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dalias

@dalias@hachyderm.io

C librarian, purveyor of the language's eldritch horrors. Poppin' shells 🦪

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Strandjunker , to random
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In 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices because there were 9 Circuit Courts.

Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for?

dalias ,
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@caitrionaGalway @mastodonmigration @Npars01 @Strandjunker What a fucking joke. She's literally on Putin's payroll.

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@mastodonmigration @caitrionaGalway @Npars01 @Strandjunker Third Way is not a legitimate source (it's a Republican op), but the rest are.

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@mastodonmigration @caitrionaGalway @Npars01 @Strandjunker Aside from literal dining with Putin (something you absolutely don't do especially in a position of lesser power where it's clear you're the one being used), her party is entirely a spoiler party (no actual work getting members in office, just showing up for high profile elections to offices they have no experience or even plan to fill), all of their support comes from pro-Russia tankie pseudo left...

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@msbellows @mastodonmigration @caitrionaGalway @Npars01 @Strandjunker I'm unclear what you're disagreeing with.

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@caitrionaGalway @mastodonmigration @Npars01 @Strandjunker IDGAF what Clinton said about her. I watched what she did over the past decade. Anyone can say they have a progressive platform, but when what you do is the opposite, that's what counts.

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@mastodonmigration @caitrionaGalway @Npars01 @Strandjunker You can just edit.

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@mastodonmigration @caitrionaGalway @Npars01 @Strandjunker I'll grant that some of her supporters are acting in good faith. I am absolutely confident she is not. I reject the idea that "existential crisis" is the reason not to vote for her. That's what the reason would be if someone capable and honest and genuinely reflecting our values were in her place. But in her case, the reason is just that she doesn't represent our values or interests, but Putin's.

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    dalias ,
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    @PallasRiot Garbage tankie rag.

    futurebird , to random
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    Exciting ant queen collecting trip in AZ. Why does it feel like all the coolest ants are in the South and South West. It's not fair.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1CkkkKbOM

    dalias ,
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    @futurebird @dotsandlines The worst thing about sprays is how almost all of them kill spiders, and advertise this like it's a feature rather than like an HP printer.

    futurebird , to random
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    If you see a new youTube channel with a plain sounding name like "NatureView" or "BrightScience" etc. and there is what looks like a tempting video on a specific education topic "Most Active Volcanoes" or "Incredible Carnivorous Plants"

    There is a 50/50 chance it will be a generated voice with stock footage and a script written by GPT.

    I am now avoiding videos if I don't recognize the creator, or don't see signs it was made by a person.

    So much spam!

    dalias ,
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    @futurebird I'd estimate it more like 99/1...

    dalias , to random
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    Is anyone doing outreach to public libraries to mitigate Microsoft's latest spyware shenanigans? This could be disastrous to the privacy and security of folks who rely on library computers for access to their online presence.

    Mer__edith , to random
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    Signal strongly opposes the newest proposal in Europe.

    Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

    This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

    It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

    See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

    dalias ,
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    @Mer__edith @echo_pbreyer I think you've clarified this before, but "leave the EU market" means "treat the EU as a hostile regime whose people we need to provide circumvention tools from outside the jurisdiction" rather than "leave EU users behind", right?

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    I'm so sick of "big men" enamored of the trappings of power & anyone impressed with them. I'm sick of the mystique of "all he had to do was wave a finger & you were dead" & that is supposed to be impressive rather than terrifying & childish. I'm sick of their entourages, and the way they stick out their lips, pout, posture, bluster. The way they use other people as decorations.

    They way they lie to your face as a power play.

    It's all... so embarrassing for the human animal of which I am one.

    dalias ,
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    @futurebird The "anyone impressed with them" part really broke my already limited capacity to have human relationships. Too many people I lost all trust in...

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    Milk Poll

    dalias ,
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    @futurebird Ultra/UHT pasteurized.

    futurebird , to random
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    “regular people” whoever that is… will never use the crunchy homemade internet if they have the option of slick apps instead. You can’t hire designers, you don’t have an advertising budget, your project with its dreamy cooperative ethos is an anathema to tech media who don’t see the point in mentioning it exists.

    “regular people” like pop-ups, and bots, and having their data sold to the highest bidder, they like porn spam, and scammers and discourse so broken it causes mental harm. Right?

    dalias ,
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    @futurebird @mattmcirvin Too often (almost always) the "make it easy" ends up being "surrender control to someone untrustworthy". That's why those of us who understand reject it. This is the problem we need to solve. Not "make it easy" but "make it easy without broken power dynamics".

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    @TerryHancock @futurebird @mattmcirvin It's hard to address this concretely because we don't have a specific thing in mind to be "made easy".

    But in general, solutions involve a mix of not having anyone in a postion of control (whenever possible), building systems for evaluating trust in information that aren't based on arbitrary authorities, and technical measures that ensue violations of trust are very explicit and provably intentional.

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    Post from @rabble on why he's chosen to use and not and the . He makes some compelling points. Personally I am not too worried about the server admin parts of his argument (I have enough control, even if I don't control the server), but I agree that this isn't ideal:

    "You can’t use a single fediverse identity with your profile and followers in Peertube, Mobilizon, WriteFreely, and Pixelfed. You need a totally separate account in each one."
    https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfqlx6wpl5267tmnmmjk7v9tzunjvhzav9unc2tjn6k0w82vghprsppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5qjxamnwvaz7tmswfhhs7fdv4u8qetjd9kk2mn59ehkuun9dejx2u3wvdhk6qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqzxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7umhdpjhyefwvdhk6q3qwmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqxczx4f

    dalias ,
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    @rabble @tchambers @ricmac @newsmast @pixelfed @julian You really do not want that. It completely messes up trust and privacy models and makes all sorts of vectors for impersonation. A server other than your own never needs to know who you are or create actions claiming to be on your behalf.

    dalias , to random
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    Aside from the IFUNC mechanism (which doesn't and won't support, btw), the one way for libraries that get linked but not used to run code is as global constructors.

    Wouldn't it be nice if distros could just audit for which libs have global ctors, and apply greater scrutiny to pulling ones that do into sensitive programs?

    Well...

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    pluralistic , to random
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    Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

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    dalias ,
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    @pluralistic Please do this but actually make it do something. Like exfil all the corporate data, emails, etc. it can get and post them somewhere public. CONSEQUENCES for companies doing this "AI" shit.

    matthew_d_green , to random
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    This thing Facebook did — running an MITM on Snapchat and other competitors’ TLS connections via their Onavo VPN — is so deeply messed up and evil that it completely changes my perspective on what that company is willing to do to its users.

    dalias ,
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    @smn @andytiedye Is this really how it worked? 🤦

    I have said 100 times and been ignored: device & browser vendors need to remove custom root CA support from their mainline products for consumers and only offer the antifeature in a $1000+ enterprise product.

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    @andytiedye @khm @smn "Without explicit permission of the user" is meaningless if the application is able to ask for permission. The only acceptable compromise position is user having to manually dig deep into settings menu to find where to add CA certs, then getting a detailed warning that if anyone has told them to do this, that person is trying to backdoor their device, and that they should only add CA certs for a CA they personally operate or trust.

    dalias ,
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    @andytiedye @khm @smn But I still believe it would be a lot more secure if the functionality were not there at all unless you either compiled your own OS from source (anyone who actually needs to MITM their own apps is capable of doing that) or paid $1000 a seat for enterprise edition.

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    @khm @andytiedye @smn That's why it's open source. 🤷

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    @khm @andytiedye @smn Seriously, the number of people who have a legitimate need for custom root certs is utterly tiny (security researchers & reverse engineers mainly) and we don't really need to do that on our daily driver devices. Same as compiling out dangerous functionality in Linux kernel so it doesn't inadvertently get invoked or used by root kits. You can always do a custom build with it when you need it.

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    @khm @andytiedye @smn One HUGE side benefit for the public would be making it impossible for employers to impose draconian BYOD policies on employees, since consumer phones would lack the functionality they want (MITM roots). They'd have to provide work devices.

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    @khm @andytiedye @smn The way to do that is running UBO, not MITM.

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    @khm @andytiedye @smn You don't do stuff that requires privacy on school-provided devices. Since when do you have permission to install root CAs on locked-down, school-provided devices anyway?

    dfeldman , to random
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    If there were another binary backdoor similar to the xz attack that was found today... how would you find it?

    (The xz attack was found by chance and some trivial issues that caused performance degradation)

    dalias ,
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    @dfeldman One measure we should introduce: distro package maintainers should fetch both git and release tarballs to compare before accepting a new version. Release tarballs not matching actually-reviewed project history are a huge gratuitous threat vector.

    dalias , to random
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    In case folks won't listen to aesthetic reasons why camelcase is hideous and underscores are the right thing:

    Camelcase is incompatible with multilingual source because not all languages (rather scripts) have upper/lower case.

    dalias OP ,
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    @FeralRobots No, I mean if you're trying to write identifiers in your own language that doesn't have case, then there is no way to write them in camelcase.

    I'm talking about actual non-English/non-Latin source files, not translating identifier names into another language when talking about them.

    pluralistic , to random
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    "Enshittification" isn't just a way of describing the symptoms of platform decay: it's also a theory of the mechanism of decay - the means by which platforms get shittier and shittier until they are a giant pile of shit.

    --

    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/26/glitchbread/#electronic-shelf-tags

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    dalias ,
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    @DavidM_yeg @pluralistic I'm strong believer in corporate death penalty. It should go like this: if you do corporate crime, all shares are nullified and a court holds hearings to determine what activities of the business have important public need to continue. Those are auctioned off or operated publicly, everything else is liquidated and proceeds seized.

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    @DavidM_yeg @pluralistic "But the poor innocent stockholders!"

    Yeah now you have fiduciary duty not to screw them over by having their shares nullified. 🙃

    VulpineAmethyst , to random
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    general reminder that anyone who thinks the world is overpopulated or will be in the near future is a fascist.

    the world produces enough food to feed 10 billion people already. there's space to house that many, if only we had the political will to make housing a public service and destroy the concept of private property (as in landlordism; your toothbrush and undies will still be your toothbrush and undies).

    white people make up about 15% of the world population. 'overpopulation' should be read to mean 'too many people who aren't white', and can thus be discarded. discard relationships with the people making such arguments while you're at it.

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    @jeffowski @VulpineAmethyst Population doesn't keep growing without fashy misogynist policies. Having children is hard af and, in the absence of being forced into it, most people on average won't even have enough to maintain population much less increase it.

    hrefna , to random
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    I hate when someone posts "evidence" of something and it is like… the most milquetoast, you-have-to-squint-to-see-it, ship-of-theseus evidence. Then they are shouting "SEE HOW BAD THIS IS?"

    No? I don't?

    I often see it used as a tactic against transfemmes, though I've seen it used against a variety of other marginalized groups as well.

    dalias ,
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    @hrefna Sounds suspiciously close to the antics of the HOA mafia.

    hrefna , to random
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    "Meta also can’t promise that when you delete a federated post on Threads, it will also get deleted on the other platforms it was shared on"

    I mean that's just the fediverse in general, especially with how it works today. Even the ActivityPub spec doesn't make a strong statement on how this is supposed to be handled ("should remove it" from public view is not "must delete it").

    dalias ,
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    @hrefna Isn't that just AP being stupid and violating YAGNI for on-crack RDF ideological reasons? Legitimate things should all have a single actor that's the owner. I would expect instances to ignore as malformed weird stuff constructed with arbitrary combinations of protocol elements.

    dalias ,
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    @hrefna It comes down to copyright and privacy laws. Unlike on commercial social media, there's no ToS that gave them license to copy & present works folks posted to their own instances in other contexts, commercially exploit them, etc. There's only some vague, implicit, revocable permission to use them in accordance with the author's intent for how it show up in a mastodon/fedi context.

    hrefna , to random
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    I'm not sure what planet you have to live on to think that what makes scaling databases difficult is the addressing space and not literally everything else about the problem.

    dalias ,
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    @hrefna I don't understand why anyone recommending sqlite would be bragging that it can address 140 TB rather than reminding their audience that their data they're storing in a big data db is 140 MB or often even just 140 kB.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    Things people say, nod and agree with, but did we really think about that?

    "Short form video content is bad it makes for short attention spans."

    Been hearing this a lot with reference to tiktok. But, it's been around since I was a kid. (MTV is bad, see MaxHeadroom satirizing this through blipverts)

    OK, the way that tiktok can induce slack-jawed zoned out infi-scrolling seems "bad" because that seems like manipulation.

    But short form content? Is it really bad?

    dalias ,
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    @futurebird Short form is the best. Zero filler, zero sunk cost fallacy bs, all getting to the point.

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    dalias ,
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    @jeffowski It's hard to get people who play the lottery or gamble to accept the second half of that. 😫

    hrefna , to random
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    A while back, in another company, I asked what defined "no code™" because we had a really complex product that could be configured with XML but which had so many levers that it required specialists. To the degree where you could find job postings for it.

    The answer I got back led me to believe that execs didn't know what "no code" was any more than I did 🤷🏻‍♀️

    Mind you, I still think that's a good product, and I'm still just as confused by what "no code" means other than marketspeak.

    dalias ,
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    @hrefna To me "no code" means whatever customization you do doesn't constitute any logic that behavior depends upon. An XML based DSL is code, and moreover a particularly awful form of it.

    mcnado , to random
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    Here’s a thing to consider: under the ACA (“Obamacare”) insurance cannot exclude pre-existing conditions. A GOP-led Congress and Presidency will destroy that. This is a problem for you and me because:

    1. Nobody has been hiding chronic health problems for 12 years, so we all have pre-existing conditions.
    2. Data mining means insurance companies know how much you drink, what you eat, and what your smartwatch thinks of your heart rhythm.
    3. DNA test services know your genetic risks now.
      1/3
    dalias ,
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    @qotca @mcnado They call it Medicare Advantage because it's a scam to take advantage of seniors.

    dalias ,
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    @qotca @mcnado TL;DR for folks not familiar with Medicare Advantage: the basic idea is you surrender/sell your Medicare benefits to get a private party to cover the meager copays you would have had, but with fake insurance that tries to deny you coverage for everything.

    futurebird , to random
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    Agonizing over the ethics of ant incest.

    dalias ,
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    @futurebird I don't see how one can empathize with creatures that different from us without completely disregarding/compartmentalizing-away human ethics in looking at them. So, no problem? 🤷

    Or maybe having spent so much time with them, you do see more overlaps than I'd expect, and that makes it complicated?

    dalias ,
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    @futurebird Ohh, I think I read it as regarding ethics of their behavior, but did you mean it in regards to ethics of keeping them and thereby (?) imposing the behavior?

    futurebird , to random
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    Math classes I wish existed:

    The History and Theory of Mathematical Notation Use and Design

    Mathematical Communication: Communicating Proofs and Data with Clarity to Varied Audiences

    Fingers, Algorithms, Abacuses and Computers: Tools of Mathematical Calculation

    What would you add to your dream course catalog?

    dalias ,
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    @futurebird I don't know the name, but one that's basically all the mathematical reasoning you need to know to avoid getting scammed. Really it probably breaks down into several.

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    A few days ago, we focused on the fraudulent scheme of plastic recycling. It does not work, it never has worked, and it never will.

    The oil industry, which produces millions of tons of plastics every year and makes HUGE profits from it, has known all along that recycling doesn't do any good — yet they continue promoting the idea.

    So should we just quit? That's the question asked by a new article at Salon.

    "Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?"

    Erica Cirino, communications manager at the Plastic Pollution Coalition, says, "Plastic recycling rates vary widely from region to region around the world. In the U.S., plastic recycling rates are currently below 6 percent."

    Yet even those numbers are deceptive, Cirino warned, as they incorrectly imply that at least the plastic which does get 'recycled' is handled in ways that help the environment.

    "Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter where or how you set out your plastic for recycling collection, whether at the end of your driveway, at your local recycling center, or in a municipal recycling bin: Most plastic items collected as recycling are not actually recycled," Cirino explained. "Surprisingly, plastic is not designed to be recycled — despite industries and governments telling the public that we should recycle plastic."

    Instead the plastics that people think get 'recycled' are often instead shipped from the Global North to the Global South, with waste haulers often dumping and openly burning plastic without regard to environmental laws, Cirino explained. People who live near the sites where these things happen face a lifetime of health risks, to say nothing of living in a degraded environment.

    Indeed, a compelling question arises from the fact that the crusade to recycle plastic is more corporate propaganda than true Earth-saving measure: Should we recycle plastic at all?

    "No," Cirino told Salon. "Even if plastic recycling rates were higher, recycling alone could never come close to solving the serious and wide-ranging health, justice, socio-economic, and environmental crises caused by industries’ continued plastic production and plastic pollution, which go hand in hand." Cirino argued that, given how plastic production has grown exponentially and its pollution problems have likewise worsened, emphasizing recycling over meaningful solutions is at best irresponsible.

    "It’s clear recycling is not enough to solve the plastic pollution crisis," Cirino concluded. "The fossil fuel industry, governments, and corporations really need to turn off the plastic tap. Ultimately, our world must decide what it values: money or life."

    FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/plastic-experts-say-recycling-is-a-scam-should-we-even-do-it-anymore/

    dalias ,
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    @breadandcircuses We absolutely should do it, but not the way most of it is being done now. There is real good work being done in polyester/PET recycling for strapping, greenhouse materials, agricultural lines, etc. Much more can be done. The fake shit needs to be exposed & rejected.

    luckytran , to random
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    It's surprising, but fantastic, to see a mainstream media outlet in 2024 recommending wearing N95 masks, and guiding consumers on where to purchase them.

    This is the kind of content we need to normalize the wearing of masks in the long-term!

    Link: https://www.rollingstone.com/product-recommendations/lifestyle/n95-vs-kn95-masks-1044184/

    dalias ,
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    @luckytran That last word "linger" is kinda doing a disservice, but overall yes great to see!

    CelloMomOnCars , to random
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    "[Nanoplastics] are particles that are less than a micron in size.
    Much of the plastic seems to be coming from the bottle itself and the reverse osmosis membrane filter used to keep out other contaminants."

    Still have an appetite for that ?


    https://apnews.com/article/plastic-nano-bottled-drinking-water-contaminate-b77dce04539828207fe55ebac9b27283

    dalias ,
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    @CelloMomOnCars Sounds sus by the fact that they can't even get the names of the materials right in the above quote...

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