Sustainability is not typically part of a bank’s vocabulary.

But there are terms a bank can understand : systemic risk for the economy, the prospect of fossil fuel investments becoming stranded assets, negative effect on public relation and how it can be a competitive disadvantage if a bank do not attract customers who value human life.

Yes, banks should worry about all these risks. Climate change is a large systematic risk so it make sense to worry about it as well.

Meanwhile, megabanks like Wells Fargo are backsliding on their previous climate pledges and exiting from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a United Nations-backed group that encouraged members to slash their emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.

Multiple US banks and entities are backtracking their goals of lowering emissions, wich is the main solution to limit the risks of climate change.

They’re setting themselves up, and us collectively, for higher risks of flood, drought, sea rise, …

Musk and Trump are creating the bloodily moronic situation in which the US will have to fight wars to get the things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking. And, of course, wars rarely turn out the way one expects.

Master negotiators! (not)

I can’t imagine how it must feel for diplomats and other public servants who worked to maintain those alliances, to see them destroyed by Putin’s useful idiots.

They met their goal: a ban on new licenses for oil and gas.

Yay!

Alternatives like actual cash, proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, or even EMV.

Most alternatives aren’t completely anonymous payment methods, but Monero’s anonymity isn’t worth wasting so much resources.

Monero has a disproportionally large energy usage and footprint on the environment. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0152-7

Please consider less wasteful alternatives. Every bit help, it’s about keeping earth safe for human life.

That person’s solidarity with a colleague is remarkable and probably worth sharing, but indeed doesn’t look like a meme.

Yet I see why one would accept such post in a science-focused community. It’s hard to ignore all the attacks on science by US politicians.

Carbon capture doesn’t really help meet climate goal. Burning less and less fossil fuels does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrFtReaFMY

Yay GNU Taler is very promising, but I fear banks prefer proprietary systems.

It may become widely used if there’s strong customer demand for GNU Taler, or regulation requiring an open electronic wallet. Most banks would probably be dragging their feet.

Adding a second ISP can provide resiliency and ensure a critical infrastructure stays connected even when 1 ISP fails.

I would be surprised if the White House didn’t already have such resiliency.

My speculation is they just want to avoid red tape and circumvent the restriction and strict access control applied to existing connections.

DM aren’t end-to-end encrypted, so they aren’t a good way to send private messages.

I’m using a different instances, but I’d rather admin just turn them off for the time being.

Antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women already is a safe and effective way to avoid HIV transmission to the baby. It’s part of standard treatment guidelines https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1701216324003748

So the guy has genetically engineered babies as a potentially risky and certainlycontroversial solution for a problem that already has a safe and non-controversia solution.

💔

This report explains F-35 have no remote control nor kill switch, but depend on US companies for maintenance and parts.

Source : https://interestingengineering.com/military/f35-kill-switch-reports-debunked

Even if an F-35 operator disconnected from the larger Joint Strike Fighter program’s supply chains can keep some number of its jets flying for a period of time through spares on hand and cannibalization, those aircraft would have extremely degraded capabilities.

Source : https://www.twz.com/air/you-dont-need-a-kill-switch-to-hobble-exported-f-35s

BlueSky is US-based and not really decentralised. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

Prefer Mastodon and other fediverse services.

Blackrock is part of the big three (BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street). They own a portion of almost everything, including each other.

So it’s often the case that Blackrock is involved, even indirectly.

https://theconversation.com/these-three-firms-own-corporate-america-77072

The devil’s in the details. And there aren’t much details in this article.

Briar use Tor by default as well for Internet connections, so I don’t think Session is unique in that way. And both appear decentralized.

A difference is that Briar is Android-only, whereas session is available on more platforms https://sourceforge.net/software/compare/Briar-vs-Session-vs-Signal/

It’s good that people are working on privacy-preserving tools. But I wish they’d coordinate to avoid fragmentation. Work on common/standard messenging protocols, so that people can talk to each other even using different software.

Currently it feels like going back to the 1990s-2000s, with ICQ/AIM/MSNM being all incompatible, and every single one being unable to communicate with a large fraction of your contacts.

First impression: why another messaging system?

It may be fine, but what does it bring that Signal/Briar/Matrix/XMPP+Omemo doesn’t have? Does it use existing standard protocol or encryption that’s compatible with other messengers, to avoid fragmentation?

Aka “privatize profits and socialize risks”