If it rewards outrage and punishes thought, unfollow.
If it makes you compare your life to a fiction, unfollow.
Your peace is non-negotiable.
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The hidden cost of Indonesia’s nickel boom
A new investigation shows how a once pristine Indonesian island was sacrificed for global battery supply chains.Serdar Vardar (Deutsche Welle)
Apparently #PerplexityAI CEO is annoyed that people are sharing that article where he is quoted saying that their browser will track everything users do to sell more ads.
> “That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you,” Srinivas said.
This is that article, in case you'd like to share it:
techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perp…
Receipt:
xcancel.com/AravSrinivas/statu…
#SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #StreisandEffect
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch
Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
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The latest supported "Galaxy S" is the S20. Do you know if it works with later devices?
As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing... 🌡️
Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat.
The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels.
Visualization created by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies, 1964-2024
The change in the distribution of land temperature anomalies over the years 1964 to 2024. This version is in Celsius, a Fahrenheit version is also available. || GISTEMPDist_2024_C.00850_print.jpg (1024x576) [45.7 KB] || GISTEMPDist_2024_C.NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
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In Medieval Germany, they had what was called Marriage Duels, where a husband and wife could physically fight each other.
To make things fair, the husband had to stand in a hole with one hand tied behind his back, holding a sword in his free hand, while the woman hit him with a bag of rocks.
I'm going to bring this up every time someone has a problem with No Fault Divorce.
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Mark Zuckerberg wanted to fly his helicopter from his gigantic superyacht to go skiing on Swedish mountains and offered villagers tens of thousands, but they flat out refused, saying the noisy chopper would disturb their reindeer
luxurylaunches.com/celebrities…
"That billionaires would fly private jets to luxury yachts, then board helicopters to chase the last snow-covered peaks in Europe—while attempting to silence Indigenous voices—is being seen as a microcosm of global environmental inequality."
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Ik durf te wedden dat ik dat jacht een poosje terug naast de A10 in de haven zag liggen. Bij de werf van Feadship. Zo hoog dat het boven de A10 uittorende - en die zweeft op dat stuk al enkele meters boven de eronder gelegen straten.
We grapten nog: zo sneu voor de eigenaar dat er niet een gezelliger haventje was om aan te meren. Je zal je lief maar in die grauwe omgeving op een van de dekken willen trakteren op een candle light dinner 🙃
Why 99% of Glass Eels are Gone and How We Can Save Them?
Our trip to Netherlands to save Glass Eeels. We joined project RAVON in a few days research of glass eels in Zeeland area.
To volunteer and more info about the project - ravon.nl/
Underwater footage by Arthur de Bruin arthurdebruin.com/
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Become a member of Be Brave To Act:
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Arthur de Bruin - Underwater Cinematographer
Hidden World We always see the water surface from above, reflecting the above water world. I focus on what goes on underneath, the colors, the beauty, the play of light, the fortunes of the fish and all the other life forms that are at home in this w…Arthur de Bruin
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"Flight from Earth" - Marsh Family parody of Katy Perry's "Firework" on the Blue Origin space launch - youtu.be/YJF6NcwkZbc
This was quite funny and real.
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🚨 I have another record to share - carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged a record high of 428.2 ppm in March 2025
10 years ago March averaged about 401.7 ppm
Provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/. Climate monitoring and data like this are at risk. #StandUpForScience
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... for helping with #Safeguarding I recommend to follow @SafeguardingResearch and become part of the crowd.
I love discovering personal blogs and websites.
No algorithm.
No competing anything.
Just a person, putting out what they want.
It's beautiful.
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Wow, that took off and already reached an incredibly diverse group of people.
I freaking love it. I see a lot of you having websites linked, I will make sure to go through those :3!
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My toot has completely breached containment, holy heck.
Seems like I'll have a lot of websites and blogs to check out now. Suffering from success, but I am extremely happy about this 
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My own instance just rate-limited me, because I was going through all of the profiles of people that boosted the post, to see if they have websites or blogs.
WTF Mastodon? Any why is the limit hard-coded? Not cool
Okay, I compiled a list of all of the websites and blogs that people either send me or that I found in the profile links of the people who boosted the toot.
Seems like I won't get bored the next little while.
If I find anything that particularly peeks my interest, I will make sure to highlight it in some form :3
For anyone interested, I put the list of links to all of the websites and blogs I found here, if anyone else wants to go through them.
I have looked at none of them yet, so be aware, there might be anything behind these links ^^
Have fun!
gist.github.com/itz-Jana/eed95…
I will keep the list updated, when I find new ones, so probably another batch added tomorrow :)
List of websites and blogs from people on the Fediverse. This is merely a collection of all links, I have not yet looked at any of them.
List of websites and blogs from people on the Fediverse. This is merely a collection of all links, I have not yet looked at any of them. - blog_list.mdGist
I've got beleefvenetie.nl/ for you and beschermjegegevens.nl both in Dutch and English, with the one about Venice taking a enourmous amount of time. Don't ask.
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100 years of average January-March temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025...
This data offers a window of our changing climate.
Data available from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 at ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-ba…
NOAAGlobalTemp
The NOAA Merged Land Ocean Global Surface Temperature Analysis (NOAAGlobalTemp, formerly known as MLOST) combines long-term sea surface (water) temperature (SST) and land surface (air) temperature datasets to create a complete, accurate depiction of …National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
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Exciting news 📣
I've just released 2 new dates for my Writing #DesignSystem documentation training:
- 1:30-5pm UK time, 23 May: bit.ly/4lpG9Z2
- 9am-12:30pm UK time, 29 May: bit.ly/4j2rW2D
A half-day course that will teach you how to plan, write and test docs that users will actually read.
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Writing design systems documentation
Eventbrite - Amy Hupe presents Writing design systems documentation - Friday, 23 May 2025 - Find event and ticket information.Eventbrite
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In the course, you'll learn how to:
- understand and prioritise your readers
- name and organise your documentation
- make documentation clear and easy to read
- review and test documentation
Let me know if you have any questions, and please share far and wide!
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A moment that changed me: I brought a baby gorilla home – and learned so much about being a parent
The seven months I spent looking after Afia fast-tracked me through every stage of parenting: love, laughs and pride, followed by inevitable separation and lossGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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🧠 Assessment at the End of the Turing Test
In an era when AI can generate essays that mimic human writing with startling fluency, the question "What are we actually assessing?" has never felt more urgent.
I’ve just published a new blog post reflecting on a recent conversation with a colleague who argues that remote assessment is no longer trustworthy. Their proposed solution? Reintroduce in-person elements—even brief ones—to every assessment.
But what if the real challenge isn't technological, but pedagogical?
What if the answer lies not in surveillance, but in reimagining the way we define and design assessment?
✍️ Read the full post here:
👉 e-learning-rules.com/blog/0019…
💬 I'd love to hear what others think:
Can assessment evolve to meet the age of AI without falling back on control?
Are there models out there that meaningfully integrate AI while maintaining academic integrity?
#Education #Assessment #GenerativeAI #EdTech #DigitalLearning #Pedagogy
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Less sea ice compared to average could be found around almost the entire #Arctic sea ice edge during March 2025, which contributed to its record low total ice extent.
+ Data: nsidc.org/data/g02202/versions…
+ Concentration = fraction of sea ice in a location
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Zuck experiencing some "fun"
#newscientist
#book
A bestseller is born: How Zuckerberg discovered the Streisand Effect
Feedback is baffled – baffled! – as to why Facebook owner Meta's attempts to suppress a previous employee's memoir sent the book rocketing to the top of the book chartsNew Scientist
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Stand up.
Today I join with >1900 members of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the assault on #science by the GOP and Trump administration.
docs.google.com/document/d/13g…
Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive across bridges and fly in airplanes.Google Docs
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •yeah I'd rather compare myself with the very real people who position themselves for comparison
comparison makes unhappy
But great list! bookmarked
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