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The future is unwritten. Wisdom and action is power. The most important life lesson? You can change yourself.
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Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · Apr 26
Someone rebuked me for saying out loud what everyone knows:

WE NEED A PEACEFUL NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION IN GOVERNANCE, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMICS.

It's not only me saying that. Here's what the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program wrote in October 2022:

#ClimateSky #GreenSky
We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over. Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster. Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. Link in next post.
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lissaharris.bsky.social
longer explanation of what happened last time Hochul
tried to game greenhouse gas accounting, written by me what feels like a lifetime ago:

www.chronogram.com/river-newsro...
Hochul Math: The governor’s power grab to rewrite climate law
It’s been a hell of a week in Albany. The state budget is late, and the fights are ferocious. Even if you were paying attention, you might have missed
www.chronogram.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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eciu.net
Commenting on the SMMT's car manufacturing figures for 2025 Colin Walker, @eciu.net said:

"This goes to show that, with the world moving to EVs, the future of the UK's car industry rests on it making a successful transition to building them."
eciu.net/media/press...
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
A unique archaeological discovery in China's Mogao Caves revealed strikingly well-preserved paper flowers dating back about 1,000 years.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/pape...
January 30, 2026 at 7:19 AM
freedomforall.net
Fighting his way to a peace prize by invading those he's decided fall in his orbit.
January 30, 2026 at 5:42 AM
freedomforall.net
Ash Sarkar interviews the excellent @annpettifor.bsky.social for Novara Media.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3V...
2008 Whistleblower On The Next Big Crash | Ash Sarkar Meets Ann Pettifor
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:54 PM
freedomforall.net
I long for the days politics was more serious and less criminal.
Carter Fights Killer Rabbit' With Paddle On Fishing Trip WASHINGTON (AP)A "killer rabbit" attacked President Carter on a recent trip to Plains, Ga., penetrating Secret Service security and forcing the chief executive to beat back the beast with a canoe paddle. The rabbit, which the president later guessed was fleeing in panic from some predator, actually swam toward a canoe from which Carter was fishing in a was hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared, and and making straight for the president. Carter was not injured, and reports are unclear about what became of the banzai bunny. But fortunately for Carter's credibility, a White House staff photographer made a picture of the attack and the president's successful self-defence. It was fortunate because some of the president's closest staff members refused to believe the story of the aquatic attack rabbit when Carter related it to them later. Their skepticism arose despite Carter's strong and oft-repeated promises never to lie. "Everybody knows rabbits don't swim," said one former doubter. Carter, stung by this skepticism from his inner circle, ordered up a print of the photograph to offer as proof. But even this was not good enough at first. "You could see him in the cance with his paddle raised, and you could see something in the water," sald the doubter. "But you couldn't tell what it was. It could have been anything So Carter ordered an enlargement made "It was a rabbit, all right," said the staff member after seeing the blown-up photo
January 29, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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billybragg.bsky.social
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
freedomforall.net
Fuck you Bruce. You're part of the problem.
Forbes: PROFILE Bruce Springsteen Musician $1.2B Real Time Net Worth as of 1/28/26 #2956 in the world today
January 28, 2026 at 8:59 PM
freedomforall.net
I wonder how fewer data centres we would need were individuals owners of their data?
paulbernal.bsky.social Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d
I, for one, welcome our new Techbro Overlords.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
Purposefully making products bad to juice revenue is exactly what MBA programs* teach students to view as "rational"--the kind of strategy that gets raises and promotions.

* How very dare I critique MBAs? I was a biz school prof for 9yrs & an HBS MBA student, after working in SilValley startup.
freedomforall.net Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · 4d
Just in case anyone thinks that hyperbolic.

rudevulture.com/journalist-e...
Screenshot, two paragraphs of the article; The Department of Justice uncovered memos showing two competing visions within Google. Ben Gomes, a longtime engineer who built Google’s data center network, was “palpably horrified” at proposals to worsen search results. His opponent, former McKinsey consultant Prabhakar Raghavan, advocated making users search multiple times to find answers, generating more ad impressions per query. “His only argument for not doing this is I didn’t devote my whole life to making a search engine that we made worse,” Doctorow explained. “And Prabhakar Raghavan’s answer is we’re going to make more money if we make the search engine worse and nothing bad will happen to us so why don’t we do that.”
January 26, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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clearspies.fellas.army
Holy. Fucking. SHIT.
January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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katalogofchaos.bsky.social
While I haven't heard the phrase in a few years now, this is why library discovery did not need to be "more like Google"
freedomforall.net Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · 4d
Just in case anyone thinks that hyperbolic.

rudevulture.com/journalist-e...
Screenshot, two paragraphs of the article; The Department of Justice uncovered memos showing two competing visions within Google. Ben Gomes, a longtime engineer who built Google’s data center network, was “palpably horrified” at proposals to worsen search results. His opponent, former McKinsey consultant Prabhakar Raghavan, advocated making users search multiple times to find answers, generating more ad impressions per query. “His only argument for not doing this is I didn’t devote my whole life to making a search engine that we made worse,” Doctorow explained. “And Prabhakar Raghavan’s answer is we’re going to make more money if we make the search engine worse and nothing bad will happen to us so why don’t we do that.”
January 26, 2026 at 1:37 PM
freedomforall.net
Peter Thiel knows he is the antichrist. That's my takeaway. Has been for some time.
aurelienmorel.bsky.social Aurélien Morel (pew pews en tout genre) @aurelienmorel.bsky.social · 3d
Pour faire suite au passage parisien de Peter Thiel, je vous invite tous à écouter l'épisode fait par Tech Won't Save Us de @parismarx.com avec @gilduran.com en novembre, sur le sujet de Thiel et son délire religieux.

(En anglais)
January 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM
freedomforall.net
"This is peak modernity" @aarnegranlund.bsky.social

#GreenSky #ClimateSky
aarnegranlund.bsky.social Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 3d
The tourism industry will sell ’coolcations’ to the north. You fly up here burning carbon, which further heats the climate, only to sit in a non-air-conditioned AirBnB during a heat wave.

Even the snow isn’t guaranteed during the Christmas holidays. This is peak modernity.
aarnegranlund.bsky.social Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 3d
”One tourist told the BBC they came to Rovaniemi to escape the sweltering heat of Prague — only to find themselves sweating in 30-degree weather.”

#ExtremeCivilization

yle.fi/a/74-2017454...
January 27, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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jael.bsky.social
this is the kind of thing that upsets republicans in congress fwiw
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3d
I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911!

“I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
ICE Unloads
Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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mkblyth.bsky.social
Actually, not final for today. New Rhodes center Podcast is out. Seth Rockman interviews Sven Beckett about his new book, Capitalism: A Global History. Enjoy: player.captivate.fm/episode/76bb...
A global history of capitalism
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
player.captivate.fm
January 27, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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protik.bsky.social
This harms regular people but it also amounts to defrauding companies paying for these ads
freedomforall.net Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · 4d
Just in case anyone thinks that hyperbolic.

rudevulture.com/journalist-e...
Screenshot, two paragraphs of the article; The Department of Justice uncovered memos showing two competing visions within Google. Ben Gomes, a longtime engineer who built Google’s data center network, was “palpably horrified” at proposals to worsen search results. His opponent, former McKinsey consultant Prabhakar Raghavan, advocated making users search multiple times to find answers, generating more ad impressions per query. “His only argument for not doing this is I didn’t devote my whole life to making a search engine that we made worse,” Doctorow explained. “And Prabhakar Raghavan’s answer is we’re going to make more money if we make the search engine worse and nothing bad will happen to us so why don’t we do that.”
January 26, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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2damntrans.bsky.social
TL;DR capitalism poisons everything.
freedomforall.net Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · 4d
Just in case anyone thinks that hyperbolic.

rudevulture.com/journalist-e...
Screenshot, two paragraphs of the article; The Department of Justice uncovered memos showing two competing visions within Google. Ben Gomes, a longtime engineer who built Google’s data center network, was “palpably horrified” at proposals to worsen search results. His opponent, former McKinsey consultant Prabhakar Raghavan, advocated making users search multiple times to find answers, generating more ad impressions per query. “His only argument for not doing this is I didn’t devote my whole life to making a search engine that we made worse,” Doctorow explained. “And Prabhakar Raghavan’s answer is we’re going to make more money if we make the search engine worse and nothing bad will happen to us so why don’t we do that.”
January 26, 2026 at 12:50 PM
freedomforall.net
Trump will pause ICE action in Minneapolis, likely today, and by midweek. He knows the killing of Alex Pretti looks like the violence he says he wants to stop, his polling numbers are shot, and Republicans face defeat in the midterms. His cabinet will be against yet his survival instincts will rule.
January 26, 2026 at 8:20 AM
freedomforall.net
The regime in America is trying to make the law to suit their agenda. They are out of control. I did not believe this regime would mark the end of the American experiment with democracy. I hope that was not an error of judgement.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
freedomforall.net
I don't think I have viscerally hated anyone in my life, but this little man has brought me closer than ever with his hateful rhetoric and white supremacist views.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
freedomforall.net
This show shocked me nearly six years ago. The daily lived experience of black Americans was so beyond anything I could have imagined - and these are the voices are relatively wealthy and successful people. I listen to this once a year now, to remind myself of my former ignorance.
freedomforall.net Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · 5d
I'm British and lived in mixed communities in London as an adult - I thought I had a fair understanding of race issues. After the George Floyd killing in May 2020 I listened to this episode of the Daily Tech News Show, given over to Black voices speaking of their experiences in America. I cried.
Time to Listen – DTNS
We’re taking a day off to hear from black contributors to DTNS and its wider circle. MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. Subscribe through Apple Podcasts. A …
dailytechnewsshow.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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mrjohncrace.bsky.social
Please repost if you are feeling kind!
January 25, 2026 at 4:44 PM
freedomforall.net
Alex Pretti is not a victim - Bovino.
freedomforall.net Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · 5d
Bovino: "The victims are the border patrol agents".
January 25, 2026 at 2:41 PM
freedomforall.net
CNN showing video of Alex Pretti being executed and beeping out the screams of the woman filming it, "What the **** have you done".
January 25, 2026 at 2:09 PM