nigeldgreen @nigeldgreen@mastodon.org.uk

Solidarity with the young people protesting today. Climate change is a really difficult problem, because it's not just a matter of replacing politician A with politician B. To do anything about global warming will require a change in the entire system of globalized economics and how people relate to nature.

In the past there have been ideas like "cap and trade" and highly personalized obsessions with managing your "carbon footprint", but none of that worked because it didn't address the underlying issues.

No amount of celebrity photo opportunities or sucking up to old rich people will fix this. The people with the money have already decided that all is lost and have been planning for a doomsday scenario for a long time. They'd rather end it all than end capitalism.
climate_strike_london.jpg

RT @gretathunberg
Latest update say:
2052 places in 123 countries on all continents, including Antarctica.
So, the question is:
What will you do on March 15 2019? https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/events/list 
#schoolstrike4climate #FridaysForFurture #climatestrike #WhateverItTakes
(picture from Sydney today)

Don't try to use FLOSS Weekly to market your parasitic proprietary offering or this will happen to you too (around 40 mins in)

https://youtu.be/uComi1-8drM

On Zuckerberg’s “privacy” announcement yesterday, I’ve only found one article in my RSS feed this morning worth reading… 🔥

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/mark-zuckerberg-discovers-privacy/

Gotta love this: if you use a password that registers as “very strong” on this site’s password strength meter (apparently 21 characters or more), you fail password length validation when you submit the form (max 20 characters). 🤦‍♂️

What the hell? I bought an e-book on Kobo.com last week and today I received an e-mail from Amazon.com for the first time in nearly a year, recommending me two books from the same author.

I am reading a series of philosophy lectures given 100 years ago. The lecturer complains that all young student were creating their own systems to be a groundbreaking philosopher. The obsession with originality made them not understand the major philosophers from the past.

The similarities with modern software developers is striking.

HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points, If we make it so that you have to understand programming to even start, then we take something open and enabling, and place it back in the hands of those who are already privileged. 💯 true. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2019/01/30/html-css-and-our-vanishing-industry-entry-points/

Oh sure, when a million dollar company puts files on my computers that track my activity its 'cookies' and 'business', but when I put files on their computers that extract information its 'hacking' and 'illegal' #computing #internet #privacy #bigdata #doublestandards

replying #notAllMen when dudes post about liking sports or cars or whatever dudes like

Norwegian counterpoint:
"She noted the moose statue in Norway is more of "bling moose," whereas Mac the Moose is a simple replica of the real animal.

She said if Moose Jaw makes an effort, they could beat out Norway's moose for the record."

(Knuckle tats: BLNG MÜ$E)

Just a note that Mastodon isn’t crumbling and @Gargron takes more shit for having made something good for the right reasons than anyone else I know.

From Linux Magazine, Feb 2019

#SurveillanceCapitalism