The organization that sets fishing rules for a swath of the Pacific Ocean covering nearly 20% of Earth’s surface and supplying half the world’s tuna catch held its annual meeting in Fiji from Nov. 28 to Dec. 3.
Parties to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) adopted a landmark crew welfare measure — the first binding labor rights measure adopted by any of the world’s 17 regional fisheries management organizations.
By Edward Carver
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/first-of-its-kind-crew-welfare-measure-adopted-at-pacific-fisheries-summit/
This is your regular reminder that data brokers, especially Fog Data Sciences, which sells location data from cell phones to cops, must be destroyed: https://www.404media.co/location-data-firm-offers-to-help-cops-track-targets-via-doctor-visits/
Unsurprising that police tip rewards are in fact a scam that require jumping through all manner of hoops to collect. All the more reason to not snitch.
⚠️“The state of the Arctic: High temperatures, melting ice, fires and unprecedented emissions
The Arctic tundra has switched from a carbon sink to a source of emissions, according to a NOAA report.” #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/arctic-ice-melting-high-temperatures-fires-emissions-rcna183464 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/arctic-ice-melting-high-temperatures-fires-emissions-rcna183464?cid=mob_npd_nn_ios_mar
I guess what I'm saying the value is here, is that most of society is a grab bag of incoherent positions based on received wisdom. When you organize in situ you're forced to contend with that. You don't typically have the option of just cutting ties or of allowing the position to stand, so you end up having to untangle it with real people instead of just in the abstract.
We live under a racist neoliberal hegemony, so it's important not to discard people just because some of that sunk in.
Bad news for all the Pokemon Go players out there...and probably the rest of us too 😕
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVmZy95vMUc
The Toxic Avenger #3 hits comic shops tomorrow. This early review is raving about how it is coming together, with a new character pulled from franchise deep freeze and major revelation about where this story is actually headed.
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/10/the-toxic-avenger-3-review/
222666 is your lucky number: It marks issues in #Forgejo that allow you to help improve the software and thus #Codeberg.
If you are interested in picking up a task, I'm happy to help and mentor where I can. Let me know if you prefer #coworking or at least a code reading session via screenshare.
Monk abused children for decades on Welsh island ‘in plain sight’, review says - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/09/monk-abused-children-for-decades-on-welsh-island-in-plain-sight-review-says "A headteacher raised the girl’s ordeal but the abbot asked the head not to report the matter to the police" oh, look: another one #religion
When asked to vote on who was the country's single "greatest" citizen, Canadians didn't say Wayne Gretzky or some celebrity or even some prime minister - they gave the award to the guy who led the battle for universal single-payer health care. https://buff.ly/3VTTZIb
‘A Valuable And Generous Ally’: How Exxon and Atlas Network Worked to Block Global Climate Action - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/12/09/a-valuable-and-generous-ally-how-exxon-and-atlas-network-worked-to-block-global-climate-action/
I am disproportionately sad that the new oven has a clock on it. Don't get me wrong, as an oven it is a huge improvement over the old oven. But, I liked having a kitchen with zero always on displays. *glares suspiciously at the 7-segment VFD*
Achieving #DigitalSovereignty is a no-brainer for every country that isn't the US (it's too late for them, plus they're the home of the worst digital colonists).
https://ostechnix.com/german-state-schleswig-holstein-migrates-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/
Eviscerati Theater Presents: new audiobook podcast!
The Points Between, Episode Four: "The Tower"
🚨 Syria: Erasing an Inconvenient Revolution 🚨
After starting in 2011 the Syrian Revolution fell into an all-out civil war.
Read a comic focusing on aspects lost & erased from the discussion of the Syrian revolution like the local councils, Omar Aziz & the Douma 4: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolution-in-every-country-episode-1-syria-erasing-an-inconvenient-revolution/
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa