● NEWS ● #TheNation #climate ☞ Why We Filed a Legal Complaint Against #Princeton https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/divest-princeton-legal-complaint/

Why We Filed a Legal Complaint Against Princeton

A coalition of Princeton students, faculty, staff, and alumni has called for an investigation of the university's continued investments in the fossil fuel industry.

" #Princeton and the researchers need to be hauled over the coals for this. Even Mike Godwin commented it was unethical." https://chaos.social/@onepict/107467914104693322

Esther Payne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@onepict@chaos.social)

@rysiek@mastodon.technology @tek@freeradical.zone Frame the idea as an abstract issue it's very easy to ignore the human factor, the complexity of what a person running a website or an org may be going through. I'm angry about the stress, money...

#CCPA #Princeton https://freeradical.zone/@tek/107464755082061169

Planting Trees Encourages Cloud Formation—and Efficiently Cools the Planet

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-trees-mean-more-clouds-and-more-cooling-study-says-180978503/

Some scientists questioned the benefit of replanting #forests in midaltitude regions because of albedo—the ability of the Earth’s surface to reflect sunlight—when deciduous #trees lose leaves during cold seasons, reports Martin Woolridge in the Daily Guardian. The #Princeton researchers point out that theory ignores an important consideration.

If done right, restoring and protecting forests can benefit us and the planet in so many ways - including increasing cloud coverage and helping cool the planet. — Community Forests International https://forestsinternational.org/

#nature #environment #tree #planting #tree-planting #albedo #reforestation #CommunityForestsInternational #SmithsonianMagazine

Planting Trees Encourages Cloud Formation—and Efficiently Cools the Planet

New study examines cooling effect of clouds produced by deciduous forests under pressures of climate change

● NEWS ● #TheNation #Climate ☞ What Will It Take for #Princeton to Finally Take Bold Climate Action? https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/princeton-climate-divestment/

What Will It Take for Princeton to Finally Take Bold Climate Action?

After Harvard and Dartmouth’s divestments. Princeton remains one of the few remaining Ivies still invested in the fossil fuel industry

#princeton https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179032/up-to-heaven-and-down-to-hell

Up to Heaven and Down to Hell

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy

● NEWS ● #Techdirt #Princeton ☞ Researchers Who Built Similar System Explain Why Apple's #CSAM Scanning System Is Dangerous https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210820/16434547396/researchers-who-built-similar-system-explain-why-apples-csam-scanning-system-is-dangerous.shtml http://techrights.org/2021/08/10/apple-snitch/

Researchers Who Built Similar System Explain Why Apple's CSAM Scanning System Is Dangerous

Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton University professor and former chief technologist at the FTC, is one of the smartest people I know. Every time I've spoken with him I feel like I learn something. He's now written a quite interesting article for...

Apple Spy Phone

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/520814082/content
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/speak-out-against-apples-mass-surveillance-plans

90+ #policy and #rights #groups around the #world wrote #TimCook today to warn Apple that releasing its new, #universally-condemned #SpyPhone #update "will have laid the #foundation for #censorship, #surveillance and #persecution on a #global #basis."

#Princeton #Computer #Scientists: #Apple is " #gambling with #security, #privacy and #freespeech #worldwide."
The #core #design of Apple's new " #child-safety" #system—comparing your #photos against a #secret #blacklist—is #dangerous and "easily #repurposed for surveillance and censorship."

#EdwardSnowden: ' #Journalists should press HARD on the spyPhone #scandal. It is indefensible for Apple, which positions itself as a #pro-privacy #company, to push a #harshly #criticized #surveillance #paradigm into #one #billion #phones despite #condemnations by both #security #experts and #rights #groups.'

#eff #petition #mass-surveillance #internet #civil #liberties #csam