Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#England and #Wales now minority Christian countries, census reveals | #Census | The Guardian

The trend towards ditching ridiculous beliefs as a basis for morality continues.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/leicester-and-birmingham-are-uk-first-minority-majority-cities-census-reveals

#UK #Demographics

We urgently need Congress to act to #ReinInBigTech, but #KOSA is not the bill. This legislation would make vulnerable kids less safe and could be weaponized against the #LGBTQ community. Congress should focus on #antitrust and #privacy instead. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/kids-online-safety-act-may-harm-minors-civil-society-groups-warn.html

London’s ultra-low emission zone will be expanded across the entire capital from next August, a move that the mayor said would bring cleaner air to 5 million more residents.

Drivers of older, polluting cars will have to pay £12.50 a day to use their vehicle across Greater London from 29 August 2023. #London #UK #cities #urbanism #transportation #climatecrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/25/ulez-to-be-expanded-across-whole-of-greater-london-from-august

Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) and life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries. The lines represent averages.

One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher health spending and below-average life expectancy.

Source: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/ae3016b9-en&_csp_=ca413da5d44587bc56446341952c275e&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book

Chapter 3 of "Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy" by @luisrazeto (transl. by @Matt_Noyes) is hot off the presses! #Coops #SolidarityEconomy #Economics

https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-enterprise-and-market-economy-chapter-3

Would the protests in China be illegal in the UK after the Police and Crime Bill have passed? If they were committing any public order offences then under the Online Safety Bill platforms would be legally required to censor that content. That should scare you deeply https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-bill-will-the-upload-filter-ban-images-of-protest/

In his new Netflix “documentary” #AncientApocalypse, Graham Hancock has declared war on archaeologists

His rhetoric sows distrust in experts, and #Atlantis conspiracy theories promote white supremacy

Buckle up, it’s time for a full-throated #ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD 🧵
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End #copyright because ‘law for the rich keeps creators poor’, says author Glyn Moody - https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/end-copyright-because-law-for-the-rich-keeps-creators-poor-9286409/ free #ebook versions of #WalledCulture here: https://walledculture.org/the-book/

#NHS #Solidarity #OurNHS
Purely on the basis of self-interest, you should want your nurse to be well-fed, rested, and not distracted by worrying about how to pay their bills while they make life-or-death decisions about your care.

They are fighting to give you better care, idiots.
#EnoughIsEnough

I think it's important for Fedizens - denizens of the Fediverse - to be aware of the Paradox of Tolerance (particularly those doing moderation!) with the goal of exercising enlightened behaviours within your 'corner' of the Fediverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Dear #drummers of Mastodon, I've done it. We now have our own space in the #Fediverse !

Come and join https://drumstodon.net ...

Let's build up our own community with all things #drums , #drumming and #music !

(All musicians are truly welcome.)

Please boost for reach. Thanks!

#drummer #cymbals #percussion #musician

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.

@peopletrees @raph

And keep in mind that the term "redistribution" also invokes unhelpful ideas. Low- and middle- income people in wealthy countries who know that their income is above the international average hear "redistribution" and try to imagine how they could possibly make do with even less.

@mkwadee Hi, Khurram, can I persuade you to give our family's "home-cooked" word game a go? Would be interested to know what you think. Please share if you like it! https://foximax.com

@peopletrees @raph

I agree that "degrowth" is a charged term. However, I also dislike "Steady State Economics" because I don't like the implication that where we are is good. For me, an important part of what degrowth means is looking for ways in which scaling things back would *improve* human well-being.

For example, channeling resources away from growth and toward safety nets would mean that currently overworked laborers could have more time for self-care, creativity, and caring for others.

Chill Sunday stream with some more #Perl and #GTK

https://twitch.tv/ebassi

There seems to be a lot of confusion as to what #degrowth is, so a very quick overview, because it may be the most important economic idea of this century.

Degrowth is not about giving up technology and comfort. It does not aim at getting rid of cars, computers, AC, internet, electricity, etc. Degrowth is based on the idea that in a world of finite resources, it is delusional to think that we can grow our economies infinitely.

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(blog version of this thread here: https://blog.raphmim.com/what-is-degrowth)

Good news if you want to use #GTK with Java: a new introspection-based binding is available at: https://github.com/jwharm/java-gi

Feedback welcome: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-java-bindings-feedback-appreciated/12490