Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Half of #glaciers will be gone by #2100 even under Paris 1.5C accord, study finds | Glaciers | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/05/half-planets-glaciers-gone-2100-even-under-paris-15c-accord-data-finds

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ParisAgreement

Well, this is surprising and terrific.

The Biden administration nominated Gigi Sohn for FCC (she's the architect of net neutrality regulations), but that nomination stalled out in the face of lobby efforts, and it seemed like she was hung out to dry.

Guess they didn't lose interest after all. Hope this time she gets full support to get approved.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/03/gigi-sohns-fcc-future-looking-brighter-as-biden-plans-renomination/

#FCC #TechPolicy #Telecom

Streaming middleman Roku, which wants to replace the cable box in people's homes, is amenable to having an extremist right-wing channel as part of its offering. https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/roku-has-allowed-hundreds-thousands-installations-channel-dedicated-qanon

#extremism #streaming

New research shows that #farmland #bird populations bounce back when farms devote 10% of their land to #nature-friendly measures 🐦 👨‍🌾 💚

Article: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/farmland-bird-populations-bounce-back-when-farms-devote-10-of-their-land-to-nature-friendly-measures/

Research paper:
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14338

grocery store chains: we set record profits this year

retail chains: we've never made so much money

energy companies: we just posted our best quarter on record

news article: who is to blame for inflation? you peasants wanting wages, probably

"A ransomware attack on the Guardian has hobbled the London-based news-organization’s basic operations, shutting down everything from its office wifi to the tills in the staff canteen. The company’s offices will remain closed until at least Jan 23"

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/03/2023/cyberattack-shutters-the-guardians-office-for-a-month

@QasimRashid

"Racism is so bad?! I didn't know!" Is a cop out. It's a crime in two parts. The first part is intentional actions that people take to make sure that they don't know how bad the racism is.

Sometimes it's in 3 parts. Party A makes sure that Party B doesn't know how bad the racism is. Then party B can happily enjoy life while party C is brutalized. That's the whole CRT debate, and the Texas board of education in a nutshell.

Willfull ignorance is not the same as innocence.

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Submission

On the evening of the new year about 10 people held a banner, made noise, shone lazer pointers and set off fireworks in front of the Federal Department of Corrections at 7th and Arch.

People met at a nearby park and walked over together carrying a banner, banging on pots and pans and chanting as they went. Everyone was in bloc and people stayed tight and alert during the demo which lasted about 20-30 minutes. At the prison we were greeted by a heavy police presence of at least three cars. More cops came within 10 minutes of us being there including a few bike cops who followed us for a block or two after we left. Everyone got home safe and no arrests were made.

It seemed like the cops were anxious since there hasn’t been a noise demo at that spot since a particuarly rowdy one two years ago. That demo in 2020 ended with multiple arrests and some people facing heavy charges (all of which have since been cleared I think).

Considering the history, this demo felt like a success. People inside the prison were able to see and hear us and responded by flickering their lights. The police intimidation only reaffirmed how important it is to show up for people on the inside and let them know we’re thinking of them and that they are not alone.

Hopefully more demos happen this year and people are inspired to keep acting in defiance of the police state hellscape we live in. I hope we keep finding each other and keep being creative with new tactics and old ones too.

See you next year!

1312 FREE THEM ALL FIRE TO THE PRISONS ONCE THERE WERE NO PRISONS AND THAT DAY WILL COME AGAIN HAPPY 2023! XOXO

https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/new-years-eve-noise-demo-reportback/

HNY folks, here's a brief update post with our plans for the next months ☀️ https://coopcloud.tech/blog/new-year-status-update #coopcloud #coops

The Year Ahead in Privacy and Your Data https://gizmodo.com/data-privacy-advertising-google-apple-2023-predictions-1849912973 #Privacy #BigTech #Purism #Librem5

The risk that an overbroad list of offenses based on the content of online expression can become cybercrime in the UN Cybercrime Treaty is concerning. EFF will be fighting to ensure the final product excludes them.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/global-cybercrime-and-government-access-user-data-across-borders-2022-year-review

"The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."
- Noam Chomsky #NHS

The tragedy of the commons is a pernicious myth.

The demise of the commons of Britain and Europe wasn't the result of misuse by commoners, but enclosing by the landowners. The original hypothetical was made up for storytelling purposes, and the term was popularized by an ecologist with anti-immigrant and racist views.

Here is my recommended reading for heading into 2023:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth