bobgosane99 @bobgosane99@librem.one
- https://cabbagesandkings524.wordpress.com/
- Blog - eccelectic
- https://indieblu.net/
- Publisher - poetry, prose, feminist,
- https://suddendenouement.com/
- Poetry, short fiction
- https://hereticsloversmadmen.com/
- Poetry, shrot fiction, etc.
Bob Wertzler is retired from almost twenty years in the mental health field in California and Arizona. and many things before and since.
Joined Jul 2019
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Revealed: #Google made large contributions to #ClimateChange deniers | #Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers
@dredmorbius An amazing and fascinating map.
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That escallated quickly: Typhoon #Hagibis goes from tropical storm to cat-5 typhoon with 890 millibar pressures and 300 kph (185 mph) winds, in 24 hours.
Presently moving through the Mariana Islands.
I'd spotted this via the Nullschool Earth Weather Visualiser (https://earth.nullschool.net), quickly confirmed via Force Thirteen, which runs a quite good tropical weather channel.
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“For decades, the overriding objective of American business and government has been to remove friction from the tracking system, by linking networks, by speeding connections, by eliminating barriers. But friction is the only thing that has ever made privacy, let alone obscurity, possible. If there’s no friction, if we can all be profiled instantly and intimately, then there’s nothing to stop any of our neighbors from being targeted…”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/ice-surveillance-deportation.html
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The Authoritarian’s Worst Fear? A Book
Governments are spending a remarkable amount of resources attacking books — because their supposed limitations are beginning to look like ageless strengths.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/opinion/books-censorship.html
@teaneedz Another climate warning, this one, from The Financial Times:
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Climate change 'accelerating', say scientists https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49773869
> We should listen to the loud cry coming from the schoolchildren. There is an emergency - one for action in both rapidly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions towards zero and adapting to the inevitable changes in climate.
@dredmorbius That may be one of the ten most effective presentations on the subject. It would seem that the FT is "woke" on climate crisis .
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Climate Change: what do you want me to say? | FT
"The future has come to meet us. Most of the people watching this will be there when it happens."
I'm just going to note that this is the premiere finance and business publication, the Financial Times, who's producing this. You cannot get any more mainstream.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j43XK0wzMd4
#ClimateChange #FinancialTImes #ClimateStrike #ClimateAction
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"A libertarian internet commentator and alleged cult leader who amplifies "scientific racism," eugenics and white supremacism to a massive new audience, Stefan Molyneux operates within the racist so-called “alt-right” and pro-Trump ranks."
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/stefan-molyneux
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ACLU: "Should You Buy a Ring Doorbell Camera?"
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/should-you-buy-ring-doorbell-camera
This article presents a number of good, important issues with these devices. And to be clear on my position: no, you absolutely should not buy a Ring camera.
In my LibrePlanet 2017 talk, I asked surveillance camera owners to make sure that they are only recording their own property, not sidewalks or streets and such. Ring wasn't a thing back then, and it all but ensures that you capture passerbys (unless your doorbell isn't visible from the street). Now I consider it one of our greatest practical privacy threats.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/should-you-buy-ring-doorbell-camera
This article presents a number of good, important issues with these devices. And to be clear on my position: no, you absolutely should not buy a Ring camera.
In my LibrePlanet 2017 talk, I asked surveillance camera owners to make sure that they are only recording their own property, not sidewalks or streets and such. Ring wasn't a thing back then, and it all but ensures that you capture passerbys (unless your doorbell isn't visible from the street). Now I consider it one of our greatest practical privacy threats.
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RT @guardianopinion@twitter.com
Socialism used to be a dirty word. Is America now ready to embrace the ideology? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/socialism-used-to-be-a-dirty-word-is-america-now-ready-to-embrace-the-ideology?CMP=fb_cif
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/guardianopinion/status/1169856136918401025
@dredmorbius That is a good explanation of how The Tragedy Of The Commons is built into the system.
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I'm occasionally inspired to give a reasonably precise summary of what is wrong with free-market, property-based, capitalist economic systems.
This would be one such:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20869818
#capitalism #economics #freeMarket #propertyRights #risk #externalities #naturalResources #rents #labour
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The Amazon Is Burning Because the World Eats So Much #Meat https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/23/amazon-burning-because-world-eats-so-much-meat
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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- https://cabbagesandkings524.wordpress.com/
- Blog - eccelectic
- https://indieblu.net/
- Publisher - poetry, prose, feminist,
- https://suddendenouement.com/
- Poetry, short fiction
- https://hereticsloversmadmen.com/
- Poetry, shrot fiction, etc.
Bob Wertzler is retired from almost twenty years in the mental health field in California and Arizona. and many things before and since.
Joined Jul 2019
