Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Police departments are deploying robots to get social media engagement and improve their image, but don't take the bait. Knightscope robots are rolling surveillance tech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/police-robots-are-not-selfie-opportunity-theyre-privacy-disaster-waiting-happen

Global #ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/25/global-ice-loss-accelerating-at-record-rate-study-finds

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #SeaIce #SeaLevel #Glaciers #PolarRegions

A 150-year-old scientific research method that can be done with pencil and paper shouldn’t be patentable…even if you add a “mobile computing device.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/blyncsys-patent-contact-tracing-isnt-medical-breakthrough-its-patent-breakdown

Well well, what do we have here? https://idlewords.com/microsoft_words_actions.html

Movie Night on CommunityBridge.com - Tuesday January
26th at 7pm ET - Please pass it on!

Title: "When white supremacists overthrew a government" - The hidden
history of an American coup in 1898. (12 mins.)

https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/movie/

Interview with the team behind antijob.net

https://freedomnews.org.uk/interview-with-the-team-behind-antijob-net/

Predictive policing and biometric surveillance technologies disparately harm Black, immigrant, and other vulnerable communities. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/oaklands-progressive-fight-protect-residents-government-surveillance

The US plans to:

- reenter the Paris climate accord

- halt border wall construction

- reverse the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries

- re-engage with World Health Organization, will join global vaccine effort

What a difference a day makes.

All communication in #signal goes through these tech giants: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Cloudflare
Just texting goes through Amazon.
Group chat will also go through Google.
...
#GAFAM is toxic to free software, supports mass surveillance and a lot other very bad things. Supporting such companies means also supporting their culture and their dominance. It's never just about the privacy of a single person.

@yogthos

I'd be careful here. The apologists for capitalism love to attribute to biology what is very often a product of the more warped aspects of modern culture.

There's the concept of planning for the "7th generation" in various Native American cultures, the ability of medieval towns to spend a hundred years or more working on a cathedral, and very long term cultural stability in places like China.

On the flip side, proponents of the status quo love to blame climate change on human nature and not on concerted and prolonged propaganda campaigns by oil interests.

What's interesting is to try to tease apart where we are and aren't able to do long term planning.

This short critique of Western "regenerative agriculture" movement by indigenous leaders is interesting: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-01-18/whitewashed-hope/

"Since you've got nothing to hide, you don't mind unlocking your phone for me, do you?" Legislatures and courts must stop police from asking us this question. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/so-called-consent-searches-harm-our-digital-rights

These are 1500 #seeds of #Open #Source #Chili "Black Heart" <3

We will split them in smaller quantities and send them out together with other Open Source Seeds. Each of these seeds can grow another thousands of seeds that you are free to share with everyone else.

Get yourself one of these packages and start growing Open Source #Gardens this spring: https://opensourcegardens.info/order-seeds.en.html

Ad tech companies find the ability to track individual people around the Internet incredibly valuable. That's why they won't stop intrusive data collection:

"Facebook promised to bid on at least 90 percent of auctions when it could identify the end user" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-facebook-ad-deal-antitrust.html