Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Recently released UNCTAD Trade and Development Report highlights the roles of financial speculation and market power of transnational corprorations in the current food crisis

https://unctad.org/tdr2022

Speculators once again creating problems by speculating on food commodity markets and related financial derivatives

Unsurprising evil

#food @OCRbot

Native Land Digital, an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Canada has created a searchable map of Native territories, languages and treaties.
What Native land are you on? This map shows Indigenous tribes' past territories : NPR https://native-land.ca/

Oh dear - so now we know. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018862153/reports-farmers-set-to-pay-for-emissions-from-2025 Much of Aotearoa NZ's farming industry that we always hear is 'world leading in its efficiency & climate friendliness' is dreading being obliged to bear the real cost of its activities... which, it sounds like, will demonstrate that much of the industry is inherently unsustainable. That means that its historical profit was actually a subsidy from future generations and people in more climate/sea level vulnerable parts of the world.

I have a strong inkling that the massive societal changes we need to make in our (probably in vain) attempt to undo the damage humanity's rapacious appetites have done in the past 200 yrs will (unless you're a massive air traveller or car enthusiast) nonetheless be largely positive, changing our expectations, reducing the load of cognitive dissonance we all carry, and giving many of us a far greater sense of purpose, authenticity, camaraderie, & the ability to appreciate different things.

An excellent article by the late, great David Graeber:

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/manners-deference-and-private-property-or-elements-for-a-general-theory-of-hierarchy/

A nice eviscerating of a recent Fed paper that, in typical fashion, builds a model based on assumptions that are 180° from reality. 1) Banks do not intermediate funds between savers and borrowers -- that's not how banking works. 2) Bankers are trying to enrich themselves, not provide a service to households -- again, that's not how banking works.

https://heisenbergreport.com/2022/10/08/r-and-the-funniest-thing-youll-read-all-week/

For folks interested in the RISCV-V ISA (a new chip architecture that's open source). This is interesting: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=RrVRMFjYti0 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrVRMFjYti0

Then, to ensure people - particularly those working shifts or time-critical roles can get to the polls outside of 'rush hour' crunches... I originally thought of a national holiday on election day. But that's not practical. Instead, I wonder if nat'l gov't could mandate a "voter priority" day, in which employers would be obliged to allow staff to coordinate voting to ensure business continuity is maintained but each voter can get to the polls without employer pressure not to. Thoughts? 2/2

- Make voting for local elections a proper election day event and not only a mail vote.
- Abandon the public and free-for-all-to-dig-through electoral rolls and also stop abusing that information for other stuff like jury duty.

2/

- Force candidates to stop the "independent but party-backed" approach, that's simply dishonest.
- Make it mandatory for all politicians to declare all their commercial & financial interests, incl. trusts.
- Stop practice of retired MPs etc. being gifted a mayoralty.

3/3

We want more people to vote in local government and general elections? Using some shady, unsecured half-arse online voting setup won't be the solution.

- Start with political and civil education in NZs school system.
- Lower the voting age and get people involved early.

1/

Every online voting system I'm aware of has failed to stand up to scrutiny by teams led by folk like Vanessa Teague and Alex Haldeman (see http://thefightback.org/2010/10/haldermans-hackers-how-safe-is-online-voting/). It seems that good devs, in general, won't touch the problem, realising how pointlessly fraught it is. As a result, online voting systems are an object less in "the Dunning Kruger Effect"...

@lightweight I believe that in the small social spheres our brains are good at, most people are decent, caring and hard to con. But when we have to operate in larger spheres, we necessarily fall back on us-versus-them narratives. We then become vulnerable to manipulation. We can’t rewire our brains, but there are a few things we can do to work with what we have. 1/n

Has any other #Gitea administrator experienced a spike of spam accounts in the past 24h?

Common patterns:

1. All the spam accounts have a @gmail.com account, usually with somename12345 as a username template.
2. They all have their email address verified, but never signed in, nor have any other activities on the website.
3. They all include some spam links in their description.

I don't want to implement reCAPTCHA on the platypush.tech instance because I care both about accessibility and having a true tracking-free environment, but manually inspecting hundreds of accounts on weekends instead of dedicating that time to my family is definitely not sustinable.

The other alternative I have in mind (delete accounts if they haven't been verified in 3 days, or if they are verified but they have never logged in within 3 days) may mitigate the problem, but it could also remove legitimate accounts.

I'm open to ideas.

So many personal items, so much taken or destroyed.

Reportedly cops were already going through the RVs they stole and took to the impound lot, so it is highly likely no one gets anything back. Tens of thousands of dollars of tools and priceless personal effects for EACH PERSON at this camp— people had no housing but they had a lot of stuff.