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2/ "A few good billionaires among the saboteurs don’t justify their existence. That’s why in Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate-fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, billionaires are eliminated as a #climate hazard, their fortunes whittled down to $50m if they comply.
Robinson wrote: “There was scientifically supported evidence to show that if the Earth’s available resources were divided up equally among all 8 billion humans, everyone would be fine. They would all be at adequacy, & the scientific evidence very robustly supported that people living at adequacy, & confident they would stay there (a crucial point), were healthier & happier than rich people.”
On a thriving planet, human beings should be human scale, but the super-rich are on another scale altogether, giants trampling underfoot both nature & our efforts to protect it."

1/ Rebecca Solnit wonders whether one planet can support so many billionaires.

"Billionaires are a menace to the rest of us: their sheer political size warps our public life. Disproportionately older, white & male, they function as unelected powers, a sort of freelance global aristocracy who are too often trying to reign over the rest of us. Some critics think that the supergiant tech corporations that have spawned so many modern billionaires operate in ways that resemble feudalism more than capitalism, & , certainly, plenty of billionaires operate like the lords of the Earth while campaigning to protect the economic inequality that made them so rich & makes so many others so poor. They use their power in arbitrary, reckless & often environmentally destructive ways." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/billionaires-great-carbon-divide-planet-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

here's your periodic holiday reminder that FUCK THE SALVATION ARMY

they're a queer hate organization. don't fucking donate to them. only shoplift from their stores. tell their solicitors to eat rocks

It's time. Who's with me?

Pls resist the siren call of conspiracy theories & spreading them during a conflict already full of purposeful disinformation and propaganda from state & non state actors. Let's remember how 9/11 Truth stuff circulated among left & right and turned so many bright people into cranks over time.

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36 years ago today was the Max Headroom TV STL hijacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking

I regard this incident as the best and purest hacking prank in modern history. The combination of sophisticated, meticulous technical planning and execution, utterly juvenile content, essential harmlessness, lack of financial motive, and never getting caught or identified (or later taking credit) remains, in my opinion, unmatched to this day.

Pure art.

Yeah thanks we already know about the cop problem here

so apparently google have added a little bit of JS to youtube that adds a delay for loading, but only if your useragent is Firefox.

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/k9w3ei4/?context=4

you can fix it by adding this line to your uBlock Origin filters.

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)

So it's like this: AndroidTV (and the new "GoogleTV" which is just android TV for android 12) is a privacy nightmare, much like a roku device but actually even worse.

But, unlike a Roku device, Android can usually be cut open and modified.

These Walmart Onn 4k Google TV set top boxes are especially easy to work on as far as AndroidTV/GoogleTV goes.

Press a couple of buttons, issue a few ADB commands, bob's your uncle.

You can rip all the google-y bits out, you can remove all the things that violate your privacy, you can customize the launcher, install your own applications, configure the device to play your media.