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Estelle Platini @estelle.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

"It is the very activity of thinking that is inherently generous. […] It is because thinking opens up the realm of possibilities, in the silence of our minds, free from surveillance and coercion, that it is a dangerous activity. Thinking allows us to (re)define ourselves as subjects, to question […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"The bystanders who did not believe you were not simply reading the situation incorrectly. They were responding to a tactic specifically designed to produce that result. Their failure to support you was the intended outcome of a deliberate sequence — not a verdict on your credibility or your […]

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 27/09/2026

Passive rewilding refers to *actively unmanaged* environments that are allowed to regain natural dominance, typically after their abandonment. 🧵 Sometimes referred to as "natural regeneration", it differs from other forms of rewilding in that direct human management or intervention is absent.

Abandoned railroad platforms of the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, United States.
It lies just west of Battery Park, Manhattan, NYC.

Abandoned railroad platforms of the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, United States.
It lies just west of Battery Park, Manhattan, NYC.

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Estelle Platini @estelle.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

"What #publishing, our dubious white ally, does so often to marginalized creators. They want the credibility of our identities, want to market our biographies. They want to sell our suffering, smoothed down and made palatable to the white readers they prioritize. To assuage white guilt with […]

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Estelle Platini @estelle.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling? For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle. Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl 🧶 #humanities #acceleration #higherEd #academicChatter

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Estelle Platini @estelle.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 16/09/2026

Q: "Will the AI bubble bursting be the moment in history where we'll have to come to terms with the fact that we'll need to stabilise societies with extant resources, people and technology?" A: As with pandemics, societies will continue to function. But there will be a shock opportunity.

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

"By 2025, we ranked second in the world to electrify our transport system. "A question now sits on the same foundation the water has exposed. What does losing 10 percent of national generation capacity in one morning actually mean? Someone like a taxi driver, who might have financed an electric […]

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 09/09/2026

'At least 5.5 M people in Borneo and Sumatra have been directly exposed to smoke.' “When landscapes that have long been safeguarded by indigenous communities are transformed into industrial-scale production zones, the ecological function of these areas as a buffer against fire is also weakened”.

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Indonesia faces a wildfire catastrophe. Again

And El Niño could cause the fires to get much worse.

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Interview with a Nepali climate negotiator about: • how the government is handling rescue and relief in the aftermath of the disastrous flooding • the kinds of international support it seeks, including from the climate loss and damage fund. drilled.media/news/nepal-floods #attribution […]

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 18/08/2026

… The World Bank wishes for more investment in methane gas infrastructure. 🔥 The World Bank cites the USA as progress. The language is deliberate:

World Bank HIGHLIGHTS
• A missed opportunity of historic scale. The 167 bcm of gas flared in 2025 exceeds the volume of LNG (liquified natural gas) that transited the Persian Gulf last year; a resource large enough to equal the gas consumption of Africa, yet burned without benefit.
• The economics demand action. The gas wasted in 2025 was worth an estimated US$54 billion. Eliminating routine flaring globally would require US$70–100 billion in upfront investment, roughly twice what is currently being lost each year. Yet despite the tools needed to end routine flaring being well established, it persists; what holds back progress is not technical but structural — inadequate regulation, insufficient capital, limited market infrastructure, and a failure by operators and governments to treat reduction as a priority.
• Progress is possible. Kazakhstan has cut flaring by 87 percent since 2012, and the United States made the largest absolute reduction of any country in 2025. Proven solutions exist. What is needed is the commitment to deploy them.

Excerpt from https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/gasflaringreduction/publication/2026-global-gas-flaring-tracker-report

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Early cereal grain growth was shaped by water, not early farming, study finds archaeologymag.com/2026/08/cereal-g… Early Neolithic cereals grew larger in parts of southwest Asia because of wetter growing conditions, rather than human selection through […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵 Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently! In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first […]

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Estelle Platini @estelle.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

There are "multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests […]

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 16/08/2026

"Forest thinning […] can deliver wood for local industry, absorb carbon and improve habitat for wildlife. It is a win-win-win outcome that challenges the false dichotomy of conservation versus production that has dominated public debate for decades." …

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 16/08/2026

Here is a thread on #forests #degradation due to #climateChange (itself due to #carbon emissions) 🧵 #ecology #science

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 09/08/2026

From #Ireland Land Use Review latest report: “sustainable land use requires very significant change”. Journalist: "Agriculture is the main polluter of waterways, half of which fail to meet minimum environmental standards. "It is responsible for 38 per cent of national emissions." archive.ph/Al4qw

Extra land demands / hectares by 2030
Biggest are:
biomethane (130,000)
tillage (70,000)
forestry (60,000)

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Anja @maristya.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/1169… „Some areas were expected to remain above 30 C overnight, increasing the risk of heatstroke even after sunset and impacting sleep.“ The heat is everywhere.

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

"every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, *even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted,* wanted to buy it immediately.... It was like a dark and terrible force seized control of their limbs, plunged their hands […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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On several occasions, we’ve been exposed to folks that have been sort of lukewarm on our main offerings, but they really, really wanted to use AI to perform a natural language query on their data. And we thought “Okay, if you really want to see it, maybe we can caveat this appropriately and show you what it might look like.”

This was a terrible mistake. It backfired in the most predictable way imaginable – every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted, wanted to buy it immediately. Every other consideration, including millions of dollars that we could plausibly help them achieve by non-AI means, was swept aside. It was like a dark and terrible force seized control of their limbs, plunged their hands into their own chests, and presented their still-beating credit cards to us in grim supplication. We were so mortified by the inexplicable shift in energy that we (wisely) declined to take the money and ended the sales process, and soon thereafter removed Cortex from our list of demonstrations. It would have been too irresponsible to exploit this gap in their reasoning, and frankly, it was already irresponsible to have even run the demonstration – doctors don’t walk around showing off cool pills that they’d never prescribe.

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

We may tackle a problem from at least two ends: • "Zero soil artificialisation" can be applied and concrete makers train to the transformation of offices into housing; • Sale of petrol vehicles and fossil exploration can be prohibited; • Advertising for any animal […] [Original post on mas.to]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

RE: mamot.fr/@koantig/117015895289870417 The AI-on-Google-Earth feature has just been rolled back. To a product manager, every step between having the idea and shipping it is a cumbersome waste of time.

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

"Information by itself is very limited in what it can do to change behaviour". Reluctance "often comes down to concerns about cost and fairness". Prof. @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Accepting a hypothesis depends on the importance of being mistaken. It can be considered a judgment with ethics attached. Without accounting for multiple values and preferences in policy design, scientific insights risk becoming politicized, potentially reinforcing dominant parties’ interests in […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

"Water, food and a decent temperature range are needed for our survival. […] We can act consequently." data.yt/kit/water-food-and-temperat… Would you know a person born around 1950 and who would have lived in NYC in the late 1970's? I am looking […] [Original post on social.coop]

Audre Lorde sitting and pointing her left index finger. Her right hand holds a microphone. So she probably is smiling at a person in an audience.

Photograph unknown but the style is that of K. Kendall.

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Estelle Platini @estelle.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

"Imperfection is not a failure but a method. […] Putting down what you know, what you suspect, and what you are not yet sure about often turns out to be the fastest route to clarity. The act of spelling out what you mean, imperfect as it is, creates the conditions for the next step." "The […]

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Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116946142… So very much this: Even if you think AI is net-positive, we have a duty to expand well, not on top of the most marginalized as always. The way we do it now is the way of paving natural beauty, discarding entire communities, and taking […]

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Eric Maugendre en français @maugendre.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

"Il faut anticiper." 🧵 "On s'expose à des risques majeurs pour la population, et même pour les animaux, et pour les plantes, les arbres. Les plantes ne sont plus capables de faire la photosynthèse de façon correcte ; donc elles commencent à entrer dans un processus de mort ; qui peut se […]

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Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון @raph.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

✊ Respect to the folks from No Tech For Apartheid. Let's keep going, make it impossible for those designers, engineers, managers to ignore what the tech they build is being used for. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #AI #Tech

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 09/07/2026

The Vasa sank in 1628 because the people who knew it would sink didn't feel able to say so to the people who could have done something about it. Here is a case study of an organisation's failure:

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The Vasa

The Vasa Disaster A few years ago, I was working for a client in Stockholm and in some free time, I visited the wreck of the Vasa, the world’s best-preserved 17th-century ship. She’s housed in a museu...

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 08/07/2026

'The pat notion of “affordable clean energy” views the world through a narrow keyhole that is blind to innumerable economic, ecological, and social costs. These undesirable externalities can no longer be ignored[.] Society must embark on a planned, cooperative descent from […] overshoot." thread 🧵

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 30/04/2026

@KeithWM Anti-Black racism in the fediverse has been well-documented, it's really not hard to find. Did you try? logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the… privacy.thenexus.today/start-making… […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

"The health of Indigenous lands and their ability to store vast quantities of carbon stem from the stewardship of the people who inhabit them." "Respondents from a wide range of countries, including Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines, mentioned using community monitoring or patrols to protect […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

'Chasing every financial opportunity—and, it cannot be overemphasized, to the detriment of virtually everything else in their life—has become their be-all and end-all. For that, frankly, is where the dopamine is: the master molecule of pleasure and motivation. And the “end” for them is simply […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Theodore is 22 years old. He just got a $30 million investment via Lux Capital valuing his new "perpetual futures" exchange at $300 million. Lux Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York City. It holds assets in AI, defense and biotech. "For her part, Senator Gillibrand has been a key […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

What policy for the Federal Emergency Management Agency? Dr. Samantha Montano has analyzed the President's Council report: www.disaster-ology.com/blog/femarev… #policy #brutalization #disasters #disasterResponse #FEMA #necroPolitics

"as any good student of disaster history knows, ideas that are sitting around have a way of becoming law when focusing events open a policy window. There should be an independent analysis available to the public to help people understand where these ideas came from and what they could mean for all of us if implemented.

"The FEMA Review Council was not brave enough to recommend abolishing FEMA but there is still a cruelty that runs through their report. This is not a vision for an emergency management system that is more effective, efficient,"

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Climate change is a consequence. Where you look at a problem conditions where you look for a solution. Read ‪@thierryaaron.bsky.social‬: sklonger.app/profile/thierryaaron.b… #advocacy #influence #framing #strategy #publicDiscourse #climate #adaptation […]

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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 17/05/2026

“The most familiar example of integrating as the social process is when two or three people meet to decide on some course of action, and separate with a purpose, a will, which was not possessed by anyone when he came to the meeting but is the result of the interweaving of all.” Mary P. Follett, 1924

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

"Most #illegal acts are scandalous, but many scandalous acts are perfectly #legal. But all scandalous acts need to be covered up. The operation has to be kept quiet, has to be covered up, because it’s unacceptable. It’s outrageous. If this were more widely […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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Most illegal acts are scandalous, but many scandalous acts are perfectly legal. But all scandalous acts need to be covered up. The operation has to be kept quiet, has to be covered up, because it’s unacceptable. It’s outrageous. If this were more widely publicized, Meta would suffer on two fronts. First, it would become better known that there’s nothing artificial about some of what they call “AI” — it’s in fact powered by human intelligence, just in another hemisphere. Second, and related to the first, some of the interactions you have with Meta AI — including images and video you send it, and images and video captured by Meta AI Glasses — are reviewed by human contractors. People write things and show things to AI, thinking it’s kept private between them and a computer program, that they would never share if they knew it might be seen by human beings paid by the AI provider to refine the training and correct its mistakes. A lot of people only use these “AI” products because they have no idea what’s actually going on.

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

If meetings don't deliver, change format. Example: Unlike COPs, the purpose was to "debate practical ways to move away from coal, oil and gas". The representatives described the conference as a “safe space for discussion”. Said a rep: “That kind of space I […] [Original post on social.coop]

a person takes the microphone at a meeting of the first Conference for the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels, on 28 April 2026

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Glyph @glyph.im · 25/04/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@glyph/116467306761… I want to elaborate on this one a little bit. When I worked at a company that manufactured, among other things, consent modals, one of the things I tried (and failed) to fight for was the idea that no consent modal should EVER be a 'yes/no' […]

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Quote of the day, from a friend who founded a software startup: "You can’t use an LLM in any context where being wrong is a problem."

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

Tech billionaires consider a threat everything from documentation to whistleblowing. “Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.” […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

"Using a unique cross-national video dataset from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and South Africa (N = 219), we show that in 9 of 10 public conflicts, at least 1 bystander, but typically several, will do something to help. We record similar likelihoods of intervention across the 3 national […]

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