Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos

Update: Fixed. We've been able to mitigate the bot traffic. #fail2ban

Remember how Y2K was going to lead to blackouts, bank runs and worse?

Well, it didn't. We had a deadline. We invested somewhere from $300 to $500 billion(!), and things turned out fine.

Climate change has no Y2K deadline. That's what makes it even harder to deal with

Me in @Salon https://www.salon.com/2025/05/01/climate-change-is-both-predictable-and-unpredictable-we-dont-need-certainty-to-know-its-a/

#climate #economics

Words matter.

The Trump regime did not "deport" a 2-year-old U.S. Citizen of Latino ethnicity—the Trump regime knowingly *Human Trafficked* a 2-year-old U.S. Citizen of Latino ethnicity.

That isn't just a violation of US Constitutional rights, it's a violation of international human rights law. In a just society the people responsible for this crime would face criminal prosecution. That is what should happen here.

I never would have read *Careless People*, Sarah Wynn-Williams's tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta's lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it:

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5318854/former-meta-executive-barred-from-discussing-criticism-of-the-company

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https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

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