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GPS Jammers are being used to hijack trucks and down drones

https://www.zdnet.com/article/criminals-are-using-gps-jammers-to-hijack-trucks-and-down-drones/

Realization: the main utility of blockchain tech is that it presents an irrefutable argument for a wealth tax. If there’s enough bored money rattling around out there to fund obviously negative-sum nonsense like this, we can as a society choose to spend that money on public education, health care and clean running water instead.

A part of a new blog article I am writing about open source and the cooperative movement.

Let me know if you have some thoughts or links relevant about the topic!

Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims | #ClimateCrisis | The Guardian

This has been know for decades.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/17/oil-companies-exxonmobil-chevron-shell-bp-climate-crisis

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Politics #US #FossilFuel

The Democratic Party has got to be one of the most ironically named political organizations in history.

https://theintercept.com/2022/09/14/dnc-overrule-convention-bylaws/

Decolonization begins at home.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/decolonizing-mind

This makes me very angry: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/474816/potentially-a-billion-dollars-to-clean-up-tiwai-point another example foreign corporations running roughshod over foreign lands and regulation and not taking responsibility for the horrible mess they've created.

I will be livid if either a single cent of taxpayer money is spent to clean this up completely - it's on Rio Tinto, as majority owner and majority profiteer, or if they get away with anything less than a complete clean up.

Daybreak is a cooperative board game about stopping climate change. Can you and your friends build a sustainable future where everyone can thrive as well as survive? https://bit.ly/daybreakgame

Are you working at the intersection of #OpenSource and open standards in the EU? Apply for a grant for your work now! https://www.standict.eu/standicteu-2023-8th-open-call

Chapter 1 of Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy by @luisrazeto (transl. by @Matt_Noyes) is up now on GEO! #cooperatives #economics #SolidarityEconomy

https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-enterprise-and-market-economy-chapter-1

Australia elected a Labor PM in 1972 and briefly became independent, abolishing royal patronage and expressing solidarity with non-aligned countries.

Then MI6, the CIA, Nixon and the queen used "coupmasters" who previously worked on the coup against Indonesia's anti-colonial president Sukarno AND Chile's socialist leader Salvador Allende to trigger a "constitutional crisis" in Australia and simply fired the PM using "reserve powers."

They're figureheads until they're not

Many people from Commonwealth nations don’t view the monarchy or a particular monarch the way I do. I think we were encouraged to think of her as a benign ruler with little real power. But she acted powerfully behind the scenes, e.g. in the removal of a democratically elected prime minister here in the ‘70s. Even if we assume she was a benign ruler, the system (not this one individual) highlights the lack of democracy and the extreme inequality inherent in a hereditary, unelected head of state.

After having a frustrating conversation with a friend about how the Internet has turned from an exciting new technology to something saddening that's endlessly abused capitalism, I decided to contribute my tiny share to make alternative digital spaces possible.

This is how datenkommune.org came to be. It's a public access computer system, powered by OpenBSD and with a focus on a positive computing experience and driven by a desire to learn, cooperate and enjoy technology without any commercial motives or the dystopian intrusion of surveillance capitalism.

I eventually plan on writing down more what the philosophy behind it is, and what differentiates the project from (e.g.) the Tildeverse (which it is partially inspired by), but for now you can read about it at https://datenkommune.org/philosophy.html.

If you're interested in more details and in gaining access, look no further: https://datenkommune.org/service.html

Everything is still in its infancy, but it should be ready for a first couple of users. So if you're interested .. I'd be happy to see you around. Feel free to spread the word. :)

(For some tag-based reach: #openbsd, #privacy, #shell, #community, #fediverse)