Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"If somebody robs a store, it's a crime and the state is all set and ready to nab the criminal. But if somebody steals from the commons and from the future, it's seen as entrepreneurial activity and the state cheers and gives them tax concessions rather than arresting them. We badly need an expanded concept of justice and fairness that takes mortgaging the future into account."

—Ursula Franklin, 22 years ago, on our societal tendency of flat out ignoring and even explicitly rewarding negative externalities

#Berlin’s car ban campaign: ‘It’s about how we want to live, breathe and play’ | #Germany | The Guardian

I wonder if this could be made to work and whether it could be translated to other major cities?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/06/berlins-car-ban-campaign-its-about-how-we-want-to-live-breathe-and-play

#Environment #Transport #UrbanInfrastructure

#DominicRaab confuses meaning of #misogyny in #BBC #interview | Dominic Raab | The Guardian

This ignoramus doesn’t know the difference between misogyny and #misandry, though I’m nor surprised given that he didn’t know Dover was a busy port. But at least British #Justice is safe in his hands. [sarc.]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/06/dominic-raab-confuses-meaning-of-misogyny-in-bbc-interview

#UK #Politics

I'm curious how other fediverse folks are feeling about the ongoing U.S. congressional hearings about Facebook. Thoughts?

I ask because, while I haven't been following them closely, I have the lurking feeling that congress is in danger of responding to all of this with the wrong kind of legislation.

(boosts welcome)

Windows 11 continues #Microsoft's long trend of mistreating users. Read why you're better off avoiding it: https://u.fsf.org/3gd

Historical climate emissions reveal responsibility of big polluting nations - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/05/historical-climate-emissions-big-polluting-nations UK much less than I would have expected...

Impressive. This is the example the ueber wealthy should follow https://brightvibes.com/1064/en/martial-arts-star-donates-entire-714-million-fortune-to-charity

Interesting - so TechSoup for non-profits is helping Microsoft pressure non-profits to squander their resources and lock themselves into proprietary software in the cloud, too. Not at all impressed with these folks. https://www.techsoup.net.nz/blog/important-changes-microsoft-donation-program

People need to be shown that voluntarily making your business dependent on the whims and competence of another business (no matter how colossal) you don't own... is a very very daft thing to do. See https://davelane.nz/mshostage for more detail.

Sooo. 3ish billion people are having their cages and confidence rattled... This sort of thing was inevitable. Fingers crossed that this event becomes a canonical example of "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." Time will tell.

😂

I wrote about how to use Signal without giving out your phone number.
https://blog.yaelwrites.com/how-to-use-signal-without-giving-out-your-phone-number-using-a-chromebook-and-an-old-phone/

Good article about religion and freedom in Aotearoa... https://www.webworm.co/p/cityimpact

Teppo Rämä gave a terrific presentation on marine fungi yesterday (he's a mycologist specialising in arctic marine fungi).

I was amazed to learn that there are fungi which parasitise diatoms! There are also marine fungal species which have demonstrated the capacity to degrade polyethylene microplastics.

He shared a slide which showed a massive increase in fungal activity following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; very interesting from a bioremediation perspective.

#myco #bioremediation

#PandoraPapers: biggest ever leak of offshore #data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/pandora-papers-biggest-ever-leak-of-offshore-data-exposes-financial-secrets-of-rich-and-powerful

#Leak #TaxEvasion #Fraud #Corruption #Politics