Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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The Alitos have a polyamorous relationship with coups and flags. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/05/24/samuel-alitos-freak-flags/

"epistemic trespassing"

In a recent report, three environmental groups called for a shift away from carbon markets and toward “non-market” solutions to deforestation.

The Paris Agreement has a clause calling for such solutions, which the groups said could include financing for Indigenous groups, payment for ecosystem services, and debt relief.

The report criticized carbon markets, saying incentives for brokers and project developers are misaligned with global environmental priorities.

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/non-market-solutions-to-climate-change-need-more-support-advocates-say/

I haven't really made up my mind on this question and this is not a full endorsement, but in case you are puzzled as to why some Palestinians consider recognition of a Palestinian state to be a poisoned chalice, or you weren't even aware that position existed, here is a presentation of the argument:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/instead-recognising-palestine-countries-should-withdraw-recognition-israel

#Palestine

New blog post, about our radical collaborative partnership with Collective Tools https://autonomic.zone/blog/2024/05/autonomic-collective-tools/

#cooperatives #sysadmin

The entire journalism industry adopted the "hush money trial" framing, thereby downplaying Trump's corruption -- financial fraud aimed at tampering with an election -- to something that the Trump cult has used to convince itself that it could all be discounted.

Availability and ubiquity of surveillance technology doesn’t affect whether the government needs a warrant to use them against you, says the Alaska Supreme Court. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/alaska-supreme-court-takes-aerial-surveillances-threat-privacy-seriously-other #drones #surveillance

I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?

#accessibility #foss #linux

Every election is the US is like, "Would you like to take the slow train to Hell, or the fast one?"

by multinational corporations. Nobody repays their IMF loans because the SAPs are the whole point of the exercise to begin with. We say the IMF is there to help struggling countries develop their economies, when in fact its purpose is to assist foreign investors in stripping assets from countries that are having financial difficulties.

Which is all to say that China would have to do A LOT of evil with their loan programs to catch up to what we've been doing since 1944.

https://daily.jstor.org/debt-trap-diplomacy/

dismal repayment rates in my international econ classes? It really screwed me up inside, as I knew there was something not right, but I figure out what...until years later when I heard John Perkins discuss his book 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman.' Then it all made sense. The IMF is simply running a loan sharking operation. The point is for the borrower to default, so the can be forced to sell their national assets & curtail social spending, making their populations ripe for exploitation 2/x

“The city’s ban on facial recognition technology, Chapter 19B, will not apply to SFPD’s use of the new public safety cameras.”
https://sfba.social/@MLNow/112527951080683342

Years ago, when I was an economics student, I wrote a paper on the IMF's structural adjustment programs (SAPs/ESAPs) - i.e. those policies that are forced on countries who fail to make their IMF loan payments on time.

I was baffled to discover that >95% of all IMF borrowers went into default (and so fell victim to SAPs). It made no sense to me - why would any finance person continually create unpayable loans? Were they just really bad at their job? And why didn't anyone ever mention their 1/x

I really don't understand why anyone working in a serious policy realm is talking about direct carbon dioxide removal at all.

Even if you have 100% faith in our ability to sustainably store it indefinitely, the thermodynamics of scrubbing it from the much higher CO2 exhaust from smokestacks is so much more favorable.

My next t-shirt

"Atlanta police have been carrying out around-the-clock surveillance in several neighborhoods for months, on people and houses linked to opposition against the police training center colloquially known as “Cop City”.

The surveillance in Georgia has included following people in cars, blasting sirens outside bedroom windows and shining headlights into houses at night, the Guardian has learned."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/29/atlanta-police-cop-city-surveillance

💥 Against the roll-back of critical environmental regulation in the EU that business interests and conservative politicians are lobbying for.

A coalition of organisations - incl. the Scientists for Future's Interdisciplinary Scientific Panel - have published a letter:

"Expression of Concern by Scientists: Rollback of EU environmental legislation and policies jeopardises the future of EU citizens"

Read the text here: https://zenodo.org/records/11373475
And the press release:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtpsGRY7FpuWAbMY_dPK37Bar5aii4ha_CECBfyQV64

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Many thanks to everyone who boosted my Josh Kraft piece yesterday! I appreciate yoir help countering the official story! If you missed it, check it out! https://brendanhalpin.com/who-is-josh-kraft

#boston #BosPoli #MAPoli

I raised a red flag about this a year or so ago, when I first heard of these a-holes. Here's Yves Smith breaking down why Private Equity all of a sudden getting on board with "employee ownership" is not, in fact, a good thing. When the devil offers you something, be assured it's not for your benefit.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/05/private-equity-seeks-to-foist-companies-it-cant-sell-on-employees.html