“The Trump Administration’s efforts to jump-start nuclear power and fossil fuels are not succeeding,” said Ken Bossong, executive director of the SUN DAY Campaign. “Capacity additions by solar, wind, and battery storage continue to dramatically outpace gas, coal, and nuclear … and by growing […]

Free download: "New Agenda: Issue 99" https://ifaaza.org/new_agenda/new-agenda-issue-99/

S’bu Zikode, President of Abahlali baseMjondolo, will be in Cape Town this Saturday to launch two important new books. Twenty Years of Courage and Struggle documents the movement’s organising over two decades, produced through an inclusive process ahead of […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

https://magazine.fsf.org/2025-winter/ Free Software Foundation news

Just released #techgrumps 3.34 - ChatGPT is not my wingman https://rss.com/podcasts/techgrumps/2383376/ Staring the voices of @wendyg @eastmad and @cubicgarden

Why RSS matters https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

Ntirhisano Community Centre is hoping someone will volunteer to fix its djembe, see below...

Let's Encrypt is ten years old. It's changed the web for the better. https://werd.io/10-years-of-lets-encrypt-certificates/

If you've already wandered across the Resonant Computing Manifesto please also read https://gameboat.bearblog.dev/the-resonant-computing-manifesto/

Poland: From Potential Eurasian Bridge to NATO’s Emerging Hybrid Rampart https://english.10mehr.com/poland-from-potential-eurasian-bridge-to-natos-emerging-hybrid-rampart/

If you were born after 1994 in South Africa, it’s easy to forget that being gay used to be a crime. 🏳️‍🌈🚫 While the racism of #apartheid is well-documented, the regime's extreme homophobia is often overlooked. Under the National Party, it wasn't just […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

America’s 2025 National Security Strategy Still Underestimates China https://english.10mehr.com/americas-2025-national-security-strategy-still-underestimates-china/

Support letters for Chairman Omali flood sentencing judge https://theburningspear.com/support-letters-for-chairman-omalis-leadership-flooded-uhuru-3-sentencing-judge/

"Israel used Palantir technology in 2024 Lebanon pager attacks" https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/12/10/palantir-israel/

Take the time to read {again} how Stephan has built a self hosted CDN using OpenSource programming and tools. He literally shares the code. From what I processed, this method can scale up quite easily. You can build a super large CDN yourself using similar […] [Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe]

It's crazy that the US has the nearly the same rate of road traffic deaths per 100,000 people as India, Brazil and China. It does worse than Indonesia and Mexico. Wow! Neat stuff from @ashendruk.com's excellent new newsletter www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...

Tomorrow in The Hague, EU Member States launch a new international organisation, one that invests in and cares for #digitalcommons and open source. The EDIC for Digital Commons is a long term commitment and strategy to help governments transition to open source, work with the communities and […]

Oh yes, and then there is this! 😄 "Leading facial #ageestimation tools were easily fooled by a $22 "old man" mask, a Guy Fawkes mask, and other cheap party costumes, researchers have found." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/social-media-ban-vpns-masks-age-checks-disguises/105836134 […]

The last 3 CT screenings have been fully-booked, so we are happy to share one last free gratis pasella opportunity in 2025 with anyone who missed it, this Friday at UCT Middle Campus, 5pm. Details below https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DEdnWWH8N/

Just arrived in London for a few hour layover and there's deals for some new eSim startup everywhere, which successfully just worked on my GrapheneOS phone. Free 4gb if anyone needs (This is not a sponsored ad lol)

You're carrying other people's cells in your brain right now https://boingboing.net/2025/12/09/youre-carrying-other-peoples-cells-in-your-brain-right-now.html

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

Israel‘s Zionist Self-Destruction | Y. Rabkin, M. Ramos & J. Sachs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzU6frsoNoc

RE: https://mastodon.social/@karmaburrito/115688761514480450 My solution is to have a low-spec laptop...

These third-party scripts hand over all sorts of information on how KiwiBank customers manage our money, and our lives, to companies we have no relationship with. Serving them to us when we login to internet banking, without our knowledge or consent, is a gross violation of our privacy. If this […]

Cowhide Collective Jam Session—our anti-fascist safe space. Wed, Dec 10 • 18:00–21:30 • 515 Albert Rd, Salt River. A weekly healing gathering where no one is denied their humanity. Princess D returns after powerful songs, poems, and an impromptu guitar […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Over the weekend, the GreenPill podcast dropped this conversation I had with one of the governance technologists I admire most, former Taiwan digital minister Audrey Tang: https://pod.link/1609313639/episode/NWRjNTkzZjEtNzczMS00Zjk1LTljMTUtYWQwZWRlMWFmM2Nl It is […] [Original post on social.coop]

Ah, that's a shame. Can't wait to learn more about this. Probably worth pointing out that a lot of high-end sports cars can be similarly bricked (think Lambos) if cut off from anti-theft systems. https://www.autoblog.com/news/all-of-russias-porsches-were-bricked-by-a-mysterious-satellite-outage

The news that #x has suspended the #eu's advertising account on the platform after it issued a 120m EUR fine against X for breaking the #DSA is beyond hilarious. And it might even be kind of good in the sense that politicians in Europe maybe finally realise how shitty it is to depend on such a […]

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

It's FOSS 様において、Floorp を含む Firefox 派生ブラウザーが紹介されています 👀

I mean LLMs are based on statistics, and they will produce results that look like frequency charts. But these charts only attempt to approximate the expected content. They aren't based on counting articles that meet any set of criteria. It's... nonsense, and not even people who pride themselves […]

India's government has backtracked on its demand for Apple to preinstall a state-backed app onto the iPhone, after facing a predictable public backlash. https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/03/india-blinks-wont-require-apple-to-preinstall-a-state-app-on-iphone

#Musk’s #starship 💩too good to be true " #willlockett has called Musk out as a failure & a #fraud 🤦‍♂️.. tt Starship is a badly engineered, #overhyped machine which can never work well.. skuM arrogantly assumed tt throwing enuf money & engineer'g talent at te proj cld somehow overcome te […]

Wir waren in Hannover 2,000 Personen die gegen die Wehrpflicht demonstrieren 🚩

RE: https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/europe-news-usk80vk6z/-/a-m3nExCueTLq2Q-cwIlw9pQ%3Aa%3A3199698-%2F0 Chernobyl perfectly illustrates the problem of nuclear power, namely the aftermath. The waste outlives states and sarcophagi. It goes through wars and natural disasters. Safe storage is an […]

TIL that ternary (base 3) computing had its heyday in the USSR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vwOJE0Dq38

@pluralistic does it again: brilliance. "To pop the [AI] bubble, we have to hammer on the forces that created the bubble: the myth that AI can do your job, especially if you get high wages that your boss can claw back; the understanding that growth companies need a succession of […]

Gate 7 Community invites all neighbours, partners, collaborators, and supporters to our community meeting • Gate 7 Informal Settlement, Wingfield Airbase • Saturday, 6 December • 14:00 • Gate 7 stands against hatred toward fellow Africans • Unity and […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Ray McGovern doesn't particularly like Trump or Putin, but as a devout Christian, he opposes demonisation. Here he makes the case that a cynical, pragmatic deal between them is better than the alternative: continued destruction of Ukraine […]

I retired from teaching 18 months ago, in part because it was becoming clear to me that the "AI" industry was undermining education in profound ways. This essay makes a convincing case that LLMs are a plague on learning -- and, not incidentally, higher education […]

"#websocialbr is the first #fediverse event that will be held in #brazil, on December 3rd in #Brasília. The event wants to “bring together community administrators, managers, parliamentarians, researchers, and communicators to exchange experiences and strengthen decentralized networks in the […]

Not up to the usual standard of Groundup journalism. Hate speech is only mentioned passingly, genocide not at all. Yet Facebook infamously enabled genocide in Myanmar by being linguistically challenged […]

Selling out our sovereignty https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12/selling-out-our-sovereignty #auspol

🇪🇺#ChatControl Twist: Commissioner Brunner backs Parliament against governments' mass surveillance plans! The first Trilogue starts this Tuesday. 📅 Read the full story & get the recording (Mashups welcome! ✂️🎧) 👇 […]

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Ukraine's population -42 million before February 2022- has already shrunk to below 36 million...According to government estimates, Ukraine's average male life expectancy dropped from 65.2 years before the war to 57.3 years in 2024 […]

WSJ story on pardon of Honduras' drug-trafficker ex-president notes his role in “Próspera, a libertarian ‘startup city’ backed by Silicon Valley investors including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.” “A Thiel spokesman said Thiel wasn’t involved in the pardon.” 🎁 link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...