Electronic Frontier Alliance member @STOPSpyingNY have their own podcast, 'Surveillance and the City'. In the most most recent episode they recap the biggest privacy and surveillance stories from last year. https://twitter.com/STOPSpyingNY/status/1345807138254430209
Georgia Senate Runoffs: GOP Has ‘Galvanized’ Turnout By Blocking ,000 Checks, Stacey Abrams Says https://basicincometoday.com/georgia-senate-runoffs-gop-has-galvanized-turnout-by-blocking-2000-checks-stacey-abrams-says/
Green groups have a racism problem. Waterkeepers are trying to solve it. https://grist.org/justice/green-groups-have-a-racism-problem-waterkeepers-are-trying-to-solve-it/
Showtime Documentary Proves Trump Is the 21st Century Reagan https://theintercept.com/2021/01/04/trump-reagan-showtime-documentary/
@lwriemen This is the same junk ive seen come out of the entrepreneur space for a while. Its like collectivising for rich jerks. You help me i sell you my coaching program for 600 instead of 3000.
@Capheind The article I read, https://www.forbes.com/sites/cherylsnappconner/2013/12/12/can-cooperative-capitalism-succeed/
and a website I looked at http://cooperativecapitalists.com/
Didn't sound very labor focused.
I wonder how many divorces have been generated by people being made to work from home? Especially among the people who use work to escape home responsibilities. Those ones who use the fantasy of being so necessary at work that they can't take time off. The ones who brag about how much vacation they didn't use. The fools who work for free and are the building blocks of exploitive capitalism among the salaried workforce.
Drilling and mining companies got a holiday gift from Trump https://grist.org/energy/drilling-and-mining-companies-got-a-holiday-gift-from-trump/
Biden’s “Cabinet of Firsts” Betrays a Cynical Approach to Diversity https://theintercept.com/2020/12/31/biden-diversity-cabinet/
“This Is Why We Don’t Drink the Water” - Fracking threatens drinking water on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. https://inthesetimes.com/article/fracking-wastewater-drinking-water-contamination-fort-berthold-reservation
In 2020, oil producers evidently faced problems on multiple fronts. Geopolitical and meteorological disruptions combined with investor squeamishness and policy shifts to produce a bad year for them economically.
On the other hand, our fossil fuel economy hasn't changed in any fundamental way, even with people traveling less. Oil is still fundamental to modern life, and the reportedly accelerating energy transition is a drop in the bucket compared to the changes that actually need to happen to halt climate change.
This NPR piece suggests that oil-producers would have had a rough year, even without the pandemic. This is *very interesting*. It would be a mistake to celebrate, though: this is a signal that it's time to fight harder.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/31/951470056/the-oil-industry-had-a-rough-year-even-if-you-ignore-the-pandemic
Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Broke Into Its Source Code
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-solarwinds-hackers-also-broke-into-its-s-1845974783
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