jaysen naidoo

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"Time I am, the great destroyer of worlds..."

Stop using Chrome as your daily driver.

Google proposed adding DRM to Chrome, which will be used to stop ad blockers, privacy tools, password plugins, accessibility/reader modes.

The only way to stop Google’s Chrome from wrecking the internet like Internet Explorer did for many year is to switch to a NOT chromium-based browser as soon as possible for your day to day. You’ve got Safari and Firefox as your choices.

I know you’ll have to use Chrome sometimes because it’s already happening.

The History Of South Africa. Podcast by Des Latham.
The first episode was excellent. Find the feed wherever you get your podcasts

https://pca.st/podcast/8feaa000-50c3-0139-339f-0acc26574db2

History of South Africa podcast

A series that seeks to tell the story of the South Africa in some depth. Presented by experienced broadcaster/podcaster Des Latham and updated weekly, the episodes will take a listener through the various epochs that have made up the story of South Africa.

Pocket Casts

While F-Droid appears to be "just" an alternative #OpenSource #AppStore for #Android, it is actually the apex of a lifestyle movement that's choosing to use Android only with #FreeSoftware and without #Google or advertising-related #surveillance. Realising that makes many of its features - and shortcomings - easier to understand. I was the main interviewer in the discussion this week on #FLOSS Weekly with core @fdroidorg developer @eighthave and it was a good show.

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/741?autostart=false

This Is the F-Droid You’re Looking For | TWiT.TV

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Hans-Christoph Steiner about all things F-Droid: the non-Google app store for Android where you don't need an account and find only free and o…

TWiT.tv
Is Nuclear Energy Green?

YouTube

“We notice you are using an ad blocker…”

Yes, and I notice you are using a few dozen trackers. Turn off the trackers and I will look at your ads. Until then, we are at an impasse.

Death rates per unit of electricity
(https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh).

nuclear and renewables make the most sense, even before considering the climate crisis

Death rates per unit of electricity production

Death rates are measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per terawatt-hour of electricity.

Our World in Data

Real Change Is Impossible While Our World Is Shrouded In Secrecy
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I saw a video clip of Julian Assange speaking in London in 2010 where he made an important observation while explaining the philosophy behind his work with WikiLeaks. He said that all our political theories are to some extent "bankrupt" in our current situation, because our institutions are so shrouded in secrecy that we can't even know what's really going on in the world.

https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/real-change-is-impossible-while-our-world-is-shrouded-in-secrecy-89ea0126821

It used to part of the truth that we will struggle to fix major global issues without fixing the broken US lobby system..
A new option is emerging.. bypassing the US

@[email protected]

Cuba, victimized by US policy, made its own vaccines. They charged about $6.50/dose. Not only did they export the vax, they also shared technology to help other nations make their own vaccines.

Remember how Pharma said it would waive patents to get the vax out?

Cuba didn't make that promise but helped anyway, while big Pharma broke their promise & caused millions to die waiting for a vax.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/cuba-kicks-off-covid-19-vaccine-exports-with-shipment-vietnam-2021-09-25/

Cuba kicks off COVID-19 vaccine exports with shipment to Vietnam

Cuba said on Saturday it had exported its three-shot Abdala coronavirus vaccine for the first time, sending an initial shipment to Vietnam as part of a contract to supply five million doses to the Southeast Asian country.

Reuters