Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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.
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#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

I always wanted a simple way to do measurements on the #librem5 with a voltmeter or scope while still having most of the hardware like #wifi attached and being able to swap components quickly. Today i got an idea and it works fairly well. I can even flip the whole thing around fairly quickly to measure on the other side and put the whole thing away to free space on the desk:

From afronerdism.tumblr.com : A meaningful critique on referring to american white supremacists as nazis.

@lazarski

The important caveat to the headline about police being more likely to react violently to left wing protests is that ACLED has only been collecting U.S. data for about one year, so a more accurate headline would probably be "Police Three times as likely to use force against Black Lives Matter protesters than anti-lockdown and pro-Trump protesters."

So it's not clear how much of this is left-right prejudice by the police vs. racist prejudice by the police.

Given the history of the policing (https://worxintheory.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/origins-of-the-police/), it would not be *at all* surprising if the police are indeed also much more likely to respond violently to workers protests, peace protests, etc., but the ACLED data don't quantify the answer to this question.

This isn't really 2021, is it? Feels like we've just discovered the 13th month of 2020.

Earth to reach temperature tipping point in next 20 to 30 years, new study finds
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210113144456.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate