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Yargo Mar 11, 2023

After some months of trials, I have found Mastodon to be too time-consuming for me. I don't long for audience, and I still get all the information and new ideas I need from newspapers, public radio, some mailinglists and websites like Hacker News and The Guardian, and the smolnet.
I might pop up very rarely, but don't count on it. You will certainly find me elsewhere, if you're really inclined to contact me. Take care!

Yargo Mar 11, 2023

EU Climate Action Mar 10, 2023

Europe just had its 2nd warmest winter on record, according to the latest @copernicus_eu data. 🌡️

This doesn’t only mean milder weather. It means:
🔹Droughts
🔹Melting Arctic sea ice
🔹Threatened livelihoods

For more info, read the full bulletin:
http://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-antarctic-sea-ice-extent-reaches-all-time-minimum

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1634203634215911426

Copernicus: Antarctic sea ice extent reaches all-time minimum in February – Second warmest winter on record in Europe | Copernicus

Yargo Mar 10, 2023

Matthew Green Mar 10, 2023

The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

Yargo Mar 8, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Mar 8, 2023

How a country’s healthcare expenditure correlates with its citizens average life expectancy.

With one notable anomaly.

Source: Latinometrics using World Bank data

Yargo Mar 8, 2023

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Carl T. Bergstrom Mar 8, 2023

Who is this? @ethanz has a good summary that will catch you up on the last 36 hours of Twitter drama, in which he connects Musk's behavior and the adulation he receives for it to Adam Serwer's 2018 "The Cruelty is the Point" piece in the Atlantic and the concept of intimacy through contempt.

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/03/07/elon-musks-compelling-case-for-worst-human-of-2023/

h/t @RichStein

Elon Musk's Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023 - Ethan Zuckerman

There’s a saying that you never want to be the main character of Twitter. If you are, it usually means you’ve humiliated yourself in a particularly embarrassing way. The exception to this rule is Elon Musk, who seems to thrive on attention, positive or negative. As has been widely reported, Musk threw an epic temper… Read More »Elon Musk’s Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023

Ethan Zuckerman

Yargo Mar 8, 2023

Cryptome Mar 7, 2023

https://cryptome.org/2023/03/Assange-Hilton-2023-0303.pdf

Yargo Mar 8, 2023

Ciara Mar 5, 2023

Tired of waiting until the end of a sentence before you can be histrionic? The exclamation comma.

Yargo Mar 7, 2023

Daily Grail Mar 7, 2023

Not only did Elon Musk go full psychopath today trying to publicly demean one of his (apparently now) former employees, of all people he chose *this* guy to attack, to really contrast himself with what a good human looks like.

*slow clap*

Yargo Mar 6, 2023

echobit Mar 6, 2023

😳

Yargo Mar 6, 2023

Eva_RespectExistence ❄️Jan 17, 2023

#LetTheRichPay

Das superreiche 1% der Weltbevölkerung wird nicht bloß immer reicher, sondern diese winzige Minderheit verursacht auch das Zigfache an #Treibhausgas-Emissionen.

"Dagegen bleiben die Pro-Kopf-#Emissionen der ärmeren Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung auch 2030 weit unter der angestrebten 1,5°-Grenze bei der Erderhitzung.
Die reichsten 10% überschreiten... 2030 den Wert voraussichtlich um das 9-fache, das reichste 1% sogar um das 30-F-fache."
https://www.stern.de/gesellschaft/oxfam--superreiche-leben-wie--oekologische-vandalen--30894808.html
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Oxfam: Superreiche leben wie "ökologische Vandalen"

Superreiche verursachen deutlich mehr CO2-Ausstoß als die ärmere Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung. Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine Studie der Organisation Oxfam.

STERN.de