Maybe after we tear off a mountaintop for strip mining coal we should replace it with garbage. Just make sure the trucks are playing John Denver on the way; "Almost heaven, West Virginia..."
Sorry...just recently drove by some new "mountains" at some central Indiana waste dumps. Always find the sod on the top beautiful as the smell drifts on the wind. /sarcasm
The Free Silicon Conference 2022 is over and most videos are available on:
https:peertube.f-si.org
Watch the keynote speech by Frank Karlitschek founder of #Nextcloud
"Why Open Hardware and Open Software are necessary for our future":
https://peertube.f-si.org/videos/watch/89a2e2d7-537f-443e-8996-eae6daace5c6
@Karlitschek thanks again for your contribution!
"If we remain addicted to wealth, status, influence and self-esteem, we are likely to promote problematic responses to societal breakdown."
Greetings from Russia | Ted Rall's Rallblog
https://rall.com/2022/08/03/greetings-from-russia
Calcium instead of lithium batteries.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220802132953.htm
There's a campaign in the UK to fight soaring fuel bills by refusing to pay them. You can sign up here:
Ah, yes, that wonderful free speech the "anti-woke" obsessed go on about so much, sounds lush ☺
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RT @charleshymas
People who vilify Britain will be treated as extremists and referred to the Government’s deradicalisation Prevent programme under plans by Rishi Sunak. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/08/02/people-extreme-hatred-britain-could-deradicalised-prevent-scheme/
https://twitter.com/charleshymas/status/1554710430366449664
This is very worrying... #ccp #propertybubble and sounds like it's going to be the people who suffer:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=YBBnQmRcRI4 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBBnQmRcRI4
Is Star Trek the ultimate extension of settler colonialism? You have the Prime Directive to prevent this, but oops! Accidently violated it, and the Federation has to send it's missionaries. It happens often enough in the Star Trek universe that one has to wonder if it's not by design. Roddenberry pitching the show with Wagon Train and Horatio Hornblower reinforces the settler aspect.
Maybe "explore strange new worlds" should be cut from the mission and stay in your space become the priority.
I'm glad that articles like this by Tatum Hunter that walk you through how to opt out of cellular carrier tracking exist, but I'm sad they are necessary. This is exactly why we created the AweSIM service. #privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/01/cell-carrier-privacy-settings/
"Christianity has long been a vector distributing destruction in Indian Country" - Red Nation Rising. PM Press. Nick Estes et al.
This statement led me to consider Christianity's role in the cultural genocide of all my ancestors. Nice to see that there has been some studies of the Roman Empire's role in spreading Christianity through violence to my Scottish and Germanic forbears.
Now many can't even fathom living without a yoke.
"Talk - Action = 0" - DOA
#punk
Economists discover that it's good to have connections with rich people...jfc...
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/02/friendships-poor-kids-wealthy-economic-mobility-us-facebook
Watching these geniuses trying to wrap their heads around the basics of our society is like watching a toddler get excited when they figure out how the volume on the TV remote works.
The problem with ESG is not that it's "woke": the problem is that it's greenwashing.
Standardised metrics won't change the fact that if you invest in an ETF that screens out fossil fuel companies, it has zero impact on how profitable polluting is.
https://www.ft.com/content/5222d38e-fcc9-44b8-addf-41e3eebd8695
#World ‘one #miscalculation away from #nuclear #annihilation’, #UN chief says | #NuclearWeapons | The Guardian
In case things weren’t grim enough.
#Bitwarden has a vulnerability regression such that the master password and previously decrypted contents of an open vault can be inspected after locking the vault.
#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