Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Supreme Court Boosts Democrats’ Chances of Retaking Virginia Legislature

The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a challenge to Virginia’s state legislative maps, keeping in place a new map that boosts Democratic chances of retaking the Virginia House of Representatives in 2019. In a short 5-4 decision, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that Virginia’s Republican-controlled House did not have the authority to appeal a […]

> The Open Source Project That Keeps Google's Hands Off Your Android Data

#microg

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3n5gw/the-open-source-project-that-keeps-googles-hands-off-your-android-data

California Is Considering Ending Criminal Court Fees and Wiping Out Billions in Debt

Three years ago, during Brandon Greene’s first week working as a lawyer in a new clinic affiliated with the East Bay Community Law Center, he was handed a stack of cases to review. Each involved a client who was struggling to pay down the fines and fees that easily accumulate in California’s criminal justice system. It was his job to help. […]

The complex fate of Antarctic species in the face of a changing climate

Researchers have presented support for the theory that marine invertebrates with larger body size are generally more sensitive to reductions in oxygen than smaller animals, and so will be more sensitive to future global climate change. However, evolutionary innovation can to some extent offset any respiratory disadvantages of large body size.

A Scientist Took Climate Change Deniers to Court and Wrested an Apology From Them

This story was originally published by National Observer and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  In 2011, renowned scientist Michael E. Mann sued a Canadian think tank that published an interview suggesting his work on climate change was fraud. Eight years later, the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy—which often promotes climate change denial—apologized […]

Saudi Arabia May Execute Teenager for His Protests — Including When He Was 10

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has overseen an escalation in violent crackdowns on political protest. It's getting even worse.

The post Saudi Arabia May Execute Teenager for His Protests — Including When He Was 10 appeared first on The Intercept.

Electronic Waste Is Becoming a Global Environmental Problem | @Time@twitter.com
Do you own one of the 1.6 billion unused phones shoved into a drawer? These forgotten mobile phones are packed with valuable materials. So dig them out and start #recycling! https://bit.ly/2IezCQ9

Black Hat drama this week shows the risks in creating a machine/process w/ the power to censor a group for personal views. Always starts w/ dangerous/unsympathetic views, inevitably expands to censor other groups based on shakier grounds. #slipperyslope

do yourself a favor and avoid #spam by blacklisting this domain:
womenarestupid.site

some asshat is creating throwaway accounts and messaging random people with the same crap over and over

#mastoadmin #fediadmin (? what's the tag for admins who aren't running mastodon??)

I see the racist, misogynist "we just want to point out how easy it is to spam on Mastodon" concern trolls are back in action. (If they link to a site called "women are stupid", that's them.)

Remember: don't engage them. Report them, pass the report through to the remote instance if need be, block them, and move on.

Opinion: The Green New Deal and transformational changes | Ensia https://prismo.xyz/posts/67857bbb-73f4-45d6-9958-f2ac402af11a

Todd Weaver (CEO of Purism) interviewed on Digital Trends Live.

They talked about hardware kill switches, the Librem 5 smartphone, releasing hardware schematics, and ethical online services.

https://puri.sm/posts/todd-weaver-on-digital-trends-live/

Ayanna Pressley Wants to Ditch an Old Anti-Abortion Law. House Democrats Aren’t Listening.

The Democratic majority in the US House appears likely to pass a spending bill which will include the Hyde Amendment, a measure that blocks federal funds from being spent on abortions, despite clear opposition from the the party’s base and from 2020 candidates. On Tuesday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s (D-Mass.) proposal to strip the Hyde Amendment from an […]