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Corporate Crap That Doesn’t Kill Bernie Just Makes Him Stronger

            On January 19th the New York Times oddly co-endorsed Senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination. Two days later, the key New Hampshire primary showed Warren down four points. Bernie Sanders’ surge continued. What happened?             To the extent that they ever did, the editorial boards at corporate-owned media outlets […]

Apple's Fancy Browser Privacy Tech May Do More Harm Than Good
https://gizmodo.com/apples-fancy-browser-privacy-tech-may-do-more-harm-than-1841176956 #bigtech #purism #privacy

Maybe These Davos Guys Have Some Good Ideas About Climate Change (They Do Not)
https://earther.gizmodo.com/maybe-these-davos-guys-have-some-good-ideas-about-clima-1841181110 #climatechange #climatecrisis

What if a single parking ticket carried a fine of up to a year's salary? What if there were no way to know consistently how much the fine would be before you got it? Something very close to this scenario is a reality in copyright law. #CopyrightWeek https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/key-fixing-copyright-ending-massive-unpredictable-damages-awards

R.I.P. James Thindwa, Friend and Comrade

If you lived in Chicago over the last two decades and came anywhere near labor circles — or just about any struggle for social justice at all — chances are you met James Thindwa, who passed this month after a long illness. And if you were a senior fighting for decent living conditions, a striking worker needing support, or a charter school teacher needing a union anywhere in the United States, you benefited from James’s hard work.

It's happening. People are becoming aware of the #privacy implications of services around them and are voting with their feet.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/23/23andme-lays-off-100-people-ceo-anne-wojcicki-explains-why.html

This is so fucking stupid...

https://news.softpedia.com/news/germany-to-pay-microsoft-nearly-900-000-to-secure-outdated-windows-528945.shtml

In a world where everything must be "connected", this means ever more eWaste (and wasted developer time) when companies inevitably pull the plug. Since the software and protocols are proprietary, customers can't revive them or switch services.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/smart-scale-goes-dumb-as-under-armour-pulls-the-plug-on-connected-tech/

Carbon Dioxide Reached a New High in Humanity's Existence
https://earther.gizmodo.com/carbon-dioxide-reached-a-new-high-in-humanitys-existenc-1841175734 #climatechange #climatecrisis

Make big #polluters pay for mass #tree #planting, officials say | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/23/make-big-polluters-pay-for-mass-tree-planting-officials-say

#UK #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGases #Pollution #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Yup, as excellent #FOSS options like NextCloud + OnlyOffice emerge, it's increasingly unpalatable handing profit-motivated monopolies (with a decades of predatory tactics and lock-in user exploitation) *full* control of your biz's, org's, customers', or *your country's* data. Ditch MSO 365 & Google Docs.

My man lands the coveted Archer endorsement
@Bernie2020 #Bernie2020
https://youtu.be/iHzQ39n2dtw

A federal law will chill online platforms from hosting constitutionally protected speech about immigration.

Along with @immigrantsrise, @internetarchive, and @daphnehk, we're asking the Supreme Court to strike it down. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/eff-supreme-court-criminal-immigration-statute-threatens-free-speech-online

Sea level rise could reshape the United States, trigger migration inland

A new study uses machine learning to project migration patterns resulting from sea-level rise. Researchers found the impact of rising oceans will ripple across the country, beyond coastal areas at risk of flooding, as affected people move inland. Popular relocation choices will include land-locked cities such as Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Denver and Las Vegas. The model also predicts suburban and rural areas in the Midwest will experience disproportionately large influx of people relative to their smaller local populations.

Americans perceive likelihood of nuclear weapons risk as 50/50 toss-up

It has been 30 years since the end of the Cold War, yet on average, Americans still perceive that the odds of a nuclear weapon detonating on U.S. soil is as likely as a coin toss, according to new research.

A heart-healthy protein from bran of cereal crop

Foxtail millet is an annual grass grown widely as a cereal crop in parts of India, China and Southeast Asia. Milling the grain removes the hard outer layer, or bran, from the rest of the seed. Now, researchers have identified a protein in this bran that can help stave off atherosclerosis in mice genetically prone to the disease.

#TerryJones #obituary | #Culture | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jan/22/terry-jones-obituary

#MPFC

Climate change could unlock new microbes and increase heat-related deaths

Scientists warn that global climate change is likely to unlock dangerous new microbes, as well as threaten humans' ability to regulate body temperature.