Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

They don't want homeless people concentrating, forming communities, and establishing themselves in one area, because that starts looking less like isolated "bums" and more like a capitalist refugee camp.

This is some serious cyberpunk dystopia shit, where poor people live below ground and the rich up high.

Israel Accused of a “pattern of genocidal conduct” Against the People of #Gaza

People in Orkney will again gather on the steps of St Magnus Cathedral between 1 and 2pm on Saturday 13th of January calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The International Court of Justice has been hearing the case brought by the Republic of South Africa against the state of Israel of committing genocide on the people of Gaza. The South African legal team has told the International Court of…

https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/01/13/israel-accused-of-a-pattern-of-genocidal-conduct-against-the-people-of-gaza/

A Guernica Palestina pode estar sendo pior que a Guerra Civil Espanhola, mas, em ambos casos, a imagem retrata a dor dos sobreviventes e o horror da barbárie.
@palestine

How VPN works

He argued with his brother for days for the biggest pumpkin just to produce this.

free! ebook! from verso!

about the immense, powerful and oppressive surveillance technology built by israel (which gets tested out on Palestinians and then sold to whatever regime also fancies oppressive surveillance and control)

Remember Pegasus? Cellebrite? both exports from Israel's high tech military industrial complex

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2684-the-palestine-laboratory

New parliamentary inquiry: The capability of law enforcement to respond to cybercrime https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Law_Enforcement/LECybercrime47

We’ve wasted a lot of time delaying climate action. As the damage becomes ever clearer, it’s time to accelerate the transition.
https://theconversation.com/net-zero-by-2050-too-late-australia-must-aim-for-2035-213973?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1695273274

#HISTODONS NEW ON THE BLOG
Don’t Mourn, Digitise! Evan Smith on building a list of radical online archives https://sslh.org.uk/2023/09/19/dont-mourn-digitise-building-a-list-of-radical-online-archives/

Torrents of Antarctic meltwater are slowing the currents that drive our vital ocean ‘overturning’ – and threaten its collapse.

Australian scientists warn that the Southern Ocean’s deep “overturning” circulation is slowing and headed for collapse.

This poses real problems for vital currents which circulate nutrients + oxygen.

#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange #Nature #Research #News #science #Australia

https://theconversation.com/torrents-of-antarctic-meltwater-are-slowing-the-currents-that-drive-our-vital-ocean-overturning-and-threaten-its-collapse-202108?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1680131112

Antarctica holds 90 per cent of the world’s ice. Complete melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet would cause a global sea level increase of 3.3 metres

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting. And this is bad news for humanity
https://theconversation.com/the-antarctic-ice-sheet-is-melting-and-this-is-bad-news-for-humanity-200972

Fracking Australia's Beetaloo Basin will result in anywhere from 39 - 117 million tonnes of Co2-e every year (according to federal government Freedom of Information documents). The only way that this development has been allowed to proceed is because the NT government committed to 'offsetting' all the emissions from the production and onshore combustion of Beetaloo gas.

Even if you accept the premise that this is possible according to physics, to date there have only been 124 million carbon offsets generated in Australia in TOTAL since 2012.

This week the Australian Govt's CSIRO released a report suggesting that there will be up to 156 million carbon offsets available EVERY YEAR to the gas industry in the NT - conveniently & comfortably being able to cover all the emissions from the Beetaloo development. The report suggests that 30 million offsets from planting trees will be available every year. To be clear this is the equivalent of planting across 3 million hectares (assuming the land is conducive to optimal growth & trees are not lost by bushfire). 30 million offsets will be available from soil carbon - even though Australian soils are still losing carbon from land conversion & will continue to lose carbon as Aus gets hotter and drier. The report not only assumes dramatic increases in planting trees, it assumes that around 50 million hectares of Australia's rangelands (the 'outback') has lost 95% of its vegetation and can be regenerated as a way to offset emissions.

This is an infuriating interview with @pollyjhemming, Senior Researcher at The Australia Institute. Polly is amazing, but the interview is infuriating because of the outright deceit practiced in the field of Climate Data and Carbon Credits. I kept wanting to stop the interview to scream and throw things. An enlightening, fascinating, and enraging conversation!

"There's so many vested interests now, and the lines between government and industry are so blurred in Australia, that it's really hard to know, even when government is telling you things, the extent to which that is real and what the real story is."

https://adsei.org/podcast/polly-hemming-on-the-ways-climate-data-is-misused/

"The world remained firmly in warming’s grip last year, with extreme summer temperatures in Europe, China and elsewhere contributing to 2022 being the fifth-hottest year on record"

"The eight warmest years on record have now occurred since 2014"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/climate/earth-hottest-years.html

Personally, I wish that the "code red" response that ChatGPT inspired at Google wasn't to launch a dozen AI products that their red teams and AI ethicists have warned them not to release, but to combat the tsunami of AI-generated SEO spam bullshit that's in the process of destroying their core product. Instead, they're blissfully launching new free tools to generate even more of it.