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• Post #4439594

  The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵 Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently! In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen. There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway: https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-sto...

• Post #3451446

  #AI systems accelerate the pace of war. "AI can contribute to mis- or disinformation, creating and amplifying dangerous misunderstandings in times of war. AI systems may increase the human tendency to trust suggestions from machines (this is highlighted by the Habsora system, named after the infallible word of God)". "If a person has enough similarities to other people labelled as an enemy combatant, they too may be labelled a combatant themselves." https://theconversation.c...

• Post #2100017

  #federatedNotDecentralized This space does not have one provider. It was designed for many #servers to participate: https://observablehq.com/@neocartocnrs/mastodon I moved from an instance with #moderation issues. You should too. What is a good size? You may reverse the question: a good #neighbourhood council takes decisions to scale or to limit growth. I invite you to try another account and pick an instance of reasonable size: https://mastodon.help/instances/en?lang=112&desc=&m...

• Post #2100012

  @sam @michaelafisher @Matt_Noyes @flancian @emi Hi #MastoAdmin folks and cooperative fellows, Sorry for the late answer. I certainly am happy with our consensus, in this cooperative #neighbourhood. (I try to show no "reason" and i have a personal problem with the verb "should".) I advocate for people and - in our case - #FediCollectives to ❤️#learn about what they are doing. I tried a #longThread contribution there: https://social.coop/@eric/10942190083760881...

• Post #2100010

  About the Wyandotte people (traditional: Waⁿdát): "Prisoner sacrifice was not merely about reinforcing the solidarity of the group but also proclaimed the internal sanctity of the #family and the domestic realms as spaces of the female governance where #violence, politics and rule by command did not belong. Wendat households, in other words, were defined in exactly opposite terms to the Roman familia." from #DawnOfEverything by #Graeber and #Wengrow. ⸺ #community #organizing #p...

• Post #1657192

  "Using a unique cross-national video dataset from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and South Africa (N = 219), we show that in 9 of 10 public conflicts, at least 1 bystander, but typically several, will do something to help. We record similar likelihoods of intervention across the 3 national contexts, which differ greatly in levels of perceived public safety. Finally, we find that increased bystander presence is related to a greater likelihood that someone will intervene. "...