Climate Change Is Accelerating: ‘Things Are Getting Worse’
The acceleration climate change's effects have brought the world “dangerously close” to abrupt and irreversible changes, scientists warned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/climate/climate-change-acceleration.html #climatechange #climatecrisis
We No Longer Expect Privacy. You Can Change That.
Without a comprehensive privacy bill or some meaningful regulation of Big Tech, we’re not going to change the way our data is siphoned away. But we can hope to change what we demand from ourselves and others when it comes to those small, everyday privacy invasions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/opinion/privacy-tips.html #privacy #libremone #librem5 #purism
Creating the conditions for a globally just energy transition
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191202105816.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis
We are delighted to share that early yesterday we shipped the first #Librem5 Birch devices to backers https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-birch-shipping-announcement/
I love this post:
"When we first approached hardware manufacturers almost two years ago with this project most of them instantly said “No, sorry, impossible, we can not help you.”. Others warned us, that it could never work, that it was too complicated, “the industry does not do that” and so forth.
And yet here we are, later than we wanted, but we are actually shipping first hardware! It is possible but it comes at a price." #Librem5
Nine climate tipping points now 'active,' warn scientists
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191127161418.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis
We Can Do This
It’s hard to think of a more alarming news story: The United Nations said yesterday that the world failed to reduce carbon emissions in recent years and was on pace for catastrophic damage from climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/opinion/united-nations-climate-change.html #climatechange #climatecrisis
UN calls for push to cut greenhouse gas levels to avoid climate chaos
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/26/united-nations-global-effort-cut-emissions-stop-climate-chaos-2030?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Librem_Social #climatechange #climatecrisis
Climate Planners Use VR to Show Communities How Sea-Level Rise Decimates Them
https://earther.gizmodo.com/climate-planners-use-vr-to-show-communities-how-sea-lev-1840022810 #climatechange #climatecrisis
I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It.
Communities are being ripped apart as prejudice, hate and disinformation are peddled online. Scammers use the web to steal identities, stalkers use it to harass and intimidate their victims, and bad actors subvert democracy using clever digital tactics... How we respond to this abuse will determine whether the web lives up to its potential as a global force for good or leads us into a digital dystopia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/opinion/world-wide-web.html #internet
Tech giants watch our every move online. Does that violate our human rights?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/23/facebook-google-human-rights-privacy-data?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Librem_Social #bigtech #privacy #security
The Real Cost of Tweeting About My Kids
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/opinion/social-media-kids.html #bigtech #privacy #security #libremone #twitter
Sacha Baron Cohen Says Social Media Companies Have Created the 'Greatest Propaganda Machine in History'
https://gizmodo.com/sacha-baron-cohen-says-social-media-companies-have-crea-1839994830 #bigtech #socialmedia #facebook #libremone
Amnesty International: Facebook and Google are a threat to human rights
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/21/facebook-google-amnesty-international-human-rights/ #privacy #security #purism #bigtech
Amazon confirms police can keep Ring doorbell videos forever
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/20/amazon-confirms-police-keep-ring-doorbell-videos-forever/ #bigtech #privacy #security
Building All the Fossil Fuel Projects Already in the Pipeline Would Wreck the Climate
https://earther.gizmodo.com/building-all-the-fossil-fuel-projects-already-in-the-pi-1839949666 #climatechange #climatecrisis
Stop! Don’t Charge Your Phone This Way
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/technology/personaltech/usb-warning-juice-jacking.html #privacy #security
Asking if behavior can be changed on climate crisis
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191120121145.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis
Oxford Names ‘Climate Emergency’ Its 2019 Word of the Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/arts/word-of-the-year-climate-emergency.html #climatechange #climatecrisis
Ten Years After Climategate, the Scientists Have Won—But What About the Rest of the World?
https://earther.gizmodo.com/ten-years-after-climategate-the-scientists-have-won-bu-1839947721 #climatechange #climatecrisis
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