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Richard Stallman

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This is the Mastodon account for Richard Stallman. I founded GNU & the @fsf and with them launched the Free Software Movement. Please join or donate to the FSF: https://www.fsf.org I use this account to mirror the political notes from my web site, stallman.org. Read my linking policy: https://stallman.org/linkpolicy.html The views expressed here, as in stallman.org, are my personal views, not those of the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project. #FSF #GNU #FreeSoftware

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

When extremist Republican Senator Tim Scott threatened to fire workers for striking, he violated US labor law:

UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.”

“Telling workers they’ll be fired for striking is violating federal labor law, and that’s not something becoming of a senator.”

He was urging for auto workers to be treated this way, but he is an employer himself, and he can't treat workers that way. So the UAW has filed a complaint against him.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

Working from home makes it possible to save over 50% of one's greenhouse gas emissions, by avoiding commuting, but achieving that much savings requires taking significant steps to make your activities around home greener:

Scientific American

Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee

By not going into the office, an at-home worker can cut greenhouse emissions in excess of 50 percent if they take energy-conservation steps

We should not forget that most employers demand use of unjust technology that people should never tolerate. Starting with things like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Google Docs, and lots of imposed employer-operated spyware.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

Solar power satellites are being considered seriously by the EU:

Tim Peake backs idea for solar farms in space as costs fall

Astronaut says rockets from Elon Musk’s SpaceX can reduce price of launching equipment

The L5 society's 1980 plan was to build large ones using material from the Moon. Launching that from the Moon's shallower gravity well would be far cheaper than launching that from Earth.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

Despite the cease fire of the Tigray region's forces with Ethiopia, the atrocities continue there, committed by other ethnic Ethiopian militias and the Eritrean army:

Tigray atrocities continuing almost a year after ceasefire, UN experts warn

Ethiopian government is failing to protect its citizens from ‘grave’ human rights abuses, amid rising violence and hate speech – report

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

I work in a supermarket and see how desperate some shoplifters are:

I work in a supermarket and see how desperate some shoplifters are. My heart goes out to them | Anonymous

Sharon White is right – theft is ‘epidemic’ on the British high street. But more security measures won’t fix our unequal society, says an a...

My heart goes out to them. The same worker also sees professional thieves, and addicts who steal to buy an addictive drug. Those have always existed, but what's changed is that now there are many desperate thieves stealing necessities of life.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

I will be speaking at the GNU 40th anniversary event in Switzerland on September 27th. When? The event runs September 27, 2023, 9:00–22:00 CEST When is this keynote address? On September 27th at 14:00h Where? Volkshaus in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Link:

GNU 40th anniversary - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

40 years ago the GNU Project — to develop the GNU operating system — was launched and gave birth to the Free Software movement, and Free Software has since become the cornerstone of modern computing.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

[01/02] A large UK union will spend some money on publicly promoting a few specific policy issues, instead of giving it to Labour:

Unite launches ‘red wall’ campaign in push for radical Labour policies

Keir Starmer could end up on the back foot as his party’s main backer launches campaigns on energy, steel and green jobs in red wall seats

Not all of these policies are good. One of them is to continue developing more offshore oilfields, to extract oil that the world cannot safely burn or make into more plastic. I am in favor of a well-managed green transition, but trying to demand it by overdrawing the carbon budget is environmental terrorism.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

[03/03] ...whole world, not on short-term protection of each area by itself.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

[01/03] Expensive plans to protect Rockaway in NYC from future hurricanes may not be effective:

Property over people? New York City’s $52bn plan to save itself from the sea

A decade after Hurricane Sandy, critics of a federal plan that allocates billions to protect the region from rising waters are calling it a ‘fail...

The article explains that efforts to estimate the probability of a another similar disaster were bogus or confused. Meanwhile, science has advanced since the 2000s. We should make a more plausible estimate of that probability, based on acceleration of global heating, then increase it for our continued incomplete knowledge. Then we should make another such estimate...

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

120,000 people in Britain died in 2022 while on NHS waiting lists:

‘National tragedy’: figures show large rise in people dying while on NHS waiting list

Figures obtained by Labour show an estimated 120,695 people died in England while awaiting treatment

That is double that dies while waiting in 2017/2018. The cause of this is simple: bad policies imposed by the government. Especially the policy of refusing to tax the rich so as to raise enough funds to do the NHS job right and thoroughly. I would have suggested voting for Labour, except now Labour is committed to be just as bad.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

The UK is facing another wave of Covid-19 from the multi-mutation Pirola variant:

‘Lessons have been forgotten’: is the UK ready for a new Covid variant?

With worrying mutations, limited vaccine rollout, vastly reduced testing and a creaking health service, experts are predicting a tough few months a...

Reducing the harm calls for wearing masks, but the government is too timid to promote them. The situation is similar in the US. I wear masks by choice, to protect myself and others. So can you.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

Sep 17: Join the climate defense rally in New York City: https://www.endfossilfuels.us/logistics

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

In 2021, 16 countries pledged to stop their international investments in fossil fuel, Most of them kept the pledge. The US, Germany and Italy did not: https://priceofoil.org/2023/09/06/revealed-taxpayer-funded-fossil-fuel-projects-from-the-u-s-germany-and-italy-breach-international-climate-commitments/

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

Organizations that campaign against hate are now campaigning against Musk and his use of Ex-Twitter to attack those organizations:

Civil rights groups attacked by Elon Musk are mounting a counteroffensive

Advocacy groups are rallying to the defense of the Anti-Defamation League and the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

We have to conclude that Must is a fascist and suspect that he bought Twitter to use it for hate.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

US citizens: call on the Biden Administration to protect access to Medicaid:

Demand Progress

The Biden Administration must protect access to Medicaid

States are moving quickly to kick families off Medicaid. The Biden Administration must increase oversight and protect health care coverage

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted:

Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted in ‘deeply concerning’ sign for sea levels

Study finds ‘direct evidence’ of polar amplification on continent as scientists warn of implications of ice loss

This suggest the rising sea will come for you sooner than previously predicted.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

"Smart" devices typically collect more data about their useds than is required to implement their features:

UK owners of smart home devices being asked for swathes of personal data

Which? said firms are gathering far more data than needed for products to function

As usual, for "smart" read "snoop". Instead of getting a "smart device", be smart yourself — and reject them.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

The UK parliament passed laws a few years ago to require registration of the effective ("beneficial") owner of foreign-owned properties, but left a loophole that defeats the system: when the nominal owner is a trust, it can still conceal the identity of the effective owner:

Owners of 100,000 properties held by foreign shell companies unknown despite new UK laws

Legal loopholes are used to obscured the ownership of two-thirds of English and Welsh properties held by foreign shell companies

This is plutocratism at work.

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

UN warns world will miss climate targets unless fossil fuels phased out:

‘A critical moment’: UN warns world will miss climate targets unless fossil fuels phased out

Governments failing to cut emissions fast enough to meet Paris agreement goals and avoid disaster, major report says

Richard Stallman 2 years ago

Modi has arbitrarily kicked two news organizations off the internet, and has arbitrarily had one evicted from its offices:

Modi ramps up online censorship in India

With less than a year to go to parliamentary elections in India, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the government to guarantee the online fr...

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