🦋 Ben West - 🐒🌻

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A "seasoned" campaigner and community organizer. An anxious Canadian 🇨🇦 adjusting to living with a new health challenges.

These days i can be found working remotely, exploring decentralized decision making, coordinating doing research and campaign strategy and spending time with my dogs.

I'm writing a book called Mandate:The Monkey Flower Experiment, it's about a group of people trapped together at an off grid university on the side of a mountain after a terrible storm. It could be described as a #SolarPunk Lord of the Flies (or something).

I am currently living in the territory of the Huron-Wendat Nation and of the Anishinaabek people. I was born in Coast Salish territories.

This is my primary account.

Interests: #ClimateSolutions, #FOSS, #governance, #strategy, #urbanism, #privacy, #cryptography,, #infoSec, #OSINT, #decentralization, #biomimicry, #StreetArt, #transRights, #IndigenousRights, #humanRights, #juggling and #memes.

#FreePalestine 🍉

He/They

#LoveIsLove 🏳️‍🌈

All My Linkshttps://www.benwest.blog/links/
LinkedIn 🙃https://www.linkedin.com/in/benwestintoronto
Hey @deviantollam you are the only person I could think of who might be able to explain this. A friend took this picture, in Quebec or Ontario I think. She said she pressed both of them and they did nothing. I wondered if the buttons were rigged to interact with the screen somehow, which would been extra interesting. Is this just a weird joke or some "legitimate use? I kinda love it i must admit. Someone suggested there should have also been an" and" button so you could push "yes, and" 🙃 and get an easter egg suprise or something. Anyways, thanks for being you and doing what you do.

uBlock Origin has the potential to save the average global Internet user more than 100 h annually. The energy conserved if everyone in the United States used the open source ad blocker would save over 36 Americans lives per year if it were to offset coal-fired electricity generated-based pollution.

@ublockorigin

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18

#infosec #opsec #ublockorigin #privacy #environment

Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers

Internet-related electricity consumption is rising rapidly as global Internet users spend more than 6.5 h per day online. Open source ad blockers have the potential to reduce the time and thus electricity spent using computers by eliminating ads during Internet browsing and video streaming. In this study, three open source ad blockers are tested against a no-ad blocker control. Page load time is recorded for browsing a representative selection of the globally most-accessed websites, and the time spent watching ads on videos is quantified for both trending and non-trending content. The results show that page load time dropped 11% with AdBlock+, 22.2% with Privacy Badger, and 28.5% with uBlock Origin. Thus, uBlock Origin has the potential to save the average global Internet user more than 100 h annually. The energy conserved if everyone in the United States used the open source ad blocker would save over 36 Americans lives per year if it were to offset coal-fired electricity generated-based pollution. In the United States, if all Internet users enabled Privacy Badger on their computers, Americans would save more than $91 million annually. Globally, uBlock Origin could save consumers more than $1.8 billion/year. Open source ad blockers are a potentially effective technology for energy conservation.

MDPI

Freaking horror show...

#America #meme #funny #notFunny #inauguration

The majority of the tech industry and journalists right now.

#inauguration #Trump

Everyone has a role to play.

#meme #funny #notfunny #teamWork #HaveAGoodWeekend

Apparently this is a real tweet from Scottie Pippen, former Chicago Bulls super star, Michael Jordans right hand man. Not only very impressive boot licking but also throwing in a crypto pump and dump scam for good measure.

Wow. Gross.

#AI #cryptocurrency #birdsite #twitter #elon #bootLicking #technofeudalism

Heads up we might not know the outcomes of the US election tonight if its close. Pace yourselves...

#election #election2024 #uspol #uspolitics #trump #kamalaHarris #make_it_stop

I hope this email finds you well...

#meme #funny #notFunny #lateStageCapitalism

Toronto can be beautiful if you are lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time.

#sunset #toronto #magicHour #canada #photography #dynamicRange #highPark