Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figureDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
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3 reasons why the mental health system needs a systemic change.
Neurodiversity-affirming care has gained attention for its focus on lived experience and autonomy. Learn why this movement is so important to the future of mental health.Amy Marschall, Psy.D. (Psychology Today)
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I'm going to have to digest this. I live and breathe DSM-5-TR, and will live and breathe the next one. However it's a diagnostic descriptive tool.
I think there is a good conversation to be had to improve the situation and I'm glad you're working on it. I'll examine my arena and also do my part
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Man goes to newsstand every day, asks to see the front page, then says “nevermind” and gives the paper back without buying it.
Newsman finally asks him what he’s looking for?
Man: An obituary
Newsman: Those are in the back of the paper
Man: Not the one I’m looking for
Fake Passport Generated by ChatGPT Bypasses Security - Tech News
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Fake Passport Generated by ChatGPT Bypasses Security - Tech News
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Many changes took effect at #Patreon today, all devastating to creators' income,especially those of us who rely on Patreon to...not die
I woke up to my income slashed by 28% despite no change in patrons. I'm not alone--all while our economy burns
I'm not sure what to do, but there's a few things 🧵
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Basically: any subscriptions made through the iOS/Apple store now have the 30% fee applied, which comes out of our portion of the sub. It also seems iOS subscriptions are subject to a 75 DAY hold, which is truly beyond any normal processing time
This is why most folks lost around 30% overnight.
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75 day widthholding is IMHO an unpaid & interest-free #loan to #Apple because even with the shittiest #PaymentProcessors having to circumvent embargoes that payment should be done and dusted in less than 14 calendar days / 7 business days - whichever is shorter!
I hope developers not just #ClassAction but legally force Apple to change that shite!
there is:
- REFUSE TO RELEASE ON #iOS UNTIL THE TERMS ARE CHANGED!
As with every #Platform, #Software makes #OperatingSystems and the #OperatingSystem makes #Hardware.
- This worked with #WindowsPhone and #UWP: everyone refused to build #Apps for it and thus it died pretty quickly.
And if you want to say that's not an option, take a look at #AltStore which automates all the necessary work to perpetually #sideload any #App on iOS in a noob-friendly way.
Remember: "Everyone else does it" never was and never will be a valid excuse for any shit system!
- Also you could just refuse to offer the sales on Apple's platform and add any "#Premium Features" post-launch with your own payment & licensing infrastructure. If you're big enough or small enough you may get away with it. #NotLegalAdvice
Otherwise band together with other #developers and coordinate.
And if you allow Apple to exploit you harder than #Valve, then you normalize that shit!
similarly, people need to explore and use #Patreon alternatives.
Pretty shure platforms allowing and endorsing #NSFW also accept SFW content…
- Again: #WhatYouAllowIsWhatWillContinue.
Worst-case y'all gotta learn how to use #Monero for once and get paid that way. There are payment providers like https://nowpayments.io that remove all the uncertainties and instant-convert to #fiat so you don't need to fiddle around with it or any #shitcoin|s!
Feel free to hate and block me if you must, but the reality sometimes is that simple and won't change just because it's inconvenient to admit the #Enshittification happens!
- #Apple rent-seeking 30% would get me to press charges against Apple and Patreon for #theft, but I've got neither a Patreon nor a Patrons on it!
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If you want to help out, obv. becoming a patron if you weren't before would help shore up the gaping hole we're all grappling with. But do it through a BROWSER, which circumvents all these issues
You could also email #Patreon, as we've all done, & complain. I'm not sure they're listening, though
The extremely wealthy aren’t smarter than you, they’re just more selfish, less empathetic, and greedier.
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🤦🏻♀️ Avoiding your neighbor because of how they voted? Democracy needs to you talk to them instead
#politics #politicalscience #polarization #socialscience #communications #democracy
Avoiding your neighbor because of how they voted? Democracy needs you to talk to them instead
The more Americans isolate themselves from people in the other political party, the more stereotypes take over. In turn, that pushes people to isolate even more.The Conversation
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Because trade wars are good and easy to win:
China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica
In response to new Trump tariffs, China cut dysprosium, terbium, and tungsten exports—hitting U.S. EVs, wind, and military systems hard.Michael Barnard (CleanTechnica)
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Good. We will have to find domestic equivalents.
Less container ships = less pollution. More nature!
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AIUI, shortly before #PearlHarbour and the USA entering #WWII, the USA had "turned off" Japan's petroleum supply.
US moves to revoke all visas for South Sudanese nationals
Citing the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated citizens, the US is revoking visas for South Sudanese passport holders.Dmytro Hubenko (Deutsche Welle)
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Biking is a great option for getting to the Hands Off protest today at Seattle Center. https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/766350/
There’s a bunch of bike racks near the northeast corner of the arena, but you may need to improvise if the crowd is large enough. Bike lane connections have been greatly improved in recent years (see bike map): https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/bike-map/
Hands Off! Seattle Fights Back
**Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Seattle is fighting back.** They’re taking everything they can get their hands on—our healthcare, our data, our jobs, and our services—while daring the world to stop them.Mobilize
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US National Weather Service pauses severe weather alerts in Spanish and other languages
National Weather Service pauses severe weather alerts in Spanish and other languages
The contract for artificial intelligence modeling used to send emergency alerts in different languages is among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) contracts that lapsed this week.PBS News
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It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.
Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives:
https://rys.io/en/177.html
Please join me in celebrating the annual Mastodon Won't Survive Day, right here on fedi. 
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#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonWontSurvive
Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives
Eight years ago Lance Ulanoff had a problem. William Shatner could not find him on Mastodon. His distress is understandable, relatable even. Who wouldn’t want to be found by Captain Kirk himself! TheSongs on the Security of Networks
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📷 OM System’s Strategy Might Box It Into No-Man’s Land
https://petapixel.com/2025/03/16/om-systems-strategy-might-box-it-into-no-mans-land/
#cameras #photography #gear #olympus #omsystem #technology #marketing
OM System's Strategy Might Box It Into No-Man's Land
OM System wants to leverage its computational photography competitive advantage, but that leaves its cameras in no-man's land.Jaron Schneider (PetaPixel)
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1. Over 70 House Democrats walked out of their session over the state's endless attacks on transgender people. The latest bill would forcibly detransition incarcerated trans people by cutting off their care. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Amidst Flood of Anti-Trans Bills, Georgia Democrats Walk Out
Incarcerated trans people are the latest target of Georgia’s crusade against the LGBT community.s. baum (Erin In The Morning)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/4/2314684/-Rachel-Maddow-Trump-crashed-the-world-s-markets-based-on-the-advice-of-a-fictional-economist?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web
Rachel Maddow: Trump crashed the world’s markets based on the advice of a fictional economist.
Rachel Maddow revealed a sad reality. Donald Trump crashed the Stock Market on Wall Street and the world markets based on tariff advice from Peter Navarro via a fictional economist named Ron Vara. Rachel Maddow: A fictional economist advised Trump?..Daily Kos
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"I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled & sent to an immigration detention centre"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre?CMP=share_btn_url
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do itJenny Kleeman (The Guardian)
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With the vast majority of these ICE detention centers being for-profit, this is essentially an updated version of that Kids for Cash scandal from a decade or two ago.
“Bana, from Romania, was on holiday in Canada and visited Peace Arch park, on the international boundary between the US and Canada. She told Becky she had been taking selfies with her husband when a US border official told her they had strayed into American territory without the right visa and took her into custody.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Arch_Park
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AARP urges North Dakota governor to sign bill regulating cryptocurrency kiosks - InForum - EUROPE SAYS
BISMARCK — AARP is calling on North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong to sign a bill that would regulate cryptocurrency kiosks amid growing concerns over fraud.EUROPE SAYS
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A Sign Of Global Warming: The Rise Of Early Forest Fires - EUROPE SAYS
Increasing temperatures due to climate change are leading to earlier and more intense wildfires, posing significant threats to ecosystems, air quality, andEUROPE SAYS
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I'm going to bend your meme as bit.
Hoover's tariff's intensified the Great Depression, but the real blame belongs with his predecessor, Coolidge.
It's Coolidge who reduced Fed govt. debt by 26% between 1923 and 1928. Take that much money out of the economy has got to lead to recession. To counter Coolidge, the private sector, especial business borrowed. That private debt also made the Great Depression worse.
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Emilio Scotto (Buenos Aires, September 27, 1954) is an Argentine adventurer, photojournalist, and writer. As of 2009 he holds the Guinness record for the world's longest motorcycle ride, spanning 10 years, 214 countries and a total distance of 457,000 miles (735,000 km). The ride was done on a 1980 Honda Gold Wing GL1100 motorcycle Scotto calls "Black Princess", which now sits in the Don's Riverside Car Museum in Laughlin, Nevada. Scotto recounted his travels in a 224-page book illustrated with his photographs, The Longest Ride: My Ten-Year 500,000 Mile Motorcycle Journey, published in 2007.
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Academics in the U.S. seek jobs elsewhere
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5347480/academics-in-the-u-s-seek-jobs-elsewhere?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Lockdowns and Blockades
https://crimethinc.com/lockdowns
A complete guide to assembling and employing lockboxes and other means of blockading.
There is a broad spectrum of tactics to choose from between simply holding up a protest sign and setting things on fire. If you are looking to intensify a pressure campaign, to block traffic, or simply to stand your ground more effectively under pressure, consider these means of holding space over a long period of time.
A Demonstrator's Guide to Lockdowns and Blockades
A full guide to assembling and employing lockboxes and other means of blockading.CrimethInc.
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People are desperately rushing to save data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) before their Amazon Web Services go dead tonight... thanks to DOGE. That's a lot of weather and climate data.
The thread continues:
"Help very much needed. Some tips…
Instructions for scraping from SciOp
If you begin working on an archive, please mention that you’ve claimed it in a reply to this thread and then edit your reply with an update when it’s completed and/or uploaded
If you archive a resource but can’t upload it to SciOp, that’s okay, just let us know
Possible third-level domains based on certificate issuances (thank you, @jenniferplusplus)
Possible sites/datasets based on the master NOAA github account (thank you, @Catladylilia)"
If you want to help, go to the Safeguarding Research & Culture website:
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-specifically-amazon-web-servies-urgent/569
and read the whole thread, then sign up.
[EDIT: Wait a minute! See some *good news* in part 3.]
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Here are the latest unsourced rumors, and I'm afraid I have no way to verify any of this:
"There's some indication that internal pushback may have yielded a reprieve until July 31st."
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"Just got off the phone with a contact at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. The GOOD news for today’s urgent task (NOAA):
IRI has most of the data archived in their Data Library here: https://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/
Their biggest concern is around the future acquisition and publishing of climate data from NOAA satellite networks.
The BAD news:
The funding cuts targeting Columbia University means that the hosting, management and maintenance for this Data Library are uncertain. To date, lay-offs have left this group untouched, but that is not expected to continue for much longer. More should be known this weekend. Further, the funding to keep the group who manage the data library going beyond June 1st was not explicitly renewed, nor was it explicitly cut. There is a huge cloud of uncertainty going forward."
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IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library
The IRI Data Library is a powerful and freely accessible online data repository and analysis tool that allows a user to view, analyze, and download hundreds of terabytes of climate-related data through a standard web browser.iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu
Good news from Bloomberg News! Of course, everyone is still making backups....
"US Weather Agency to Preserve Research Websites in Reversal
By Lauren Rosenthal
April 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM UTC
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency will preserve access to websites tied to its research division, after previously moving to cancel a cloud web services contract that supports many of its pages.
Bloomberg News had reported earlier that the service contract for NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research — known as NOAA Research — had been set to terminate this week, jeopardizing access to most of the office’s public-facing websites. But in an emailed statement Friday, NOAA said that the sites will be preserved.
“There will be no interruption in service,” it said. “All NOAA Research sites will remain online.”
The reasons for the reversal weren’t clear, nor the long-term status of the contract. A NOAA spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking more information.
NOAA — an environmental research and regulatory agency under the Commerce Department — has experienced other lapses in public communications this week. A separate contract that let the agency translate National Weather Service forecasts into Spanish and four other languages was allowed to expire."
The original article is here:
or free here:
https://archive.is/ehpii#selection-1589.0-1609.2
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Content warning: religion, christian bible prophesy
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