leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

Climate Scientists Leave Twitter For Mastodon

So, it is possible for a group to make the collective decision to leave Twitter. Scientists "suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter," and setting up shop on Mastodon.

Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges >>> https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230524-climate-scientists-flee-twitter-as-hostility-surges

"Glaciologist Ruth Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists' forum powered by Mastodon."

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#twittermigration #climate

Tech speakers, it's 2023. Stop using moms as your example of a non-technical audience. It's wrong, its not funny, and whatever you were saying, now most of your audience is not thinking about it.

Just use the exec team as an example instead and get on with your life.

School librarians face a new penalty in the banned-book wars: Prison

Several Republican led states have passed laws that could sentence people for years if they provide ‘obscene’ (LGBTQ or sex education) books to minors
#GOP #news #Politics #USA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/18/school-librarians-jailed-banned-books/

Bummed to hear about the #RedHat layoffs today. I worked with a lot of amazing people there. Let's get a #RedHatLifeboat going!

Ex-Hatters, reply or post on the hashtags and I'll boost your post. Hiring managers, reply with job openings or reach out to these fine folks directly!

Next Monday, 22nd May, in Parliament square, the #TUC are organising an emergency protest against the anti-union #strike bill.

It's important that we do all we can to stop this unlawful bill that attacks our fundamental rights.

#RightToStrike

https://www.tuc.org.uk/ProtectRightToStrike

The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.

If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!

If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and feature a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised,. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!

And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.50 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US#2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.

Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.

@technology #technology #tech #economics #copyright #ArtificialIntelligence #capitalism #IntellectualProperty @music@fedibb.ml @music@lemmy.ml #law #legal #economics

The link below is to the Government's open consultation on retained EU Laws.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/retained-eu-employment-law-reforms

Spread the word.

It's our chance to influence the EU laws Tories hope to scrap or change in their favour.

The whole consultation is not being widely publicised...

It's as if they hope to sneak it past us & pretend slashing our rights & protections are what we asked for.

Pass it on so as many people as possible can complete the consultation.
#NeverVoteConservative
#NeverTrustAToryPolitician

‘While the business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, was accused of “a massive climbdown”, barristers say the retention of sweeping “undemocratic” ministerial powers and the removal of the “interpretive effect” of EU law will blow up decades of legal precedent set by courts in Britain and makes for legislation like that found in authoritarian states.’

The A word is appearing more often
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/12/tories-revised-plans-to-scrap-eu-laws-are-still-reckless-say-lawyers

This is really the most basic level of trans allyship. No cash required. Just be counted. Share widely.

Stonewall - Trans rights are human rights – and right now they’re under attack. Join the official record of support for our trans community, add your name:

https://actions.stonewall.org.uk/a/stonewall-trans-rights-handraiser1?utm_source=facebookads&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_campaign=transrights&utm_content=broad&fbclid=IwAR0f70E0B0h5dQRZV15_ij0ydWZttHTWwptQzSUVuJJaWWFu-oJ-v87ByLI

💵 $1,000,000,000,000 💵

If only we could spend a TRILLION dollars every year to fight global heating and promote climate justice. But where would we get that kind of money??

Oh...

Governments Spent Record $1 Trillion Last Year Subsidizing Fossil Fuels

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/fossil-fuel-subsidies-hit-record-1-trillion-in-2022-iea-says

#AntiCapitalism #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

Greens win majority control of council for first time in UK https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/05/greens-win-majority-control-council-first-time-uk-local-elections-mid-suffolk?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news

So the U.K. now joins Russia, N Korea, Iran and China with highly repressive and intimidatory laws on demonstrations.

We’re rapidly becoming an authoritarian, fascistic police state and if you can’t see what’s happening you’re not paying attention!

To complain about the introduction of Voter ID in the UK email
correspondence@levellingup.gov.uk
or write to
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Write a paper letter if you can afford the stamp. When we successfully challenged the 2015 VATMOSS system seasoned campaigners said sending paper letters to relevant govt depts was the most useful thing supporters could do. Legally, letters must be opened, logged, filed. Sacks of mail make an impact.

@KarenawokeKaren this is true - the person you nominate as your proxy needs to show their photo #VoterID but not yours.

If you are in the UK please sign, outside it, please share. We are in a frightening place in Britain but outing queer kids to their parents is next level dangerous - it will cause immense harm, some kids may not survive being outed to their abusers
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636802 #trans #nonbinary #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqaai #transgender #ProtectTransKids #ProtectNonBinaryKids

Help.

I need #English books to read to my daughter (9).

She suggests Famous Five but I would like something with a bit more modern "mindset" than the girls always helping in the kitchen and the boys in the barn.

Ideas?

Also, thanks for boosts as my bubble is German speaking.

"I have killed my affection for Harry Potter. I have buried it. I am refusing to allow this series space in my life. Trans people are worth more than Rowling is. They are worth more than Rowling’s world. They are worth opening and suturing a wound, and moving past a children’s story. Real people are harmed by Rowling’s rhetoric, and giving her stories more space in our cultural consciousness is harmful to one of the most marginalized groups of people in the world."

https://gizmodo.com/harry-potter-rowling-terf-tv-series-hbo-max-nostalgia-1850363444

When people tell you they generated their slides or parts of their talk with "AI", just getting up and leaving is the most polite thing you can do. When the text is generated, just close the tab.

Don't waste your time on stuff not even the "authors" cared to create.