Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Stupidity

Stupidity: it has been decided that people who have large electricity bills will get money from the government. The more electricity you consume, the more money you get from the government.

Anyone who thinks about this for a minute will realize that it is a fundamentally stupid idea, giving incentives to use more electricity instead of less, at a time when we need to reduce consumption .

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Judging by the political debate leading up to the election, there is pretty much consensus about this. The larger parties on both sides assume that selfishness is was voters want.

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Selfishness

Selfishness: this point is perhaps most obvious in the decision to abandon the rule of 1% of Swedish GDP going to foreign aid. We had that rule for many years, but the new government is now going to abandon that.

Another example of Sweden's new selfishness is the treatment of refugees.

Overall, Sweden remains one of the richest countries on earth but now we apparently started feeling so very sorry four ourselves.

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In Sweden we had an election a few weeks ago, and now there is a new government with an authoritarian agenda.

Swedish politics now seems to rest on the following three pillars:

- Selfishness

- Stupidity

- Failure to understand or care about concepts of freedom and civil liberties

I think those three are strongly related, in that the first two kind of lead to the third. Anyway, the situation is really bad.

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@EU_Commission

When you mention "Europarl_EN@twitter.com" and "EUCouncil@twitter.com" like this, you give the impression that those are somehow belonging to Twitter.

As an EU citizen I would like to communicate with EU institutions without involving "twitter".

Are the Europarl and the EUCouncil parts of Twitter, or are they independent from Twitter?

If they do not belong to Twitter, then why not refer to them using "social.network.europa.eu" handles instead of involving "twitter" here?

@hjartberg Flamman kör ju själva också Google analytics på sin egen sida. De behöver en digital uppryckning, helt klart.

Today it has been 39 years since the start of the GNU project: https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/09/24/gnu-project-turning-39/

The requirement for computers is funny: "The machine had
better be able to operate in a residential area [...]" 🙂

#gnu

Three months growth of an #avocado plant. #gardening #shotonlibrem5

@EU_Commission

When you talk about President @vonderleyen@twitter.com I wonder, what has "twitter" got to do with this?

Is vonderleyen a Twitter employee?

Is she paid by Twitter for the help with showing off the "Twitter" brand name like this?

What happened to the EU's quest for 'digital sovereignty'?

Today is election day here in Sweden. For those who can, don't forget to vote!

Voting places should stay open until 20:00 tonight.

#democracy #shotonlibrem5

@mntmn are you trying to get that into the mainline kernel code as well?

Välkomna på digitalt möte om DFRI-projektet för fri och öppen e-legitimation, ikväll klockan 20.

Läs mer här:
https://mailman.dfri.se/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/eleg-projekt@lists.dfri.se/thread/FHGS6A4ZS3MXYNHA7CMXDJUSNOFYRHK3/

Alla är välkomna, både ni som var med för et år sedan och alla nya som vill vara med och diskutera det här. Missa inte chansen!

#DFRI #FOSS #eID #EIDAS #mydata #eleg #elegitimation

@stph

Never mind, I see it in your link: Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

So, now I get it: Sustainable Information and Communications Technology. Good stuff! 🙂

@Framasoft

@stph

Hello! Since you kindly explained the "S" there, could you spell out the ICT (or CIT?) part also, for ignorant readers such as myself? 🙂

@Framasoft

@glymphie@norrebro.space

Välkommen!

@asbjorn

@giffengrabber

> Får vem som helst ladda upp till play.mittdata.se?

Jag tror @mattiasaxell har koll på hur det är tänkt. Just för ögonblicket går det inte att regga konto där utan någon admin behöver skapa konto åt dig först innan du kan ladda upp något. Men det är en inställningsgrej, går att fixa tror jag. Den slängdes upp lite snabbt inför seminariet så det har nog inte riktigt spikats hur den ska fungera framöver.

@carl @dfri

@carl

Tack för svaret!

@dfri hade det här eventet i måndags, där vi sen lagt upp inspelningen med hjälp av #peertube vilket har fördelen att den som vill titta inte behöver gå till Google:

https://play.mittdata.se/w/1xM3TT482yHRsX5qt7QiM7

Inte lika stort som konferensen du varit med på, men jag vill påstå att det vi pratade om också är relevant i diskussionen om demokratins framtid. 🙂

@giffengrabber

@carl Jag är intresserad men vill inte gå till youtube (Google).

Finns det en framtid för demokratin även för den som inte vill bli spårad av Google?

@edgren

... och så vidare. Det finns mycket vi kan göra! 🙂

Det här är ju ideellt, du gör såklart bara såna saker som känns bra för dig själv.

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