California "No Secret Police" act introduced, would ban police from covering their faces

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-no-secret-police-act-introduced-sb627-ban-police-face-covering-wiener-arreguin/

#PoliceAccountability #cops #HumanRights

We've achieved the 3rd goal of our crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app! 🥳

Thanks to your donations, we will be able to develop a live broadcasting feature within the app!

Thank you very much! 🥰

👉 https://joinpeertube.org/news/crowdfunding-app-goal-3

The governments of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have announced their commitment to create a massive multinational Melanesian Ocean Reserve. If implemented as envisioned, the reserve would become the world’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve, covering an area nearly as big as the Amazon Rainforest.

By Shreya Dasgupta
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/pacific-islands-launch-plan-for-worlds-first-indigenous-led-ocean-reserve/

#News #Conservation #Environment #IndigenousPeoples #Oceans

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Framasoft is a French non-profit, based in Lyon.

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Samoa has legally adopted a plan that designates 30% of its 120,000 km² ocean territory as fully protected.

The nine new MPAs are the first Samoa has created beyond its reefs, and ban activities that could harm marine life or damage marine habitat. Those fishing illegally could face fines of up to $361,400 or imprisonment. #samoa #ocean #oceans #environment #world #news

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/samoa-protects-30-of-its-ocean-with-new-marine-spatial-plan/?ref=fixthenews.com

Found online years ago...

The entire Dune cycle is based on a terrible pun.
1. The spice is called melange.
2. The spice confers power and longevity.
3. Melange is a French word for variety.

In other words, variety is the spice of life.

Why does no one ever talk about this?

Protip if you're an EU citizen: If you want to ask for a refund at a company you bought an online service off, don't ever bother with their refund policy, which is designed to deny you a refund. Skip that step and immediately point to your legal rights under consumer law. If said company then points you to their refund policy, calmly repeat your legal rights, point out their refund policy is not in compliance with EU law, and ask for a refund.

This totally just worked for me.

🇩🇰 Minister is phasing out Microsoft in the Ministry of Digitalization

｢ Digitalization Minister Caroline Stage will begin phasing out Microsoft from her ministry starting next month. The plan is for about half of the employees to start working with computers running a version of #Linux instead of Windows and using #LibreOffice instead of Office 365 over the summer. If all goes as expected, the entire ministry will be free from Microsoft by autumn ｣

https://politiken.dk/edition/news/art10442448/Minister-is-phasing-out-Microsoft-in-the-Ministry-of-Digitalizatio

#opensource