Notices by pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se), page 14

Fuck me this is going to be so bad.

@Anke I've seen it in popular science mags my parents had in storage from the 80s at least, but probably longer than that.

@phil_stevens

Truth. Both are delay tactics the fossil fuel industry is heavily using. Pretty amazing that such contradictory statements can be used to achieve the exact same goal - delay progress to increase profits (just as @_noelamac_ describes).

Hell fuckin yes
🔨 NATIVE JAMES - HAMMER 🔨
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=i4ilpp3hTtQ
Genre: Nu-metal / Grime

@neil no option for NMT?

Harvard students were punished by the university president for expressing unpopular opinions.

They STUDIED for an hour in a LIBRARY, with political messages taped to their laptops.

What if it had been only one student? What if the pro-Palestine message had been half as big? What if it had been half an hour?

There is no narrative worth the pixels it takes on a screen that makes this anything but direct, pure suppression of dissent. The students followed every rule, didn't do any of the things bullshit campus rules penalize in order to stop protests. They didn't block sidewalks, light candles, chant, march, or even (apparently) make anyone the least bit uncomfortable.

So the Harvard admin just flat-out punished them for expressing a political opinion.

#gaza #palestine #university #highered #uspol #protest #dissent #punishment #authoritarianism

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/3/students-suspended-library-palestine-protest/

@rasmusfleischer @laxsill oj, svår gästlista

@samuteki AI has had several earlier hype cycles with the same dynamic.

@owl when is a door not a door? When it's a gar

Interviewed by the union paper for a motion to the congress we've put forward. About Gaza, what to do now (boycott, save, put pressure on for ceasefire), and what to do next (rebuild), and how the union should be part of that.

Not sure how well I did, but it's something.

#SULF -medlemmar: Uppmuntra era kongressombud att rösta för motion nr. 7!

@owl WDYM "suddenly"?

Det många inte förstår med de nya stambanorna. Tre små exempel.
"Höghastighetståg", Nja, 250kmh är lägsta standard för ny järnväg i Sverige, finns ex på Haparandabanans nya del. Man är mot ny järnväg helt enkelt.

Underhåll på befintliga banor blir lättare för att vi bygger ett redundant system där tågen kan ta flera olika vägar. Istället för dagens stora störningar.

De nya banorna skulle vara en satsning på godstrafik eftersom snabba tåg sorteras bort från nuvarande banor, så kapaciteten ökar

@LeoR1010 Framförallt: Vad är meningen med sossarna?

"God Giving Birth" by Monica Sjöö, 1968.

When this painting was shown in the UK in 1973, religious groups reporting the painting to the police for blasphemy. No charges were brought.

@LeoR1010 Nån från södra halvklotet kanske?

It's #BandcampFriday! I've got two things up on there:

1. JAMBB is a reggae band with influences and members coming in from all over the world, we have two singles and a live EP up on https://jambb.bandcamp.com/

2. RYA! is a fairly new constellation, playing a kind of folk jazz pop blend - we've been described as 'the most interesting thing on a 90s world music record'. We've got one single out, with more in the pipeline, including an album early next year: https://ryamusicumea.bandcamp.com

Have a listen!

@dysphoricunicorn @anarchiv I guess Mao really had the right idea.

"Massive Israeli strikes on Beirut's suburbs described as 'larger in scale' than the one that assassinated Hezbollah's Nasrallah"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/801732/massive-israeli-strikes-on-beirut39s-suburbs-described-as-39larger-in-scale39-than-the-one-that-assassinated-hezbollah39s-nasrallah/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

"A series of loud explosions were heard near Lebanon's Beirut airport, with smoke seen nearby after jets were heard overhead, Reuters witnesses said."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/series-loud-explosions-heard-near-beirut-airport-reuters-witnesses-say-2024-10-03/

@TomasHelleberg Det enda vi kan göra är det omöjliga.

of all the tech jargon-y habits i hate, i think i hate the replace-middle-of-word-with-number-representing-missing-letters thing the most.