RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/117548625684706024

"The EPA is quietly killing its web archive"
https://grist.org/accountability/the-epa-is-quietly-killing-its-web-archive/

This is a tragedy, especially as at least some of the archived resources are not functional even before the planned decommission.

Some sliver of hope:
A couple of data rescue groups are on the case (and have been for a while now).
Content will be preserved and shared again.

Stay tuned

Add.:
Well, we should have checked SciOp before posting, there is already a dataset up for seeding: https://sciop.net/datasets/epa-archive-records-documents
(it works)

So many consequential elections recently. In Brazil, Israel (the Arab turnout!), and now the USA, where many are focused on the Senate in particular, understandable I mean Kansas? Mississippi!?! But I can't get over MAGA/Rs being swept out of Texas statewide offices, similar in Georgia, plus a legislative chamber in both states. Two titanic southern states. The Southern Strategy ate itself! Now, the hard work.

Same in Serbia, globally maybe the most hopeful. 🌍 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/student-list-focus-on-cleaning-up-serbia-corruption

I've been catching glimpses of this graffiti for months now on my walks, little pops of color glimpsed across the creek and through the trees. Decided yesterday was a good day to roll up my pants, wade through the water, and go exploring.

Probably about a mile of art, all things considered; I couldn't help but wonder how long it's been there; how many groups have contributed to it over the years.

#graffiti #havertown

NEW: Democrats have gained control over enough state governments to pass the National Popular Vote Compact and give it a majority of at least 283 electoral votes—13 more than it needs to activate by 2028.

My story below explains the path forward for eventually electing the president by popular vote

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b3psimnw5xxta2n4h5qzxu55/post/3mzdy63ef422l

Whether you are AIPAC, or an AI PAC, you wasted a lot of of money failing to buy elections this year. #uspol #humor

When you ignore your constitutional obligations and attack First Nations’ right to consultation, all you’re building is a pipeline to the courts.

#cdnpoli #canada #BritishColumbia #pipeline #ClimateChange

Book Review: ‘West of Loveland,’ by Tom Drury (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/books/review/tom-drury-west-of-loveland.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NlE.9yPz.ZdIBpQGa1gYT&smid=url-share

"Over 100,000 peo­ple move to the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area each year. Their moti­va­tions for doing so no doubt vary, but these days, the ambi­tion to make a for­tune at the epi­cen­ter of the tech indus­try — espe­cial­ly amid the rapid­ly inflat­ing AI bub­ble — is hard­ly unheard of. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, that desire can be so all-con­sum­ing as to crowd out any inter­est in, or even curios­i­ty about, the city itself, to say noth­ing of its wider region. Yet the San Fran­cis­co we know today is the result of a sto­ry at least 250 years long, very lit­tle of which has much to do with ven­ture cap­i­tal or GPUs. Now, any­one who does want to make a start on under­stand­ing it can do so at the new-and-improved plat­form Dig­i­talSF, with its more than 80,000 his­tor­i­cal items avail­able to view and down­load.

An oper­a­tion of the San Fran­cis­co Pub­lic Library, Dig­i­talSF offers simul­ta­ne­ous access to mul­ti­ple online his­tor­i­cal archives. Search for the Gold­en Gate Bridge, let’s say, and the results will include hun­dreds of post­card pho­tographs and oth­er images cap­tur­ing that icon­ic piece of infra­struc­ture from a vari­ety of angles and in a vari­ety of decades, as well as — since this is the always cli­mat­i­cal­ly sur­pris­ing San Fran­cis­co we’re talk­ing about — under a vari­ety of weath­er con­di­tions."

https://www.openculture.com/2026/11/the-san-francisco-public-library-launches-a-free-online-archive-with-80000-historical-images-documents-to-explore-download.html

#USA #SF #SanFrancisco #DigitalSF #California #SFPL #OnlineArchive #DigitalArchive

Found the most mastodon place ever. The Australian Centre for Rare Arts & Forgotten Trades offers short courses in silversmithing, armour making, leatherwork, bronze sand casting, limestone carving, stained glass, corset making and more

https://www.raretradescentre.com.au

The Arab wave in Israel accentuates the question: Are they a democracy? Do Israeli Jews want to engage in democracy with Arab Israelis? Because Arab Israelis are showing up democratically.

Not unusual in democracies for ethnic majority led parties to join w ethnic minority led parties/movements in coalition. USA struggles w similar dynamics, still living in the aftermath of daring 🙄 to have elected a Black president for moderate health care reform.

Now I'm imagining Israel with an Arab PM…

Listen to my words carefully… I swear, I am no longer writing for engagement or attention. I am writing because behind these words is a family suffering, hearts filled with fear, and souls trying to hold on to life amid all this pain. 💔

I am not asking for the impossible. I am simply asking not to be left alone to face this fate. Please don't let my appeals become just words that pass before your eyes and are then forgotten.

Read, share, and help if you can…

https://chuffed.org/project/180103-help-for-gaza

What did I say? You connect appliances to the internet, this is what you get. You should not be able to hack yoghurt.

Shop freezers in six European countries hit by suspected cyber-attack

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq1kd1nee80eo

Two cultural, or maybe just personal 😄 reasons I recoil at LLM mania:

One is imagining computers' repeatability will fade away, instead of supporting our coherence or stability as I'd imagined and hoped. (Goes beyond AI, will only if happen if more transparent computer interfaces continue to fade into deep settings & options.)

The other is that as an SF fan, I want our first encounter with the other to be with alien life from other planets. Today's "AI" is an odd foothill in uncanny valley.

@slowenough @dnkboston very much related to this, I like the idea of the POSSE method ("publish own site; syndicate elsewhere") to establish your own "home base" and hopefully pied piper people away from the perfidious platforms.

I mean there's something to be said for withdrawing yourself entirely, but if you feel you have no choice then you may as well try to be thorny with your participation.

Good POSSE definition: https://indieweb.org/POSSE

PS I think your link is probably the best I've seen. I usually just find a random article and point people at Ghost.

He is the father of a small but powerful sect that pursues extremist, anti-democratic ideas in Silicon Valley.

He says government is "evil"...while increasing its power.

His hijacking of Christian rhetoric conceals Silicon Valley’s true religion.

My interview with El País on Peter Thiel's obsession with the "Antichrist"

#peterthiel #palantir #antichrist #siliconvalley #jdvance

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-10-25/peter-thiel-the-tech-oligarch-who-believes-in-the-antichrist.html

How Trump and his allies seek to interfere in the US midterm elections

The administration’s efforts have raised concerns to experts about potential disruptions after election day

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/31/trump-allies-interfere-us-midterm-elections

#TopNews #News #Trump #thejusticedepartment #Alaska

In the upcoming Tuesday election in the United States of America, in how many states do you believe the federal government has been or will be successful in subverting elections? Comment with any particulars or links you'd like to share. The Guardian overviews some of their current efforts (new ones appear daily) here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/31/trump-allies-interfere-us-midterm-elections

I don't have a ton of followers, so boost this post if you'd like to see more people answer the poll. #elections #elections2026 #usa #politics #corruption

RE: https://ioc.exchange/@peterrenshaw/117531706431345269

Sir Patrick Stewart’s anti-DV activism is one of his most important public roles, IMHO, and losing that is its own grief for this world. He was not just paying lip service, nor was he angrily tearing down other men for not being aligned enough with a “right” position. He spoke publicly and painfully from a place of being a DV survivor of a father’s mishandled trauma, because that is what HE was, just as much as his mother.

What pro-democracy plaintiffs are trying to do now is to get pre-Election-Day injunctions against each of the Trump regime tactics, to protect the post-Election-Day counting and certification. Thus, the suit seeking to stop the Trump DOJ effort from its threat of criminal action against poll works and election administrators and officials, a threat meant to scare them into delaying counting and setting aside lawfully cast ballots. 10/

Puts the pearl-clutching in context. https://theconversation.com/from-18th-century-false-ballots-to-the-second-jfk-to-double-dan-sullivans-a-brief-history-of-spoiler-candidates-and-the-unsuccessful-legal-challenges-to-them-295504 #elections #Election2026 #usa #politics