Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

US life expectancy is dropping fast. Bottom line: We suck in so many ways.

"The panel looked at American life and death in terms of the public health and medical care system, individual behaviors like diet and tobacco use, social factors like poverty and inequality, the physical environment, and public policies and values. 'In every one of those five buckets, we found problems that distinguish the United States from other countries.'

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy

Une photo pour comprendre #SainteSoline hier.

Pendant plus d'une heure, la police s'est gazée toute seule, puisque leurs propres gaz étaient poussés vers eux par vent.

Cela explique la violente charge par derrière de la brigade en quad contre des familles et des élus.

" the only borders that seem to be hardening are the borders between nation-states. Those continue to be hard-wired, patrolled. When they are breached by armies, we call it war. When they are breached by people, we call it a refugee crisis. When they are breached by the unregulated movement of capital, we call it the free market. " Arundhati Roy https://lithub.com/approaching-gridlock-arundhati-roy-on-free-speech-and-failing-democracy

@Di4na I mean the district court’s opinion basically hinges on “there’s no prior case which says this exact set of behaviors is fair use,” which is to be expected because it’s a summary judgment ruling, but then again this was true for all of the cases cited too, before those rulings were made

Deep-sea mining for rare metals will destroy ecosystems, say scientists - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/26/deep-sea-mining-for-rare-metals-will-destroy-ecosystems-say-scientists the next wave of greed and stupidity...

Your #garden should be a multilayer #food #forest, says #RHS horticulturist | #Gardens | The Guardian

There is an odd mindset in certain people in the #UK of gardens being ornaments rather than living environments.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/25/garden-multilayer-forest-biodiverse-tom-massey-rhs

#Horticulture #RoyalHorticulturalSociety #Wildlife #Biodiversity #Plants #Ecology

High concentrations of DDT found across vast swath of California seafloor - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/california-pacific-ocean-ddt-high-concentration humans are just awful

If the US bans TikTok because of its Chinese ownership, what’s stopping future administrations from banning foreign news sites or public media outlets? The government should address privacy concerns with privacy laws, not mass censorship. https://freedom.press/news/unconstitutional-tiktok-ban-would-open-the-door-to-press-censorship/

Fascinating: the "#Mayacene" era might've resulted in the society collapsing due to mercury poisoning https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/09/23/frontiers-environmental-science-maya-cities-polluted-with-ancient-mercury/

Yes, I think TikTok should be banned.

I also think Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, and Reddit should be banned.

Anything that requires surveillance capitalism should be banned.

If Utah's new law is upheld, it marks the end of the open Internet -- a new era of massive spying on, and grossly degraded security for, everyone using what's left of it.

All in the name of protecting children, naturally...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/social-media-law-utah-parent-consent-age-verification-curfew-rcna76178

Yes, the restrictions will be porous -- but watch for new laws banning encryption, including VPNs.

Dog whistle to English dictionary:

Soros - Jews
Coastal elites - Jews
New York values - Jews
Hollywood liberals - Jews
Globalists - Jews
International bankers - Jews
American Jews - Jews who dare question Israel’s government

I hope you enjoyed this week’s Jews Clues

Musk's pal David Sacks is one of the worst of the worst in Silicon Valley. https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/23/small-nonprofit-school/ #pitchforks

How fake news is created. To protect its market share, Facebook has hired a lobbying firm to demonize TikTok.

A company called Targeted Victory pays people to write op-eds in prominent newspapers; and recruits pay-for-play politicians to hype security threat of the “Communist China”.

https://archive.ph/DtU7h

"Yeah, I *do* have a “gender ideology” and that is: it is *ridiculous* that our society has all these rules about gender and I am *opting out*."
https://pervocracy.com/essays/what-ought-a-woman/

The Tracking Pixel Violates #GDPR and the EU Ban on Transatlantic Data Transfers - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/tracking-pixel-violates-gdpr/ the tracking pixel must go #privacy

It's remarkable, and sad, to see a journalist I once respected disintegrate so completely. This, by @mmasnick, will help you understand Taibbi's descent: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/22/matt-taibbi-cant-comprehend-that-there-are-reasons-to-study-propaganda-information-flows-so-he-insists-it-must-be-nefarious/

"n a normal world, the level of just outright nonsense and mistakes in Taibbi’s work would render his credibility completely shot going forward. Instead, he’s become a hero to a certain brand of clueless troll."

#journalism #censorship

It is everyone's duty to recognize that generative AI is creating a flood of new BS, as if we didn't already have enough. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation