LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

A Mastodon spotting another three Mastodons on a distant planet

Centralised platforms shape the conversation to serve their interests.

Mastodon returns power to you. Here connections are authentic, communities set their own rules, and your voice isn’t for sale.

Help to power the servers, tools, and communities making […]

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/mastodon_ceo_steps_down/

Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/english-language-websites-link-pro-kremlin-russian-propaganda-pravda-network
Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many […]

The image show a bar chart of the Secondary schools attended by MPs according to party. Labour: 15% Private, 10% Grammar, 73% State Tories: 46% Private, 12% Grammar, 40% State Lib Dems: 31% Private, 10% Grammar, 57% State Reform: 80% Private, 20% State Green: 28% Grammar, 88% State The final bar show the distribution of the Current UK school population as: 7% Private, 5% Grammar, 88% State Source: Wikipedia/The Sutton Trust (2024) X @cezthesocialist

Just how repressive is the educational background of Westminster MP compared with the general population? 🤔

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/115588083335456822

#mosstodon

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits
https://theconversation.com/medieval-peasants-enjoyed-a-surprising-range-of-sick-annual-and-bereavement-leave-benefits-260163

Original research paper here […]

Mark W.rites - Guide for Using Mastodon Search: It’s Easier and More Powerful Than You Might Think One of the biggest complaints I hear about Mastodon is that its local search is unusable. It certainly was. But not anymore. Now it’s quite powerful, if you kn…

Guide for Using Mastodon Search: It’s Easier and More Powerful Than You Might Think
https://markwrites.io/guide-for-using-mastodon-search/

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

This is an important document, about the growing entanglement of Big Tech's most evil people/companies and the US government -- and increasingly, the EU.

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski

Among other topics, we discuss the sale of children in care.
They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...

E-cargo bikes as a personal transport mode: Insights from surveys and suburban trials
• 2% of English households own e-cargo bikes; 11% of non-users might ride one.
• E-cargo bike riders are less likely to be frequent car users than non-riders.
• Households trialling e-cargo bikes in 3 UK city […]

Image show three cartoon panels, the first two show multi-lane motorways destroying a city, the first is labelled "Fossil fuelled vehicles", the second in labelled "Electric vehicles". The third panel shows a city neighbourhood fit for people to live in, it has greenery, public space to travel safely in and public transport, it is labelled "Walking, biking & public transit".

Electric cars are not invented to save our cities, societies or the world. They are only invented to save big industry.

We have a choice over how we want our future to be...

#FuckCars!

Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
https://theconversation.com/learning-with-ai-falls-short-compared-to-old-fashioned-web-search-269760
When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge […]

The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet's top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform temporarily so that visitors could still access their websites. But security experts say doing so may have also triggered an impromptu network penetration test for organizations that have come to rely on Cloudflare to block many types of abusive and malicious traffic.

The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/the-cloudflare-outage-may-be-a-security-roadmap/

Measles makes a comeback: four charts show where and how
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03769-z
With gaps in vaccine coverage, nowhere is safe from measles outbreaks. But the disease has hit the Americas hard this year.

Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/israel-used-widely-banned-cluster-munitions-in-lebanon-photos-of-remnants-suggest
Exclusive: Images are first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in […]

Famous art from The Hudson’s Bay Company collection up for auction Twenty-seven paintings that will be sold by Heffel Fine Art Auction House include a painting of Morocco made by former British prime minister Winston Churchill, and several pieces from Toronto co-founder William von Moll Berczy.

Famous art from The Hudson’s Bay Company collection up for auction – CTVNews

https://www.cp24.com/photos/2025/10/23/famous-art-from-the-hudsons-bay-company-collection-up-for-auction/

Screw it, I’m installing Linux
https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos
I don’t like where Windows is going. Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable. Time to give it a shot.

Linux is stable for daily use, more so than Windows, it is time to ditch […]

Cloudflare broke the internet with a bad DB query : Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/cloudflare_incident_report/
Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix

Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia swap billions in AI deal : What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itself

Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI investment bonanza
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/anthropic_microsoft_nvidia_ai_deals/
What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itself

US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian ‘bulletproof’ web host used in ransomware attacks https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/us-uk-and-australia-sanction-russian-bulletproof-web-host-used-in-ransomware-attacks/

AI datacenters can't run indefinitely on fossil fuel : Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear

Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/fossil_fuel_ai_datacenter/
Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear

Brits to help foot power bill for datacentres under government AI plans
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/uk_ai_growth_zones/
Cheaper electricity to lure bit barns north as planning fast-track kicks in.

Of course, Scottish consumers will continue to pay the highest standing charges in the […]

Reform UK councillor suspended over WhatsApp group Nigel Farage’s party is launching an investigation into the messages

Reform UK councillor suspended over WhatsApp group featuring post calling for ‘mass Islam genocide’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-nigel-farage-council-tom-pickup-b2868509.html
Frogface’s party is launching an investigation into the messages.

Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03796-w
In an analysis of nearly 900 retracted medical research studies, the number of female authors is disproportionately low.

Women are less likely to try and publish complete twaddle in the […]

Beyond growth — why we need to agree on an alternative to GDP now The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen.

Beyond growth — why we need to agree on an alternative to GDP now
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03721-1
The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen.

In all countries that report monthly Tesla sales (not including North America), Tesla's October sales fell by 33% YoY to new lows since 2022's pandemic. Lots of details here: bradmunchen.substack.com Motorhead - 5d A Quick Look at How Bad Tesla's Start of Q4 Is By Motorhead

Looks like a good read, alas its on substack. I wont click that link for even the clickiest clickbait

RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115577042100497693

I will never understand that because of ONE GUY's territorial ambitions, Russia and Ukraine feel they are allowed to pollute the planet's air THE AIR THAT WE ALL SHARE, and that the rest of us just let them get on with it.

3.5B WhatsApp users' info scooped through enumeration flaw : Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms

Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/whatsapp_enumeration_flaw/
Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms

After living in Germany for almost nine years, I finally feel like I’m beginning to understand the depth of what people mean when they talk about structural racism. Of course, I’ve witnessed and experienced isolated situations before where the problem was visible on the surface. But over the […]