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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3w ago

I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅 https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1wdqum6/outside_ray_ban_covent_garden/ #pervertglasses

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

I co-proposed/wrote the #Codeberg vibe-coding ban and all I got was a lot of haters in my mentions. And a nearly 70% approval rate, with one of the highest voter turnouts the association had afaik (and one that's comparable to the last EU elections). 😎

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking. And then decide to bullshit that very crowd of people. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United/Claims_and_responses #wwu #wikipedia #wikimedia

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

«"I think this is a very bad move, and the people behind Codeberg should re-consider their stance," said Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask and one of the co-founders of AI agent biz Earendil.» Or in other words: It Is Difficult to Get a an "AI" Bro to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It 🤷 https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/23/codeberg-gives-vibe-coded-projects-the-toss-promotes-human-floss/5277717

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

It was a great pleasure to write up this post about the #Codeberg's recent votes with respect to LLMs and the impact that LLM have on #FLOSS more broadly, together with @Gusted@social.linux.pizza and @fnetX@social.anoxinon.de: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

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Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News

In Brief: Two motions regarding

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 4w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Shocker, the deskilling machine successfully deskills school kids - to the tune of them being a full year behind their peers who are "left behind" by *checks notes* actually learning! Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure/

Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure

Pivot to AI

Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure

Every year, the OECD surveys students around the world for the Programme for International Student Assessment. The 2025 results were just released today. [OECD; OECD, PDF] Around the world, results…

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@toriver@mas.to yeah, I think it's fun to see how Californian ideology/libertarian-pilled brains can't seem to comprehend that a democratically member-run organisation, that sustains itself largely through the volunteer labor of those members, decides to put limits on what they want to spend their time on. But ofc, that tech bros don't understand the concept of consent should be old news in 2026 🙈

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 1w ago

RE: https://mastodon.uy/@dprieto/117128721599913276 Soy parte del dream team 😅❤️

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Daniel Prieto

@dprieto@mastodon.uy

Últimos días para inscribirse! ⏰ Curso de posgrado: Ciencia Abierta 🇺🇾 con nuestras estrellas locales @santiago@mastodon.uy @ulvida@mastodon.uy Natalia Gras (UdelaR) Gregory Randall (UdelaR) María Castelló (Clemente Estable) @danielcarranza@mastodon.uy 🌟 y un dream team de invitados extranjeros @brembs@mastodon.social @serhii@mstdn.science @jeroenbosman@akademienl.social @flograttarola@ecoevo.social @vanessa@scicomm.xyz Adrian Filips (@GOSH@fosstodon.org ) @rms@mastodon.xyz Manuela Fernández-Pinto (Uni Los Andes Bogotá) Lamis Elkheir (African Reproducibility Network) @hcp4715@mastodon.online Guillermo Anlló (@unesco@mastodon.social ) @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social @MetaDocencia@floss.social Humberto Debat (INTA 🇦🇷) El curso es de #PEDECIBA Biología. Consulten en sus programas de posgrado si se pueden inscribir y revalidar. Será remoto. Si solo les interesa escuchar algunas charlas, escriban y les enviaré el link. Cronograma de clases (con horarios): https://cloud.undernet.uy/s/KbgJMdM2zGz7Fwn #CienciaAbierta #Uruguay #Posgrado #Cursos #Ciencia #jitsi #SoftwareLibre #peertube #udelar @udelaruy@bird.makeup #openscience

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Daniel Prieto: «Últimos días para inscribirse! ⏰ Curso de posgr…» - Mastodon Uruguay

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

So tired of this…

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 1mo ago

RE: https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@theplaguedoc/117059592475403090 Let this be the first igNobel prize awarded to a fediverse thread please! 🙏

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

«According to a study, more than two-thirds of Germans believe that their ancestors were not Nazis. Nearly 36% believe that their relatives were among the victims, and over 30% believe that their ancestors helped victims of the Nazis — for example, by hiding Jews. But this can't possibly be true. Only about 1% of Germans actively resisted.» If folks wonder how the German 'remembrance culture is going 🙈 https://www.dw.com/en/how-do-germans-cope-with-having-nazi-grandparents/a-77886590

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

@osm_tech@en.osm.town happy sysadmin appreciation day, thanks for all the work and effort to make sure we all can map!

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu yeah, it's a good sign for me that the organisation and it's members share some values 💖

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run yes, my worst case scenario was a Brexit-like result, but it's come out very clear!

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@codefloe/116963861098218609 "Don't like having a say in the governance of your digital infrastructure? Join us on our very own, company-controlled platform" - no notes , GitHub could write that same copy 😅

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CodeFloe

@codefloe@social.tchncs.de

Now that #codeberg has manifested their anti-AI view with a 70% in favor vote (https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253) we're happy to welcome (once again) all the people which have to/want to move their repositories off Codeberg but still want to stay on a Forgejo-based instance. Bonus: on top you'll get better uptime, faster site responses and faster CI runners - all for free :) tl;dr: after this ToU change, keeping AI-generated code on Codeberg would violate these and repositories will be in danger of deletion. #codeberg #codefloe #giveUpGitHub

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@DJGummikuh@mastodon.social also a lot of people who are very loud seem to not be directly affected by that 😅

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

In another edition of "are the LLM addicts okay?": Apparently some of them think "people who weren't allowed to use unlimited resources for vibe coding on a community-run, free platform" should be counted among the victims of Nazi Germany, or something? https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3x6sabry56u7xeyr3w3tn55f/post/3mrfqsminhk27

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@abucci @toriver@mas.to I think "just fork is" is often a lazy response to systemic issues. But for Codeberg people could also actively get involved to shape policy and help managing the infrastructure. But ofc that's a lot more effort than freeloading and hoping someone else does the work 🙈

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org thanks! Btw I haven't forgotten about those stickers for you, it will be September when I can get them on the way to you. 😅

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

I'm obviously biased, but maybe give @CoMaps@floss.social a try for today's #DIDay: https://www.comaps.app/ A free & Open Source map app for Android, iOS & Linux that's based on #OpenStreetMap data and provides offline maps that work great for hiking, biking and driving.

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Hike, Bike, Drive Offline – Navigate with Privacy

Discover more of your journey - Powered by the community

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@troed@swecyb.com @abucci @toriver@mas.to I obviously can't speak for 'the members' at large - but my impression is that many folks are quite aware and to equal amounts exasperated by how many other FOSS projects are using those tools. But also see that the majority of CB users make quite limited use of those, as they are inherently incompatible with community values.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@dylanwolters@floss.social yeah, I personally think that this is one of the most insidious effects of LLMs: Before code (and text) were a de-facto proof of thinking about a topic, while today that link has been effectively severed if not kept at bay.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@pat_dev@social.linux.pizza @codefloe@social.tchncs.de no, it's just structurally just yet another platform that is not owned by its users - and the people running it are pretending it's a benefit. You have outright mentioned in your first reply that being democratically organised is detrimental to decision making speed and that you are about 'code, performance and progress' - it's fine if democratic structures are 'too hard' for people, but that means again being fully depended on someone else's - here on your - good will

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run love the answer by analogy to "why should I trust Codeberg as the stewards of Forgejo?": «Linus won't let me post erotic Sonic fanfiction to the mailing list, but I still trust Linux to be a safe platform to write erotic Sonic fanfiction.» 😅

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org thanks for the signal boost to our proposal <3 @Gusted@social.linux.pizza

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@davidgerard@circumstances.run when you accidentally bait the most triggerable people on planet earth (tbf, for many it might not be their fault that they have gotten used to only hearing "you're absolutely right" and nothing else)

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

«Theoretical tools are now often software, whose complexity makes its behavior inscrutable to its users and puts them at risk of losing their tools to software collapse. Scientific instruments increasingly rely on built-in computers that create exactly the same issues. Finally, digital technology has enabled industrial-scale production of data, e.g. in DNA sequencing, and that technology is itself not convivial either.» Great reflections on conviviality by @khinsen@scholar.social https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/07/06/conviviality.html

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

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@scy@chaos.social je nach Sorte sogar in 'gesund' dank Fruchtstücken? :D

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

If there's folks on the ground in Venezuela who want to help humanitarian mapping efforts by collecting street-level imagery: We've updated the allow-list of https://panoramax.libre.net.ar/ to include the region in permitted location for imagery. #Panoramax #OpenStreetMap #Venezuela

My Panoramax: The free alternative to photo-mapping territories

panoramax.libre.net.ar

My Panoramax: The free alternative to photo-mapping territories

Panoramax is a digital resource for sharing and using field photos. Anyone can take photographs of places visible from public roads and contribute them to the Panoramax database.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

Participated in a research interview this morning about how "AI" is destroying digital commons I co-run in various ways. Right afterwards read an email, by someone I used to think highly of, about how banning LLM usage in a FLOSS project was futile…

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

I've slightly adapted/expanded @liberty@mathstodon.xyz's LLM statement for my own website 🔨 https://tzovar.as/llms/

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@pat_dev@social.linux.pizza @codefloe@social.tchncs.de I don't know, mate, from where I stand it looks like you don't want to play along with other people/do the work to find consensus as you want to only 'focus on the tech'. So you first made a fork of a CI tool to be BDFL of that, and then your own off-label Codeberg with you as the BDFL as well. Which fine, whatever. But then the model of running the thing becomes "trust me bro", not any more or less than GH et al are doing

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@pat_dev@social.linux.pizza @codefloe@social.tchncs.de and if people want that, they can also go with GitHub, which is also about "code, performance and progress" while having to pray that the overlords who hold the power only do stuff you approve off

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@pat_dev@social.linux.pizza @codefloe@social.tchncs.de maybe just re-read your own post I quote and try telling with a straight face how you want everyone to be friends and how it's not about you profiteering from a situation 🤣

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@claudius@darmstadt.social @Gusted@social.linux.pizza @fnetX@social.anoxinon.de Thanks, it was really fun to write that!

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@jaredwhite@indieweb.social @pat_dev@social.linux.pizza @codefloe@social.tchncs.de personally, I just don't see the niche for a "freemium" service that is "GitHub but on EU servers" as it feels like the worst of both worlds: You're neither a customer with the rights that such a relationship would entail, but neither do you have a right to decision making. It just smells like the same infrastructure capture we've seen with literally every free service that's corpo-run.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@lgatto@fediscience.org @Gusted@social.linux.pizza @fnetX@social.anoxinon.de thanks Laurent!

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @luis_in_brief@social.coop @bvibber@wikis.world for a start one could do a dark archive ready as a fail-over, compare with arxiv https://blog.tib.eu/2025/05/14/protecting-science-tib-builds-dark-archive-for-arxiv/

TIB-Blog

Protecting Science: TIB builds Dark Archive for arXiv - TIB-Blog

Research and science are international; it is not for nothing that we speak of international specialist communities. Although a service such as arXiv is operated by an institution based in the USA, namely Cornell University, it is used by researchers worldwide. Part of arXiv‘s funding has also been internationalised since 2010 with the introduction of arXiv membership. The TIB finances the German contribution together with the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF) and the Max Pl

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@jonny@neuromatch.social thanks! 💖

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@jaredwhite@indieweb.social @pat_dev@social.linux.pizza @codefloe@social.tchncs.de totally agree that having commercial hosting for private/client work is valuable to have. I just think that "I/My company runs a thing for free that is based on donations" is a really weird model for that particular niche, might as well pay Github or Gitlab at that point and at least have some contract with guarantees

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@einsiedlerspiel@todon.nl @Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz it's been 2-3 years that I went back to using vim as my only editor, after a long stretch with Atom/vscode (and my vim proficiency before that was never high, and still isn't). I re-learned the basics with the vimtutor and then little by little learned more on "per need", same for enabling/using plugins. Imho a lot easier that way instead of feeling like one needs the 100 layers of complexity one _could_ do on day one!

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 4mo ago

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@adamhsparks@rstats.me @Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz I use github.com/wezterm/wezterm, which I at least haven't heard any LLM-usage complains about and which should support kitty graphics

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 4mo ago

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@adamhsparks@rstats.me @Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz yeah, that's unfortunately the case - and even applies to OG Vim too. I'm aware of two 'ai'-free forks of regular vim, but none for neovim

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 4mo ago

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@Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz @einsiedlerspiel@todon.nl FWIW: how steep the learning curve is really depends on how much of the advanced features of your existing editor you use. I think the mistake people often make is to start out with someone elses, fully-decked out vim config, which throws a million things at you. But learning the very basics of editing/moving etc. is quite okay - and from there one can go as deep as wanted/needed.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 2mo ago

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@sstrader@masto.ai @Gusted@social.linux.pizza @fnetX@social.anoxinon.de thanks!

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 3mo ago

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@delta@chaos.social congrats, that's some great progress!

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

· 1mo ago

«if our institutions, news and elected officials continue to feed and water the oil company-conceived mega-falsehood that climate breakdown is something just “our great-grandkids need to worry about,” human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries.» https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization

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