Another PSA that Google uses its fonts to track traffic to other people's websites. Google has no business knowing who visits other people's websites. If you want to use Google hosted 'free' fonts in your site, let your visitors know, or learn to host them locally on your server. For instance: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/how-to-self-host-google-fonts--cms-34775t To use Big Tech is to feed it. There are other ways.

It takes true corruption of heart and reason to formally prosecute Hamas terrorists for their heinous acts, yet not Netanyahu and his terrorists for theirs.

the Guardian

Hamas leaders charged by US over deadly 7 October attacks on Israel

Yahya Sinwar and at least five others accused by US justice department of planning and orchestrating the deadly attacks in which 1,200 people were ...

The endemic application of 'AI' was never "inevitable", just as it has not made its way into our lives as the result of a public assessment of needs. It's important to be vigilant as to the creep of Technological Determinism, especially in this critical time; what we call 'AI' is not some natural expression of socio-technical progress. It is being pushed upon us by private companies wholly in the interest of profit & capture, without regulation, without care for the human & environmental costs

While liberating a Pixel phone I came across this poetry, and on the day Google is convicted of illegal market monopoly in the US: the power button itself, the interface to switching off a device one supposedly owns, is intercepted by a Google 'AI' product. The device can not be powered off, even using buttons as described, without first downloading software from the company. This domineering and invasive interface culture has to be stopped.

Circling back to GrapheneOS (been a few years) and glad to see it is in fine shape indeed, on this recently liberated Google Pixel. The Web Installer is neat, but I opted for the cli install to sate my obsessive need to know what is going on at each step.

GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS

Keep up the good @GrapheneOS

Monbiot not holding back in this great piece on Brazil's bold yet completely sane and sensible plan to implement a global tax on billionaires. "Billionaire wealth impoverishes us all: astonishingly, each of them produces, on average, a million times more carbon dioxide than the average global citizen in the bottom 90%. Billionaires are a blight on the planet."

the Guardian

Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future | George Monbiot

It would raise $250bn to help offset some of the damage the super-rich cause. Yet they’ll do everything to stop it in its tracks, says Guardian c...

I've ranted about the risks of over-investment in CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) for years, the moral hazard it invites - especially as a license to pollute. Turns out oil companies have been playing the public all along, talking it up as a solution while quietly distancing themselves from it as a technology not near practically viable:

Vox

Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions

The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained.

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