@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-23 04:14:25
Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer,
new research suggests,
with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths.
Hot days pushed vulnerable bodies into overdrive and warm nights prevented them from recovering.
Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August
as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives in urban areas,
the researchers found.
The “…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-10-22 16:05:56
Nothing in the humanities academe is simultaneously so awe-inspiring and dispiriting as going through applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. What a profoundly broken world in which none of these people have permanent jobs.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-10-23 06:15:11
"Bullshit universities: the future of automated education"
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02340-8
"[…] The dream that AI could teach students effectively neglects the importance of ‘learning how’ in order to ‘learn that’, that teachers are also role models, and t…
@holger_moller@bildung.social2026-10-22 14:13:32
Ich habe mir die dreiteilige #Dokumentation über die Geschichte der No Angels in der ARD Mediathek angeschaut.
#Krass, was da hinter den Kulissen abgegangen ist.
#NoAngels
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-22 20:49:32
Delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas, a ProPublica analysis found.
The rates of ballots rejected for arriving late this year doubled or tripled in areas affected by the cuts compared to the 2022 primary.
That wasn’t the case elsewhere.
Postal Service leaders say special procedures in place for the Nov. 3 election should prevent similar delays,
but experts warn that mistakes a…
@boris@cosocial.ca2026-09-21 15:25:54
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@coop/117304257857053771
Thanks @… for your work in pushing things forward and prepping for the AGM - a nice morning o…
@donelias@mastodon.cr2026-10-21 17:37:39
RE: https://mastodon.social/@BjornW/117479108053805974
Hoy es un día para reflexionar sobre cušnta infraestructura digital es mantenida por personas voluntarias sin que les proveamos los presupuestos apropiados.
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-10-10 16:56:10
A record-low vote share for Quebec's incoming government has reignited a long-standing debate over how the province elects its leaders.
The Parti Québécois secured enough seats to form a minority government despite getting only 28 per cent of the popular vote — the lowest vote share for a governing party in Quebec history.