Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.
Without reducing the global rates of deforestation, humanity probably can’t prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
Comic story by Eleri Harris
Is there any browser with account and synchronization - but decentralized? Even just saving local files so I can sync a folder.
I made the mistake, years ago, of using my favorite song at the time as a ringtone.
To me, it's just a personalized bad news machine.
“Most of the price-increasing pressures aren’t really controllable by us, so we focus on trying to keep the system fair,” Bolduc said, adding: “The real problem is the math is not good.”
It is somewhat funny that the insurance sector, infamous for being shady, has to play the role of promoting the hard climate facts.
Abandoned McMansions are going to be an interesting sight.
Start subsidizing growing nuts and seeds at the same level as the subsidies for the fishing sector, and let's compare prices then.
A vegan keto diet is hardly possible because of that
They don't do it. It's like I'm talking to a bot.
Fish are regularly contaminated with PCBs and other pollutants, with bioaccumulation and biomagnification providing significant doses; this includes heavy metals.
Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fish
So it's a tradeoff: Fish consumption, methylmercury and child neurodevelopment - PMC
Or you could skip the downsides and get those nuts and seeds and other plants with omega-3 fatty acids... or just algae based supplements (algae are the origin of the nutrient for those fish).
Why would fish be better than something like legumes?
In general, school lunch programs tend to be a subsidy to the regional agriculture and animal farming sectors, a guaranteed market for their products. Few places do school food well (actually trying to feed children with nutritious food and to teach them how to eat well), Japan is probably the most famous of those.
Do not give in to the race to the bottom.
Contents
00:00 – Smokin’ hot Europeans
00:24 – State of the European Climate Report
01:15 - Headlines
02:27 – Extremes
04:16 – Polar impacts
07:50 – Global context
08:54 – Future change
10:02 - What to do
10:56 - Thanks
>2024 was the world’s hottest year on record, and Europe is the continent warming the fastest. Extreme events ravaged Europe last year, including floods, wildfires and storms that claimed hundreds of lives and impacted many thousands more.
>To find out more, I spoke to Julien Nicolas, a co-author of the European State of the Climate Report, a huge undertaking that was put together by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting on behalf of the Copernicus Climate Change Service and World Meteorological Organisation.
Yes. I wanted to mention that the situation is much more different for PCs and laptops with regards to linux OS.
Whenever I want to install a different OS on my device, I look up the model and it's not supported.
Frostpunk? https://youtu.be/_Lu7FeOkHtw
I'd also point out Stract: https://stract.com/about
This project was previously funded through NGI0 Entrust, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet program. Learn more at the NLnet project page.
Direct link: https://e.foundation/e-os/
https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-joining-automattic/ (WordPress corporation)
Not a good sign, but I like the bridging idea if it can be temporary and encourage others to leave.
Transportation officials are reviewing local infrastructure funding as the administration leans into fossil fuels.
The only reason I don't use Thunderbird is because I want to minimize it. I do not want to alt-tab cycle through background apps like email or music (looking at you, Rhythmbox). Why is that such a difficult UX thing to understand? And I don't want to install add-ons for that.
The IHRA working definition cites 11 examples of antisemitism, most of which relate to Israel. According to its clarification: it is antisemitic to deny the Jewish people the right to self-determination, for example by describing Israel as a "racist endeavor" –– one example that can be interpreted quite broadly.
Yeah, this is bad. The ethno-nationalist apartheid state is a racist endeavor.
The widespread popularity in Germany of the far-right AfD, parts of which are under state surveillance as suspected "extremist", is a major concern for Lapidot. "At a time when policies and political visions advocated by fascists and Nazis in the 1930s are being revived, portraying antisemitism as imported by Arabs, Palestinians, and Muslims [...] is cynical and extremely disturbing."
The union of trolling and fascism in language is Orwellian.
Here's a guide for it: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/18/installing-keepassxc-and-yubikey/
it's not that complicated.
>On 19 March 2025, Erik Møse, chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, updated the Human Rights Council on the findings of the Commission's latest report, which found that Russian authorities have committed enforced disappearances of civilians in the areas of Ukraine that they control and these are crimes against humanity.
An intro to Russian propaganda with some words of wisdom at the end.
Belgrade authorities have used sound weapons on the crowd of protesters. The video description has some educational links.
There are lots of videos around.
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/166-peter-strack
> States averaging ten thousand watts per year - with other Western countries close behind - our excessive energy consumption is built into both our physical and cultural infrastructure. How much energy do we truly need to lead fulfilling lives, and what changes would be necessary in our neighborhoods and cities to achieve that? In today’s discussion, Nate is joined by Peter Strack, a French researcher and author, to explore the concept of 2000-Watt Societies—innovative models that aim to balance reduced energy consumption with the well-being of the people who live there. Peter explains the historical context of energy consumption and origins of lower-energy communities, as well as the necessary changes in infrastructure, social dynamics, and personal habits to reduce energy consumption while sustaining a lifestyle that is fulfilling and caring for residents. How can building relationships based on trust and reciprocity within our communities enhance resilience and help reduce energy consumption? What models already exist for communal infrastructure and sharing the labor needed for maintenance and care work? Finally, how could the 2000-Watt Society offer a more comfortable, connected way of living for more people – perhaps even more than high-energy Western lifestyles – while staying within our environmental and resource constraints?
Minority leader’s intention to vote for Republican funding bill to avert shutdown attacked by progressive Democrats
> Donald Trump is starting off his morning by doing something he’s done quite often, which is threaten tariffs on major US trading partners. > > The latest salvo is aimed at the European Union and their alcoholic beverage industry, particularly France and its world-renowned vineyards. Trump says he’ll put tariffs on what the bloc exports to the United States, after the EU yesterday imposed their own levies on American whiskey in retaliation for Trump’s tariffs on imports of aluminum and steel. > > The escalatory tit-for-tat is why these things are referred to as trade wars. Here’s what Trump wrote, on Truth Social: > >> The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky. If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.
>Donald Trump has spent the week dizzyingly going back and forth on everything from tariffs to Russia to supporting veterans to Elon Musk. It's been a week of 180-degree-turned-360-degree turns causing confusion and chaos. Grant breaks down the biggest flip-flops, what they mean, and what to know next >Grant also talks to Cory Doctorow, the inventor of the word "Enshitification," journalist, author, and activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (link below) to talk all about what enshitification is and how it applies to the US government now.
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
Some 47 million people in Europe were unable to heat their homes sufficiently last winter. This figure has risen dramatically since 2021.
A longer article about energy costs, especially heating, and climate adaptation efforts, and how right-wing parties are profiting from fake populism about cheap fossil energy needs.
A relevant snippet:
>In times of extremely high living costs, carbon pricing not softened by support measures is of enormous social and political significance: those who can afford to renovate or install renewable energy sources will be less impacted, whereas those who are poor or renting will have to spend much more of their income on heating costs and will furthermore be unable to free themselves of the dependency on CO2. Across Europe, a dispute over carbon pricing has erupted.
>“We are currently seeing attempts by the conservative and right-wing factions in the European Parliament as well as by member states and the business community to undo climate efforts,” says Green Party MEP Michael Bloss. “It would make sense to start working now on establishing programmes for the potential revenues so money can be paid out directly from 1 January 2026. Otherwise, there is a risk of the ETS2 becoming a social trap from 2027.”
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>According to Sibylle Braungardt from the Öko-Institut in Freiburg, there are large subsidy programmes in Germany for energy-efficient renovations and replacements of heating systems by more sustainable alternatives. However, it is mostly high-income households taking advantage of these programmes. “It’s problematic if homeowners can renovate and install heat pumps to pay their way out of carbon pricing but renters cannot.”
>A closely watched civil trial that began in North Dakota last week could bankrupt Greenpeace and chill environmental activism as the climate crisis continues to deepen. The multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer, the oil corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, claims Greenpeace organized the mass protests and encampment at Standing Rock between 2016 and 2017 aimed at stopping construction of the project. Although the uprising at Standing Rock was led by Indigenous water defenders, Energy Transfer is instead going after Greenpeace for $300 million in damages — an amount that could effectively shutter the group’s U.S. operations. “This case is not just an obvious and blatant erasure of Indigenous leadership, of Indigenous resistance,” says Deepa Padmanabha, a senior legal adviser for Greenpeace USA. “It is an attack on the broader movement and all of our First Amendment rights to free speech and peaceful protest.”
DemocracyNow original video is here (yes, they host their own videos too): https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/4/greenpeace - you can find a transcript on this page.
A disturbing book plans a ruthless total war against the “unhuman” left.
>The book Unhumans, by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, is a fascist manifesto. It argues that the “Great Men of History” should take their cues from homicidal dictators like Augusto Pinochet and Francisco Franco, reject reason and democracy, and ruthlessly annihilate the gangs of communist “unhumans” who are currently threatening to destroy the United States. It explicitly advocates “eye for an eye” justice, promising a new McCarthyism complete with blacklists, along with the immediate banning of all teachers’ unions. It is perhaps the most paranoid, hateful, and terrifying book I have ever picked up. (I say this as someone who has read Mein Kampf.) And it comes with a warm and supportive blurb from Ohio senator J.D. Vance, who is currently the Republican party’s vice presidential nominee.
Little-noticed order that gives US president powers far beyond mere oversight denounced as ‘breathtaking’
>Trump’s executive order stripped agencies of their independence by making them directly accountable to a part of the presidency: the office of management and budget (OMB). The OMB is led by Russell Vought, founder of the rightwing Center for Renewing America (CRA) thinktank and one of the primary authors of the Project 2025 plan for an authoritarian takeover of government.
>What is happening with your time? From the increased screen time and slop, to addiction and antisocial behavior - the world seems to be on fire, yet we seem to be disengages, isolated and lonely.
>This video is about death of the community, screen addiction, AI generated slop media, it is about the theft of your wage and time by the ultrarich and the failure of the state to take control of the social decay, climate change, and economic threats - and so much more.
Despite recent election results, underlying concern about climate change has not changed significantly
edit: seems that gif images don't work, so here's the gif:
edit2: another angle from a different TV camera: https://i.imgur.com/Jezrgss.gif (I'm not embedding it because it's larger and one animation is enough)
For context:
Recent https://piefed.social/post/499497
Source video on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/1iyrln3/c%C4%83lin_georgescu_face_salutul_nazist_la_ie%C8%99irea_de/ from a Romanian TV (I wouldn't call it "news", it's like OAN for Trump now)
Broader issue of election meddling:
https://www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications/manipulation-dalgorithmes-et-instrumentalisation-dinfluenceurs-enseignements-de
https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2025/02/07/algorithmic-invasions-how-information-warfare-threatens-nato-s-eastern-flank/
Here's the short gif: https://i.imgur.com/OR56MVe.gif
Not sure if this should be NSFW.
