Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

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Change the world.

This year we’ve rebuilt 280 schools in Mosul, #Iraq, allowing over 12,000 students to return to the classroom. https://t.co/NNff2GhP43 https://twitter.com/UNICEF/status/1063359807078436866

Policies of #China, #Russia and #Canada threaten #5C #climatechange, study finds | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/climate-change-champions-still-pursuing-devastating-policies-new-study-reveals

#GlobalWarming

Students from across Europe have sent letters imploring top United Nations and European Union officials to "stop hiding science about global collapse" and finally come clean about the perils of out-of-control human consumption and emissions. - https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/15/students-across-europe-excoriate-world-leaders-hiding-scientific-reality-pending

#UK #austerity has inflicted ‘great misery’ on citizens, #UN says | #Society | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/16/uk-austerity-has-inflicted-great-misery-on-citizens-un-says

Google and Facebook are to our human rights and to democracy what Philip Morris is to our health and what Exxon Mobil is to the environment. Until we grasp this fundamental truth we haven’t a snowflake’s chance in hell of either effectively regulating them or funding alternatives.

@freemo I didn't understand your attachment to fountain pens. Then I encountered "how the ballpoint pen killed cursive" -- along with comparisons to fountain pens.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-ballpoint-pen-killed-cursive-1025018394

"A lifetime writing with the ballpoint and minor variations on the concept (gel pens, rollerballs) left me unprepared for how completely different a fountain pen would feel."

Clutter or art?

Policies of China, Russia and Canada threaten 5C climate change, study finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/climate-change-champions-still-pursuing-devastating-policies-new-study-reveals

Habitat loss threatens all our futures, world leaders warned. Biodiversity experts say mass extinction of wildlife is as big a danger as climate change - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/17/habitat-loss-biodiversity-wildlife-climate-change

Facing uncertain future, farmers taking their own lives - https://www.newschannel5.com/news/facing-uncertain-future-farmers-taking-their-own-lives

The Ghost of IG Farben: Can Monsanto Reform Bayer?

Berlin. The marriage of Monsanto with Bayer breaks records not only due to its size but because of its evil smell, and not only due to Monsanto’s reputatio

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/16/the-ghost-of-ig-farben-can-monsanto-reform-bayer/

https://qoto.org/media/9zM8b0jpjNbrlM0hf9M

https://qoto.org/media/ybt_Obur7iqYimV7UrQ

#SolarpunkReporting

In 2014, when Sierra Leone was hit by the Ebola outbreak, three local software developers kept the country's infrastructure working by rewriting it to #FLOSS. They saved hundreds of thousands lives when companies like Google and IBM backed off, calling the project too risky.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7561-how_open_source_software_second_hand_laptops_and_hackers_helped_stop_ebola_and_stopped_an_apocalypse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/software-developers-helped-end-ebola-epidemic-sierra-leone

And their own recollection of the events with some technical descriptions:

https://medium.com/idtlabs/how-open-source-software-helped-in-the-fight-against-ebola-788bb3ca2bf0

Day of revolt leads to mass arrests in the UK as protest participants argue too many still don't "recognize the seriousness of our existential crisis" and almost nobody is doing enough to end humanity's wreckless assault on planet's living systems - https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/17/because-good-planets-are-hard-find-extinction-rebellion-shuts-down-central-london

"Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement."

-- Richard Stallman

RT @doctor_oxford@twitter.com: Utterly depressing to see @theresa_may@twitter.com trying to sell her deal using immigrant-bashing UKIP rhetoric.

EU migrants make up 1 in 10 NHS doctors & 1 in 12 NHS nurses.

Without them, the NHS would collapse.

My EU colleagues are so bloody fantastic - and so desperately needed.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1064524355261132805

Climate Change and the Savage Human Future - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/16/magazine/tech-design-nature.html

Irony overload.

A decision on whether the UK can unilaterally reverse Article 50 (i.e. effectively cancel Brexit) will be taken on November 27th.

The decision will be made by judges at (wait for it...):
the Court of Justice of the EU

The UK govt' failed in their attempt to stop the decision going to the CJEU.

This may be a crucial decision if Theresa May's plan fails to get parliamentary consent.

We live in interesting times.

#Brexit #UK #EU #politics