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.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=E_dbBIPQIlo

#TropicalStorm

**bobgosane99** @bobgosane99@librem.one · Oct 05, 2019, 23:11

**bobgosane99** @bobgosane99@librem.one · Oct 05, 2019, 23:11

Oct 05, 2019, 23:11

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https://braveandrecklessblog.com/2019/10/05/the-heads-of-cerberus-robert-g-wertzler/

**bobgosane99** · Oct 03, 2019, 15:48

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**Laura Kalbag** @laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com · Oct 03, 2019, 15:48

Oct 03, 2019, 15:48

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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

**bobgosane99** · Oct 04, 2019, 03:07

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**booklord** @tootbrute@scholar.social · Oct 04, 2019, 03:07

Oct 04, 2019, 03:07

booklord @tootbrute@scholar.social

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

#Books #BookNews

**bobgosane99** · Sep 22, 2019, 19:50

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**teaneedz 🍄** @teaneedz@donteatanimals.org · Sep 22, 2019, 19:50

Sep 22, 2019, 19:50

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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.

**bobgosane99** · Sep 19, 2019, 20:43

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**Doc Edward Morbius ❌** @dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud · Sep 19, 2019, 20:43

Sep 19, 2019, 20:43

Doc Edward Morbius ❌ @dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud

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

**bobgosane99** · Sep 19, 2019, 21:11

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**Doc Edward Morbius ❌** @dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud · Sep 19, 2019, 21:11

Sep 19, 2019, 21:11

Doc Edward Morbius ❌ @dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud

"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

**bobgosane99** · Sep 11, 2019, 01:45

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**Mike Gerwitz** @mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com · Sep 11, 2019, 01:45

Sep 11, 2019, 01:45

Mike Gerwitz @mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com

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.