The problem in discussions of youth unemployment & NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) is the assumption that the blame for their plight lies with them; if only they'd get their act together, they'd find jobs & other opportunities.

However, actually the UK's labour market is managed to keep a relatively high level of unemployment to reduce wages, firms don't train because of cost-cutting & entry level jobs are falling due to AI!

Stop the victim blaming!

#NEETs #workers #politics

@taco_shale032@lemmy.ml @jonathan@piefed.social provide us proof for your maga tactics, don't just shout fake news

www.biorxiv.org/content/…/2026.11.06.764567v1

(Found with Aftergleam, a private reader for new research papers.)

Decentralized social media for environmental research

A. Chai-allah, A. Ghermandi, N. Fox, D. Van Berkel bioRxiv · 10.64898/2026.11.06.764567v1 · ecology · submitted 2026-11-12

Abstract

Social media data are reshaping environmental research. However, recent ownership and policy changes on centralized platforms like Twitter/X have motivated many users to seek new alternatives while simultaneously accelerating data restrictions for scientists. Decentralized social media, particularly Bluesky and Mastodon, are emerging as alternatives for users seeking greater control over their data and as a more stable and sustainable source of data for researchers. This rise may be instrumental in revitalizing the role of social media in environmental research. This study aims to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the potential of these new sources for environmental research, demonstrating their potential usefulness through the examples of climate change discourses and people’s appreciation of wildlife. We find an increased adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky, with high linguistic diversity, even if dominated by English. Wildlife image content reveals broad taxonomic diversity, with plants, birds, and insects dominating the records. We find this pattern broadly consistent with that observed on the popular citizen science platform iNaturalist. Climate change discourse is found to broadly reflect the scientific consensus on both platforms, with contrarian claims remaining uncommon. This suggests that researchers may benefit from less polarized opinions and misinformation, arising from interactions that are less driven by engagement maximizing algorithms implemented in other platforms. Our study illustrates the promise of decentralized social media as a new data source for environmental scientists and paves the way for their broader use in environmental research.

#SilentSunday

In conclusion, saying that open source participation requires monthly fees to private companies that run stochastic code generators means you’ve forgotten why anyone is doing this at all. Fuck this whole idea and fuck Linus in particular.

@eloquence
Oh, this is inside the dropdown! Yeah, there's probably no other solution here.

It's just about money, @RuthODay2 . They think some fans who have the other two will buy this one as well, in order to have a complete set. And some people who would sort of like a Habs jersey but haven't bought the other two might buy this one with a different aesthetic.

I'm not happy that they'd fool around with their identity to make more money, but my fundamental objection is to this washed-out aesthetic. If only they'd bring back the barber-pole sweaters...

#GoHabsGo

@nolan_syreeta @shrugdealer @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutualaid@ovo.st @edendestroyer @mutualaidspace @wrzky@kolektiva.social @wrzky@wrzky.com @ellespeaks @disability @Drippy_Spudd

Now November!! Still broke, in an empty apartment with no furnishings, no food or personal supplies, and no income until November 10th!! $750 needed RIGHT NOW!! PLEASE HELP!!

#HelpFolksLive2026 #Emergency #UrgentNeed

https://ko-fi.com/anthonyjkenn38399/goal?g=52
https://cash.app/AnthonyJK6319
https://venmo.com/u/AnthonyJK6319
https://paypal.me/anthonyjkenn
https://donate.stripe.com/cNiaEWbcxb320s08tF6Ri02

@0xabad1dea scaring the kids is part of the thing, but this would be too much…

Attorney General Phil Weiser announces $183.5 million multistate settlement with rent-to-own finance company Acima Digital, LLC https://coag.gov/press-releases/attorney-general-phil-weiser-announces-183-5-million-multistate-settlement-with-rent-to-own-finance-company-acima-digital-llc/

@neatnik yay! 🎉 I’ve really enjoyed using it in beta and it’s even better now. I’m going to replace my self-hosted iine ‘appreciation button’ thing with updoots instead. Nothing wrong with the former but self hosting on Supabase is way over the top for such a little thing, even for my level of ridiculousness. It’s going to mean starting the counts from zero, but hey-ho.

BREAKING NEWS: SEC fines $XS (eXpanding Space) for backroom gains with $BTC trade #BreakingNews

@kamiten we're still in the bad times

@hanscees @MarloesdeKoning @ShadowJonathan

Now we have made a paradigm shift. The solution is central, based on stated needs of stakeholders. The abstractions that become part of the social network do not represent an app, a piece of software, but concepts we find in the real world.

I define social networking as "any direct or indirect human interaction between people", and that is what is analysed an modeled, implemented and improved over time.

Instead of "microblogging", an app / app domain, you can break things down into a whole bunch of modular business domain functionalities, that become standardized to guarantee interoperability.

Groups, Conversations, Moderation, Reactions, Invitations, Governance, etcetera. And from these building blocks more complex abstraction might be composed:

Governance = Policies + Moderation
Community = Groups + Governance

All this exists to an extent, but in an unmanageable problematic way. More rigor to protocol and practices can overcome this.

Ziggity gives you complete Git workflow in one responsive terminal window, Stage lines, commit, branch, rebase, inspect history, and review live diffs without waiting on slow operations.

https://itsfoss.com/ziggity-git-client/

Me: “it seems like a big security risk that we built the whole city with a master key for Sinterklaas to deliver presents, and then they zoom in on the master key on the news”

My husband: “that’s a good start for next year’s plotline”

#amsterdam #sinterklaas