Dean @dean@librem.one

Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the Mercator map

‘Out of the dark ages’: Greens to force climate action if they win WA balance of power

The WA Greens intend to leverage a balance of power scenario in the upper house to push the next government to increase royalties from oil and gas and improve its response to climate change

https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/out-of-the-dark-ages-greens-to-force-climate-action-if-they-win-wa-balance-of-power-20250214-p5lc78.html

#Australia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

This is happening across Australia next Saturday. Please consider attending if you can.

https://transjustice.org.au/youth/

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

@petrillic Ahahah, indeed - or, maybe even worse, the obligatory:

https://xkcd.com/979/