#phosh 0.9.0 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.9.0
Now supports #GNOME's OSD DBus protocol, indicates microphone hardware kill switch state, fixes around the overview including long-swipes. Requires libhandy >= 1.1.90
Movie Nights on CommunityBridge.com presents- An engaging series of films to spur conversations on our future as a cooperative society,
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Our March Series on Rebellion and Cooperatives starts
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Third-party cookies are dying, and Google wants to perpetuate targeted ads with new “privacy-preserving” technology. But its FLoC proposal creates new privacy issues, and could exacerbate problems with discrimination and exploitation.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/03/us-militia-membership-military-police-american-patriot-three-percenter-website-leak
The climate crisis can't be solved by carbon accounting tricks https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/03/climate-crisis-carbon-accounting-tricks-big-finance
Pretty messed up that a mom had to have this conversation w/ their 7-yr-old: "Every time you ride your bike down this block, there are probably 50 cameras that watch you going past. If you make a bad choice, those cameras will catch you." #privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/02/ring-camera-fears/
The Fate and Future of American Democracy Hangs On the Minimum Wage https://medium.com/the-shadow/the-fate-and-future-of-american-democracy-hangs-on-the-minimum-wage-a6e1ab67ebea
Encourage your favourite tech pundits to be brave. Most aren't speaking out like Bernard Hickey here: https://thekaka.substack.com/p/dawn-chorus-reclaiming-our-information because the strangle-hold that the Frightful Five have over our media in NZ means that those pundits (usually contractors) can't afford to piss them off or be seen as "too controversial" by their Frightful Five-partner or otherwise totally dependent customers. We need to encourage the to do the right thing.
Pollution is so bad in this Chicago neighborhood, people are on hunger strike to stop it https://grist.org/justice/chicago-hunger-strike-scrapyard-pollution-environmental-justice/
Massachusetts' Progressive Lawmakers Push Congress to Abolish Qualified Immunity https://theintercept.com/2021/03/01/qualified-immunity-ayanna-pressley-ed-markey/
Whole Foods was getting in trouble for employee treatment, even before Amazon bought them, now Trader Joe's...Progressive hipsters are facing tough choices these days. #buylocal
Trader Joe’s employee says he was fired for requesting better Covid protections https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/01/trader-joes-employee-fired-covid-protections
Huge iceberg breaks off from shelf in Antarctica – video https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/mar/01/huge-iceberg-breaks-off-from-shelf-in-antarctica-video
This is a dangerous viewpoint. I wouldn't rule out a Trump reelection, especially if Biden drops the ball on enacting progressive policies that help the working class.
Trump has captured the Republican party – and that's great news for Biden https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/28/trump-republican-party-biden-democrats
Didn't they say this in 2016(2015?)?
Republican predicts Trump won’t be party’s presidential nominee in 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/28/trump-republican-party-election-2024
A Texas city had a bold new climate plan – until a gas company got involved https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/01/a-texas-city-had-a-bold-new-climate-plan-until-a-gas-company-got-involved
Got to keep the fire burning, or the neoliberals will fail us again.
Joe Biden says his hands are tied on a 5 minimum wage. That's not true https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/01/joe-biden-minimum-wage-democrats
#FossilFuel #cars make ‘hundreds of times’ more #waste than #ElectricCars | #Automotiveindustry | The Guardian
#EV #ElectricVehicles #GreenhouseGases #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Enviornment #Pollution
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa