Padraic Harley @pauricthelodger@mastodon.social

Reusable coffee cups are just a drop in the ocean for efforts to save our seas

They are easily marketable strategies to attract 'environmentally-minded' customers though

#pollution #environment #greenwashing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/12/reusable-coffee-cups-are-just-a-drop-in-the-ocean-for-efforts-to-save-our-seas

@neil

So many people (not just megarich but ordinary people saving for pensions on autoenrollment) depend on share growth for retirement income without knowing what they are investing in. Difficult to change a company's behaviour when its owners don't necessarily even know they are the owners.

Financial Times did an article about this crazy situation (may or may not be paywalled, wasn't for me):

https://www.ft.com/content/8fbf7dce-768d-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a

Oh, boy, you know that song, "Allo Hawaii, Allo, Hawaii"?

Well, maybe you're not as ignorant as I am and knew the song is actually called "Aloha 'Oe". But you probably didn't know that the song was composed as a tearful farewell and became a symbol of Hawaii's loss independence when it became a US colony.

“Will you be nice to Facebook and Google at the afternoon sessions?” — organiser to me at #NordicPrivacyArena

(I asked the transport minister of Finland and the Mozilla rep hard questions at their sessions.)

Me: “I don’t think that’s the right question to ask. Would you be nice to Exxon Mobil at an environmental protection conference?”

Dear #Lazyweb, we have a weekly team lunch where someone from our team volunteers to buy lunch for everyone and another volunteer does dishes afterwards.

We'd like to make this volunteering more formal so that everyone does their fair share of the task.

What kind of scheduling tools exist to do this? Something that would allow people trading places and ensure that nobody is doing too little or too much.

I mean sure we'd still have a ton of issues with racism and classism under the rug if Hillary were president now, but damn, at least we probably wouldn't be trying to make trans people illegal and setting up fucking concentration camps

If you are interested in examining the privacy implications of Android apps, there is google chrome extensions Exodus Privacy is a great tool. For example, it reveals these 19 trackers in Deezer and 9 trackers in Spotify (it seems you are tracked even if you pay €€€)

Swedish ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier https://boingboing.net/2018/11/03/balkanizing-the-balkanizers.html #blockingorders #censorship #openaccess #publishing #Elsevier #bahnhof #sci-hub #Science #telcoms #petard #sweden #Post

More good news in the war on the #ClimateEmergency / #GlobalWarming:
https://www.climatecaseireland.ie/
Someone's taking the #Irish government to court over the #Climate and their inaction towards it!
#Ireland

'The Government has announced the organisations that will sit on the Executive Board of a new national body to tackle online harms in the UK. The UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) is the successor to the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS), with an expanded scope to improve online safety for everyone in the UK.'
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/board-announced-for-new-uk-council-for-internet-safety

Members include GCHQ, Facebook, the IWF... Every well connected fox in town gets to guard the henhouse, it seems.

Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds

And they're following through on it 👌

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?835849-New-Ban-Do-Not-Post-In-Support-of-Trump-or-his-Administration
"This is because his public comments, policies, and the makeup of his administration are so wholly incompatible with our values that formal political neutrality is not tenable. We can be welcoming to (for example) persons of every ethnicity who want to talk about games, or we can allow support for open white supremacy. Not both."
I am so fucking glad to see a major tabletops community take this stance

Game Design Deep Dive: The creation of Necrosoft Games' Gunhouse http://gamasutra.com/blogs/BrandonSheffield/20181026/329403/G

@fosdem That “free” word you keep using refers to “freedom”.

”We aren’t selective about about sponsors and sources of donations” is tone-deaf, reckless, & simply not acceptable in 2018 for any group that seeks legitimacy in the ethics of what they do.

Palantir develops open source (https://palantir.github.io) and also helps ICE find & deport asylum seekers. By your (lack of) ethical standards, they would be welcome as a sponsor.

Please see https://fundingmatters.tech and review your stance on this.