Brian Beach @bwbeach@social.cleverlibre.org

The plummeting use of coal for German electricity, with a bump during 2021 and 2022 (high gas price).
Mostly thanks to renewables, producing around 60% of German electricity so far this year.

[Sure, still too much coal, should go to zero]

PS 8% of 2023 still to go ;)
#fossilfuels #coal #ClimateChange #renewables

LGBTQ+ teens won a grant for their school. Adults sent the money back.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/30/virginia-school-board-rejects-lgbtq-youth-grant/

The kids are part of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance, and the organization that gave them the grant helps uplift those in the LGBTQ+ community who are struggling.

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

This is the ideal watch. One hand. 24 hours. 360 degrees.

The colorful blobs are appointments pulled from the calendar. The gradient on the face adjusts with the seasons and sunrise/sunset.

Tap on a color and it shows you text about the appointment, tap and hold and open the calendar.

The end.

I was pretty surprised to see this headline in the Washington Post, but I'm glad the media is finally saying it. Long article, gift with audio. "In just a few years, we have gone from being relatively secure in our democracy to being a few short steps, and a matter of months, away from the possibility of dictatorship." #USPolitics #Trump
https://wapo.st/47QyFY1

Duke University Libraries are canceling their subscription to Basecamp. Their post explaining the move is very good, and worth your time: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/

Politicians across the EU claim they are committed to upholding free speech and expression. But their support of harmful provisions contained within Article 17 of the EU Media Freedom Act shows otherwise. EU lawmakers must reject the content moderation suspense for media service providers. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/eu-media-freedom-act-media-privilege-content-moderation-really-bad-idea

Donald Trump and his GOP allies are not being subtle about their plans to end our democracy in 2025. We will need to mobilize at 2020 levels to stop Trump and his MAGA movement again. Please let us know how you would like to get involved in 2024: https://act.indivisible.org/survey/defeat_trump_2024_survey?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=directpost

Pollution from coal-fired power plants killed 460,000 people between 1999 and 2020, according to a new estimate https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-power-kills-a-staggering-number-of-americans/

This OKTA harfiles hack update is a rollercoaster and a lot of people are remarking on the "While 94% of Okta customers already require MFA for their administrators" revelation that 6% of the people who _control authentication for their orgs don't use MFA_ - which is definitely very bad - I want to take a moment to look at this picture of an industrial paper cutter.

Longtime readers, you've heard me go off on this before.

https://sec.okta.com/harfiles

@StillIRise1963 Pretty much yeah. I think we all need to start holding up President Biden as our WISE ELDER. Which in fact he is. Then suddenly all those visual cues that currently read as "old guy" get re-read as "seasoned, experienced, authoritative, wise." Us humans understand the 2orld via tropes, we oughta start using them more consciously. IMHO.

Today in Labor History November 28, 1843: The Kingdom of Hawaii was officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. Consequently, the date is now known as Ka Lā Hui (Hawaiian Independence Day). The nation was formed in 1795, when the warrior chief Kamehameha the Great, of the independent island of Hawaiʻi, conquered and unified the independent islands of Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi. The U.S. became its chief trading partner and “protector” to prevent other foreign powers from seizing control. In 1891, the Committee of Safety, led primarily by foreign nationals from the U.S., U.K. and Germany, and some dissident locals, overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani. And in 1898, the U.S. annexed Hawaiʻi, making it a territory of the U.S. In 1993 Congress passed the Apology Resolution, acknowledging that the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii was by agents and citizens of the U.S. and that the Native Hawaiian people never relinquished their claims to sovereignty.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #colonialism #hawaii #NativeHawaiian #indigenous

"George Orwell predicted this

An onslaught of fake propaganda about a Niagara Falls car crash. Government officials trying to crush news orgs with investigations. Journalists killed at a record pace

Press freedom - and the truth - under attack."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©...& I thread it. 1/... 🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/free-press-right-wing-authoritarianism-20231126.html#loaded

This year's Black Friday marks the rough ten-year anniversary of the 2013 intrusion at Target.

Their compromise became public knowledge when I wrote about in on Dec. 18, 2013. But the reporting for that story started ~ Dec. 12, when I began hearing from fraud control people at several smaller banks I'd worked with in the past on Zeus trojan attacks. They were seeing unprecedented numbers of customer cards getting compromised and used for in-store fraud at big box retailers.

I agreed to give each of those contacts a short primer on how to buy back their own bank's cards from a new set of 6 million freshly hacked cards (100 percent valid) that was being advertised in the cybercrime forums. All I asked in return is that they share the results of any fraud analysis on those cards.

Within 5 days, all of those bank sources reported success in buying back enough cards to determine the pattern: All had been used w/in the same three-week period at a Target store somewhere in the United States.

The fraud shop that was selling cards that everyone at this point suspected were coming from Target helpfully included the zip code tied to each card record for sale. Initially, we lost valuable time laboring under the assumption that the zip code was tied to the cardholder's address, but it soon became clear that was not the case, because there were only about 2,000 unique zip codes in the hundreds of pages of card data we scraped, and there are > 40k zip codes in the whole US. Still, the zip codes in the card data were spread out to almost every state.

Then we had an "AHA!" moment: The Target store locator page listed every single zip code of every store. After scraping those, we found there was about a 99.1 percent overlap in the Target store ZIP codes and the zip codes in the millions of fresh new cards put up for sale.

At that point, I felt really good about confronting Target, because every single source and data point led to the conclusion that they were totally owned.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigating-data-breach/

Cool study out of Sweden, published in BMJ, finding that the more doses of covid vaccine someone has received, the less likely they are to get long covid if they do get covid.

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-076990

Bookshop.org is offering free standard shipping all weekend! If you want an alternative to Amazon, this is an excellent choice.

https://bookshop.org/

As far as I can tell, the greatest tragedy is that human lifespans are so short compared to all the knowledge, joy, and humor there is to experience. Even 100 years is not enough to scratch the surface.

Yet there are people in the world who are so dull that they squander their lives on bigotry, and who think the pinnacle of humor is demeaning marginalized people. I truly don't get it, and in a way I'm glad that I don't get it.