Notices by DP0 (dp0@mastodon.social)

@petergleick This feels so dystopian when you're reading how scientific and research facilities in the world are trying to save as much data as possible before it is finally lost.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01309-3

This is almost like a 21st-century version of what happened to the library of Alexandria - but intentionally.

@The_Icarian Reminds me of that photo of the 2013 conference in Saudi Arabia on women's rights.

Welcome to "Howdy Arabia" 2025!

@kims Great article on the Postillon (the "German Onion"):

"Serious security breach: Two Russian agents gain access to the White House"

Unfortunately, it is way less exaggerated than it's typically the case when it comes to satire.

https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/03/sicherheitspanne-weisses-haus.html

@br00t4c When the hell became rape and sexual harassment free speech? Did I miss out on something?

@georgetakei "Dark Maga" has yet to realise that much more "woke" people buy EVs than right-wingers ... after all, the Orange One said "drill, baby, drill" and not "plug, baby, plug"! 🤣

@georgetakei This claim is at least five football fields away from the truth. 🤪

@mastodonmigration Actually, it's an information war. Although not intellectually smart, the far-right understood that it needs to control the discourse in the social networks. This, they managed and they even were able to over one: Twitter. And now they ensure that the "refugees" fleeing to another platform can't feel safe there either.

Fediverse works different: of course, Singal's still free to set up his own toxic server - just to find his echo-chamber blocked by other instances.

@georgetakei Actually, what bothers me way more is Mainstream Media now starting to write about Trump as if he were a normal politician.

They're complying because they want to make money. After his ascension to power, Hitler immediately (took just 5 days) started going after the free press. Well, Trump wouldn't have to. Even Joe and Mika visit him now at Mar-a-Lago.

@therobburgessshow Dunning-Kruger effect. They lack the intellectual capacity to anticipate how their statements are being received by normal people. That's why they almost regularly say the quiet part loud (very loud, that is).

@georgetakei I am neither American nor an LGBTQ person, but I appreciate and value both, and I don't want seeing them being oppressed by a populist-proto-fascist psychopath! I wish you all the best and success.

@rbreich Think of him as a more eloquent, less pungent, more presentable, yet perfectly sycophantic and despicable Trump minion. It that sense, he's perfectly qualified to take on and destroy the American democratic system ... unfortunately, though.