@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialAt #DegrowthOslo25 Conference chair Erik Gómez notes that when the Great Financial Crash and the Covid pandemic struck, we were not ready.
Green Parties largely domesticated.
Left parties often seem to be looking down on people.
We shouldn't be trying to educate people but to learn from them.
#Oslo
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSomeone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the w…
@arXiv_physicsedph_bot@mastoxiv.pageQISCIT: A validated concept inventory assessment for quantum information science
Kelley Durkin, Manshuo Lin, Michael H. Kolodrubetz, Ryan P. McMahan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17122
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialJuneteenth is a campus holiday, but there are many ways to still engage with the history and observance of the event both online and in-person. https://belong.yale.edu/be-involved/engage/june-focus-juneteenth
@NFL@darktundra.xyzLions legend Barry Sanders opens up about heart attack, hopes to educate in new documentary https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6423192/2025/06/13/lions-barry-sanders-heart-attack-documentary/
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzBiden's record on covid
Saw a comment along the lines of: "seems unfair to criticise Biden's record on covid, while the situation now under Trump is so much worse".
But I don't think of them as separate. Biden's government _contributed_ to how covid stands under Trump.
If Biden's lot had taken the opportunity to educate people (at least the ones open to considering science findings) that
- it's airborne like smoke
- an empty room can hold infectious virus
- air filters, UV and fresh air reduce the levels of it
- masks work better the better they fit
- you can be infectious without/before symptoms
- you're fairly likely still to be infectious for 10 days, a few people longer
- current vaccines don't stop you catching it or transmitting it
- it can mess with your immune system so you're more likely to catch other things
- vaccinated people can still get Long Covid
- it's not "mild", it's just that the damage is quiet
then even if they hadn't done anything more to address the problem, people would be in a far better position to deploy their own common sense.
And unlike funding or laws, that investment in _knowledge_ is something it would be difficult for Trump's lot to roll back.
But Biden & co chose instead to play down the risks, and explicitly or implicitly mislead people (e.g. the 5-day quarantine, which contradicts the real infectious period).
So, yes it's worse now, but they _contributed_ to how it is now. They chose to encourage misapprehensions and confusion, and the effects of that choice are still playing out now.
Not letting them off the hook on the grounds of being comparatively "less bad", when they themselves laid some of the foundations of the current state of play.
#covid #Biden #USPol #CovidIsntOver
@NathanALV@social.linux.pizzaOver this weekend, I will be #researching , compiling my findings, and #writing an #article about cables as to
