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"The most important thing about carbon pricing is that it works."

"The 2nd most important thing about carbon pricing is that it is fair."

"The 3rd most important thing about carbon pricing is that it is the least expensive way to fight climate change."

-- Jesse McCormick, Senior VP, First Nations Major Projects Coalition

#FirstNations #indigenous #NDP #cdnpoli #poilievre

The Fediverse's social reading platform BookWyrm lets you import your account data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. There are step by step instructions for how to do this here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/importing-your-data-into-bookwyrm-from-goodreads-librarything-storygraph-openlibrary-or-calibre

If you're wondering what the heck BookWyrm is, it's a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. There's an intro article here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

#BookWyrm #FediTips #GoodReads #StoryGraph #LibraryThing #OpenLibrary #Calibre #Books #Fediverse

I sort of love that these two vehicles have the same bed size.

The Kei's is actually a bit more useful because you can fold down the sides.

An electric Kei could be a game changer in cities.

Mozilla is truly an advertisement company now. From the bottom of my heart, fuck you, everybody at Mozilla.

The Internet archive lost its appeal in the HACHETTE case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.

#InternetArchive

no no no *you* can't freely scan through the collected works of humanity, that right is reserved for the large language models.

The Android evil-genie promise: You may have an open source phone OS. But if you actually compile it from source yourself, you will be banned from running any software. Or at least, they'll try as hard as they can to ban you from running software. Also, if you decide you want to build or even *download* the source, you're going to need to purchase a dedicated 1 TB SSD to check out the repo, and also download our forked version of git to check it out with

Spotted in #ottawa

The promised writeup of how I discovered that the Feeld dating app was protecting private data by doing client-side filtering: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70061.html

On One Wheel, the now defunct quarterly unicycling publication by the Unicycling Society of America, claimed that someone named Ben Dova survived the Hindenburg by fast rope descent for most of the way to the ground before gravity did the rest. Can't be real, right? Well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Dova

Do not run multiple blockers just use ublock origin
https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/112989621877545179

The trend of building surveillance into all new smart TVs is "incredibly invasive and little understood,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @arstechnica. "Nobody wants a snooping and snitching television, but lately that's all you can buy.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/tv-industrys-ads-tracking-obsession-is-turning-your-living-room-into-a-store/

Okay bicycle people: I know of Strava and would like to try something like it. But I would prefer something that is open source, community run, and maybe even something I could self-host. Any ideas?

#Cycling #Strava

Great resources for finding alternatives to the Big Tech software people often feel trapped using:
https://switching.software/

by @switchingsoftware

It turns out that this does exactly what it says and I don't know what I expected

Premier Ford will pay Molson Coors and Anheuser Busch MILLIONS to break a 10 year contract 16 months early in order to speed up 24/7 alcohol access in #Ontario gas stations & corner stores.

Many people think that the Beer Store is owned by the province of Ontario, but in fact it’s owned by a consortium of brewers.
🙄 #DougFord is paying this consortium $600 million of our tax dollars to cancel the existing contract prematurely so you can buy #beer anywhere.

#priorities #BoozeOverHealthcare