Your first link is an opinion piece, and the comments section tells me all I need to know about the intended audience.

"The fear narrative is impenetrable to facts and logic because it is a agenda that wants radical economic, social and political change. The "climate" or "environment" is merely a vehicle for the West's own version of the 1917 revolution."

From your second link:

"This doesn't mean that weather-related risks of wildfires have declined: warmer and drier conditions increase these risks. And despite a global reduction, countries can experience very large and anomalous years. Last year’s large burn in Canada is a clear example."

Which is essentially the point of the article this thread is about.

Reasonable risk-managers only go so far. There's always the "big asteroid that goes undetected" that lands on your building during a big in-person meeting tha thas most of your company's key talent.

My recent backups might be infected, but my "day of compromise minus one" backups won't.

Even if my recent backups are infected, they are likely to not be ransomware-encrypted, which means they are still useful to me.

Technically, this is very hard to do. It's much easier to set things up so there should be no operational way to "delete" or "modify" existing records without it being obvious that something out of the ordinary is going on

With the right level of access, there will be a way to copy everything from the existing media EXCEPT what you want deleted to new media. As long as this is easy to detect (say, CCTV recordings showing someone entered the server room, downed the server, removed the write-once media, used a magic box* to copy only what he wants to copy, then replacing the old media with the new media), that's going to be a deterrent to unauthorized record-deletion.

* how the magic box works is left as an exercise to the student, but for planning purposes, assume such a box exists until proven otherwise

Microsoft is stalking you. Again.

Imagine it's 1950s or earlier. You run a business that lives or dies by paper records, such as an insurance company, land office, or something similar.

Your office burns down, taking all the data with it. You don't have off-site backups (microfilm, carbon copies, or what-not). Thankfully the fire was after-hours and nobody was hurt.

Your business is probably toast, figuratively and literally. At best, you are insured and will be able to start over from scratch, but your existing customers might prefer to start over with a company that knew how to keep backups rather than continue working with you.

Vance is still a deeply sketchy person.

Vance is the person who says people shouldn't be given a handout, yet crows about the full ride he got to Harvard. Because he was poor.

Vance is also the person who whines about elite universities brainwashing people with "socialist" ideas, while having gone to said elite university.

Vance has also said that Trump was America's Hitler, that Trump is a total fraud, that he never liked the guy and was a Never Trumper. Now he licks the boots of America's Hitler and carries out his policies.

Will it be hosted on SharePoint?

Re:What do you mean by "possible?":

The oldest monster6502.com entry in archive.org is from 2016.

I think you're already plenty concerning just on your own!

As another example, sometimes a genetically-influenced mental trait can be good in one environment and problematical in another. For example:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.co...
        "One source of such variation in adaptive stability is surely genetic difference among infants, but genes alone do not make a child an orchid or a dandelion. As work by other researchers has shown, the genetic characteristics of children create their predispositions, but do not necessarily determine their outcomes. For example, a consortium studying Romanian children raised in horribly negligent, sometimes cruel orphanages under the dictatorship of Nicolae CeauÅYescu, before his fall in 1989, discovered that a shorter version of a gene related to the neurotransmitter serotonin produced orchid-like outcomes. Children with this shorter allele (an alternative form of a gene) who remained in the orphanages developed intellectual impairments and extreme maladjustment, while those with the same allele who were adopted into foster families recovered remarkably, in terms of both development and mental health.
        Similarly, a team of Dutch researchers studying experimental patterns of children's financial donations--in response to an emotionally evocative UNICEF video--found that participants with an orchid-like dopamine neurotransmitter gene gave either the most charitable contributions or the least, depending upon whether they were rated securely or insecurely attached to their parents--that is, depending on factors that were not genetic."

So, potentially parents can select, say, for children who may be less likely to get depressed or miserly in bad circumstances, but you will also select out children who might excellent or generous in good circumstances.

More examples: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F%3Fq%3Dthe%2B...

Other ideas include "tulip" children:
https://nurtureandthriveblog.c...

Is it ironic or intentional that the company has "orchid" in the name?

If I had mod points I'd have given them to you. We need you back, cmdrtaco.

The spectacle around this is madness. I truly hope all the people riffing on it just to get their own fifteen minutes of fame get sued into fucking oblivion. They won't, but my God they deserve it. Everyone's so pathetic that the moment a story breaks of someone else screwing up, they jump on it like flies on shit. We're collectively revelling in other people's misfortune. As a species we deserve the literal boiling that's coming.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewpublic.org%2F
"Reimagine social media: We are researchers, engineers, designers, and community leaders working together to explore creating digital public spaces where people can thrive and connect."

Their Digital Spaces Directory listing hundreds of alternative platforms (including Slashdot):
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewpublic.org%2Fstudy%2F33...
"As the social media landscape changes and a new wave of digital spaces emerges, this Directory is meant to be a resource for our field -- a jumping-off-point for further exploration and research for anyone who's interested in studying, building, stewarding, or simply using digital social platforms. We hope this will inspire creative exploration, spark new collaborations, and highlight important progress."

Ultimately though, standards (open protocols, of which there are many good examples better than Bitcoin, like, say, email RFC 5322) are probably more important that implementations for distributed social media. I gave a five minute lightning talk about that for LibrePlanet 2022:
"Free/Libre Standards for Social Media and other Communications"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpdfernhout.net%2Fmedia%2Fl...

The text of the talk in IBIS outline format is available here:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpdfernhout.net%2Flibrepl...

From there:

What are key insights for moving forward?

        * Standards unify; incompatible services fragment
        * The power of plain text
        * Simple Made Easy ( Rich Hickey https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoq.com%2Fpresenta... )
        * A democratic government is a special case of a free/libre software community

What are current free alternatives?

        * Matrix.org
        * GNU social
        * Mastodon
        * Mattermost (can import from Slack)
        * Wordpress + plugins
        * Drupal + plugins
        * Nextcloud
        * Email with better clients and servers including using JMAP, Nylas, mailpile etc
        * IRC with better clients
        * Smallest Federated Wiki (Ward Cunningham)
        * Citadel
        * Kolab
        * Diaspora
        * A plain website of text files using Git
        * Twirlip (my own experiments, very rough)
        * Many others

What are problems with free alternatives?

        * Usually more about implementations than standards
        * Hard to start using
        * Fragmentation of user bases with walled gardens
        * Often not federated
        * May not scale (like to trillions of messages)
        * Design missing the big messaging picture (e.g. whether email can be used to edit wikis)

What is my guess at what the future holds for innovation in messaging?
        * Free/Libre standards that unify messaging, with free implementations (a social semantic desktop?)
        * Obligatory XKCD on "How Standards Proliferate": https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F927%2F
        * It is the social consensus issues that are hard at this point, not the technical ones
        * We need less, not more: less standards, less code, less features, less division & stupidity
        * We need better: better standards, better code, better features, better peacemaking & sensemaking