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Vision is the most vital step in the policy process. If we don’t know where we want to go, it makes little difference that we make great progress. Yet vision is not only missing almost entirely from policy discussions; it is missing from our whole culture. We talk about our fears, frustrations, and doubts endlessly, but we talk only rarely and with embarrassment about our dreams. Environmentalists have been especially ineffective in creating any shared vision of the world they are working toward — a sustainable world in which people live within nature in a way that meets human needs while not degrading natural systems. Hardly anyone can imagine that world, especially not as a world they’d actively like to live in. The process of building a responsible vision of a sustainable world is not a rational one. It comes from values, not logic. Envisioning is a skill that can be developed, like any other human skill. This paper indicates how.

A common need in web applications is to create a form that allows the user to enter a list of items, with the number of items not known in advance. This is a pattern often used when entering user information, specifically for phone numbers or addresses, but has a lot of other uses as well.

Implementing this with Flask is surprisingly tricky, as it requires a combination of back and front end techniques working together.

What do we need to change about how we operate, now that the political environment is darkening?

The overall goals would be to safeguard user identities, ensure communication privacy, and protect against censorship and state surveillance.

User Anonymity and Privacy

• End-to-end encryption: Encrypt all user communications, private messages, and sensitive data
• Anonymous accounts: Allow users to create accounts without requiring personally identifiable information (PII), such as email or phone numbers. How can we balance this with the need to combat spam?
• Tor and VPN Integration: Ensure compatibility with privacy tools like Tor, and provide guidance on using VPNs.

Data Storage

• Remove or minimize data collection, including IP addresses, geolocation, and device information. No web server logs.
• Ephemeral content: auto-deleting posts, messages, etc after a set period.
• Instance chooser that flags which instances are in unsafe countries.
• Defederate from instances in unsafe countries?

Communities

• Private communities - currently all are public
• Communities where every post is encrypted
• Approval process to join some communities
• Better opsec around instance owners, admins and moderators

What else?

The U.S. Climate Alliance is a bipartisan coalition of 24 governors securing America’s net-zero future by advancing state-led, high-impact climate action.

>>> from kenobi import KenobiDB  

>>> db = KenobiDB('example.db')  

>>> db.insert({'name': 'Yoda', 'lightsaber': 'green'})  
True  

>>> db.search('lightsaber', 'green')  
[{'name': 'Yoda', 'lightsaber': 'green'}]  

We're going to have to be our own leaders now. The ones we hired are broken.

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Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely delivered the building blocks of life to our planet early in its history.

The samples are also providing a window into understanding what kind of chemical and biological processes were already underway as space rocks chaotically ricocheted around during the early days of the solar system.

A useful aspect to a completely unambiguous fascist gesture is that you can use it to gauge which news media you can trust to call a Nazi a Nazi, which will obfuscate things with layers of "both-sides" and which will be regurgitating propaganda.

rnz

called it salute, lots of both sides
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/539564/musk-raises-eyebrows-with-salute-gesture-at-trump-rally

nzherald

called it a salute
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/donald-trump-inauguration-elon-musk-performs-nazi-salute-draws-outraged-reaction/VY3GO2CPFVA2FN4OF4APXRNOBM/

stuff

only reported Musk's rebuttal
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360555618/dirty-tricks-elon-musk-dismisses-backlash-over-his-hand-gesture-trump-rally

Watch the video, it's lovely