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Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy. A further 40 countries generated at least 50 per cent of their electricity from renewable sources. #ShareGoodNewsToo https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html

You go, girl.
#IReadBannedBooks

We talked with McKenzie Jones about Tribeworks and The Worker Place.
#Coops #WorkerCoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ORxt6v8JWM

Alaska joins California, Hawaii, and Vermont in finding warrant aerial surveillance unconstitutional https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/alaska-supreme-court-takes-aerial-surveillances-threat-privacy-seriously-other

If you're wondering what #git forge to host your #opensource code project on, the right answer is probably going to be #forgejo. If the right answer was anything else, you probably wouldn't be wondering about it.

https://forgejo.org/

Don't want to host it yourself? Then #Codeberg is what you're looking for.

@forgejo @Codeberg

Latest comic on the looting of Red Lobster by private equity

#economy #business #corporations #PrivateEquity #RedLobster #cartoon #comic

Today in Labor History May 31, 1889: The infamous Johnstown Flood. 2,209 people died when a dam holding back a private resort lake burst upstream from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was the deadliest U.S. disaster to date. Bodies were found as far away as Cincinnati. It caused $17 million of damage (about $490 million in 2020 dollars).

Wealthy industrialists, like Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick owned and patronized the resort. (Carnegie also owned Homestead Steel, and Frick was the manager in charge of the butchering of striking workers that occurred there in 1892). They had built cottages and a clubhouse and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, an exclusive and private mountain retreat. They had also lowered the dam to build a road across it and installed a fish screen in the spillway that tended to trap debris. Investigators believe these alterations contributed to the disaster. Yet none of the members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were found guilty of any crimes. Furthermore, survivors repeatedly lost court cases in their attempts to recover damages due to the club members’ wealth and expensive legal team. However, public outrage did prompt changes in American law leading to one of strict liability in future cases.

The flood has been depicted repeatedly in American culture. Bruce Springsteen references it in “Highway Patrolman.” Rudyard Kipling talked about it in his novel “Captains Courageous.” The Paul Newman film, “Slapshot” takes place in Johnstown. It is also referenced in episodes of Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and dozens of other poems, songs, plays, novels, and works of nonfiction.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Johnstown #flood #disaster #classwar #liability #novel #books #fiction #poem #poetry #writer #author #homestead #strike #union #massacre

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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