Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#EnvironmentAgency chief hits out at #greenwashing by #businesses | #ClimateCrisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/04/environment-agency-chief-hits-out-at-greenwashing-by-businesses-emma-howard-boyd

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Hey @SocialCoop braintrust, anybody know any #coop developers in Kentucky?

My wife was looking at the properties of #ellipses such as the one where the sum of the distance of all points on the #ellipse from the two foci are the same and how that relates to the standard equation of an ellipse. I wrote these notes up neatly using #LaTeX to explain the relationship.

To put it up here, I converted the #PostScript pages to #PNG format using #GNU #Gimp and the figure was produced using #Tgif.

#Mathematics #Geometry #TwoDimensional #PlaneCurve #CartesianCoordinates #CCBYSA

Remember when all the crypto supporters were all like, "it's anonymous, it's outside of state control, fuck the man!" Hilarious.

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/29/crypto-coinbase-tracer-ice/

Remember when all the liberals were so excited that this chucklefuck won the election? Hilarious.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/30/politics/biden-federal-judgeship-kentucky-conservative-anti-abortion-lawyer/index.html

Some impressive green-washing post from @EU_Commission here:
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/108560190093989977

Extremely concerning to see how an official body can promote things that go so obviously in the wrong direction on most indicators.

Would be good if scientists reacted here and on Twitter.

Some details below ⬇️

#greenwashing #environment #transition #science

Opinion: Davos Was a Case Study in How Not to Talk About Climate Change
In emphasizing technological solutions, the elite are sidestepping their own responsibility for the climate crisis. - Jag Bhalla @ Undark: https://undark.org/2022/06/30/davos-was-a-case-study-in-how-not-to-talk-about-climate-change/

#NHS #privatisation associated with increased avoidable deaths, new study in #Lancet finds

https://skwawkbox.org/2022/06/30/nhs-privatisation-associated-with-increased-avoidable-deaths-new-study-in-lancet-finds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nhs-privatisation-associated-with-increased-avoidable-deaths-new-study-in-lancet-finds

#UK #Politics #Tories

Bingo. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=jXf04bhcjbg or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXf04bhcjbg #bigtech #monopolies #disasterous

You probably heard of #OsmAnd, the swiss knife map app that uses #OpenStreetMap data, but do you know that there's a web-based interface, too?

Check out https://osmand.net/map, and plan your trips with routing, and various map rendering options, while doing so in the comfort of your desktop browser.

It even includes weather forecasts, if you're trying to avoid getting wet for your weekend ride.

You don't even need to register for an #OsmAnd, or #OpenStreetMap account to use it.

I remember, years back now, coming across someone arguing with fervor that proprietary software was better than open source software because it was more secure. It was a culture shock to me, because usually I am surrounded by people for whom the benefits of open-source software are self-evident. I got the same feeling today arguing with some folks who genuinely believe that being locked into a proprietary, centralized silo is actually better than having control over your own platform...

New study suggests that space tourism has the potential to not only aggravate global warming at a disproportionate scale, but also to cancel the last decades' recovery of stratospheric ozone.

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-climate-space-tourism-urgent-mitigation.html

As usual, billionaires don't play on the same league, whatever you do, they can do worse (probably 500 times worse with each go, in this case).

Direct paper link is https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002612

#science #space #climateChange #globalWarming #ozone #billionaires
@oneabstractaday

Deceived by Design — 2018 Norwegian Consumer Council reports how Facebook, Google, and Microsoft use “dark patterns” to manipulate users into selecting less-private privacy options.

#ux #digitalprivacy #medialiteracy #socialdilemma

https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf

Time to turn off your fitness trackers, USA-ians. If you've got a uterus and the fitness thing does core body temperature it's a decent predictor of ovulation and pregnancy :(
#privacy

Thawing permafrost is shaping the global climate
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220629121156.htm #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #LeadOnClimate

The day has come! 🚀

We've been working hard on bringing to you a space where you can truly get in touch with the whole Penpot Community as well as the Penpot core team.

We’re launching Penpot Community space on Discourse and we’d love to have you onboard😍!

For us, this is an honest way to build a truly open-source inclusive, accessible and diverse space that makes everyone a contributor to the rest of the community.

Join today!! https://community.penpot.app

#opensource #dev #ux #ui #design

And, according to the interview, it only runs on platforms that lock those people with the disabilities into nasty proprietary software monocultures than, ironically, exist to remove their new-found freedoms from them. Sad. Easing suffering should not be profit driven 2/2