Mark Ruffalo“Anyone insisting that you ‘calm down’ about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes that are at our doorstep.”
https://jacobin.com/2023/06/calm-down-narrative-climate-change-crisis-oil-industry-environment
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Meredith WhittakerWelcome Apple! Affirming the longstanding expert consensus:
Encryption works for all or it’s broken for all. There’s no safe, private way to conduct mass surveillance. & no amount of magical thinking or specious claims will alter this stubborn reality.
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Jon Pinter"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."
We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."
We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.
Robert McNeesMathematician, computer scientist, and WWII code breaker Alan Turing, who established the theoretical foundation for just about every modern computing device, was born #OTD in 1912. His work helped make it possible for you to read this.
The British government prosecuted him for being gay, a monstrous act that eventually led to Turing’s death by suicide. Then they waited over 60 years before issuing a pardon.
Image: The Guardian
Em 
I just received this amazing sticker pack from Fight for the Future and I must say I am very pleased!
If you want one too,
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Thanks @fight ! ♥️
Privacy is a Human Right!
Encryption Keeps Us Safe! ✊🔒
FediTips has moved!A reminder that there is an actual "Mastodon for Dummies" book available in physical, ebook and audiobook, from any good bookseller:
The authors are @chrisminnick and @workingwriter
A lot of people prefer getting their info from books, and this is aimed at them. I bought a copy and it was great 👍
Not going to link to a specific bookseller, but they all have it, and local bookshops will be able to get it for you if you ask them to order it! 📚
Flipboard Tech DeskApple has been going to war over the intellectual property rights of its logo. Its latest target is a 111-year-old Swiss fruit company.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Juneteenth should remind us that human trafficking was legal. Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. The US Govt paying reparations to white enslavers who lost their “property” but not to the formerly enslaved who lost their lives, was legal. Indeed, prison slavery is still legal today.
Do not let legality & power be your measure of morality & justice.