Notices by naturaldynamics (natureshelperokanaganhighlands@mastodon.world)

Morning sun closing in on the solstice, maisey taking it in!
#dogsofmastodon, #photography, #foto,#winter

https://gizmodo.com/researchers-claim-to-pinpoint-exact-date-when-elons-x-started-boosting-the-right-2000527141
#elonmusk, #xtwitter, #rightwing, #uspol, #algorhytmchanges,#repugs

https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/03/ex-kgb-officer-says-trump-been-russian-asset-since-1987-and-was-very-easily-manipulated/
Trump has been a russian asset since they first dangled a carrot in the form of a tall tower hotel in moscow...then upon his return to the usa he ran full page ads questioning the NATO alliance...
#russiagate, #trump. #gullible, #USpol, #putin

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/08/12/elon-musk-hit-with-nine-complaints-of-breaching-eu-privacy-rules-to-train-ai-model

Twitter started irreversibly feeding European users’ data into its “Grok” AI technology in May 2024, without ever informing them or asking for their consent,” it said.

The non-profit filed complaints under the EU’s General Data Protection 

Wonderful investigation into the communication among plants, they are sentient beings too! https://www.ubcpress.ca/brilliant-green-1
#nature, #plants, #sentience,

A society that was frugal, with carefully planned closed loop resource use made a million people city workable in the pre technological 18th century Japan, in this very instructive story!
#ecodesign,#circulareconomy, #closedloopresourceuse

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240703-what-the-japanese-edo-period-can-teach-us-about-today

#elonmusk, #russianasset,
Excellent big picture of Musk and Dugin, Putin long game, Heidi did a whole series on american monsters!
https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/american-monster-elon-musk

It's all about the water here, sometimes too much, and the neighbour get flooded fields,
other times, during the ever longer, dryer, hotter summers, the ground dries out.
anarchist mountain has good veins of plentiful groundwater, but the supply sure dries up in late summer.
tags: groundwater, springfreshet, flooding, mountainpinebeetles, environment, anarchistmountain

@jeffowski but who owns the press, and liberty to express which viewpoint, matters more imho...