Gardener from planet 9.
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report
#news #economy #pollution #capitalism #problem #waste #plastic #microplatic #environment #nature #manipulation #propaganda
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/biden-israel-weapons-rafah-invasion-1235017620/
Doctor Who's David Tennant slams anti-trans bigots: 'F**k off'
Tennant said his sentiment comes from simply “wanting people to be allowed to exist” and accepting that “ways of expressing gender identity [and] sexuality are more nuanced than they once were”, adding: “If that helps people to know who they are, say who they are, and communicate to the world who they are, it’s just common sense.”
wttr.in. Enter or select a location, and then type Shift-Control-w. You can specify the location in several different ways. Locations can be anywhere in the world, not just in the USA. Search the Home page for weather to read more about this.about:network page.dark theme to improve the contrast.To update to this new version, if you already have MinusBrowser 2.1 or later, just follow the instructions on your browser’s home page. You will not need to use a web browser to update.
To get MinusBrowser if you do not already have it, download this file from Codeberg.
https://codeberg.org/giXzkGsc/Minus-Protocol/raw/branch/main/MinusBrowser.tar.gz
There is no need to install MinusBrowser. Just download the .tar.gz file to your home folder and unpack it with
tar -xzf MinusBrowser.tar.gz
or use your favorite GUI software to unpack it. If you have a version of MinusBrowser earlier than 2.1, unpack the .tar.gz file into the same directory as your present MinusBrowser folder.
To follow the progress of the Minus Protocol Project, click on #minus-protocol or look at https://nerdpol.ch/tags/minus-protocol
You can download MinusBrowser from a terminal window with this command. This will work only if Tor Browser is running because it borrows Tor Browser’s SOCKS5 proxy. (Both Tor Browser and MinusBrowser contain their own copy of Tor.)
curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9150 -O gopher://mvxpelpxu2f7kzotb2s2t6fkmggvrd7qdg2wjs6waiyf2nbhkawux4yd.onion:1990/9/MinusBrowser.tar.gz
This works because all Minus URLs can be translated into Gopher URLs.
minus://something.onion/ → gopher://something.onion:1990/9/
For more information:
[minus://mvxpelpxu2f7kzotb2s2t6fkmggvrd7qdg2wjs6waiyf2nbhkawux4yd.onion/](minus://mvxpelpxu2f7kzotb2s2t6fkmggvrd7qdg2wjs6waiyf2nbhkawux4yd.onion/)
https://codeberg.org/giXzkGsc/Minus-Protocol
#internet #protocol #tcp #hypertext #http #gopher #minus #minus-protocol #browser #minusbrowser #minus-browser #server #minus-server
#Unbelieveable, I just came across this #beautiful #magazine, #libregraphicsmag, about #foss and #libre #graphicdesign, i.e. creating design with tools like #Inkscape, #Blender or #Krita, with #freeculture philosophy in mind. The #project is over now, but there are several volumes for you to #download and read in #pdf. The magazine is of course #free under #creativecommons and you can download its sources from #GitLab here - I imagine this can be hugely useful for #design students, as a #template etc. It's really #professional and beautiful, just take a look. Really #happy to have found this.
From their #manifesto:
"We are a community made up of niches within niches within niches. An understanding of those fractal niches can, however, be gained through concrete examples of achievement and discourse. By building up a forum for understandable discussion and display, we make ourselves visible and real."
Fossil Fuel Companies Build Structures To Hide Methane Flaring From Satellites - CleanTechnica https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/03/fossil-fuel-companies-build-structures-to-hide-methane-flaring-from-satellites/
Tags: #dandelíon
via dandelion* client (Source)
Via Ben Wikler:
Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.
Rutger Bregman:
Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.
He then read out posts from [Michael] Cohen. “This one says, oh my, S**tzInPantz," Blanche said, entering a screenshot of the post into the court record.
As a result, the official court stenographer typed the phrase "s**** in pants” into the court record.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/trump-supporters-wearing-diapers
backup: https://archive.ph/hviy0
pics from elsewhere
Zapata served as deputy director at the Milwaukee Election Commission in October 2022 when she used her work-issued laptop to obtain three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers, according to a criminal complaint. She sent the ballots to Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, an election conspiracy theorist, two weeks before the state’s gubernatorial and legislative elections.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-election-official-fined-obtaining-005810757.html
Why are billionaires scared of Brazil’s plan to hit them with a global tax? Because it makes perfect sense | The super-rich | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/02/brazil-global-tax-billionaires-perfect-sense
Tags: #dandelíon
via dandelion* client (Source)
Government defeated in High Court over climate plans https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68947242
As a lifelong lover of the web, it's hard not to feel a little hopeless right now.
Search engines — the window into the web for many people — top their results with pages containing thousands of words of auto-generated nothingness, perfectly optimized for search engine prominence and to pull in money via ads and affiliate links while simultaneously devoid of any useful information.
Social networks have become “the web” for many people who rarely venture outside of their tall and increasingly reinforced walls. As Tom Eastman once put it, the web has rotted into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four”. Within those enclosures, the character limits, neutered subset of web functionality, and constant push to satisfy the enigmatic desires of an algorithm tuned to keeping eyeballs on the platform encourage sameness, vapid engagement farming, and rage bait while stifling creativity.
Newspapers, whose evolution towards online models once stoked optimism for more accessible and dynamic journalism that could lead to a more informed and democratically engaged citizenry, have become luxury goods as aggressive paywalls and expensive subscription models are increasingly deployed by the hedge funds and other profit-hungry entities that control these papers. Some use the excuse that they're trying to protect their journalism from the unsanctioned scraping by companies training ever-hungrier artificial intelligence models. Yet those same media outlets hasten their own demise with wave after wave of layoffs, or by chasing harebrained schemes like churning out tedious clickbait or their own AI-generated soup even as their executives continue to cash huge checks.
Many websites now require one to steel themselves for battle against the advertisements and trackers and GDPR cookie consent popups and AI-powered chatbot windows that interrupt you to offer to helpfully bungle whatever you ask of them. AdBlock is no longer optional, and even with it, trackers and advertisements slither through the cracks. Browsing the web brings with it the ever-present feeling that you're being watched — your activities and preferences and habits all being logged and funneled into a giant vat of horrifying data soup, all just to help more companies serve you more of these intrusive ads that you must endlessly swat away as you try to find whatever it was you were looking for.
It is tempting, amid all of this decay, to yearn for the good old days.
