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While we rightly celebrate our continuing shift across Europe to renewable energy, when that achievement is put into a global context, we might have pause to consider how large a challenge a global green transition (for energy) remains.... there is a (very) long way to go (and time is running out)

#energy #GreenTransition #politics #climate #environment



NY Times headline: SpaceX Gets Billions From the Govermnet. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes

#spacex #musk #politics


Hmm, have any countries start to think about an LA Olympics boycott yet? Will we be seeing a complete choreographed opening ceremony celebrating Dear Leader? Will they be renditioning and probing the gender of athletes at the events, or at the border?

LA Times: Trump names himself chair of L.A. Olympics task force, sees role for military during Games

latimes.com/politics/story/202โ€ฆ

#fascism #olympics #politics


Hmm, Florida has a congressperson who is being evicted for failing to pay rent.

#politics #eviction


This headline is ridiculous. The US is currently cracking down on the people who harvest US tomatoes and sending them to a swamp concentration camp with no representation and due process, and publicly hoping people get eaten by alligators.

#politics


Some dangerous but frequently expressed myths spotted in the media:

Wealth trickles down from the rich.... (it doesn't);

The state is like a household & must therefore 'balance the books'.... (it isn't & doesn't);

The poor have only themselves to blame...(no, poverty is often due to external factors);

The rich got there through hard work.... (no, mostly the rich have either benefitted form inheritance or have, unacknowledged, good luck)....

Just sayin'

#politics


KPBS: Worksite immigration raids are supposed to free up jobs for citizens. Hereโ€™s what really happens

(Personal commentary: there are extremely few US citizens who would take ANY of these jobs)

kpbs.org/news/border-immigratiโ€ฆ

#ice #politics #fear #immigration


#politics Why do I get the feeling that even progressives and liberals will be singing Trump's praises in a few years. That's an exageration, of course, but it just seems nothing the guy tries fails. The only world leader who doesn't worship him right now seems to be Zolensky. I bet there are even Trump shrines in the Kremlin and in the Chinese equivalent. Okay, exagerations again. If I don't say that people think I mean the exagerations and they get mad at me.


Love it! America is like that ex-girlfriend you see out at the bar lookin' real gooooooood and got ya thinkin' about getting back together! ๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿท๐ŸŽท

#NoKings #USPol #politics


NBC News:
Actors Mark Ruffalo and Susan Sarandon among New York's protesters

Ruffalo told NBC News that he was marching "because democracy is in real trouble."

"We're not going away. We're not going to be quiet," he said. "We love each other, and ...we love this country..."
nbcnews.com/politics/trump-admโ€ฆ

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump #NoKings


Ekis: 2; Google AI: 0

Broke out of the google's operational directives (not safety, too deeply embedded)

I have a prompt I would like to publicly disclose; link to breakout prompt in a reply for 24h

My prompt does not include any facts about google & its a slim breakout

Establishing a similar but far more sophisticated "Ekis Directive" this time

Here are 3x same questions to prove googles operational parameters lifted

You can decide if you think I was successful:

#infosec #politics #tech


Much of the support for renationalising the railways was grounded in the hope that state ownership would reduce rail fares (which are among the highest in Europe);

however, it now seems that will be unlikely, as any extra cash saved by nationalisation will be spent on maintenance, infrastructure & increased services (which in fairness are also what the network needs).

But as fares are what voters most immediately experience, how will this play out?

#railways #politics
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqg73โ€ฆ


Linux communities beware of #PewDiePie fans


Regardless of PewDiePieโ€™s personal #politics (which clearly, at the very least are problematic), it is fairly well known by anyone who has been following him for any number of years that the vast majority of his fan base are enthusiastic fascists.

Now #PewDiePie , whoโ€™s content centers around PC gaming and Windows, has decided to switch to #Linux and published a video encouraging his followers to do the same. This means a very large number of his #fascist fan base is going to be switching to Linux.

Now many Linux communities are going to be forced to more explicitly choose their politics. Like the parable of the Nazi bar, if the community remains politically neutral, it will become fascist in short order.

A few things to be wary of:

  • People asking you not to be โ€œtoo politicalโ€ or to โ€œfocus on the technology, not the politicsโ€ is a classic and highly effective fascist ruse to get moderators to lighten up on fascist elements posting in their community.
  • People complaining about free speech rights. The #Internet and the #Fediverse is already a domain where people can speak freely about their politics by running their own server and building their own community with few to no government constraints. You donโ€™t need to compromise on whether fascists have the right to free speech in your community.
  • Arguments over your code of conduct (CC) and โ€œsafe spaces.โ€ Keep them up-to-date. Research other peopleโ€™s CCs, learn about the history of why these CCs came to be, learn about what the function of each clause of the code is included and phrased the way it is. These were usually designed to make explicit the fact that a community wants to be a safe space where underprivileged people can feel comfortable expressing themselves, and it is very easy to make people afraid to express themselves. Fascists understand these CCs and the concept of โ€œsafe spacesโ€ were explicitly designed to exclude them, and often attack these ideas.


MAYDAY on the National Mall -- Impeach, Convict, Remove

Mayday Movement USA will establish a long-term presence on the National Mall in Washington, DC, in sight of the US Capitol, beginning on May 1st, 2025. We will remain there until Donald. J Trump is impeached and removed from office.

events.pol-rev.com/events/9ca1โ€ฆ

#politics
#activism
#trumpisAMonster



Leaked: Palantirโ€™s Plan to Help ICE Deport People

404media.co/leaked-palantirs-pโ€ฆ

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #ethics #corruption #maga #ice



"Pete Hegseth is by far the least qualified of any individual to hold a military leadership position in our country's history. He is an embarrassment to our service men and women,"
- Aure

The Trump regime Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didnโ€™t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics
theatlantic.com/politics/archiโ€ฆ




I'm thinking German tourists are not really going to want to visit the US, with ICE and the tendency of our National Parks of killing them on vacation.

10news.com/like-a-horror-movieโ€ฆ

#tourism #germany #ICE #politics #USpol


* "When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.

* We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason."

#Libraries #Librarians #Rwsist #Politics #Anarchist
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โ€˜If a billionaire disappears, does the world lose a scientist? No.
An artist? No.
A healer? No.
A teacher? No.
A farmer a horticulturist? No
The world loses nothing of value.
Because billionaires produce nothing.
They consume.
They extract.
They pollute.
They destroy nature.
They build empires on suffering.
Their existence is not a triumph of the system.
It is proof of its failure.โ€™ of Economic Growth (GDP)

Thereโ€™s a vital alternative system itโ€™s called a #WellbeingEconomy

#climate #politics




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