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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/117214107554538348
I am *so* here for watching people advocate for their favourite map projections. This might be my favourite type of nerd debate.
Thank you, Fediverse.
(Also: https://xkcd.com/977/)
@sundogplanets i don't care what anybody says, Greenland *is* big.
@hosford42 sounds like total bullshit
"...the average number of close friendships reported by individuals has nearly doubled..."
almost like a hit piece to tell people they should make less connections and not organize 😂
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/117213467440217840
NetScaler *drink*
@garbados I think the criticisms have been from:
- Paramount (clearly an interested party)
- the Simon Wiesenthal Centre (in support of Paramount)
- A group of ~1000 Jewish entertainment professionals
https://variety.com/2026/biz/global/paramount-antisemitic-tropes-mark-ruffalo-1236841944/
@garbados I try to pause when I see these kinds of criticisms and sit with the discussion and hear them out. Mostly because I'm not Jewish, I'm Palestinian, and I'm likely to dismiss them out of hand without giving them air. I think it's really painful for the Jewish community to confront the genocide in Gaza and apartheid in Israel/Palestine. It seems unfair to capitalists to tie the actions of one company or government with the actions of another.
maybe spending a couple days in some kind of stress induced work trance is not good for you
@owoce I WAS LITERALLY ABOUT TO WRITE THAT
feeling small and less real than usual
@owoce 🫂
This instance is hosted on a 20 year old laptop, boost to give it a stress test.
@MyView @decryption Depends on your sensitivity to low-frequency sounds (which is... complicated and hard to predict) and your propensity to anxiety. And probably your background knowledge as well.
(While a lot of the neuroscience is focused on infrasound causing stress and anxiety - which it can - I'm not sure that I buy that it's a hardwired or default reaction, though that's based entirely on my own limited experiences with it.)
It can also be really uncomfortable at close range for people with certain anatomical quirks to do with their auditory and vestibular system, and people who've had acoustic shock injuries as well. But you'll know pretty quickly if that's you, and I'm not sure if tours would actually let you get that close to them anymore (for me and my Dad, it's at around the 20-30m range that it gets a bit uncomfortable, it's just a feeling of slight pressure inside my ear as I hear the 'whoosh' from the blade).
I should also add that while 20Hz is usually cited as the low threshold of human hearing, that's kind of an average - individually, human hearing can range as low as 12Hz, so there are definitely people who can actually hear infrasound frequencies. (Infrasound is usually defined as anything below 20Hz as well; 17-18Hz seems to be used the most in experiments.)
@dartigen @MyView @decryption If you regularly travel in a car (or indeed bus, train etc) or live near a road you'll be exposed to infrasound many orders of magnitude higher than a farmhouse a kilometer away from a wind farm. You'd think that wind turbine sickness would be far more prevalent in professional drivers or the millions of people who live near major roads … ?
This is doubly misleading. The bill is poorly written and is pretty clearly unconstitutional. There was a way to write it properly and MN leg refused.
Second Elon didn't lose the case. He just didn't get a preliminary injunction.
Elon's awful but Walz misleading people is bad
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ss57ywhxcvh62qbdbfc4c252/post/3muqaj7i7xs2j
#Amazon, #Target and #Walmart pull apparent #Nazi uniform Halloween costumes after customer complaints. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/09/03/target-walmart-amazon-wwii-german-soldier-halloween-costume/91590083007/
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Stairway of Souls Blanket. Based on this, the first thing I will do once I reach the afterlife is ask which way to the Elevator of Souls.
https://collabs.shop/q6auuo
@lowqualityfacts silly billy, souls can't use elevators, they'd just be floating there after the car goes down without them.
feeling small and less real than usual
Training AI models on copyrighted works is "squarely what transformative use is," EFF’s Tori Noble told Reason - these are "general purpose tools" and "exactly the kind of creation that copyright is designed to foster.” https://reason.com/2026/09/04/doj-says-barring-ai-training-on-copyrighted-material-could-severely-hamper-tech-progress/
@eff I didn't have "EFF being deeply corrupt in the stupidest way imaginable" on my bingo card
I hope that boot tastes good
La solidaridad es amor y comprensión transformados en acción.
Crowdfunding para alimentos destinados a presos anarquistas en Colombia.
Fondeo -> chuffed.org/project/197444-solidarity-with-johann-sainea
Video -> https://kolektiva.media/w/2CEaryQUkPJAPPEZGrwZgy
Johann Sainéa Rubio está encarcelado en Colombia desde 2021, criminalizado por participar en el levantamiento popular de ese mismo año. Desde que el gobierno de extrema derecha de Abelardo de la Espriella tomó el control del Estado colombiano, su situación —que ya era muy grave— ha empeorado aún más. El Estado colombiano está restringiendo el suministro de alimentos, provocando hambre y sed severas en un intento por deteriorar la salud de Johann y de otras personas encarceladas en todo el país después de luchar por la dignidad y la libertad.
Este año, con motivo de la Semana Internacional de Solidaridad con las Personas Presas Anarquistas, hacemos un llamado a apoyar a Johann y a sus compañeres, mediante un crowdfunding solidario para que puedan tener un acceso digno al agua y a los alimentos.
Pues como dice Johann con sus propias palabras:
“La solidaridad es amor y comprensión transformados en acción.”
In Britain we care about 3 things
Toilet roll
Tins of beans
Freezer socks
@TheBreadmonkey
I still have so much to learn about your island kingdom.
...Freezer... socks...?
Las repercusiones de la minería en la salud de los pobladores locales.
https://let.iiec.unam.mx/node/5729
Confidentiality clauses in sponsorship agreements restrict criticism, shape the dissemination of research, and grant the Brazilian oil giant discreet influence over environmental science and climate diplomacy.
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Investigation by Mirna Wabi-Sabi, founder of Plataforma9, a Brazilian journalist and writer whose work focuses on environmental governance, corporate power, and climate policy.
Originally published in Portuguese in collaboration with Esquerda Diário and Leandro Lanfredi.
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Read the full article at:
https://www.plataforma9p9.com/en/post/how-petrobras-environmental-sponsorships-buy-silence
#Epstein Survivor Describes #SexTrafficking by #Tucson #BorderPatrol -- While Agents Seize #TohonoOodham Land for #BorderWall Construction
An Epstein survivor describes the child sex trafficking of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in Tucson, where she was a victim. At the same time, Tucson Border Patrol agents, heavily armed, are preventing Tohono O'odham tribal police from entering their own land to issue citations to border wall contractors. Meanwhile, the media has ignored a cartel witness from Sinaloa, Mexico, who described the trafficking of young girls in the Epstein files.
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Sept. 4, 2026
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/09/epstein-survivor-describes-trafficking.html
#USPol #EpsteinFiles #BorderPatrol #IllegalDestruction #MMIWG #GhislaneMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #USGovt #ProtectTheSacred #StolenLand #LandBack #ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousNews #NativeAmericanNews #NoWall #IndigenousLands #BorderWall #NoTrespassing #Illegal #Arizona #RespectTheNations #RespectTheTreaties #IndigenousResistance #NoBorderWall #DefundDHS #IndigenousSovereignty
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