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  • Iran’s religious leadership learned the lessons from the Cold War that using proxies to achieve their strategic objectives was the way to go. They are probably the reason that there is continuing strife and a major driver to why Israel has continued to be increasingly extreme. Effectively they have been winning the game as Israel is now ruled hardline religious nuts.

  • Extreme wildfires are here to stay. Can human beings really fight them?
  • The best defence is to reduce fuels loads in the off fire season. Sadly the off season is becoming shorter. Designing infrastructure to be fire resilient is a necessity which requires design rule changes and regulation.

  • "I want to hold them captive all day long:" Australian mining boss opposes staff leaving office for coffee
  • However as a common carrier they should be bound by rules like other providers of public infrastructure. To say that if people don’t like it they can leave trivialises the situation. People are being subjected to private propaganda and private censorship on a platform that masquerades as a bastion of free speech. Doesn’t matter if it’s Twitter or Facebook or Instagram , they are purveyors of other people’s ideas. If they manipulate or distort or censor then they should be sorted out.

  • X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe'
  • I’m starting to think that social media sites of a certain size are more like common carriers (in the telecommunications sense) than news or discussion sites. As such they should be bound to deliver clear moderation and ensure that everyone able to be connected and communicate with in the clear rules. Ie. screw the algorithm and weird owner interference.

  • Live Tracking

    I’ve seen the odd reference to live tracking (like WhatsApp) in Signal but as I can’t find any real detail I assume that it doesn’t exist. Is that the case?

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    Sponges tell us that the warming started in the 1860s
    www.sbs.com.au Caribbean sea sponges suggest world may already have breached key 1.5C climate threshold

    Global temperatures may have already risen by 1.5C since the pre-industrial period, according to an Australian-led team of researchers. And they warn that warming could reach 2C by the end of the decade.

    Caribbean sea sponges suggest world may already have breached key 1.5C climate threshold

    It’s not surprising that we may have passed 1.5c however the confirmation that climate science is on the money is a worry.

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    I didn’t think Australia had a Greta
    www.sbs.com.au Why Australia’s answer to Greta Thunberg is facing years behind bars

    At 19, this climate activist is now facing serious legal consequences over a foiled protest outside the home of the boss of an energy giant in Western Australia. Here's why she still believes she's on the right side of history.

    Why Australia’s answer to Greta Thunberg is facing years behind bars

    I didn’t realise that Matilda was #australia’s answer to Greta but I do now. All these new laws to stifle protest that the state governments have introduced show the power of the fine hand of the fossil fuel lobby.

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