Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

‘No miracles needed’: Prof Mark Jacobson on how wind, sun and water can power the world - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/23/no-miracles-needed-prof-mark-jacobson-on-how-wind-sun-and-water-can-power-the-world hopeful and necessary: we must act fast to address the growing #ClimateCrisis - this is how we do it... #renewables

Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h

Can the NY Times do the "both sides" routine any more absurdly than this, regarding the Republicans' stated intention to sabotage the U.S. and global economies?

The Times' political coverage is consistent journalistic malpractice. It is not going to improve, and that's the saddest part of all.

BREAKING -- We have obtained a quote from the keynote speech at the World Economic Forum being held at Davos.

#ClimateCrisis #Collapse #AntiCapitalism

Vigils, rallies, and banner drops in solidarity with the fight to #StopCopCity in #Atlanta are spreading in the wake of the brutal murder of a 26 year old forest defender at the hands of he police yesterday. Check out roundup here:

https://itsgoingdown.org/rallies-spread-after-murder-cop-city/

We call on all people of good conscience to stand in solidarity with the movement to #stopcopcity and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta. @defendatlforest@twitter.com @ATLSolFund@twitter.com #defendatlforest

Appalling: A school district near me takes down rainbows because their braindead lawyer said they would open the district to "appropriate criticism." No, the criticism is that you are bigots teaching our children. For shame!
Rainbow signs to be replaced in N.J. middle school https://www.nj.com/education/2023/01/rainbow-signs-to-be-replaced-in-nj-middle-school.html

Anybody familiar with this organization? #cooperatives
https://www.cooperacionsantaana.org/

Can a single right wing activist judge block the sale of abortion pills nationwide? Apparently so. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-judge-matthew-kacsmaryk-ban-abortion-pill-1234658423/

Well, this is what it's come to people. This is the place our genius political leaders have brought us to - seriously asking where the safest place to be is during a nuclear strike. (The real answer, of course, is in some other timeline where the dumbest, most venial and malicious assholes don't get to make all the important decisions).

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3vjx/scientists-surviving-nuclear-explosion-in-house

ProPublica used Blacklight (https://themarkup.org/blacklight) to show that nine online abortion pill providers are sharing sensitive data with Google: https://www.propublica.org/article/websites-selling-abortion-pills-share-sensitive-data-with-google

The off-the-shelf e-commerce tools aren't built for privacy, and patients face new legal risks since overturn of Roe v Wade.

In July, Dara Kerr and I found online abortion pill provider Hey Jane sending visitor data to Meta, Google and others (now stopped), and found a reviewer's personal information: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/07/01/online-abortion-pill-provider-hey-jane-used-tracking-tools-that-sent-visitor-data-to-meta-google-and-others

So #Apple is scanning your local files on #macOS without consent according to Jeffrey Paul ( @sneak ) https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/

Again folks, #Linux is the only way to go to be truly private and piece of mind.

I've been using NextCloud for years now (previously used OwnCloud, too)... but it's never been quite up to replacing the proprietary heavy hitters... but it's got a LOT better: https://tilvids.com/w/5219e88d-7de8-4dc8-97ca-e370744a05f5 Also, the "heavy hitters" have gotten a lot worse - the implications of having ALL your data in the hands of Apple, Microsoft, or Google should now be clear - and damning - to most people. The confluence of those things means people should jump to #FOSS and reclaim data sovereignty.

RT @froomkin
Good grief! These articles treat hitting the debt limit as something normal, when it’s a completely engineered crisis created by crazed Republicans https://apnews.com/article/biden-us-department-of-the-treasury-united-states-government-janet-yellen-business-6fe9b54dcdfea58bead0f4c5f9f89a64

Minneapolis police began shutting down roads at 5:30am.

Word around camp confirms Metro Transit is shutting down light rail at 9:00.

Intergovernmental cooperation at its finest. They can't coordinate to provide housing, but they sure can pull it together for an eviction.

One last-minute community outreach worker only offering useless temporary, night-to-night shelters.

These mf'ers are so dumb it makes my head hurt.

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