Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic): How my DRM-free principles left me owning the rights to a German audiobook (21 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/21/martin-mensch/
The World Food Programme told CNN that #Israel has prevented any food from entering north #Gaza since the beginning of October. There’s a million people in north Gaza. A million people being starved by Netanyahu.
Call it #Genocide.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/middleeast/food-northern-gaza-starvation-un-intl/index.html
If only Finnish cities could look at the history of the impact of surveillance cameras on crime rates: https://yle.fi/a/74-20115922
Hint: it's zero. They do nothing. What does help is structuring your society so everyone in it can afford to live, wondering Finland could consider getting back to.
Työkaveri ilmoitti olevansa sairaana. Eipä siinä mitään, hyvä että ilmoitti. Mutta kertoi samalla, että flunssa alkoi jo maanantaina, mutta tähän saakka sinnitteli ennen kuin totesi, että on syytä levätä.
Suututtaa aina kun näen paremmin tietävien ylimielisiä kommentteja saikuttamisesta, kun tämä on ollut todellisuus koko työurani ajan: ihmiset tulevat töihin sairaanakin. Esimiesaikoina jouduin useammankin kerran passittamaan 38 asteen kuumeessa toimistolla olleita kotiin.
What happened to Greta Thunberg?
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As Greta’s politics have grown and evolved, they reached a point where they now make billionaire media owners, milquetoast executives of major non-profits, and more than a few politicians a little uncomfortable. All she’s done is follow the science, but over time the science has led her to see that the climate crisis doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There are massive monetary incentives to destroy the planet in this capitalist system.
ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP made over $100 billion in profits in 2023 alone. In following the science, Greta had to start examining the capitalist system if she wanted to get down to the root of the climate crisis.
But Greta kept going. When she published The Climate Book in 2022, the then 19-year-old activist had some words for the entire system we live under today:
"We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the Global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”
That was two years ago, and it’s no surprise she hasn’t been given the spotlight nearly as often since. In fact, in the wake of that book launch, she’s been the subject of countless hit pieces, and her Palestine solidarity activism has been denigrated as well.
Greta went from a cute kid saying that climate change is bad to a young adult rightly charging global systems with not only fueling the climate crisis but also being oppressive and grossly harmful to life in numerous other ways. And, perhaps most importantly, she sees these systems as interconnected and knows that radical change is necessary for the future of life on this planet.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.jphilll.com/p/gretas-growth
#Politics #Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
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