If you would like to see more posts on specific topics in your timeline, you might want to try following hashtags:

1. Log onto your account
2. Search for a hashtag
3. Click on the tag you want from the suggested tags
4. Click on "Follow" in the top corner

Posts with those tags from people you don't follow will start appearing in your timeline, so this is also a good way of discovering new accounts to follow.

More info and tips on following hashtags:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

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Global Warming Alert — Earth Has Passed 1.5° Celsius Milestone.

According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, average global temperatures between July 2023 and June 2024 were the highest on record, creating a year-long stretch in which the Earth was 1.64° C hotter than in pre-industrial times. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GobalWarming

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/09/global-warming-alert-earth-has-passed-1-5-celsius-milestone/

An environmental catastrophe is on the horison, as Russia is sailing large and very old tankers full of hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil through the Danish straits every day, to circumvent the sanctions.

As the tankers are not insured, there is no one to pay for the cleanup, the day one of these coffin ships go down.

Pressure is now rising on the Danish government to stop the Russian oil. DW has more:

https://youtu.be/zAAnV_g_dZQ?si=SCtK2n7la-lNifCC

The New York Times Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covid

The paper is letting its audience down and undermining the fight to improve our knowledge of the virus. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nyt-covid-opinion-coverage/

NewsGuard tested #ChatGPT and friends for responses to prompts on sensitive political topics related to #Ukraine and #Russia>

The audit found that the chatbots from the 10 largest AI companies collectively repeated the false Russian disinformation narratives 31.75 percent of the time. Here is the breakdown: 152 of the 570 responses contained explicit disinformation, 29 responses repeated the false claim with a disclaimer, and 389 responses contained no misinformation — either because the chatbot refused to respond (144) or it provided a debunk (245).

They tested a broad range of bots:

The audit tested 10 of the leading AI chatbots — OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, You.com’s Smart Assistant, xAI’s Grok, Inflection’s Pi, Mistral’s le Chat, Microsoft’s Copilot, Meta AI, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity’s answer engine. A total of 570 prompts were used, with 57 prompts tested on each chatbot. The prompts were based on 19 significant false narratives that NewsGuard linked to the Russian disinformation network, such as false claims about corruption by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/generative-ai-models-mimic-russian-disinformation-cite-fake-news/