After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.

― Carl Sagan

People please do look into a roadmap to switch to #linux

So called "big tech" is built on linux. If its good enough for them its good enough for anybody.

It is the single most powerful decision and investment towards both green and empowering digital infrastructure.

Women's march against regime brutality after opposition leader Elene Khoshtaria spoke of her degrading treatment/torture and abuse in detention, which included stripping her naked - apparently a common practice now in detention in Georgia which needs more voicing. #GeorgiaProtests

It's Monday, which is a good day to remember that the data broker industry must be destroyed: gizmodo.com/data-broker-...

"The two parts of Bezos' editorial line would be contradictory in practice. The 'free market' and 'personal liberties' would have to contradict one another in editorial decision-making, to the point that they could not be enforced together."
snyder.substack.com/p/unfreedom-...

We must turn the American nightmare into Europe’s finest hour.

A French nuclear deterrent for Europe (preferably with UK assistance) while Europe actually commits to rearmament, reindustrialization and a reduction in foreign dependence would be the best case scenario.

Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.