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Huh, ciudată experienţă să văd într-un articol românesc despre filme, pe o platformă nepolitică, înţelegerea faptului că...

Huh, ciudată experienţă să văd într-un articol românesc despre filme, pe o platformă nepolitică, înţelegerea faptului că anticapitalismul/anti-plutocratismul de faţadă al Hollywood-ului nu e anticapitalismul ăla pe bune şi chiar poate avea efectul opus, de împrospătare a aurei false de oameni speciali, atractivi şi merituoşi a miliardarilor. (Începând la subtitlul al doilea.)
https://panorama.ro/filme-seriale-anti-capitaliste-eat-the-rich/

This wiki is a treasure trove, it's ridiculous how much useful info on web resources and software choices and digital setup...

This wiki is a treasure trove, it's ridiculous how much useful info on web resources and software choices and digital setup possibilities they've put together in one place: Free Media Heck Yeah.
https://fmhy.net/feedback

Interesting independent search engine I just found out about - Marginalia Search. Gonna look into enabling it as an engine to aggregate...

Interesting independent search engine I just found out about - Marginalia Search. Gonna look into enabling it as an engine to aggregate results from in some SearXNG instance, together with Stract and Mojeek, which are already serving me decently and are both independent and not pulling results from Bing or Google.

* Prioritizes non-commercial content
* Find lost old websites
* Custom index and crawler software
* Simple technology -- no AI or cloud
* AGPL license
* Filter out tracking and adtech
* No user or search data shared with 3rd parties
* No long-term retention of queries or IP addresses
https://marginalia-search.com
#Privacy #IndieDev #IndieWeb #DeGoogle #SearXNG

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/

Hell yea! Pebble's coming back!https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-backMight be just in time too, who knows when my 2015...

Hell yea! Pebble's coming back!
https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back

Might be just in time too, who knows when my 2015 Time Steel will finally fail.

Better app store than even F-Droid, because F-Droid re-signs all apps with its own key, breaking the chain of trust and introducing delays...

Better app store than even F-Droid, because F-Droid re-signs all apps with its own key, breaking the chain of trust and introducing delays in publishing new versions. Plus in allowing you to add random 3rd-party repositories it breaks Android's security mechanism for which sources are or aren't allowed to install apps on your phone (larger attack surface since any one of those repos being compromised immediately compromises your F-Droid):
https://accrescent.app/faq#other-repos
https://accrescent.app/features
#Android #Accrescent #Security #Privacy

Best distillation of #Anarchism I've seen in quite a while, though it may need to be watched at 0.75x or slower, and may require...

Best distillation of #Anarchism I've seen in quite a while, though it may need to be watched at 0.75x or slower, and may require multiple passes to process everything: AnRel's "UNHINGED: A Guide to Revolution for Nerds & Skeptics"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsKHMObgbak

"Direct action is whatever works. Genuinely works, not just whatever's easiest, whatever you want, or whatever seems like it should work.
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Staying in place doesn't move us closer. Going the wrong way doesn't move us closer. Going backwards doesn't move us closer. A continuous cycle of taking three steps forward and three steps back doesn't move us closer. If it looks like settling, it probably is."

https://nesrine.bandcamp.com/track/ahlam-1#NowListening #Music #Zir4nSongOfTheDay

https://nesrine.bandcamp.com/track/ahlam-1
#NowListening #Music #Zir4nSongOfTheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2tSTEunjMs#Music #NowListening #Zir4nSongOfTheDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2tSTEunjMs
#Music #NowListening #Zir4nSongOfTheDay

Nice! Finally."A judge on Monday [05.08] ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to...

Nice! Finally.

"A judge on Monday [05.08] ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation, a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies."
https://apnews.com/article/google-antitrust-search-engine-verdict-apple-319a61f20fb11510097845a30abaefd8

So I know I just shared that "Weeds Are Good" piece, but there are bad sides to it too. Not all weeds should be allowed to...

So I know I just shared that "Weeds Are Good" piece, but there are bad sides to it too. Not all weeds should be allowed to actually thrive (in fairness she doesn't even say that), some are invasive species that should actually be kept in check or destroyed. And not everything promoted as #permaculture is actually getting us closer to our environmental goals.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-07-22/5-ways-permaculture-must-change/
#GreenTransition #ClimateActivism

https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/track/el-zampull-n#Music #NowListening #Zir4nSongOfTheDay

https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/track/el-zampull-n
#Music #NowListening #Zir4nSongOfTheDay

Hate to post bad news, but more people should know that in a way the #climate #wars have already begun, they just don't get reported on...

Hate to post bad news, but more people should know that in a way the #climate #wars have already begun, they just don't get reported on the news as such, if at all.

"Armed conflict and climate change are increasingly converging in the same places at the same time. Fourteen [ #humanitarian #emergency ] Watchlist countries are among the 16 countries globally where armed conflict and vulnerability to climate change intersect.
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Regional and global powers are intervening to drive and intensify conflicts, not calm them. And even when they try to mediate conflict, their efforts are proving ineffective. #Sudan is a case study in how external intervention can drive escalation, with multiple countries supplying weapons to parties to the conflict rather than pushing for peace."
https://www.rescue.org/sites/default/files/2023-12/CS2401_Watchlist-at-a-Glance_Handout_Final_0.pdf

"The term ‘natural disaster’ is incorrect and misleading. The NoNaturalDisasters campaign builds on the decades of work and...

"The term ‘natural disaster’ is incorrect and misleading.

The NoNaturalDisasters campaign builds on the decades of work and research carried out by DRR practitioners and academics and aims to change the terminology to show that whilst some hazards are natural and unavoidable, the resulting disasters almost always have been made by human actions and decisions.
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We want to make sure that when a hazard creates a disaster because of actions taken by humanity (even historic decisions), that those in positions of power do not blame nature or use it as a convenient tool to avoid responsibility.

We will work to ensure (before, during and after a disaster) that those with the power to reduce vulnerability, exposure and risk are held accountable for their decisions"
https://nonaturaldisasters.com
https://theconversation.com/we-rarely-hear-about-the-disasters-that-were-avoided-but-theres-a-lot-we-can-learn-from-them-217850
#Resilience #ClimateSolutions #ClimateAdaptation #Disaster

Ce-am fi putut vedea dacă Shōgun ar fi avut un sequel despre shogunatul Tokugawa (aka. Toranaga): o cultură a sustenabilităţii până-n...

Ce-am fi putut vedea dacă Shōgun ar fi avut un sequel despre shogunatul Tokugawa (aka. Toranaga): o cultură a sustenabilităţii până-n pânzele albe.

"The city of Edo was home to over 1,000 refurbishing and recycling businesses. Everything was collected for reuse – the drippings of candle wax were remoulded, old metal pots were melted down, human hair was sold to wig makers. Modular house design meant that floorboards could easily be removed, planed down and used again in new buildings. Samurai down on their luck repaired umbrellas. The leftover straw from growing rice was used for making sandals and rope, wrapping up household goods, and finally as fertiliser and fuel.
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The Edo period remains one of the best historical examples of what a large-scale regenerative economy operating within safe ecological limits might look like (there are others, such as the "ancestral circular economy" of precolonial Hawaii). It was, writes environmental scientist Eiichiro Ochiai, a "model for spaceship Earth" that took "every possible step to maintain the principles of zero-waste, zero-emission, long before such terms came to be appreciated"."
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240703-what-the-japanese-edo-period-can-teach-us-about-today
#Shogun #Sustainability #CircularEconomy

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LOLz, cică joculeţ indie în care eşti un animăluţ(?) care trebuie să sară din umbră în umbră printr-un mediu urban. This is so...

LOLz, cică joculeţ indie în care eşti un animăluţ(?) care trebuie să sară din umbră în umbră printr-un mediu urban. This is so goddamn timely. [Original image is animated]
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ewoud/112780756399987345

I see it coming, see it coming, come on/We should do something, let's do something. 🙂...

I see it coming, see it coming, come on/
We should do something, let's do something. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5RKcq2WYyo
#Music #NowListening #Zir4nSongOfTheDay

Şi apropo de mitul "ţăranilor înapoiaţi", câte ceva din preocupările Via Campesina:

Şi apropo de mitul "ţăranilor înapoiaţi", câte ceva din preocupările Via Campesina:

Vocea agriculturii ţărăneşti, peste 200 de mi-li-oa-ne de membri, producători a 70% din hrana de pe lumea asta: La Via Campesina, cu...

Vocea agriculturii ţărăneşti, peste 200 de mi-li-oa-ne de membri, producători a 70% din hrana de pe lumea asta: La Via Campesina, cu prezenţă în 81 de ţări (la noi asociaţia Eco Ruralis), ar putea fi o forţă politică în slujba drepturilor omului şi a agriculturii sănătoase, regenerative. De ex. în Marea Britanie au publicat o listă de revendicări înainte de alegeri: https://viacampesina.org/en/uk-the-landworkers-alliances-top-five-demands-for-the-new-government/

P.S.: Nu, vestiţii fermieri protestatari nu sunt vocea agriculturii grassroots, sunt mai degrabă "corporatiştii agriculturii", dependenţii de pesticide şi îngrăşăminte chimice dăunătoare, care nu văd altceva decât profitul în faţa ochilor.