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#resilience

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Oh... My.... Fucking.... God....

youtube.com/watch?v=itbsfeqrRY

There really is nothing holy to #DOGE, is there? They are pulling the rug out from EVERYONE who is even remotely working with #MITRE #CVE in #cybersecurity

What are those apes doing? It's like deleting / burning all books about diseases.

securityweek.com/mitre-signals

#blackwednesday The worst is that there is literally no lead time to prepare something else, fork it, whatever.

Lesson: #decentralisation #resilience #unplugtrump

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"There is so much that every one of us can do, and so much to be gained by doing it—not the least of which is a sense of your own agency."

"Experimentation and play can open up space. Instead of making a plan, think of one small step you can take and then see what happens. […] Notice what patch of ground or sky you can see from this new position, and take another step."

everythingchanges.us/blog/keep

I haven’t had a journal article accepted for publication in six years. Until today, by Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education…

Celbis, O.; van de Laar, M.; Windsor, W. L.; Papatsiba, V.; Ofosu-Ampong, K.; Kurawa, G.; Sadat Bole, A.; Ani-Ampsonah, Mary; Xu, Linlin

Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic.

I’ll share the open access version when it’s ready, but here’s the abstract:

Purpose
This study contributes to the growing body of literature documenting responses to short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral students. We examine support practices at different levels of the system in which doctoral students are embedded, drawing on Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model to better understand how these contribute to doctoral students’ degree of resilience under stress.

Design
Using paired online interviews, we explore the experiences of 21 doctoral students from 7 universities across Europe, Africa and Asia.

Findings
We find that support of supervisors at the microsystem level was a pivotal mediating factor in explaining to what extent the negative impacts of the pandemic were experienced by the doctoral students in our sample. At the same time, factors at the systemic level, such as weak infrastructure for online education, and limited incentives for supervisors to engage in additional mentoring beyond supervision, affected the repertoire of actions available to students at lower levels of the support system. In less resourced settings where systemic constraints were felt particularly strongly, students had to self-facilitate sources of resilience, resorting to peer and external mentors’ support at the mesosystem level of their environment.

#covid19 #pandemic #research #HigherEducation #PhD #postgraduate #resilience #Bronfenbrenner

To prepare for the "star wars' empire and allies" next move against this nice and friendly community? shouldn't we do a threat model based on attack scenarios of what could be (cyber)attacks against our masto communities: How to protect mastodon servers from being shutdown by third parties? How to secure them further? How to distribute them further? How to use tools like veilid, cwtch, spritely or even more commercial ones like storj to continue exchange the files and be capable to scale quickly up or move quickly from A to B in case of third Party disruption of URLs used by activitypub at CDN/DNS level? How to enhance comms so that they can resist specific targetting of specific information diffusion? How to make the new free social network resilient to any dictature controlling the internet communications (DNS, CDN,...) and using automated AI driven content scanning searching for forbidden words? How to secure its supply chain and ensure that the codebase cannot be suppressed from GAFAMs controlled code repositories?

Maybe some of the good questions for FOSDEM 2026, crypto/steganography communities and for beer discussions everywhere amongst EU and US liberty and democracy defenders?

How to protect freedom of speech and trustable secure communications for "we the people" in democracies and ensure they cannot be disrupted?

Time to show that hackers, cryptographers, real cypherpunks and strong techies of today can even do better than the old ones of the 1990s to defend their liberty to think, exchange and love in democracy respecting everyone. New generation, go for it and the oldsters, well support them with what you learned from life after all these years.

Red states moving on #cleanenergy

#Florida added more #solar in 2024 than any other state - except Texas.

FL also added more rooftop residential solar than any other state but CA.
True for last 5 years.

Industry expects FL will stay #2 in solar for both in 2025 installations.

FL law forbids "climate change" in state policies - but #extremeweather is pounding state, so people want resilient power anyway.

#climatechange #climatehope #resilience

canarymedia.com/articles/solar

Canary media logo in type with yellow circle period.
Canary Media · Florida is now a solar superpower. Here’s how it happened.The Sunshine State built more large-scale solar than California last year and was again No. 2 for residential, despite state leadership opposed to climate…