Jeffrey Gray · @phoca2004
211 followers · 476 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Knowable Magazine · @KnowableMag
589 followers · 489 posts · Server mstdn.science

The notion of planting miles of trees to hold back encroaching deserts is misguided and damaging, write researchers.

Instead, they urge, we should promote programs that secure livelihoods and respect dryland ecologies.

✍️ By Matthew Turner, Diana Davis, Emily Yeh and Pierre Hiernaux

Read the : knowmag.org/GreenWalls_Mastodo



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Degrees of Freedom · @degreesOfFreedom
19 followers · 122 posts · Server denton.social
settima · @12pt9
157 followers · 1026 posts · Server social.horrorhub.club

Great about that Oppenheimer movie by Greg Mitchell, who wrote more than once about Hollywood's unflinching love letters to nukes. On top of that, I find it appalling that, in a time of a life-threatening Yellow Peril resurgence, such a movie is released and praised w/o questioning any of Nolan's popularized endorsements. motherjones.com/politics/2023/

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settima · @12pt9
152 followers · 974 posts · Server social.horrorhub.club

Caspar Salmon's fuming is a delight. You can hear him slowly pop off the head of a tortured, eyeless fashion doll.

theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/

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Jeffrey Gray · @phoca2004
200 followers · 553 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Now for non-fashion stuff (sorry fashion was only one link today):

WPO: We must end the tyranny of printers in American life
washingtonpost.com/technology/

I agree!

#tech #printers #article #oped

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newsjunkie · @janrif
24 followers · 151 posts · Server social.vivaldi.net
John (he/him) :vbike: · @cd24
1465 followers · 2422 posts · Server sfba.social

Does anyone on have experience writing opinion pieces for local news papers? The admin team is about to attempt a draft explaining SFBA and the fediverse to a local paper audience. Ideally, in a way it could be customized to each area of the bay! I’d love to invite our neighbors to join us here 🎉

Also, I’d love to hear about your local paper so I can include them 📰 I would be super excited if you want to write it for your paper too! I’d greatly prefer to have a recommendation come from someone in the community than one of the admin team for the website 😅

#sfba #oped #opinion #localnews #bayarea #spreadmastodon #welcomethecommunity

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John (he/him) :vbike: · @cd24
1458 followers · 2404 posts · Server sfba.social

Does anyone on have experience writing opinion pieces for local news papers? I’m about to attempt a draft explaining SFBA and the fediverse to a local paper audience. Ideally, in a way it could be customized to each area of the bay! I’d love to invite our neighbors to join us here 🎉

Also, I’d love to hear about your local paper so I can include them too 📰 I would be super excited if you want to write it for your paper too! I’d greatly prefer to have a recommendation come from someone in the community than one of the admin team for the website 😅

#sfba #oped #opinion #localnews #bayarea #spreadmastodon #welcomethecommunity

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Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
730 followers · 2869 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

This is encouraging from a balance of powers / federal checks and balances Constitutional perspective…

“Republicans’ Anti-Woke, Anti-Vote Crusade Has Crashed Into the Constitution”
wfryer.me/44l

#nytimes #oped #GiftLink #ConCW

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Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
730 followers · 2867 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

This is good news for the future of representative democracy in the United States. “The odds of a Trump coup attempt in 2024 are dropping fast” in

wapo.st/44pbK3x

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Jeffrey Gray · @phoca2004
191 followers · 544 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
727 followers · 2830 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

Delegitimizing our law-enforcement officials / institutions & the United States Department of Justice has dangerous potential consequences...

"...this movement’s true goals are inescapable: manufacturing a pretext for GOP weaponization of law enforcement later..."

wapo.st/3JkAlhU

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Alberto Chimal · @albertochimal
1653 followers · 1825 posts · Server mstdn.mx
Paul Chambers · @paul
1515 followers · 6986 posts · Server oldfriends.live
Martin Holland · @mho
942 followers · 784 posts · Server social.heise.de

I got a lot of heat for this two months ago, but I don't remember someone convincing me, that I am wrong. On the contrary – I think, the basic premise still holds. So I'm curious what the rest of and the thinks, because it's applicable to both:
heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-Mas

What I was arguing for was, that Mastodon (all the Fediverse, really) needs to cost something for users, to work in the long term.

Let me explain..

A thread 🧵 (1/6)

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Scientific American · @sciam_bot
750 followers · 2929 posts · Server social.platypush.tech

Referenced link: scientificamerican.com/article
Discuss on discu.eu/q/https://www.scienti

Originally posted by Scientific American / @sciam: nitter.platypush.tech/kennacul

RT by @sciam: My in @SciAm asks if the murder mystery book can be solved with . Thanks to @Unbounders and @Zindi, @rina_gill, and @AmyFlorida626 for trying to solve the case!
scientificamerican.com/article
TY also to @sophiebushwick and @meghas!

#oped #article #cainsjawbone #ai

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Chris Vitalos ✅ · @chrisvitalos
73 followers · 150 posts · Server indieweb.social
🪸🪼🧑‍💻 · @peterrenshaw
319 followers · 1077 posts · Server ioc.exchange

“Last month one of our received an interesting email. A researcher had come across mention of a article, written by the journalist on a specific subject from a few years before. But the piece was proving elusive on our website and in .”

“Despite the detailed we keep of all our content, and especially around deletions or issues, they could find no trace of its existence.

Why? Because it had never been written.

Luckily the had told us that they had carried out their using . In response to being asked about articles on this subject, the had simply made some up.” —

/ <theguardian.com/commentisfree/>

#journalists #guardian #search #records #legal #researcher #research #chatgpt #ai #chrismoran #persuasive #invention #hallucination #bullshit #oped

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