Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Ouarzazate Solar Power Station(by Noor Solar Power).

Covers 2500 hectares (the size of 3,500 football fields) making it the world's largest concentrated power plant. located in the #Sahara desert in #Morocco.

Powers over 500,000 homes.

CBP wants to create a facial recognition database of every non-US citizen traveler to the United States - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/cbp-wants-to-create-a-facial-recognition-database-of-every-non-us-citizen-traveler-to-the-united-states/

Apple is sued in EU over iPhones that wear out too quickly - BNN Bloomberg
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/apple-faces-eu-lawsuits-over-iphones-that-wear-out-too-quickly-1.1530577 #apple #bigtech #purism #librem5

Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/2/22047383/google-spied-workers-before-firing-labor-complaint

Congratulations to all the Slack employees who will learn that their new boss thinks the Hawai'ian word "Ohana" means "at-will employment."

Online event, Dec. 9th

Returning to the Land: BIPOC in Conversation About Community and Self-Determination

https://www.ic.org/event/bipoc/

How stable is the Antarctic ice sheet?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201130113559.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

International lawyers draft plan to criminalise #ecosystem #destruction | #InternationalCriminalJustice | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/30/international-lawyers-draft-plan-to-criminalise-ecosystem-destruction

#Nature #Wildlife #Conservation #Law #Justice

RISC-V, the Linux of the chip world, is starting to produce technological breakthroughs | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/risc-v-the-linux-of-the-chip-world-is-starting-to-produce-technological-breakthroughs/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

Any idea how many elected union officials (like shop stewards) are there in the US?

Tried to google but couldn't find info.

On Monday 11/30, the Supreme Court will hear argument about whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act criminalizes minor terms of service violations. Read EFF's brief on behalf of security researchers, whose important work is threatened by the CFAA https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-supreme-court-rule-violating-terms-service-isnt-crime-under-cfaa

The 2000-watt society:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society

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I love it!

No Google-Fitbit merger without human rights remedies, says Amnesty to EU – TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/27/no-google-fitbit-merger-without-human-rights-remedies-says-amnesty-to-eu/?guccounter=1

Microsoft productivity score feature criticised as workplace surveillance | Microsoft | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/26/microsoft-productivity-score-feature-criticised-workplace-surveillance