Notices by simsa04 (simsa04)
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simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 20:30:10 UTC 
simsa04
What a turnaround in German public opinion with regard to #nuclear power:
https://twitter.com/JohanSollid/status/1607756731974811649
« Support for nuclear power in 2022 ⚛️
Looking at several European countries, with and without nuclear power, it seems like pro-nuclear sentiments are widespread 🇪🇺
Even in Denmark there are more supporters than opponents to building nuclear power 🇩🇰
*Sources in comments »
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https://twitter.com/JohanSollid/status/1607756734801580036
« Sources:
Sweden:
https://analys.se/engelska/opinion-polls/
Poland:
https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/12/05/support-for-nuclear-energy-in-poland-almost-doubles-in-a-year/
Germany:
https://nuklearia.de/2022/12/19/nuklearia-verlaengert-civey-meinungsumfrage/#more-10027
Finland:
https://euronuclear.org/news/support-for-nuclear-energy-highest-than-ever-finland/
United Kingdom:
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/10/04/britons-are-becoming-more-positive-towards-nuclear
Denmark:
https://politiken.dk/viden/Viden/art8958875/Danskernes-holdning-til-atomkraft-er-%C3%A6ndret-p%C3%A5-f%C3%A5-m%C3%A5neder » https://gnusocial.net/attachment/94645f5613e340ee53af7e7cdbf67397a18b52fc0647196a262d796a97a45923/view -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 21:15:24 UTC
simsa04
Yaroslav Trofimov, "How Far Do Putin’s Imperial Ambitions Go?" (June 2022) https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-far-do-putins-imperial-ambitions-go-11656085978
« [R]ussia’s imperialism blurs the distinction between what constitutes a colony and the home country. Over the centuries, Russia absorbed many of its immediate neighbors, often resorting to physical extermination rising to the level of genocide, and imposed its language and culture.
[...]
Moscow began its colonial expansion after freeing itself in 1480 from the Mongol Golden Horde. Muscovy served as the Mongols’ principal tax collector and agent in Russian lands in previous centuries. Once it gained independence, it adopted many of the methods of war and elements of statecraft that once allowed the Mongols [...] to conquer much of the known (and exponentially wealthier and more technologically advanced) world. Turning cities that refused to submit into rubble, such as what happened this year in Ukraine’s Mariupol, was the Mongols’ trademark tactic.
A powerful current of Russia’s political thought, the so-called Eurasianists, holds that the Russian state is a natural heir of the Mongol empire that is finally ending a three-century-long flirtation with Europe that began when Peter the Great launched a wholesale westernization of the Russian state and society. “Peter the Great opened the window to Europe. Putin closed it. We’ve aired enough,” goes one meme currently making the rounds on Russian social media. » -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Friday, 16-Dec-2022 19:44:21 UTC
simsa04
When on Twitter you have to screenshot (!) a link to a Mastodon run server because Twitter prevents posting it, calling it possibly harmful. I mean, seriously, Twitter, why don't you just shut down shop right now? You're not even a platform any more but a ridiculous imitation of some social media business. -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Thursday, 15-Dec-2022 05:01:30 UTC
simsa04
I still wonder how #Russia under #Putin, Putin and his circle, and their apologists in the South and West could ever come up with the idea that NATO and "the West" were out to "encircle" and "subdue" Russia. If you want to bring down a country, you don't first engage in economic relationships with it or make yourself dependent on it in crucial areas of #infrastructure and #energy. Assuming Putin to be a rational player – a murderous one, but still – he must have clearly seen that delivery of raw materials to the West was increasing, not decreasing Russia's security. Not even a NATO membership of Ukraine and Georgia could endanger Russia given the scale of Western dependency. Thus, the Greater Russia chimera with the corresponding conspiracy idea of the West wanting to "extinguish" Russia is the fantasy of a drama queen that cannot accept that Russia is a banal and mediocre state with little else to offer than raw materials and conflict. Putin needed to concoct interrelationships of historical, existential, and religous dimensions because he seemingly couldn't accept that after 20 years in power (various positions), his only achievement had been the creation of a mafia-state for his self-enrichment. But the country itself had become a failure, and so, irrespective of his riches, he himself. (Since 2007 I would argue.) And so he started it. A genocidal war on a sovereign neighbouring state, to ease his feelings of inferiority as man and head of state. -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 03:14:59 UTC
simsa04
Yep. This is what I replied to this celebrity on that very post:
« Don't bullshit people! Esp. on any instance that is part of the Mastodon network, you are no less small and a commodity than on Twitter. You're neither important nor "a person", but at the whims of admins who decide by fiat and without accountability with whom you can interact and with whom not. Perhaps it's different on the other projects (gnusocial, friendica, etc.), but in the Mastodon network, you're as much in a silo as on Twitter. Again: Stop bullshitting people. »
https://gnusocial.net/conversation/7517599#notice-13146139 -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 06:08:33 UTC
simsa04
Casey Newton, "Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall" https://www.platformer.news/p/musk-discusses-putting-all-of-twitter
[You all have your archives requested and downloaded already?] -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Monday, 07-Nov-2022 23:51:46 UTC
simsa04
@lnxw48a1 @fu
If I may pitch in on on th etopic of "how the fediverse works"...
Yes, you can explain it with the image of email and email providers. But you rely on "freedom" (whose?) to describe a structure that doesn't explain why newbies can and cannot subscribe to other people or otherwise interact with accounts and posts.
A different way is stop putting "freedom" into the centre – which in itself is a rather problematic hierarchical approach as it invokes the imagery of landlords dealing with their rowdy tenants – and explain to people the basics of #federation, from which most of the peculiarities and problems of fediverse interactions arise.
2015 I wrote a piece for Twitter migrants to GNUsocial primarily from the angle of a layperson, explaining the various oddities by pointing to and explaining from federation as the root cause. Perhaps this snippet is of some help:
!gnusocial !fnetworks #federation #fediverse https://gnusocial.net/attachment/cb9618538a9e5d8cfe3e78d2ca6b29734cefe631fa4e8b4bcc72ee7140b9e4a9/view -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Monday, 07-Nov-2022 20:59:32 UTC
simsa04
Looks like a new gnusocial instance has opened shop: https://gnusocial.jp/gnu2. Welcome! It even offers a pleroma frontend for those in favour of that. Cool. -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 15:44:37 UTC
simsa04
Bit late for that now, but there have been a lot of Spanish linux distros, maintained by the regional governments for citizens, libraries, nursing homes, and small and middle sized companies (accounting, HR, etc.) . It's all about 10 years ago, but perhaps there are still some projects useful today.
cc @es0mhi -
ar.al🌻 (aral)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 10:01:58 UTC 
ar.al🌻
Food for thought: The bigger mastodon.social gets, the less successful the #fediverse is.
Sadly, the fundamental design of Mastodon mirrors the design of Big Tech (a server architecture that can support hundreds of thousands of “users”) and thus inherits its success criteria.
I feel it’s time we at least started thinking about what the web would look like if we all had our own place on it and what it would take to get there from here.
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simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Nov-2022 14:49:17 UTC
simsa04
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan, "The Siege That Still Scars Russia" https://cepa.org/article/the-siege-that-still-scars-russia/
« The Russian security services learned several lessons from the events of October 2002; that they can lie with impunity, and that they would never be criticized, let alone punished for a failure unless that failure didn’t put the political regime at risk. And they got a license to attack the independent media at will. Not only was the assault on independent media fully supported by the Kremlin, and by Putin personally, but by Russian society too. The FSB harassed the relatives of Nord-Ost victims to keep them from talking to journalists, and even that was met with silence. No one was really bothered.
The terrified middle classes of Moscow and the big cities fully supported the Kremlin narrative, accusing journalists of vilifying the government and undermining stability. Society made its choice – as long as the FSB and other agencies delivered security, they would have a carte blanche from the Kremlin and Russian society. Their methods, however brutal, the special operations’ costs in human lives, however high, were excluded from public discussion. Without much debate or noise, society surrendered its right to hold the security services, and by extension Putin, accountable for their actions. This understanding became an essential element of the pact between Putin and Russia. » -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 00:11:38 UTC
simsa04
Dathan Duplichen, "Ukraine’s growing tech sector offers hope amid wartime economic pain" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-growing-tech-sector-offers-hope-amid-wartime-economic-pain/
« According to data from the National Bank of Ukraine, IT industry export revenues actually increased by 23% year-on-year during the first six months of 2022 to reach $3.74 billion. This remarkable performance is part of a far longer growth trend stretching back to the turn of the millennium that has seen the Ukrainian tech sector emerge as an engine of the national economy and an increasingly influential factor shaping the broader development of the country. » -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Sep-2022 04:25:44 UTC
simsa04
Orysia Lutsevych, "Experts predicted a stalemate in Ukraine, here’s why they keep getting it wrong" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/19/experts-russia-ukraine-war
« War is an expression of political culture on the battlefield. And there are stark differences between Ukrainian and Russian culture. »
[Worth reflecting on.]
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simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Monday, 19-Sep-2022 23:32:11 UTC
simsa04
Andrei Loschak, "Nur eine Niederlage kann Russland aus dem Sumpf der Putin-Herrschaft befreien – doch die Russen dürfen ihre Zukunft kein zweites Mal verspielen" https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/ukraine-eine-niederlege-koennte-fuer-russland-eine-befreiung-sein-ld.1702485
« Die Ukrainer setzen ihr Leben aufs Spiel, um sich zu wehren, aber auch, um uns die Chance zu geben, Russland von innen zu befreien. Schaffen können wir das nur selbst. »
« Ukrainians are risking their lives to fight back, but also to give us [Russians] a chance to liberate Russia from within. We can only do it ourselves. »
[A humane and touching opinion piece that is worth your time.]
#Ukraine -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Monday, 19-Sep-2022 21:41:20 UTC
simsa04
New blog post: "How Do We Survive?" https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/how-do-we-survive/
How priorities change when we change the subject that is important to us. -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Friday, 02-Sep-2022 23:14:05 UTC
simsa04
Jonah Messinger, Seaver Wang & Adam Stein, "The Faulty Diablo Canyon Study that Started it All" https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/the-faulty-diablo-canyon-study-that-started-it-all
Governor Gavin Newsom proposed to provide a $1.4 billion loan to PG&E to restart relicensing and preparations for continued operation of Diablo Canyon. As the main studies (and false modelling) on which the shut-down of Diablo Canyon had been based were authored by "Friends of the Earth" and "Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies", lawmakers should consider to hold both NGOs accountable and fine them to reimburse the taxpayer for the loan.
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simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Thursday, 01-Sep-2022 17:32:25 UTC
simsa04
That should be taken seriously. At the meantime, as the German magazine "Der Spiegel" reports https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/ukraine-krieg-russland-droht-moldau-mit-militaerischen-massnahmen-a-55afc6ca-2e5a-44b1-95a2-bb63ebf68716 Russia threatens the Republic of Moldova with "military actions" should Moldova's government launch any action against Russian troops on Moldova's territory in the breakaway-region of Transnistria. Russia even states that any incursion on these troops would constitute according International Law an attack on Russia. To me it looks as if Putin tries to escalate the situation to the West of Russia in order to be able to declare a state of war for Russia, with general mobilisation and the possibility of the use of tactical nukes (only permitted when the state of Russia is in serious danger). But OTOH, that was already to be expected months ago. Putin will not retreat but continuously escalate. -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Saturday, 13-Aug-2022 16:09:48 UTC
simsa04
Sammy Roth, "California could lend PG&E $1.4 billion to save Diablo Canyon nuclear plant" https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-12/california-could-lend-pg-e-1-4-billion-to-save-the-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant
«A last-minute proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom could keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open through 2035, a decade beyond its current closure date — in part by giving owner Pacific Gas & Electric Co. a $1.4-billion forgivable loan. [...]
Diablo Canyon is California’s single largest power source. Officials are worried that without it, the state could have trouble keeping the lights on — and air conditioners running — during intense summer heat waves. Newsom has also suggested that keeping the plant open would help fight climate change because Diablo doesn’t produce planet-warming pollution.»
Finally! Some people came to their senses.
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simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Sunday, 07-Aug-2022 17:23:01 UTC
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Interesting how those blaming Israel for its "attacks" on Palestinians also blame Ukraine and the West for Russia's aggression. Most recent example: Roger Waters from Pink Floyd. What a moron. -
simsa04 (simsa04)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jul-2022 00:36:44 UTC
simsa04
Blame the workers and fight further wage increases after a GOP takeover of government seems to be the easiest lever to fight inflation, keep the wealth, and socialize the costs on the working poor. If that tool is at hand, then why fix prior decisions they don't see as mistakes?
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