Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.

This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran

(🎥 i24 News)

Per report executive summary, "Press releases for these projects say one thing. But the 35+ permit documents, site plans, and equipment deals we found tell a much different story. Nearly 75% of the generation equipment we could identify (23 GW) was natural gas-powered." Image includes data chart underpinning finding, showing 22,799 MW of gas-fired power, 6,400 MW nuclear, 1,1317 fuel cells, and 355 batter storage per publicly-disclosed equipment.

The AI data center "buildout is overwhelmingly powered by natural gas." Despite claims re: alternative generation, "the equipment actually being installed in 2025 and 2026 is almost entirely gas-fired. Renewable capacity, where committed, is scheduled for 2028 or later. Nuclear is a decade away."

There’s no reforming this

Sky Bridge Bring your favourite Mastodon apps and use them with Bluesky!

Just set up a #SkyBridge folks can use to bridge their #Bluesky accounts to #Mastodon / #ActivityPub apps. It's free & public for now, may go private if it starts to use up too many server resources.

https://sky.earth.law

#FOSS #SocialMedia #SelfHosted #DigitalCommons

Bridging the BLM ePlanning portal I've built and released another custom RSS-Bridge—this one for the Bureau of Land Management's ePlanning website.

Another custom #RSS-Bridge, this one to track new documents filed for any #NEPA project on the #BLM #ePlanning portal.
Automate alerts for scoping notices, draft EAs, and decision records without manually checking the site.

sij.law/bridging-the...

#EnvironmentalLaw #foss #selfhosting #opengov

Another Bridge Built: Tracking Congress I've built a new custom RSS-Bridge that provides real-time feeds for actions on any bill on Congress.gov.

I've built a new custom RSS-Bridge that provides real-time feeds for actions on any bill in Congress. sij.law/another-brid...

#rss #rssbridge #congress #bills #foss #floss #flaresolverr #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #opengov

Bridges to Nowhere Resurrecting the White House Feeds with RSS-Bridge

The #WhiteHouse deleted its public #RSS feeds, so I used the #FOSS tool #RSS-Bridge to rebuild them. A quick look at why these small pieces of data infrastructure matter + links to the restored feeds → sij.law/bridges-to-n...

#selfhosting #transparency #opengov

Israel's leading human rights group issued a report this week declaring the country's actions in Gaza "our genocide," joining a growing global consensus. "Israel is taking systematic, organized action to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza," says Sarit Michaeli of B'Tselem.

Israeli human rights group: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B’Tselem declares Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its latest report.

Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B’Tselem declares Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its latest report.

"Columbia has effectively waived the white flag of surrender in its battle at the heart of the Trump administration's war on higher education and academic freedom."

Israeli Troops Gun Down 30+ Palestinians in Yet Another Food Aid Massacre | Common Dreams One witness said Israeli forces opened fire indiscriminately at Palestinians seeking food aid near a hub operated by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

www.commondreams.org/news/idf-gaz...

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’ UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza.

israelpalestinenews.org/un-report-li...

On Compelled Silence and Compelled Lies If a canary song is heard, but no one verifies the source, are we safe or already compromised?

Someone asked me about the #WarrantCanary I recently introduced on We2.ee — how it holds up legally, whether it's just digital virtue signaling. It’s a sharp question, and one I wanted to explore thoroughly. sij.law/warrant-cana...

#InfoSec #Selfhosting #We2ee #E2EE #Privacy #Matrix #Encryption

A Harvard Commencement Speaker Mentioned Gaza. The School Refused to Publish Her Speech. Divinity School insiders said Harvard’s practices are at odds with the public perception that the university is fighting Trump.

#FreeSpeech #HarvardHypocrisy #GazaGenocide #NeverAgain #ApartheidIsrael #JustSayNoToApartheid #AntizionismIsNotAntisemitism

theintercept.com/2025/06/20/h...

Toward Enduring Web Citations A tool for solving the web's twin problems of impermanence and imprecision.

a little tool I built to fight linkrot and save our sources from the memory hole → sij.law/deepciter

#digitalpreservation #selfhosting #archivebox #opensource #foss #textfragments #waybackmachine #linkrot #memoryhole #legaltech #permalink #deepcite

Trump’s EPA Has All but Stopped Enforcing Environmental Laws - Truthdig In the last few months, the federal agency has significantly scaled back pollution enforcement.

In the last few months, federal enforcement of major violations of environmental laws appears to have ground to a halt.

www.truthdig.com/articles/tru...

We + E2EE, but I like your reading!

About we2.ee Encrypted Chat for the People

#ShieldsUp, #BlockOut, #BreakFree. With #BigTech hands on ALL the levers now, free #E2EE platforms like #We2ee have never been more vital. Recent improvements bring it fully into sync with the #decentralized #Matrix ecosystem and strengthen guardrails ensuring a healthy community for the long haul.

The Hague Group

Inaugural joint statement of The Hague Group (Belize, Bolivia, Columbia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa) on measures “to end Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine.” https://thehaguegroup.org/ #TheHagueGroup #AntiApartheid #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #NoArmsToIsrael

'I'm going home': President Biden gives clemency to Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier Former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who had been imprisoned for nearly 50 years, on Jan. 20.

Thank you, President Biden.

Thinking Like a Developer, Pt. 1 When our backup pump failed on the homestead, I built a calculator to figure out what we really needed. It’s a small, open-source tool born from necessity and a few iterations with self-hosted AI.

When our backup #pump failed on the #Oregon #homestead, I built a #calculator to figure out what we really needed. It’s a small, #opensource tool born from necessity and a few iterations with #SelfHosted #ai

sij.law/thinking-lik...

#python #code #devops #water #ollama #qwq #selfhosting #aiml

Bird flu is sweeping through zoos Researchers warn of "grave implications" for endangered animals.

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Jimmy Carter's presidency preceded my lifetime, but as a student of history, I've found no other U.S. president who matched his moral integrity. His term stands as a rare beacon of ethical leadership between two darker chapters in American foreign policy—as does his later humanitarian work.

FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts U.S. officials urge citizens to use encrypted messaging and calls wherever they can—here’s what you need to know.

ICYMI: #FBI now urges citizens to adopt #E2EE in lieu of texts wherever possible.

What a pivot since its 2016 fight w/ #Apple over #iPhone #encryption..

What a time to launch We2.ee, end-to-end-encrypted chat for the People..

What time to start free! ➔ We2.ee/about

What a time to be alive..

A Note on Trade and Inequality We saw millions of workers displaced in manufacturing, as our trade deficit ballooned from 1997 to 2007. Communities across the industrial heartland were devastated as the factories that supported the...

www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/25/a...

Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account.

Surprise!

#OtD 11 Dec 1981 a Reagan-backed death squad massacred around 1000 people in El Mozote, El Salvador. Prior to being killed, many of the victims were tortured and girls as young as 10 were raped by the US-trained troops stories.workingclasshistory.c...