Street art has long been a powerful medium for social and political commentary, and few artists have harnessed its potential quite like Banksy.
Known for his provocative pieces, Banksy challenge societal norms and highlight pressing global issues. One such piece, titled “I Don’t Believe in Global Warming,” remains particularly poignant in today’s climate-sensitive world.
“I Don’t Believe in Global Warming” first appeared on Regent’s Canal in London in 2009.
This visual metaphor is both striking and powerful, suggesting that denying climate change does nothing to halt its effects, which are visibly rising arou
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Street art has long been a powerful medium for social and political commentary, and few artists have harnessed its potential quite like Banksy.
Known for his provocative pieces, Banksy challenge societal norms and highlight pressing global issues. One such piece, titled “I Don’t Believe in Global Warming,” remains particularly poignant in today’s climate-sensitive world.
“I Don’t Believe in Global Warming” first appeared on Regent’s Canal in London in 2009.
This visual metaphor is both striking and powerful, suggesting that denying climate change does nothing to halt its effects, which are visibly rising around us.
The timing of this piece was no coincidence. It emerged shortly after the Copenhagen UN Climate Summit, a meeting that many deemed unsuccessful in producing concrete solutions to global warming. By placing his message in such a context, Banksy underscored the world’s inadequate response to climate change.
Fast forward to 2024, and Banksy’s message is as relevant as ever.
The artwork has become a symbol frequently referenced during climate action events and discussions. During London Climate Action Week 2023, the piece was prominently highlighted to emphasize the ongoing struggle against climate change denial and the urgent need for collective action.
In 2024, the impacts of climate change are more visible and frequent. From severe weather events to rising sea levels, the urgency to act against global warming has never been more pronounced.
Banksy’s artwork embodies the sentiment of disbelief and denial that unfortunately still circulates in some parts of society. Yet, it also inspires hope, pushing the narrative that awareness and action can and must rise above the tide of denial.
In the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza, an unexpected figure emerges – a playful kitten adorned with a sassy red bow. This street art gem is none other than Banksy’s signature touch, adding a splash of amusement to a landscape of devastation.
Banksy‘s kitten, with its wild fur and wide-eyed curiosity, feels like a tongue-in-cheek nod to resilience amidst chaos. It’s as if the kitten is saying, “I’ve got nine lives, and not even this rubble can phase me!” Yet, the ruins around tell a deeper, sadder tale of a city bearing the scars of conflict.
In just one image, Banksy manages to capture Gaza’s heartbreaking reality and sprinkle it with a dash of hope and humor. It’s a bittersweet blend of artistry, offering a momentary escape while urging us not to forget.
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In the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza, an unexpected figure emerges – a playful kitten adorned with a sassy red bow. This street art gem is none other than Banksy’s signature touch, adding a splash of amusement to a landscape of devastation.
Banksy‘s kitten, with its wild fur and wide-eyed curiosity, feels like a tongue-in-cheek nod to resilience amidst chaos. It’s as if the kitten is saying, “I’ve got nine lives, and not even this rubble can phase me!” Yet, the ruins around tell a deeper, sadder tale of a city bearing the scars of conflict.
In just one image, Banksy manages to capture Gaza’s heartbreaking reality and sprinkle it with a dash of hope and humor. It’s a bittersweet blend of artistry, offering a momentary escape while urging us not to forget.
Banksy: A local man came up and said ‘Please – what does this mean?’ I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens.
Banksy: Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons – they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.
Banksy in The West Bank, PalestineIn the summer of 2005, the street artist known as Banksy and his team made their way to the heart of the West Bank, leaving an indelible mark on the controve
Ne riporto una piccola parte, è abbastanza lungo e la versione completa è su Il Tascabile.
Più nei social cerchiamo il controllo, più troviamo il doomscrolling. Un estratto da Sta arrivando la fine del mondo?
Scorrendo il pollice in su, lungo lo schermo del telefono, incontriamo di anno in anno più resistenza. Estraiamo contenuti social dal basso, li osserviamo brevemente, e poi li scartiamo verso l’alto.
“Una specie europea su cinque (tra animali e vegetali) è a rischio estinzione.”
Ne riporto una piccola parte, è abbastanza lungo e la versione completa è su Il Tascabile.
Più nei social cerchiamo il controllo, più troviamo il doomscrolling. Un estratto da Sta arrivando la fine del mondo?
Scorrendo il pollice in su, lungo lo schermo del telefono, incontriamo di anno in anno più resistenza. Estraiamo contenuti social dal basso, li osserviamo brevemente, e poi li scartiamo verso l’alto.
“Una specie europea su cinque (tra animali e vegetali) è a rischio estinzione.”
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“Gaza, è strage tra i profughi in fila per gli aiuti.”
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“La nostra soglia di attenzione è di 8 secondi, meno di un pesce rosso.”
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Nel corso del tempo il gesto è rimasto lo stesso, ma sono aumentate le energie emotive e mentali necessarie ad avanzare nel feed. Scaviamo attraverso strati di materiali che ci riempiono d’inquietudine. Gas mefitici si liberano dalle sacche sotterranee in cui erano compressi. Temiamo che il fondo ceda e un abisso ci inghiotta.
“Onu, senza contromisure c’è un alto rischio di nuove pandemie.”
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“Intelligenza artificiale, in Italia a rischio oltre 8 milioni di posti di lavoro.”
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“Davos, 14 milioni di morti entro il 2050 per la crisi del clima.”
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I contenuti social sono davvero diventati più pesanti e difficili da maneggiare: persino le piattaforme un tempo considerate “frivole” traboccano ormai di aggiornamenti e testimonianze strazianti da crisi locali e globali. Anche la pressione interna è cresciuta: i confronti online sono diventati più aspri, i giudizi incrociati più taglienti; per ottenere maggiore visibilità, conviene trattare da nemico chiunque non abbia la nostra stessa posizione in un dibattito, ma anche chi mostri incertezza sulla posizione da adottare o chi verso quell’incertezza esprima comprensione. Il periodo storico fa la sua parte – ci offre scenari preoccupanti tra catastrofi naturali, orrori artificiali e tensioni sociali – ma la fatica e l’angoscia che proviamo mentre ci facciamo strada nel pozzo dipendono dalle abitudini collettive di consumo mediatico.
La sensazione di assistere, tramite i feed social, a un’apocalisse permanente, che non possiamo materialmente impedire e dalla quale non possiamo moralmente distogliere lo sguardo, è abbastanza diffusa da aver fatto emergere nel 2020 un neologismo per descriverla: doomscrolling. Idea suggestiva, lo “scrolling apocalittico”, e tuttavia autoassolutoria, perché si concentra solo sul nostro ruolo passivo, spettatoriale, mentre è attivo il nostro contributo al sovraccarico di contenuti deprimenti. Vale senz’altro per chi ne pubblica o ne condivide, ma vale anche per chi interagisce con essi o si sofferma a osservarli per più di qualche secondo: basta questo per segnalare all’algoritmo che persone con interessi compatibili coi nostri potrebbero volerli vedere e che noi stessi desideriamo vederne ancora.
Öka säkerheten och skyddet i Fediversum. Då det går att skriva kommentarer på allt som skrivs i Fediversum utan att ha följa eller var följd av den som kommenterar innebär det att en person som verkligen vill trakassera någon kan göra det.
Seeing as how I don't like either Gnome or KDE, though I did give KDE a try, I decided to switch to Cinnamon. Yes, that picture looks odd, I'm short on monitors that'll fit on the space I have left on my desk, so I'm using an old Dell with a 4:3 ration thanks to an HDMI to VGA converter. Some how there's dust in the display though, which is really annoying. Not much to say, if'n you've used Linux Mint, this should look rather familiar, it's just lightly customized at this point, it'll get more, and it works as you'd expect. Yes, this is the X11, and you're supposed to use Wayland. Funny thing about that, this is rock solid, whereas with Wayland I had a bunch of silly problems, can't drag tabs in Firefox, menu glitches, and no keyboard customization. General problems are minor, boot is real slow, I mean real slow, and Sat's update broke wireless, but I'm only feet from my gateway, so wired it is. Overall this works real nice, basically Mint running on an M1 iMac.
I’m curious of Webmention will delete a reply from this post, if the reply, like, or re-posting is deleted from the Mastodon thread. I’ll be responding to my own post and deleting it the following day.
Berndtsson & Börjesson Fiskeri AB är ett företag som ägs av Henrik Gunnar Börjesson och Peter Mikael Berndtsson. I styrelsen sitter båda två ihop med Joel Börjesson som är son till den förstnämnde.
It seems the Python ecosystem just dodged a huge bullet. A personal access token from a developer was accidentally leaked and put into a Docker image, being on the public web for some time.
According to the report by PyPi, a personal access token with was created for local development and a simple clean-up script used during building and […]
It seems the Python ecosystem just dodged a huge bullet. A personal access token from a developer was accidentally leaked and put into a Docker image, being on the public web for some time. Accordi…
Rasmus Landström skriver om solel, vindkraft och marknadslösningar i Aftonbladet. Problemet är att han inte tycks veta nånting om dessa saker. Han har rätt i att kapitalisternas och företagens intressen är vinst. Och han föreslår att hela elmarknaden bör socialiseras för att det är enda sättet att inför planekonomi.
Welcome back to another edition of the weekly-ish news of the fediverse. This edition contains the news of last week, as well as some news items from the previous few weeks that I’ve spotted while I was on holiday break. My holiday was indeed fully offline out of the feeds, but I could not resist afterwards to dig in to find out what happened while I was offline.
As a teaser: I’ve started working behind the scenes to launch something new with Fediverse Report, that will be in addition to the weekly newsletters. Stay tuned!
The News
GoToSocial’s latest release adds comment-controls, which allows people to determine who can reply to their posts. GoToSocial explains: ‘you’ll be able to configure your account so that new posts created by you will have an interaction policy set on them, which determines whether your instance drops or accepts
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Last Week in Fediverse – ep 78
Welcome back to another edition of the weekly-ish news of the fediverse. This edition contains the news of last week, as well as some news items from the previous few weeks that I’ve spotted while I was on holiday break. My holiday was indeed fully offline out of the feeds, but I could not resist afterwards to dig in to find out what happened while I was offline.
As a teaser: I’ve started working behind the scenes to launch something new with Fediverse Report, that will be in addition to the weekly newsletters. Stay tuned!
The News
GoToSocial’s latest release adds comment-controls, which allows people to determine who can reply to their posts. GoToSocial explains: ‘you’ll be able to configure your account so that new posts created by you will have an interaction policy set on them, which determines whether your instance drops or accepts replies, likes, and boosts of your posts, depending on the visibility of the post, and whether or not an account trying to interact with you is in your followers/following list.’
Safety has been a major conversation on the fediverse feeds recently, especially with Black people pointing out the lacking safety tools and major harrassment they experience on the fediverse. One aspect that facilitates the harassment is the default opt-out approach to federation; where racists and other bigots will simply spin up a new fediverse server and send (semi)-private messages with hate speech to Black people. This is why ‘just switch to a server with better moderation’ is such a problematic response; it does not actually fix one of the main ways Black people experience on the fediverse, while placing the onus on them to solve the problem. One interesting response is in building a separate network with ActivityPub based on allow-list federation, and I’m keeping a close eye on how this evolves.
PeerTube’s latest update adds ‘automatic video transcription using Whisper , a new comment policy “requires approval first”, auto-tagging/labelling of videos and comments based on specific rules and a comment moderation page for video publishers’. This blog post provides more details about the development story on adding the transcription feature.
Patchwork is an upcoming plugin system for Mastodon that is developed by Newsmast, that is tentatively scheduled to be released next month. The latest update by Newsmast showcases the variety of plugins that they’ll offer, including setting local-only posts, changing post length, and scheduling posts. The bigger part is also the addition of Channels, custom timelines that will allow external parties to hook into as well.
Some statistics that relate compare the different platforms. A comparison of sources of traffic to news site heise.de, showing how Bluesky has surpassed Mastodon in clicks. A new comparison by Kuba Suder shows the different ways people post on Bluesky that is not done via a PDS that is hosted by Bluesky company. In February this year, Bluesky started support for having people self-host their own Personal Data Server (PDS) that is not managed by their company. The amount of people who do so is small, with less than 100 active account. Significantly more people post onto Bluesky via their bridged ActivityPub account. Speaking of bridged accounts: Eugen Rochko has now bridged his Mastodon account to Bluesky. Rochko has been outspokenly critical of Bluesky in the past, saying that they should adopt ActivityPub instead of building their own protocol.
Some moreupdates by Ghost, who is getting along further with their ActivityPub implementation. The newsletter is now getting better connected to the fediverse, allowing you to follow it directly from your Mastodon account.
Mastodon moves their iOS app development in-house, and is recruiting a full-time iOS app developer. Up until now, the Mastodon iOS app was developed by two freelance developers.
A slightly obscure news update because I love interoperability: Guppe Groups have been around for a while, and are a way to get some semblance of Groups added onto microblogging platforms, functioning similar to hashtags. Now link-aggregator platform PieFed has added support for these types of groups, you can see an example here. I’m mentioning this news here because I think there is a lot more space to experiment with different platform designs that take inspiration from both microblogging, link-aggregators and forums, and this is a small example of it. PieFed added support for community wikis as well.
Bluesky released Starter Packs a month ago as a way to easy the onboarding process, and reactions on the rest of the fediverse were that this was a good idea that could potentially be copied. Statistics show however that the feature has not been actively used by the community. Part of the reason could be that signups to decentralised social networks in general have mostly stopped.
WeDistribute wrote about NeoDB, calling it ‘a review system for culture’. NeoDB is one of the more interesting platforms available in the fediverse, with an incredible wide variety of features. NeoDB themselves describes by drawing comparison to other platforms, saying ‘NeoDB integrates the functionalities of platforms like Goodreads, Letterboxd, RateYourMusic, and Podchaser, among others.’ NeoDB’s own pitch is taking fediverse platforms tendency to be ‘centralised platform concept + ActivityPub’ to the extreme, and I enjoy the simplicity of NeoDB is a fediverse review platform for culture more.
What is the fediverse? This question is answered by a tech-free explainer video by Newsmast, a new video series by WordPress.com, or a podcast episode by TheNewStack with Evan Prodromou.
The latest update for software forge Forgejo has foundational parts of ActivityPub based federation, and the first forgejo instances that have federation in some alpha form are starting to appear.
The third party app for Pixelfed Vernissage has been renamed to Impressia. Vernissage is now exclusively the name for the fediverse photo sharing platform that is currently in development by the same developer.
An experimental demo of how a “Sign in with the Fediverse” mechanism might work.
IceShrimp originally started as a Misskey fork, but they have changed so much it is starting to make more sense to see it as their own project: a full rewrite of the backend, and now the added support for plugins.
Smoke Signal is a new event planner platform that is in development and build on top of atproto.
The newsletter ‘The Future is Federated’ has a showcase of the interoperability between Mastodon and WordPress.
An extensive comparison how different apps for Lemmy display content correctly.
This week’s overview of fediverse software updates.
Activitypub.academy is ‘a modified Mastodon instance that allows you to study the ActivityPub protocol in real life’ that has gotten some new features.
In the main Bluesky app, if you block someone and you have a thread in which both you and the blocked account have posted replies, it prevents other people from viewing those posts, which often breaks the thread. This system, the ‘apocalypseblock’ is intentional for Bluesky, but the openness of the protocol allows people to build other thread viewers that do not have this feature.
If you follow any of the #GoToSocial developers you've probably seen this going around already, but 0.17.0 of #GoToSocial will be the first release that includes interaction policies, aka reply-controls.
In the first iteration of this feature, you'll be able to configure your account so that new posts created by you will have an interaction policy set on them, which determines whether your instance drops or accepts replies, likes, and boosts of your posts, depending on the visibility of the post, and whether or not an account trying to interact with you is in your followers/following list.
So for example, you will be able to create Public posts that can only be replied to by your followers and people you follow, or unlisted posts that nobody can reply to or like, etc.
GoToSocial interaction policies will be a superset of other reply control proposals created elsewhere (and already implemented by softwares like Pixelfed and Peertube), so your GoToSocial instance should recognize interaction restrictions set not only by other GoToSocial instances, but by Pixelfed and Peertube as well.
If you're interested in reading about how this will work on a protocol level, you can take a look at the documentation here: docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/…
Please note that this feature is not 100% finished yet, and may be subject to change before release. We're aware of where the headaches and difficulties are, so please don't reply to this post griping about them; we already know (and this instance is still running on 0.16.0 so no interaction policies yet).
The update for #Mastodon patching the bug in the preview is near, so it's time for a last look at #traffic sources for @heiseonline: #Twitter keeps decreasing and is already overtaken by Mastodon (thx also to problems with our bot for #X, when it works, X brings more people). #Flipboard and #Facebook are growing again, #Bluesky and #Threads are far behind. But Threads brings already more traffic than Bluesky, although we can't autopost (every link) there.
Det är mycket lätt att skaffa sig ett Fediversumkonto istället för ett konto på X eller som ett komplement till ett konto på Facebook. Det enda ni behöver göra är att gå till Spejset (social.spejset,org), Mastodon.nu eller Mastodonsweden.se. Det är tre svenskspråkiga sajter eller instanser som det heter i Fediversum.
Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In
På tisdagen den gångna veckan inträffade det två skjutningar i Stockholmsområdet. I Jordbro och Upplands-Bro. Skjutningarna i Jordbro och Upplands-Bro hänger ihop visade det sig. Därför har de sannolikt med konflikten mellan Ismail Abdos (Jordgubben) del av Foxtrotnätverket som numera kallas Rumba och resterna av Rawa Majids (Räven) del av Foxtrotnätverket att göra.
Dyröns stora fiskeriföretag Båt GG 330 Carmona AB är ett av de största fiskeriföretagen i Sverige. Det ägs av Anders Gustafsson och hans två söner Fredrik Gustafsson och Erik Gustafsson. I styrelsen för företaget sitter Anders Gustafsson och hans fru Gunnel Gustafsson. Företaget har ett dotterbolag, GG 350 Liz AB, och är delägare i PFG Hamn AB i Rönnäng.
Skjutvapenmord i Midsommarkransen. På lördagskvällen (igår) vid elvatiden träffades en person av flera skott från skjutvapen inne på en restaurang vid Midsommarkransen. Mannen fördes till sjukhus med livshotande skador där han dock senare avled av sin skador.
Today, I’ve been trying to resolve a strange error that just started showing up on one of my Linux devices – specifically, errors in the dmesg output on boot, during runtime, and at shutdown: [17411.181979] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 587247848, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81)[17411.181991] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 587247848 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0[17774.406908] nvme_log_error: 12 callbacks suppressed[17774.406924] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 633393408, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81)[17774.406937] blk_print_req_error: 12 callbacks suppressed[17774.406940] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 633393408 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0[17774.590170] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 633393440, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81)[...][21832.814513] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 1145110912, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81)[21832.814544] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1145110912 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 Needless to say, this doesn
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Today, I’ve been trying to resolve a strange error that just started showing up on one of my Linux devices – specifically, errors in the dmesg output on boot, during runtime, and at shutdown: [17411.181979] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 587247848, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81)[17411.181991] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 587247848 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0[17774.406908] nvme_log_error: 12 callbacks suppressed[17774.406924] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 633393408, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81)[17774.406937] blk_print_req_error: 12 callbacks suppressed[17774.406940] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 633393408 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0[17774.590170] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 633393440, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81)[...][21832.814513] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 1145110912, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81)[21832.814544] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 1145110912 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 Needless to say, this doesn’t look happy; but, fsck is not showing errors. This is a Debian install, and I chose to install the nvme-cli and also the smartmontools packages; util-linux and e2fsprogs were installed by default and contain fsck and also the badblocks tool; blktool and hdparm are potentially also useful. The Arch Wiki seems to be particularly helpful on the nvme tools.
I’m currently booted from an alternate source (an SD card) and attempting to run fsck -fcDy /dev/nvme0n1p1 in an effort to look for bad blocks. I’m still seeing these I/O error messages scroll up the dmesg -w output in a second terminal even though fsck is not obviously telling me that there are problems. Based on my research I’m starting to think that this might be a hardware issue with the drive. This is a bit of an unusual setup for me (ARM64, uBoot is in play with eMMC as well) but fortunately the system is recent, so a clean rebuild is not out of the question…
Fairly sure that I’ll end up getting another M.2 NVMe drive (at least they are relatively cheaper than they used to be), but writing this down for now as I continue to investigate. Fun times…
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in reply to lordmatt • • •Matthias Pfefferle
in reply to Elena Brescacin • • •Pelle Wessman
in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • • •As a standard #Webmention is merely a notification mechanism that A has mentioned B – they can be blog posts, social interactions or whatever else
The #IndieWeb stack of tech is much more granular than the #ActivityPub one – so the definition of A and B is left as an exercise to the user of it
But maybe you're talking about a WordPress plugin specifically?