo HarvinEverything Hitler did was legal.
Sometimes after the fact, but always codified to be so.
Republicans have control of the Presidency, House, Senate, Supreme Court, most governorships, all or part of most state legislatures, and a significant number of federal judgeships.
Believing that in two or four years we will be able to change that electorally is to not understand what it is the Republican Party, its allies, and supporters are intending, and their plans to achieve their goals, legally.
Bread and CircusesMother Nature says: FAFO
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Trees and land absorbed almost no carbon dioxide (CO2) last year, and scientists are struggling to work out why.
Carbon sinks, such as forests, oceans and soils, are an essential part of regulating the Earth’s climate. Through natural processes, these land and ocean masses absorb almost half of all human carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
But preliminary findings for 2023 – the hottest year ever recorded on Earth – have found that the amount of carbon absorbed by forests, plants, and soil has temporarily collapsed.
This was completely unexpected, and therefore not something factored into most predictions and calculations about how quickly the Earth will heat up as a result of climate change. The breakdown of the land carbon sink could be temporary, but if it isn’t, this will drastically increase the rate of global heating.
It will be impossible for the world to reach net zero without carbon sinks, because there is simply no human technology that can absorb carbon on the same scale as the forests, grasslands, peat bogs, and oceans of the world.
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#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Fedi.TipsYou can use Mastodon on your computer, the web interface is excellent and there are also a number of desktop apps available. Here's a guide to desktop options on Mastodon:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/desktop-apps-for-mastodon
If you do use the web interface on a computer, you might want to explore the advanced web interface which has a Tweetdeck-style multicolumn layout:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-activate-mastodons-tweetdeck-style-advanced-web-interface
Erik Uden 🚩The Gaza genocide has been added to Wikipedia's “List of Genocides”, and additionally been given its own page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
Ned Yeung"To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their Al bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word. Here's how to turn it off. File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences"
On the Mac I found it under Word/Excel/Etc > Preferences > Privacy, and near the bottom was the checkbox for "Turn on optional connected experiences" which of course was on by default.