Reconnecting friends to the spirit of aquavit. Also at @gamleode.bsky.social
Minneapolis, MN
Joined October 2011
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Just a short note to say I'll post less here for all the obvious reasons, so if you are aquavit curious, I'll have occasional postings on the other social media place listed. Skål!
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THREAD. It's important for all people of good will to understand the Laken Riley Act before the Senate votes on it tomorrow. It’s unconstitutional. It’s horrific in every word and clause. But there is a deeper, more imminent violence lurking beneath its hate-filled text.
GamleOde retweeted
Denmark, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands plan to build four artificial islands to quadruple offshore wind in the North Sea – the equivalent of 30 nuclear reactors.
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #tech #GreenNewDeal
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It's the only kind of trade war that Canadian politicians can win against Americans: the kind where prices for Canadians don't go up because of tariffs.
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Canada could become a global high-tech export powerhouse, selling "complementary" goods that disenshittify all the worst practices of US tech monopolists, from car parts to insulin pumps.
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Shamefully, Canada had already capitulated to most of these demands. Two Canadian Conservative Party politicians, Tony Clement and James Moore, had sold the country out in 2012, throwing away 6,138 negative responses to a consultation on a new DRM law.
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And, of course, Mexican software developers can't make alternative app stores for games consoles and mobile devices - they *must* sell their software through US Big Tech companies that take 30% of every sale:
pluralistic.net/2020/09/09/f…
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GamleOde retweeted
For example, Mexico was forced to pass an anti-circumvention law that makes it a crime to tamper with "digital locks." This means that Mexican mechanics can't bypass the locks US car companies use to lock-out third party repair. Mexican farmers can't fix their own tractors.
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The point of NAFTA/USMCA is to goose profits by despoiling the environment, maiming workers, stealing their wages, paying them less, all while poisoning the Earth.
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Five years ago, Trump touted his "big, beautiful" replacement for NAFTA, the "free trade agreement" between the US, Mexico and Canada. Trump's NAFTA-2 was called the USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada Agreement) and it was pretty similar to NAFTA, to be honest.
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ALT A 19th century painting depicting the burning of the White House during the War of 1812. The white Xes on the soldiers' uniforms have been replaced with white Canadian maple leaves.
GamleOde retweeted
Any reasonable person wouldn't support Pete hegseth. But america is not reasonable people.
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"Humanity’s war on nature is ultimately a war on ourselves.
It’s time for the world to adopt a far-reaching biodiversity framework — a true peace pact with nature — and deliver a green, healthy future for all." @antonioguterres
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#biodiversity
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China now has enough wind and solar to power every home in the country: buff.ly/3lHWtKq
We have the solutions. Dump fossil fuels and implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climateemergency #climate #energy #renewables
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@Uber is trying to collect my data and Im not even using the app and havent for weeks mb months. Its secretly harvesting in the background.
Including yes - battery level.
Info exposed courtesy of @DuckDuckGo
GamleOde retweeted
A timelapse of the aerial firefighting battle that took place over the Santa Monica mountains and Mulholland drive last night. This is near encino reservoir which the helicopters used to refill. It’s also near Mountain Gate, and Brentwood. Incredible firefighting.#PalisadesFire
GamleOde retweeted
Accumulating snow begins tonight and continue into Sunday. For most of the Northland, 3 to 6 inches of snow is expected, with higher values of 6 to 12+ inches possible along the North Shore north of Lutsen, with the highest amounts from Grand Marais to Grand Portage.
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🇺🇸 💰 WATCH: @profgalloway on Elon, Zuck, Bezos and greedy tech oligarchs going full MAGA for selfish gain, with elected officials willing to stop the kleptocracy now an endangered species
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81 years ago today, President Roosevelt proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
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Fossil fuels were given over $7 TRILLION in subsidies last year: buff.ly/3P85KHU That's $19.2 billion per day,
$799 million per hour,
$13.3 million every minute.
The first step in addressing the problem is to stop funding it. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy
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The social function of the economics profession is to explain, over and over again, that your boss is actually right and that you don't really want the things you want, and you're secretly happy to be abused by the system.
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ALT A Soviet propaganda poster depicting two workers holding flags in front of a locomotive. The flags have been replaced with US flags. The locomotive's face has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The maxim below has been replaced with the lettering from a Walmart 'everyday low prices' sign. The background has been replaced with a posterized grocery aisle. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Safeway_supermarket_interior,_Fairfax_County,_Virginia.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en