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View In: Climate Change Costs and DamagesFlorida's Hurricane Ian, a $20 billion drought and heat wave in Europe, and deadly floods in Pakistan are among the catastrophes so far this year. The post World rocked by 29 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2022 appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

View In: MastodonVivaldi is the first browser to have its own Mastodon instance, Vivaldi Social. Now it is the first to integrate Mastodon into its desktop version.

View In: DeGrowthThis fall, S4F and Ontgroei are co-organizing a series of webinars on the topic of degrowth. Degrowth is “a planned reduction of energy and resource use designed to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being” [Hickel, 2020].

View In: Climate EducationClimate change, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, environmental protection and remediation, preservation of human rights... the biggest problems of our time are problems of cooperation, the lack of it, obstacles to it, and ways to work around those obstacles. This syllabus introduces the fundamental work in several disciplines that underpin what science now understands about cooperation

View In: MastodonDecentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls). To overcome this challenge, many Decentralised Web (DW) implementations rely on federation policies. Administrators use these policies to create rules that ban or modify content that matches specific rules. This, however, can have unintended consequences for many users. In this paper, we present the first study of federation policies on the DW, their in-the-wild usage, and their impact on users. We identify how these policies may negatively impact “innocent” users and outline possible solutions to avoid this problem in the future.

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