John Gordon 📷

@Bluedonkey
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British ex-pat living the island life in the #SanFrancisco Bay Area. #Alameda.

Architect of #Cloud / #embedded / #IoT systems. Working on #AI #GunDetection.

Like #ElectricVehicles, #CleanEnergy, #Photography, #3dPrinting, #Electronics and #Travel.

All opinions mine. #fedi22

LocationAlameda, California
Websitehttps://bluedonkey.org/
Photographyhttps://ourlivez.com/
GitHubhttps://github.com/john94501
The herpes of the internet is back at it: https://browsergate.eu/
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

BrowserGate

A green energy future is possible. Don’t let Big Oil and warmongering autocrats tell you otherwise.

Ending dependency on oil and gas is critical for resilience, security and survival.

Wind and solar is the way to go.

#Renewables #Peace #NoWar

Worth taking the minute to process this, but time well spent.
Every American would be basking in luxury, or at least square meals and healthcare, if our government only thought that investing in ourselves was more prudent than destroying everybody else. A country led by self-proclaimed "fiscal conservatives," no less. They're throwing our riches away.
I guess some of what I learned about religion from attending Catholic and then Protestant schools stuck (though I did have to look up the chapter & verse).

There is a bit in that book they claim to follow (but, in fact, don’t) that covers this. Matthew 7, 3-5:

3. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4. How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5. You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Prime example is Rubio telling the Iranians they should have spent less on weapons and more on helping the people. Maybe little Marco should look at the US. Spending billions on weapons, while millions here have no health insurance, no homes, and can barely afford to eat.

Americans, especially the faux-christian ones, need to learn to mind their own business. Whether it is telling other countries to do what they’re not, or individuals thinking telling others what to do or not do.

Encountered a busy-body tonight who felt she had the right to tell me what to do, and not do while eating at an outdoor table.

When I politely told her to mind her own business, she informed me it was a public place (technically it wasn’t) which gave her the right to interfere in somebody else’s business in her mind.

It made me think later how the world might be better off if the US spent more time worrying about its own affairs & less time telling other countries what to do.

The larger pack is not always a better deal… and not using the same units for the price/unit on both makes me think they were aware.

#math

The war on #Iran and the oil price shock are exposing just how fragile a fossil fuel-dependent economy really is.

We analysed 37 government responses and found too many are deepening the very dependence that caused the crisis.

#fossilfuels #renewables #war #prices #costofliving #livesbeforeprofits

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/82468/iran-war-oil-fossil-fuels-price-shock-government-countries-response/

How is your government responding to the Iran war and oil price shock? - Greenpeace International

We analysed 37 government responses introduced since 28 February 2026 to the Iran war oil shock. Many risk deepening the fossil fuel dependence that caused the crisis in the first place.

Greenpeace International