Notices by Josh Davis (guerillaontologist@social.coop)

@derek As always, no solution without simply reducing consumption. We don't do that and we're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titantic.

What's the opposite of a silver lining?

"They argue that rewilding productive farmland or forestry in industrialised nations that have low levels of biodiversity may do more harm than good on a planetary scale.

"Exploratory analysis by the team suggests that reclaiming typical UK cropland for nature may be five times more damaging for global biodiversity than the benefit it provides local species, due to the displacement of production to more biodiverse regions."

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1072994

@kaia Logging sports are dope. One of the benefits of living in a rural area is getting to go see them live at the community college.

@kaia And if you think this is cool, check out Springboard event.

@cwebber @puppygirlhornypost2
I'd assume LLM generated text, and they probably have a number of different boilerplate posts for different demographics (or at least they would if I were running this scam 😤). It would be easy enough to look for trans flags or they/them pronouns (or conservative hashtags and American flags) in profiles and sort people into their probable demographics that way, to better tailor the messaging.

Our org has been getting some pretty tailored phishing emails too 😕

This was #Caturday in New Orleans.

Duffel Blog gets a 10/10 for this headline 🤣

Make The UK Pre-Roman Again

https://www.sciencealert.com/iron-age-dna-reveals-women-dominated-pre-roman-britain

@Mitsu I live around a bunch and they've never attacked anything (except each other). Flap your arms around if they give you any trouble and they'll flee like overgrown chickens. You got this.

@kaia @david
I was thinking they were probably some of them Babblefish from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Oh look, it's someone who remembers how to do politics!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/20/clinical-trial-by-ordeal/#spoiled-his-brand-new-rattle

@ntnsndr
See here:
Golden rule : the investment theory of party competition and the logic of money-driven political systems by Thomas Ferguson

https://archive.org/details/goldenruleinvest00ferg/

"Soon after the ACA was passed, Democrats started calling it ‘universal healthcare.’ If it weren’t for the 30% – 40% of claims that don’t get paid because there is no entity with the power to make insurance companies do so, they might have an argument. What is particularly galling about the effort is that the long history of predatory behavior by the insurance industry was available to anyone who cared to look."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/rob-urie-politics-by-other-means-health-insurance-industry-edition.html

Hot take: Self-care is a neoliberal concept. Care is something you do for others (or they do for you), but our society demands that all things - including care - be made the responsibility of each individual to do for themselves. Feeling burnt out? Depressed? Run down? It's your own fault for not doing enough self-care!

Hotter take: Instead of encouraging everyone to do self-care, hows about we encourage everyone to take care of each other?

Oh great, now the UAW is union-busting 😕

https://paydayreport.com/uaw-staff-union-strikes-over-union-busting-all-german-vw-plans-strike-usps-suspends-canadian-service-amid-strikes/

Here's a "typical Western attitude" that most of us are utterly unaware of: social systems are either hierarchical or horizontal; they either have strong states and laws or they don't.

Actual people, however, living their actual lives in the actual world do not seem to agree with this sentiment, and have never had any problem adapting different ways of interacting at different times of year or different places in the landscape. Political theorists should probably be taking this into account.

The West's attempts to transition from fossil fuels to electricity is going to be/is already being carried out on the backs of the people in the "developing" world. And, of course, we'll do that while claiming that we're actually being charitable towards them.

"Given the role of critical minerals in the energy transition, foreign aid is likely to continue be used to further the interest of major powers at the expense of poorer countries."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/bad-samaritans-in-foreign-aid.html

The long shadow of the Great Financial Crisis is still darkening people's lives. I have undying enmity for everyone who played a part in that travesty.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/bank-servicers-whittling-away-at-hard-won-protections-against-foreclosure-abuses-the-maine-example.html

@kaia there's no way to express how dumb it is that they are allowed to operate on public roads.