Upper ocean heat content is also soaring off the chart with the latest data update from the Japan Meteorological Agency...
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Climate change indicators
All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…Zachary Labe
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We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.
We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!
That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.
Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!
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My personalized steps for donating to this project:
1. Wake up bleary-eyed
2. Fumble for phone
3. See post asking for donation
4. Donate
5. Roll back over and go to sleep
not sure where to post feature requests but I've noticed a growth in promotions on Pixelfed. Is that something to be encouraged, ignored or discouraged?
Personally, I'm mainly bothered by commercialization, particularly if it overwhelms the other content, so I'd be up for discouraging it.
Also, Markdown (raised by others previously) seems like a good, user centred way for people to express themselves efficiently. The world of comms elsewhere has evolved this richness (bold, italic, lists & bullets etc), so why not the Fediverse too?
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)
• about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,140,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,040,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-ex…
Arctic: Sea-Ice Concentration/Extent
My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentrat…Zachary Labe
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Sudan is being erased in real-time.
A million refugees. A military ruling over ruins. A famine engineered by war. And the world? Silent. Watching. Pretending it isn’t happening.
The least you can do is pay attention.
My column on The Index:
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The Sudan Crisis is a Slow-Motion, Man-Made Catastrophe
Sudan’s civil war represents the deliberate destruction of a society, sustained by weapons, starvation, and international indifferenceJoan Westenberg (The Index.)
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Yes I believe it was indeed Cory Doctorow @pluralistic who noted this. As I recall, he called building in those restraints "Ulysses Pacts" to prevent #enshittification.
The first post I can find in which he coined the term is this:
pluralistic.net/2021/02/15/uly…
Followed by numerous later writings:
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Maybe @pluralistic can confirm the origins of this concept for us? 😅
I do wonder if an effective Ulysses Pact could ever be designed for an #AI business...
Midweek ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 690,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,330,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,910,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,330,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-fi…
Polar Climate Change Figures
Near real-time visualizations Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Sea Ice Extent, Co…Zachary Labe
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Dang, that's bad news. (New record in the making.)
Hope you can deliver these infos in the future despite DOGE and if not are safe at least until this despicable gov. is gone.
Best from Europe.
I hadn't a spoon myself so cheers to We Distribute for the reflection. @hello
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Celebrate community, agency, independence and artists' direct voices and choices, not clout cannons, gatekeepers, curators and skimmers.
Be wary of where you put your art and patronage. We need platforms that work for artist needs, not making artists work for platforms.
Stay weird, stay wild. Demand better of platforms or kick them to the kerb. Lift each other up and punch upwards friends.
Remembering Radio Free Fedi
For the past two years, Radio Free Fedi has held a special place in my heart. The community operation started as a small experiment, but quickly grew into a Fediverse institution. In the time that itSean Tilley (We Distribute)
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We should as always continue to do our best to as directly as possible support our creative siblings as amiably as we can wherever we as artists can manage to be.
Seek change to build voices, don't shout them down.
We don't have to and shouldn't agree with every single platform and tool out there. Minimise harm where you can and do demand and celebrate good attribution and support paths.
Together we've proven it makes a huge difference being as direct and durable as possible.
Community building is hard.
Being positive in this timeline and tech climate is brutally hard.
Although the hamster is retiring from positive instigator, please continue where you can in your circles to support and uplift one another.
Same goes for advocacy, research, quietly testing of all the things out there competing for oxygen. We can be vigilant for each other and offer assists to those who ask AND warn when things smell off.
Be safe. Protect our voices.
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#radioFreeFedi
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Last month was the 2nd warmest December on record globally. The largest anomalies were found this month across portions of the Arctic, which also observed the lowest December sea-ice extent on record.
Data by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (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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He had the chance to show Meta is the one acting like a child, but instead he made himself sound like one. And that's sad.
this reads like somebody with maturity issues wrote it. Also at least export the thing into a pdf first, the squiggly lines and text cursor are still visible 
More importantly, Zuckerberg didn’t build Facebook because he believed in anything, at least not anything good - initially the project was to rate college girls on their appearances
This must be read in the same tone Kain used when addressing the elder god at the end of “Defiance”.
“Your words are heartening. For you would not fear us unless we could truly do you harm. False god. This is the end. The final turn of your wheel.”
makesocialssocialagain.nl/
Make Socials Social Again
Op 16 januari roepen we publieke organisaties op om samen de eerste stap te zetten door alternatieven te gaan gebruiken voor Big Tech sociale media platformen.makesocialssocialagain.nl
No surveillance capitalism*
*but it still owns everything that gets posted there in every way, shape, and form to use however Dan sees fit, forever.
Please work on that terms of service
I know it's fun and games right now trolling him, but is Pixelfed really ready for when Zuck throws the lawyers at Pixelfed to snuff it out?
Do we think it *wont* happen?
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@paul_e_cooley unfortunately, intentionally or accidentally. Dan is following Elon's 'move fast and break things' mentality.
He's doing great things for fediverse visibility... but being a one man show leads to getting your ego involved or missing things (like Loops' egregious rights over-reach in its TOS).
Dan's done a lot of good... I just hope he can avoid an Icarus-style crash and burn that could undo a lot of that good.
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this "open letter" is embarassing... to Pixelfed.
"connecting people"? Facebook was created to predate on women and use their data without their consent!!! it was NEVER about connecting people, it was always about misogyny, ego and money.
Maybe someone should tell the lawyers who drafted the Loops TOS that :)
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loops.video - phil@bajsicki:~$
Been a while. I’ve mostly been posting on the Fedi, but I feel like this is a rather important topic that requires attention. Recently @dansup has been posting a bunch about loops.video, a federated alternative to Instagram/ TikTok.bajsicki.com
Just kidding, he deserves every bit of criticism imaginable.
There is nothing you can expect from such an "inventor".
»You've confirmed what we've been saying all along - that big tech is more interested in protecting their walled gardens than fostering genuine innovation.«
All along? Here's what you said, last September:
»Meta approached the fediverse in the proper way
They didn't acquire Mastodon
Instead they worked with fedi projects big and small regarding interop
Meta isn't the enemy«
mastodon.social/@dansup/113202…
Daniel Supernault (@dansup@mastodon.social)
w.r.t the Social Web Foundation, I'm glad we have some formal organization to help steward the protocol See, it's easy to get caught up on Meta's participation while forgetting the impact just a few people made on the social network landscape Meta …Mastodon
this letter was small and unhelpful.
I would love to find a platform without a "front-man" with an inflated sense of self.
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That aside the open letter of course is nice.
Zuck has always been a misogynistic arsehole.
Honoured to participate in the community building human tools for humans. Great letter.
Keep building, we're going all the way.
#humans #freedom #fedi # Mastodon #pixelfed #humanTools #HumanCommunity #humanTools
much too generous... Facebook began as a frat boy's hot or not rating game to objectify and demean women.
Zuck has been a schmuck from the get go.
How unhappy happens when you must down the knees to your enemy ?
Play your game!
Do your best !
The Big Brother watches everything.He do not known do other thing.
Do not be romantic !
Be smart !
"It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics."
No. It was exactly NOT about connecting people. It never was. It was about making money. Ever since.
Am I really one of the last people left on planet earth remembering Mark Z. having written "I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." about facebook users? I cannot believe this...
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Please send to your Spanish-speaking friends this Spanish translation made with open source tools
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Internauta de Antes (@internauta_de_antes@rebel.ar)
Carta abierta a Mark Zuckerberg https://www.bit-man.guru/posts/carta-abierta-a-mark-zuckerberg/rebel.ar
But if I saw correctly the alt description is missing the last part of the letter.
Now Instagram is blocking hashtag #democrats ? 🤔
your nice post was adjacent to this other nice, topical item
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Attached: 1 image My coworking space seems to be getting into the vibe of 2025.Aus.Social
Several times a day, I discover I'm carrying around a backpack full of rocks.
And then I realize I can simply...put it down. A short thread on my rage in 2025. 🧵
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We've been sold a story about anger. That it's inevitable, justified, necessary. That it's something that happens TO us rather than something we choose.
The amygdala fires. The blood pressure rises. The fists clench.
But here's the thing: while the initial spark might be automatic, the bonfire is optional.
The market manipulation makes me angry. The political corruption makes me angry. The trolls make me angry. The hate makes me angry. The transphobia makes me angry...
Except it doesn't.
It's simply asking: "Is this anger serving me? Is it serving anyone?"
For me, usually, it isn't.
The trick isn't processing the anger or justifying it or reframing it.
The trick is noticing I'm choosing it.
Several times a day, I notice the choice. Several times a day, I put down the rocks.
The anger will still be there if I need it. But chances are, I won't.
This isn't bullshit positive thinking or spiritual bypassing or pretending everything is fine.
It's recognizing that anger is a tool, not a master.
Here's the real cost: carrying that anger means I can't carry anything else. No space for creation. No energy for the work that matters. No capacity for change.
My best work happens when my hands are free.
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@meduz literally a post it note on my monitor that says “don’t get mad get better” - something that simple helps more than you’d think!
Re how long it takes…longer in the summer. The heat is not conducive to my calm.
That's perfect! Thank you.
I once read that "Anger is a secondary emotion. It's what you feel when you fail to process through other emotions". That helps me realize how useless anger is, and to look for the real emotions.
Edit: note that those other emotions can drive serious motivation too, the way people claim anger can.
Terry Pratchett has lately become a kind of role model to me, because he took his rage and turned it into humour.
A thing I read somewhere a long time ago is that anger doesn't scare the authoritarians because it's undirected. What scares them is humour, because humour is anger under control.
In conclusion, LOLBUTTS motherfuckers.
thank you! spent a bit thinking about how much time i wasted being angry about things/people/companies last night when i couldn’t sleep and this is adding some interesting points!
hope i‘ll be making the noticing it before it gets deeper part some day…
I think this is mainly a function of social media use, as in the development of a sometimes civic anger that cannot be aimed at civic good.
Aristotle talks about righteous indignation, as in the golden mean between the extremes of passivity and incontinent rage, as being angry at the right things in the right ways to the right extent. In the past this anger provided a function of civic improvement in the face of social outrages.
But social media is not a civic space.
Thanks for this. I have to remind myself that anger, while a handy armor from grief and fear, energizes me more to wreck something than to build something.
"Who wants to direct my energy?" is a good question.
This how trade-based society works, i will clean my name by the expense of all planet. I look clean, because i was able to export a huge amount of oil and gas- I am a good boy?? Retarded society 🤣
Still obvious origin of the problem is not seen.
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Norway on track to be first to go all-electric
Nine in 10 new cars in the country are now battery-powered, and it aims to hit 100% later this year.Adrienne Murray (BBC News)
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Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of wild, free play
Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents.Nowogrodzki, Julian
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Unlike just about every other year in the satellite-era record of sea ice by early January, the Hudson Bay (Canada) still hasn't frozen over... Not good.
Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_index
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Fossil fuel funds fascist governments. Trump is being paid to fry the planet.
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First daylight of 2025 stretching across the planet [GOES-West Satellite]...
A #HappyNewYear to all of my @Mastodon followers! Thank you for a year of thoughtful interactions and the privilege to communicate science here. Honestly, my advice is to just leave Twitter behind. Anyhoo, cheers to 2025!
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