keverets @keverets@librem.one

⚠️ 🇨🇦 ⚠️ Canadian Sovereignty is under threat. 🇨🇦 ⚠️

Federal Election at any time this year

Expect information to be weaponized.

These publications are owned by Post Media,
which is 66% owned by an American media conglomerate with close ties
to the Republican Party. Check to see whether YOUR local paper is on the list.
Advertising Postmedia owns newspapers that serve smaller
communities across Canada, including:

The Flyer Force
GolLocal Airdrie Echo (tabloid)
Bow Valley Crag and Canyon (tabloid)
Publishing Brockville Recorder and Times (broadsheet)
Broadsheet dailies and weeklies Chatham This Week (tabloid)
Clinton News-Record (tabloid)
National Post Cochrane Times (Alberta) (tabloid)
Financial Post Cochrane Times-Post (tabloid)
(administratively part of the National Post) Cold Lake Sun (tabloid)
Belleville Intelligencer Drayton Valley Western Review (tabloid)
Brantford Expositor Edson Leader (tabloid)
Calgary Herald Elliot Lake Standard (tabloid)
Cape Breton Post Fort McMurray Today (tabloid)
Chatham Daily News Fort Saskatchewan Record (tabloid)
The Chronicle Herald (Halifax) Goderich Signal-Star (tabloid)
Cornwall Standard Freeholder Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune (tabloid)
Edmonton Journal Hanna Herald (tabloid)
Kenora Daily Miner and News High River Times (tabloid)
Kingston Whig-Standard Hinton Parklander (tabloid)
London Free Press Kincardine News (tabloid)
The Gazette (Montreal) Kingston This Week (tabloid)
North Bay Nugget Lakeshore Advance (Grand Bend; tabloid)
Ottawa Citizen Lloydminster Meridian Booster (tabloid)
Regina Leader-Post Mid-North Monitor (Espanola; tabloid)
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) Mayerthorpe Freelancer (tabloid)
Sault Star Nanton News (tabloid)
Sudbury Star Owen Sound Sun Times (broadsheet)
Timmins Daily Press Peace River Record-Gazette (broadsheet)
Vancouver Sun Pincher Creek Echo (tabloid)
Windsor Star Red River Valley Echo (tableid NE
Sarnia Observer
Tabloid dailies Sherwood Park News (tab id)
Simcoe Reformer ftabloid) \
Calgary Sun St. Thomas Times*Journal (tabloid) \
Edmonton Sun Stratford Beacon:Herald (broads
Ottawa Sun Vulcan Advocat
The Province (Vancouver) Vermilion Standatd (tabloid)
Toronto Sun Whitecourt Star (tabloi x
Winnipeg Sun Winkler Times (tabloid)
Woodstock Sentinel-Rexdéw

#Canpoli #Cdnpoli #Canada #Election #Liberal #NDP #GreenParty #CanElxtn

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*Conrad Black was convicted of fraud, spent time in federal prison, and was pardoned by DJT in 2019.* Thugs support Thugs.
FYI #cdnpoli

Here's how the "Ship of Theseus" page looked in July 2003 when it was first created! Since then, the article has been edited 1792 times and 0% of the original phrases remain.

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for Carbon Brief providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-emissions-fall-3-6-in-2024-as-coal-use-drops-to-lowest-since-1666/

#climate #GHG #science #GoodNews

Please stop calling newsletters "Substacks" --

The vast majority of blogs are created using WordPress software. No one calls their blog a "WordPress" for the very good reason that there are other ways to create and publish blogs.

So if you've been gaslighted into calling someone's newsletter their "Substack' just because they use that platform, please stop. You're just doing PR for a company that manifestly doesn't deserve it.

Why is that?
1/2

At the start of COVID, we all learned how to beat airborne viruses like the flu: by wearing masks and staying home when we are sick. It's a real shame we haven't translated those important lessons into long-term behavioral change.

We are not aware of other FOSS development teams that have as extensive knowledge, both theoretical and practical, about #email and #openpgp and regularly release across all platforms for users world wide ... except for #protonmail with whose technical and security experts we discuss regularly. They are the other major game in town doing pervasive email encryption after all. Did you know that Proton's and delta's VCards are compatible across ecosystems and establish immediate encryption?

If you've on a limb and curious about contributing photos to @panoramax , for use with #OpenStreetMap, and you're looking for an app to use, checkout this app, Baba

https://gitlab.com/ravenfeld/baba

or install via #FDroid , with the #IzzyOnDroid repo enabled:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ravenfeld.panoramax.baba

It uses beautiful #MapLibre tiles, and the overall experience for a contributor is so much smoother than just using a general purpose cam app like #OpenCamera

GNOME's default Image Viewer (Loupe) no longer accepts AI generated contributions. You can read more about the reasons for my decisions in my discourse post.

I'm planning to adopt the same policy for the rest of the projects I maintain. And I think others should as well.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/loupe-no-longer-allows-generative-ai-contributions/27327

USA's #Maxar isn't just cutting off classified satellite imagery to #Ukraine, but commercial unclassified services. How long until Starlink follows?

I'm not sure if the White House has thought thru the signal this is sending the world:

If you use American tech, cloud or telecoms, it can be turned off on a whim *while you're being invaded & bombed* to strongarm your country to sign a deal you don't want.

Imagine how many govts are currently frantically trying to migrate away from US services.

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)

"[The American-owned] Postmedia owns over a hundred Canadian newspapers and most of our major dailies – from the National Post to the Edmonton Journal to the Pembroke Observer and News. Their channels are the primary source of news for millions of Canadians. If Postmedia needed to choose between what’s good for its American owners and what’s good for Canada, what would they choose?" https://www.coreyhogan.ca/p/nationalize-postmedia #cdnpoli #Postmedia

How my Firefox became a LibreWolf

New blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1065/how-my-firefox-became-a-librewolf

#firefox #librewolf #tos #webcomic

What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a presence on X—and other US platforms are not a good long-term solution either. More should follow the example of the @EUCommission and provide their updates directly, without middlemen, through the fediverse.

Roman concrete's 2,000-year durability secret finally decoded
The exceptional strength comes from 'hot mixing' quicklime directly with volcanic ash at high temperatures. This creates distinctive lime clasts that grant remarkable self-healing properties - when cracks form, water reacts with these clasts to form calcium carbonate that naturally repairs damage. Science Alert https://buff.ly/3EQOcxi
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Trumpism and Muskism are similar in that both rely on a shitposting ethos: just spout stuff and keep spouting stuff, don’t think about whether it’s true, the point is to keep spouting stuff. It’s a nihilistic worldview that treats truth with contempt.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xzlvsk4ty7ecwigbjpxah6yb/post/3lj7glfuhwc2k

Hello browser users, please don't use ungoogled-chromium instead of Firefox unless you absolutely have to! The recent ToS changes are enraging but please don't think using anything Chromium would be better in that regard. Besides, Chromium is also horrible for web engine diversity

I like to think of ungoogled-chromium as a hack to get privacy and other aspects to a point that can match what can be done with config options in Firefox

What would happen if we stopped asking, “How can this grow?” and started asking, “What is this thing’s natural size?” What if we evaluated projects not by their potential for expansion but their depth of impact within their chosen bounds?

Choosing to stay small, focused, and finite can be a radical act. It’s a declaration that some things are valuable precisely because they resist the illogic of endless growth.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-dont-have-to-monetize-the-things-you-love/