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#ManjaroPhone might be the first Arch-based Linux distribution for smartphones, promising to their users the same "enjoyable simplicity" they delivered on desktops.

https://tuxphones.com/manjaro-phone-plasma-mobile-smartphone-distro-arch/

#Critical #Firefox #vulnerability fixed in 67.0.3 - #Fedora Magazine

https://fedoramagazine.org/critical-firefox-vulnerability-fixed-in-67-0-3/

#GNU #Linux

Yes, the UAW Lost Again in Chattanooga. But a Rank-and-File Movement Could Win.

It was a bad sign. On the day voting began at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the shift change suddenly turned blue.

Throngs of workers were passing through the factory turnstiles in both directions, as the day shift ended and the night shift began. On the preceding days, handfuls of union supporters in bright green shirts were there to hand out flyers and banter with their co-workers.

New Footage Shows Just How Alarmingly Fast an Arctic Island Is Crumbling Into the Sea
https://earther.gizmodo.com/new-footage-shows-just-how-alarmingly-fast-an-arctic-is-1835523016 #climatechange #climatecrisis

The Librem 5 smartphone team has been hard at work, and we want to update you all on our software progress.

Including: LibHandy, Calls, Encrypted messaging, patches going upstream, Mesa, Documentation, and... Quake II. Seriously.

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-june-software-update/

Joe Biden’s White Privilege

On Tuesday night, former Vice President Joe Biden told a room full of wealthy New York donors about the good old days. When he first arrived in the Senate in the 1970s, Biden recalled, he joined a Democratic caucus that included staunch segregationists, such as Herman Talmadge of Georgia and James Eastland of Mississippi. “He […]

Endorsements Pouring in for Insurgent Queens DA Candidate

Within 24 hours, Tiffany Cabán earned endorsements from the New York Times and leading presidential candidates Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

The post Endorsements Pouring in for Insurgent Queens DA Candidate appeared first on The Intercept.

#Himalayan #glacier #melting doubled since #2000, spy #satellites show | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/19/himalayan-glacier-melting-doubled-since-2000-scientists-reveal

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Ta-Nehisi Coates Delivers Searing History Lesson After Mitch McConnell Rejects Reparations

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the celebrated and influential author of “The Case of Reparations,” on Wednesday directly challenged remarks made by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) the day earlier, during which the Republican leader came out against reparations arguing that “none of us currently living are responsible” for slavery. “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 […]

Canada's Climate Emergency Declaration Is Just Empty Words
https://earther.gizmodo.com/canadas-climate-emergency-declaration-is-just-empty-wor-1835630454 #climatechange #climatecrisis

We Need to Talk About These Weird “New York Times” Presidential Candidate Interviews

A week out from the first Democratic presidential debates, the New York Times interviewed 21 of the 24 candidates—but not Joe Biden—and asked all of them the same 18 questions. It’s a pretty fun concept, which, if not quite a substantive alternative to a debate, succeeds in illustrating just how weird and boring presidential candidates—and […]

Fatty fish without environmental pollutants protect against type 2 diabetes

If the fatty fish we eat were free of environmental pollutants, it would reduce our risk of developing type 2 diabetes. However, the pollutants in the fish have the opposite effect and appears to eliminate the protective effect from fatty fish intake. This has been shown by researchers using innovative methods that could be used to address several questions about food and health in future studies.

As we approach the release of the Librem 5 smartphone (Q3 of 2019), we're going to take a look at 1 application (or game, or feature) running on the Librem 5 Development Kit every single day.

Starting with something fun:

Day 1 - AisleRiot Solitaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFRbOvZvxM

Census Case Could Cement John Roberts’ Legacy of Upholding White Power

In 1997, Duane Buck, a 34-year-old African American man, was convicted of double murder in Texas. At the trial, a court-appointed psychologist called as a witness by Buck’s lawyer testified that Buck was more likely to commit future violent crimes because he was black. “Race. Black: Increased probability,” the expert report said. Influenced by this […]

The Los Angeles County DA Has Put 22 People on Death Row. Not One of Them Was White.

In Los Angeles County, only people of color have been sentenced to death in the last seven years. In a new report titled “The California Death Penalty Is Discriminatory, Unfair, and Officially Suspended: So Why Does Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey Still Seek to Use It?” the American Civil Liberties Union details how Lacey, […]

Unexpected culprit: Wetlands as source of methane

Wetlands are an important part of the Earth's natural water management system. The complex system of plants, soil, and aquatic life serves as a reservoir that captures and cleans water. However, as cities have expanded, many wetlands were drained for construction. In addition, many areas of land in the Midwest were drained to increase uses for agriculture to feed a growing world.

Cry Me a Water Feature

Wealthy retirees are having a hard time offloading their mansions.

Degrees of Separation

Free college? Don’t you know you’d be paying for RICH PEOPLE with your taxes?

Yogurt may help to lower pre-cancerous bowel growth risk in men

Eating two or more weekly servings of yogurt may help to lower the risk of developing the abnormal growths (adenomas) which precede the development of bowel cancer -- at least in men -- finds new research.

Massachusetts Can Become a National Leader to Stop Face Surveillance

Massachusetts has a long history of standing up for liberty. Right now, it has the opportunity to become a national leader in fighting invasive government surveillance. Lawmakers need to hear from the people of Massachusetts to say they oppose government use of face surveillance.

Face surveillance poses a threat to our privacy, chills protest in public places, and gives law enforcement unregulated power to undermine due process. The city of Somerville—home of Tufts University—has heard these concerns and is considering a ban on that city’s use of face surveillance. Meanwhile, bills before the Massachusetts General Court would pause the government’s use of face surveillance technology on a statewide basis. This moratorium would remain in place unless the legislature passes measures to regulate these technologies, protect civil liberties, and ensure oversight of face surveillance use.

Face recognition technology has disproportionately high error rates for women and people of color. Making matters worse, law enforcement agencies often rely on images pulled from mugshot databases—which exacerbates historical biases born of unfair policing in Black and Latinx neighborhoods. If such systems are incorporated into street lights or other forms of surveillance cameras, people in these communities may be unfairly targeted simply because they appeared in another database or were subject to discriminatory policing in the past.

Last month, San Francisco became the first city in the country to ban government use of face surveillance, showing it is possible for us to take back our privacy in public places. Oakland is now examining a similar proposal. Somerville is the first community on the East Coast to consider a ban.

The people of Somerville, with support from Ward 3 Council Member Ben Ewen-Campen, have a chance now to stand against government use of face surveillance and proclaim that they do not want it in their community. Speak up to protect your privacy rights, and demand that the Somerville City Council pass Councilor Ewen-Campen’s ordinance banning government use of face surveillance in Somerville.

TAKE ACTION

Support Somerville’s ban on face surveillance

If you are in the Somerville area and would like to speak at the city’s legislative affairs council meeting, please contact organizing@eff.org.

The Somerville City Council has also endorsed a pair of bills in the state legislature that would press pause on the use of face surveillance throughout Massachusetts. Specifically, Massachusetts bills S.1385 and H.1538 would place a moratorium on government use of face surveillance.

If you are in the Somerville area and would like to speak at the city’s legislative affairs council meeting, please contact organizing@eff.org.

The Somerville City Council has also endorsed a pair of bills in the state legislature that would press pause on the use of face surveillance throughout Massachusetts. Specifically, Massachusetts bills S.1385 and H.1538 would place a moratorium on government use of face surveillance.

TAKE ACTION

Tell your legislators to press the pause button on face surveillance

Polling from the ACLU of Massachusetts has found that 91 percent of likely voters in the state support government regulation of face recognition surveillance and other biometric tracking. More than three-quarters, 79 percent, support a statewide moratorium.

Governments should immediately stop use of face surveillance in our communities, given what researchers at MIT’s Media Lab and others have said about its high error rates—particularly for women and people of color. But even if manufacturers someday mitigate these risks, government use of face recognition technology will threaten safety and privacy, amplify discrimination in our criminal justice system, and chill of every resident’s free speech.

Support bans in your own communities and tell lawmakers it’s time to hit the pause button on face surveillance across the country.