Ingmar Lippert @i_ngli@scholar.social

A new planetary boundary has been crossed according to scientists in a mammoth study of 'forever chemicals'.

No rain water anywhere is now considered safe to drink, all having levels of PFAS/PFAAs above that deemed fit for consumption. Some of these are understood to be carcinogens & immune suppressants, persisting indefinitely in the environment.

"The cycling of PFAAs in the world’s hydrosphere means that levels of PFAAs in rainwater will be practically irreversible"

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765#

Ep 190, The Dirt Podcast:

They Told Us So: Indigenous Science

We’ve had plenty of instances on the show of archaeological research bearing out information that existed already in the historical and oral traditions of Indigenous groups. We’ll also examine the relationship of Indigenous science and knowledge with the Western systems that actively invalidate and exclude them. https://thedirtpod.com/episodes//episode-190-they-told-us-so-indigenous-science

That's awful.

Cryptography professor Matthew Green said that the EU proposal "describes the most sophisticated mass surveillance machinery ever deployed outside of China and the USSR. Not an exaggeration."

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-surveillance-csam/

EU: All messenger services should be required to interoperate.

Also EU: We will fund opensource software, like e.g. messenger clients.

Also EU: All messengers are now required to scan messages for unwanted content locally, before encryption, and notify the gooberment of such communicaton.

Do they even realize that they literally have to make FOSS illegal if they want people to not be able to choose clients that don't spy on them (regardless of message transport)? The answer, of course, is no.

If you needed more reasons to be wary of Elsevier, here's what kind of data they collect about you. For example: whenever you do anything within Mendeley.

https://eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hotel-elsevier-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like-not/

Flying Kites with Simone de Beauvoir

Moin :)

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/445

"Purely as a philosophical thought experiment, of course, I would have to say that violence is sometimes needed to achieve justice."

RETURN · Is a research project designed for the experimental disclosure and artistic investigation of Amazon's return infrastructure ..

👉🏻 https://return.gruppe5.org

After all: Writing is talking the talk. Coding is walking the walk. So please, fellow peers: Cite your software. Spend some time researching how the authors that your research is based on want to have their code cited. Do your due diligence. Be fair!