hope-for-the-planet

Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.

After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.

For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.

Just because something isn't fixed right away doesn't mean it won't ever be fixed. Just because the work is slow doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.

  citruscubes

nobody asked but its very funny that this is the top post of all time in the adhd women subreddit

  libraford

Notes from the petri dish.

One of the videos shared by conservative news outlets of the Renee Good shooting is heavily edited. The one where Ross is holding the camera- it includes the part where her wife was heckling him (not a crime) follows him walking to the front of the car. Shows her wheels turning as she's talking to another ice officer and begins to drive forward*. Then, he drops his phone and it shows them speeding away.

*In the full video, Ross walks around to the driver side and holds a conversation with her. Good appears to see him in front of her and stops. He tells her to get out of the car. She says 'im not mad at you.' Turns her wheels away from Ross. Then he drops his phone, car speeds away.

There is no indication that this version of the video is edited. There is no 'cut to.' No note about the cut. Responsible journalism typically indicates a cut.

Obviously, there are people who look at the full video and make a decision regardless, but this took it an extra step further by removing the part where body language, wheel direction, and slow speed showed little (or no) intention to harm.

But no wonder people are coming to very different conclusions, if this is how they get their news. That, and all the bot farms.

I have to remind myself that im not a reporter or a detective: its not my job to correct people or tell them about journalistic ethics.

But holy shit. Between this and the 'legal document' claiming she was a child abuser (and also that she was born in 1980, which is false) no wonder people are confused.

(Im also very fascinated by this because an eerily similar thing happened here a couple years ago, but with a cop. So im drawing a lot of parallels to that, knowing that the cop walked.)

  libraford

I hate to post this link because we dont need to subject ourselves to more suffering and I dont want to give more clicks to National Review, but here's the specific video I saw tgats been cut.

So you can see how intentional that cut is. With the full video, the situation is ambiguous enough that people were already unsure. And of course people were going to make bad faith arguments regardless (she was resisting, her wife was heckling, they were obstructing the officers, none of these are death sentences).

This cut shows Good straight up attempting vehicular homicide.

There are people who only get their news from right-wing outlets and they know this. Absolutely irresponsible reporting. Straight up dogshit journalism.

There is no penalty for violating the journalists code of ethics. They know this, also. They're also hoping you dont know this.

Propaganda is fascinating. The ability to manipulate a large group of people with creative editing, Rockwell-inspired posters, and bot farm with a script is going to be one of those things that gets studied by scholars in 20 years. I watched that video and wondered if I imagined the missing 9 seconds. No one is immune to this.

Right now, its fucking horrifying. A woman was killed on video and we all saw the same thing and yet they have people believing that she deserved it. And that she represents approximately 40 other murders by federal agents in the span of a year who were NOT given this kind of press makes me wanna chew glass.

If you feel like you cant do anything useful at this time, I implore you to keep a journal. Document everything.

  doublefallen

update from the discord group courtesy of one of my mutuals;

do not trust that damned survey. change your discord password. utilize 2FA.

I use 2FA on every website I log into, and it didn't ask for any details when I took the survey, but I still don't trust that thing at all. One can never be too safe.

  ghoulangerlee

whoops I accidentally double reblogged but:

hi, i did some research on this but this link was not phishing and here's why:

qualtrics is a legit website that companies pay to host data gathering surveys to collect metrics on various things. you can also create free surveys but from what i understand the survey results aren't as in-depth as the paid versions get you.

it looks like the survey originates from a banner on the discord app and you click on it and it takes you to the site and you do the thing there. it was only rolled out to a certain amount of people (for the purposes to maybe only get people they thought would be pro-AI? who knows with Discord) but was then passed around everywhere because Fuck AI. And then Discord realized that things weren't going the way they wanted and pulled the survery.

I did some further research on the URL itself:

From ESET link checker it rates it as safe, I also plugged it into a few others as well like Fortinet and Bitdefender and both of those came back safe too, here's a screenshot of ESET:

info on the link itself from urlvoid:

the actual qualtrics site info from urlvoid as well to compare the age of the domain (usually phishing domains are very very young and/or brand new and not legitimate domains but these are both legitimate domains.)

and, inb4 people say "phishing attempts don't always have to ask you to enter your login credentials to scrape your info"

no keyloggers or malware after I clicked on the link (it's been 8 hours now and my discord account is fine).

hopefully, this will quell some panic about the discord thing, its always good practice to protect your account with MFA when it's offered and to change your password when you suspect something may not be right, it's better to err on the side of caution etc, but in this case, it's alright and there's no need to create any undue panic about a link to a survey. fuck AI and Discord should know better than to try and pull more wool over its userbases' eyes because did they not learn from the NFT thing?

okey dokey bye bye now

  mysharona1987

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  mariacallous

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  perfectlyvalid49

I want to be very clear on this. You can be out drinking with your friends on Friday night and dead on Sunday because of meningitis. Does that sound a little specific? Guess why I have such a specific scenario in mind.

And getting vaccinated is an easy way to prevent that. There is no medical reason to stop recommending that vaccine. There's no new study that shows that it's unsafe, there's no replacement that's better. This is literally the government making its citizenry less safe for no reason.

  traegorn

On a Friday night in the spring of 2002 I was hanging out with my friend Sean in the college dorms of UWEC. He felt fine.

He was dead on Sunday.

Meningitis kills fast. Fuck this.

  biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

  biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

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Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine

  biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

short but sweet

  gigglepuffpixie