Bjørn Asle Taranger

I'm a godless, liberal, software developer. Coding for a living.
I believe in rationality and strive to lead an ethical, responsible life.

[Mogens Schou @Mogens_Schou]

Quote: "The logic is simple: the fishermen who overfish their quotas gain an advantage, which enables them to buy more quota shares. This encourages more overfishing, also among the fishermen who normally stick to the rules."

[Mogens Schou @Mogens_Schou]

Increasing problems in Norwegian management. Illegal fishing. Article in Marine Policy https://t.co/2ZTAELajRy

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

Massive floods from heavy rain in Moulay Brahim of Al Haouz, Morocco. All over the world climate fuelled events are hitting communities, as record after record is broken.

How many more records before our leaders do what is needed?

[taslima nasreen @taslimanasreen]

Taliban now banned girls from attending school beyond 3rd grade. Tall & over 10 years old girls not allowed to enter school. Taliban are afraid of women's education, women's independence, women's equality, women's power. Islam is the driving force of Taliban's misogynistic rules.

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

It's not sulphate aerosols.
It's not the Tonga eruption.
It's not unicorns or fairy dust.

It's human-caused warming from carbon pollution (plus a sizeable natural swing from La Nina-to-El Nino)
https://t.co/42TAWw5NhL

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

A tragic story in two charts:

1) It never used to be the case, but there is now a big partisan gap for trust in science in the US. Republicans are now essentially the anti-science party, while Dems are stridently pro

[Ideas Beyond Borders @IdeasB2]

A book critical of President Saied is censored in Tunisia as police demand customer names from shops, stifling free speech and political dissent.

Our #EndBannedBooks project was founded to fight against this repression and for authors who speak out in the name of free speech.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

"#Populism" isn't left or right. The distinction betweenis often obscured by jargon, but there's a simple litmus test (h/t @stevenbrust): "ask what's more important: human rights, or property rights. If they say 'property rights are human rights,' they're on the right."

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[Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) @froomkin]

I never even saw that story! It’s here: https://t.co/urCOavwDUQ

[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

BREAKING: Palermo in Sicily has just obliterated its all-time heat record by over 2°C. The previous record was +44.8°C in August 1999.

The observatory has weather data dating back to 1791. This is a very significant record to fall by such an enormous margin.

[Olav Torvund @olavtorvund.bsky.social @olavtorvund]

Dette kommer i tillegg til den famøse SMS-saken. Er det i det hele tatt mulig lenger å ha noen tillit til Ola Borten Moe? @Trettebergstuen måtte gå, og det bør ikke gjelde andre regler for mannlige regjeringsmedlemmer. https://t.co/Vhk41Jb9dT

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

@Herd_member @Phil67015174 @ClimateComms @guardian @DrJamesEHansen see: https://t.co/vlTbMjtCdB

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Italy preparing for most intensive heatwave 'of all time'.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

India isn't simply a democracy on the brink. It's a bellwether for the world. It's the same undercurrent of techno-fuelled authoritarianism that's spreading like knotweed across the globe. Facts are no match for lies. Or newsreaders inciting hate & violence.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Incredible video. Afghan dad jokingly says school is only for boys. Watch his remarkable daughter - who can’t be more than 5 or 6 years old - respond with these arguments.

Afghan girls have been denied access to schools and universities. This little girl's courage represents the collective voice of countless Afghan girls who yearn for equal educational opportunities.

As an advocate for girls' education the father's teasing is simply to highlight an important message: that the Taliban - another backward regime - are harming the people of his country.

It’s time the world is done with them.

Ditto the “Islamic” Republic in Iran #regime

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Capitalism actually inhibits tech innovation & prevents its greatest possible uses…

b/c it requires that everything be oriented around profit motive

…as opposed to improving quality of life, responding to people’s material needs, advancing society as a whole, etc

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

There's no such thing as honest climate science denial. Faced with the mountain of devastating evidence and the acute emergency being experienced right now in several parts of the world, either you're being paid for it or you're channelling the claims of someone who has.

[Deeyah Khan @Deeyah_Khan]

#LetGirlsLearn