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Links 24/02/2023: Devices and General News



  • GNU/Linux

    • Linux GizmosBeryl AX Wi-Fi6 Router runs on OpenWrt v21.02

      The company GL.iNet recently launched a compact Wi-Fi6 router offering 1x 2.5GbE WAN port and 1x GbE LAN port. The Beryl AX (GL-MT3000) supports both 2.4GHz/5.0GHz bands and it’s capable of running OpenVPN at 150Mbps.

  • Distributions and Operating Systems

    • Devices/Embedded

      • Linux GizmosMini PC equipped with 12th Gen Intel processors and dual 2.5GbE ports

        The KC12 is a compact Mini-PC featuring the Intel Core i5-1240P and the Intel Core i7-1240P. The device is equipped with 2x HDMI 2.0, 2x M.2280 slots, 1x Thunderbolt, Wi-Fi6/Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity and other various peripherals.

      • CNX SoftwareZBMINI Extreme Zigbee smart switch review with Home Assistant

        But in this review, we will show you how to manage the ZBMINI Extreme using another approach namely with integration with Home Assistant home automation framework. Home Assistant is a very popular open-source software, contributed by lots of great people around the world. We will use Home Assistant version 2023.2.0 installed on a Raspberry Pi 4 SBC with 4GB or 8GB RAM and a 128GB SD card. We won’t use an external Zigbee Bridge, and instead, we will make use of a Zigbee USB Dongle that connects directly to the Raspberry P i4 USB port. For the dongle, we have a Conbee II Zigbee USB dongle to create a Zigbee network in order to communicate with other Zigbee devices

    • Open Hardware/Modding

      • HackadayTesting The Raspberry Pi Debug Probe

        We mentioned the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe when it was launched, a little RP2040-based board that provides both a USB-to-UART and an ARM SWD debug interface. [Jeff Geerling] was lucky enough to snag one, and he’s put it through its paces in a handy blog post.

      • HackadayLaser Scanner Upgraded To Use PCB Motor

        [Rik]’s Hexastorm laser scanner project€ originally used a discrete€ polygon mirror controller+motor module from Sharp€ to spin a prism. But the scanner head was a bit difficult to assemble and had a lot of messy wires. This has all been replaced by a single board featuring a PCB-printed motor, based on the work of [Carl Bugeja]. The results are promising so far — see video below the break.

      • HackadayAn Amiga Mouse, The Modern Way

        When we recently featured an Amiga upgrade project, [EmberHeavyIndustries ] was prompted to share one of their own, an adapter to allow a modern USB HID mouse to be used with the Commodore quadrature mouse port.

  • Leftovers

    • Counter PunchStirring Humor into ‘Old Age’

      No doubt everyone grows old in their own way.

      But once you actually hit it — that three letter word, “old” — watch out: “An aged man is but a paltry thing,/A tattered coat upon a stick . . .”

    • HackadayLo-Fi Tchaikovsky

      [Kevin] over at Simple DIY ElectroMusic Projects recently€ upgraded his Lo-Fi Orchestra. To celebrate his 400th blog post, he programmed it to play€ Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Two Arduino Nanos, four Arduino Unos, four Raspberry Pi Picos, and one Raspberry Pi have joined the Lo-Fi Orchestra this year, conducted by a new Pico MIDI Splitter. Changes were made in every section of the orchestra except percussion. We are delighted that the Pringles tom and plastic tub bass drums remain,€ not to mention the usual assortment of cheap mixers, amps, and speakers.

    • HackadayNASA Help Wanted: Ham Radio Operators Please Apply

      NASA’s been recruiting citizen scientists lately, and their latest call is looking for help from ham radio operators. They want you to make and report radio contacts during the 2023 and 2024 North American eclipses. From their website:

    • The NationThe Tragedy of Till Is Our Failure to Grasp Its Radical Politics

      Danielle Deadwyler was widely expected to receive an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Mamie Till-Mobley in Chinonye Chukwu’s extraordinary film Till. She consistently received the strongest reviews of any lead actress. Manhola Dargis wrote in The New York Times, “With fixed intensity and supple quicksilver emotional changes, Deadwyler rises to the occasion as Mamie, delivering a quiet, centralizing performance.” Ronda Penrice of The Wrap concurred: “This magnificent performance elevates Deadwyler to the ranks of the great actors of our time.” The New Yorker’s Richard Brody described her performance as “one of the most radiantly, resonantly expressive to grace the screen this year.” Even before she snagged the Gotham Award for outstanding lead performance in November, she had already secured a spot on virtually every critic’s Oscar prediction list. So when neither Deadwyler nor Viola Davis received Oscar nods, it sent tremors through the industry and beyond. Rolling Stone critic Marlow Stern noted, “Deadwyler’s snub is perhaps the most shocking, given the gravity of the role and how she rose to the occasion.” Richard Brody was also “shocked,” as was fellow New Yorker critic Michael Shulman, who called Deadwyler “a contender” for how she “took a grieving-mother role that could have been clichéd and made her thrillingly alive and complicated.” Sarah Polley, writer/director of the Oscar-nominated Women Talking, urged her Twitter followers to see Till, adding that Deadwyler “gave one of the best performances of all time.”

    • Pro PublicaWhat Happened to Jefferson Rodríguez

      The call to 911 came in a little after 11 p.m. A man said a small boy on his dairy farm had severe head injuries. He said he thought the boy had been trampled by a cow.

      Ann Ingolia, a deputy for the Dane County Sheriff’s Office, was in the middle of her shift when she heard the dispatch on this warm summer night in 2019. She turned on her siren and headed over, down winding roads and rolling hills, past the farms and fields that mark the landscape of this part of south-central Wisconsin.

    • Pro PublicaWhy It’s So Hard to Sue Doctors for Sexual Assault in Utah

      At 19 years old and about to be married, Stephanie Mateer went to an OB-GYN within walking distance of her student housing near Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

      She wanted to start using birth control, and she was looking for guidance about having sex for the first time on her 2008 wedding night.

    • HackadayKeebin’ With Kristina: The One Where Shift (Really) Happens

      Hooray, the system works! [Sasha K.] wrote to let me know about their Thumbs Up! keyboard, which is the culmination of a long journey down the DIY rabbit hole to end game. (Seriously, it’s kind of a wild ride, and there’s a ton of pictures).

    • The NationJay Jackson’s Audacious Comics

      In June 1941, Harold Gray’s nationally syndicated comic strip Little Orphan Annie made a singular contribution to the war effort: The titular heroine formed a group called the Junior Commandos, a club for boys and girls who wanted to fight fascism. The logic behind the Junior Commandos was that because the United States was in a total war, kids had to pitch in too. Some of the Junior Commandos’ adventures were fanciful, such as foiling a Nazi submarine attack off the shores of America. Others reflected the ways that total war had transformed everyday American life: starting up vegetable gardens, buying war bonds, rationing and recycling. The concept of the Junior Commandos took off in real life too, with many actual kids’ organizations mimicking the good citizenship promoted in the strip.

    • SpiegelZelenskyy's Heroes: Ukraine's Best Respond to the Earthquake in Turkey

      Rescue workers from Ukraine have been working nonstop since the Russian invasion to save civilians from the ruins of their buildings. After the earthquake in Turkey, though, some of them took a break from the war to help out in the disaster zone.

    • Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

      • Common DreamsModerna's 2022 Windfall a 'Scandalous' Result of Pandemic Profiteering, Campaigners Say

        The Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical giant Moderna announced Thursday that it brought in over $19 billion in revenue and $8.4 billion in profits in 2022 thanks primarily to its Covid-19 vaccine, which was made possible by federal funding and government technology.

      • The NationJackson’s Water System Is Broken by Design

        Every March, cardinals arrive in Kali Akuno’s front yard in Jackson, Miss., to build nests in his trees. But in spring 2017, something odd happened: The chicks hatched on cue but then died. “They didn’t fall out of the nest,” Akuno says. “They starved.”1This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center and produced in partnership with the Jackson Advocate.

      • Common DreamsToxic Forever Chemicals Found in More Than 330 Animal Species

        More than 330 animal species around the world are at risk of harm from exposure to toxic "forever chemicals," according to an Environmental Working Group analysis published Wednesday.

      • Pro PublicaRegulators Overhaul Inspections of Hospice Providers

        In late January, amid intensifying scrutiny of the quality of care provided by the American end-of-life care industry, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has reformed how it inspects hospice providers. The changes, detailed in a 196-page document, went into effect immediately.

        Under the new protocol, inspectors must sample data from multiple locations where the hospice operates and evaluate a broader range of metrics. These include records on the hospice’s inpatient care, bereavement practices and reasons patients are leaving the service alive. “An unusually high rate of live discharges could indicate that a hospice provider is not meeting the needs of patients and families or is admitting patients who do not meet the eligibility criteria,” the revised rules note.

      • The NationWant to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor.

        A changing of the guard in US public health is impending—and, with it, a chance to rejuvenate a flailing field. Anthony Fauci has retired in the shadow of one of the worst preventable disasters in history, and President Biden is moving to make new appointments while establishing a permanent White House Office for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy. In doing so, Biden and his advisers must confront the fact that the rot in public health is structural: It cannot be cured by simply rotating the figureheads who preside over it. Building effective national health infrastructure will require confronting pervasive distortions of public health and remaking the leadership appointment systems that have left US public health agencies captive to partisan interests.

      • Pro PublicaPollution From a Plastics-Based Fuel Has a 1-in-4 Lifetime Cancer Risk

        The Environmental Protection Agency recently gave a Chevron refinery the green light to create fuel from discarded plastics as part of a “climate-friendly” initiative to boost alternatives to petroleum. But, according to agency records obtained by ProPublica and The Guardian, the production of one of the fuels could emit air pollution that is so toxic, 1 out of 4 people exposed to it over a lifetime could get cancer.

        “That kind of risk is obscene,” said Linda Birnbaum, former head of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. “You can’t let that get out.”

    • Security

    • Defence/Aggression

      • Counter PunchWho’s Winning and Losing the Economic War Over Ukraine?

        With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to impose crippling sanctions that would bring Russia to its knees and force it to withdraw.

        Western sanctions would erect a new Iron Curtain, hundreds of miles to the east of the old one, separating an isolated, defeated, bankrupt Russia from a reunited, triumphant and prosperous West. Not only has Russia withstood the economic assault, but the sanctions have boomeranged–hitting the very countries that imposed them.

      • ScheerpostPutin Announces Suspension of the New START Treaty

        New START is the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia.

      • ScheerpostGerman Lawmaker Calls for Nord Stream Probe

        Sevim Dagdelen takes the Scholz government to task for its lack of “strength and will” in responding to Seymour Hersh’s reporting on the U.S. sabotage of the Russian pipeline. Video and text of her Feb. 10 speech to the Bundestag.

      • The DissenterMarch to Iraq War, 20 Years Later: February 22, 2003
      • The DissenterMarch To Iraq War, 20 Years Later: February 23, 2003
      • Common DreamsAt Least 10 Palestinians Killed, More Than 100 Injured in Israeli West Bank Raid

        A child and two elderly people were among at least 10 Palestinians who were killed Wednesday morning by Israeli military forces conducting a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus.

      • Common DreamsSeven Things We Could Do If We Cut the Pentagon by $100 Billion

        What would be possible if we had an extra $100 billion to spend on urgent human needs?

      • TruthOutDemocrats Introduce Bill to Return $100B From Pentagon Budget to the Public
      • Common DreamsLee, Pocan Revive Bill to Cut Military Budget by $100 Billion

        U.S. Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan on Wednesday reintroduced their People Over Pentagon Act, which would slash $100 billion from the nation's military budget and reallocate that money to urgent needs, from investments in education and healthcare to combating the climate emergency.

      • The NationChile’s Battle for Memory: A Report From the Latest Front

        Santiago, Chile—Every morning, as I take my daily walk up toward the nearby Andes mountains, I pass by the Aeródromo Tobalaba, an airfield catering to a wide variety of private planes.

      • TruthOutChomsky: A Stronger NATO Is the Last Thing We Need as Russia-Ukraine War Turns 1
      • Democracy NowKenyan Writer: History Explains Why Much of Africa Chooses Neutrality Over West’s Support of Ukraine

        One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many African countries have tried to avoid strong denunciations or shows of support for either side in the conflict, walking a diplomatic tightrope even as the war has had a major impact on food and fuel prices across the continent. Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola says that neutrality is influenced by memories of Africa as a conflict zone during the Cold War, as well as a desire to chart foreign policies independent of former colonial European powers.

      • Democracy NowScholar Ho-fung Hung on China-Russia Relations & Whether Beijing Could Mediate Ukraine Peace Deal

        China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow this week, where they reaffirmed the close relationship between the two countries. The high-profile visit comes just days before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For more on China’s relationship with Russia and its role in the Ukraine war, we speak with Ho-fung Hung, professor of political economy and sociology at Johns Hopkins University.

      • Democracy Now“A War of Imperial Aggression”: How Russia’s Invasion One Year Ago Changed Ukraine & the World

        Friday marks one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Over the past year, at least 8,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, according to the United Nations, but the true death toll is believed to be higher. The U.N. refugee agency said this week that more than 8 million refugees have fled the fighting in Ukraine. This week, U.S. President Joe Biden met with NATO leaders in Warsaw, while Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Western countries sending military aid to Ukraine bear responsibility for prolonging the death and destruction of the war. We begin today’s show looking at the war’s impact and future with Nina Krushcheva, a professor of international affairs at The New School and the great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and Hanna Perekhoda, a Ph.D. student in history at the University of Lausanne and member of the democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh. Perekhoda is from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

      • Counter PunchMalcolm X Would Call Biden a 'Pretender Public Defender'

        Malcolm X, one of the most effective critics white America has ever known, who decried “straight-jacketed thinking, and straight-jacketed societies,” believed: “In our mutual sincerity we might be able to show a road to the salvation of America’s very soul.”

        Malcolm X wasn’t ever, to put it blandly — an adjective one could never pin to the charismatic firebrand — naïve about how difficult such an effort would be, and the challenge for white people who accepted it. He explained: “Indeed, how€ can€ white society atone for enslaving, for raping, for unmanning, for otherwise brutalizing€ millions€ of human beings, for centuries? What atonement would the God of Justice demand for the robbery of Black people’s labor, their lives, their true identities, their culture, their history — and even their human dignity?”

      • Democracy NowWho Killed Malcolm X? Family to File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others to Find the Truth

        On the 58th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination, civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump announced a new lawsuit from Malcolm X’s surviving family seeking compensation from the NYPD, CIA and FBI for its role in concealing evidence in his murder case. This lawsuit comes more than a year after it was confirmed that federal and local agencies had a role in the wrongful conviction of Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam for the murder. Aziz and Islam’s convictions were overturned in 2021, and they were awarded a $36 million settlement for wrongful imprisonment by the state and city of New York. We air excerpts of Tuesday’s public comments from Crump and one of Malcolm X’s daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, of their intent to file a wrongful death lawsuit over evidence concealed in the murder investigation, in part to seek answers on the extent of the government’s involvement in the civil rights leader’s death.

      • Democracy NowAs Putin Suspends New START Treaty, Is There Still Hope for Nuclear Disarmament?

        Russian President Vladmir Putin’s announcement that Moscow would suspend its participation in the New START treaty threatens to end the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia. Putin made the pledge during his annual State of the Nation address on Tuesday, when he accused Western nations of provoking the conflict in Ukraine. The treaty limits the U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapon stockpiles and gives each country opportunities to inspect the other’s nuclear sites. Russia says it will continue to respect the caps established by the treaty, but that it will no longer allow inspections. For more on the treaty and the wider challenge of nuclear proliferation, we speak with Dr. Ira Helfand, a longtime advocate for nuclear disarmament, who says the need to end nuclear weapons “transcends” all other issues between the U.S. and Russia. “If we don’t get rid of nuclear weapons, they’re going to be used. And if they’re used, nothing else that we’re doing is going to make any difference,” says Helfand. He is the former president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, a member of the steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, as well as the co-founder and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

      • Common Dreams'Victory for the Afghan People' as US Judge Blocks 9/11 Families From Seizing Frozen Assets

        A coalition of Afghan-American community organizations on Wednesday welcomed a U.S. federal judge's ruling rejecting a bid by relatives of 9/11 victims to seize billions of dollars in assets belonging to the people of Afghanistan.

      • Scheerpost‘Victory for the Afghan People’ as US Judge Blocks 9/11 Families From Seizing Frozen Assets

        "This money belongs to the Afghan people, and no one else," said Afghans for a Better Tomorrow, a coalition of Afghan-American community groups.

      • ScheerpostIt’s Not All Balloon Buffoonery: Weaponizing Anti-China Paranoia

        By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost The U.S. suffered worldwide embarrassment in the last two weeks while the American media and€  Republican and Democratic politicians hyperventilated over four UFO balloons that turned out to be harmless.

      • Counter PunchThe Chinese Balloon the Biden Team's Hot Air

        Over the past 60 years, U.S. presidents have benefitted from advice from moderate and pragmatic advisers as well as examples of presidents ignoring such advice and suffering the consequences. President John F. Kennedy was not admirably served by his secretaries of state and defense, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, but a little-known U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Llewellyn Thompson, former ambassador to the USSR, provided the off-ramp that resolved the Cuban missile crisis without use of force.€  An official in the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, George Ball, provided superb advice that challenged the Cold War thinking of the “best and brightest” leftovers from the Kennedy administration, but Johnson ignored Ball and blundered into the tragic Vietnam war.

        President Jimmy Carter had advisors to his left (e.g. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Marshall Shulman) and right (National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski), but unfortunately ignored the wisdom of Vance and Shulman on key issues involving the USSR.€  The Reagan administration was going nowhere in resolving national security issues, until a new secretary of state, George P. Shultz, and a Foreign Service Officer, Jack Matlock, provided the guidance that led to the breakthrough on arms control negotiations and detente in the 1980s. € 

      • ScheerpostUN Security Council on Nord Stream Attack With Ray McGovern and Jeffrey Sachs

        Ray McGovern and Jeffery Sachs addressed the U.N. Security Council Tuesday on the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage in light of Sy Hersh’s reporting.

      • ScheerpostPatrick Lawrence: Russia Takes Another Step Back From the West

        News that Russia will suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms pact, which arrived Tuesday via Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Federal Assembly, had to land hard.

      • ScheerpostScott Ritter: Arms Control or Ukraine?

        As Russia suspends New START, the sooner the Ukraine war ends, the sooner the U.S. and Russia can work to preserve arms control to avert the ultimate disaster.

      • Counter PunchWhy Environmental Groups Must Oppose War

        Should an environment-protecting group like W.A.T.E.R. get involved in issues of international war? Or conversely, should W.A.T.E.R. “stay in its own lane”? More generally, should pro-environmental groups also be anti-war? The US government has been involved with fighting or funding wars for much of the past 80 years, so the question for us, as Americans, is not new. It is particularly pressing now because of the war in Ukraine.

        Everyone knows that wars are hugely destructive to both people and the environment; that is indeed the tactical intent of every exploding bomb and lethal projectile. Escalation to nuclear use would be a worldwide humanitarian and ecological disaster. Fighting around nuclear power plants – an especially stupid thing to do – may well lead to catastrophic toxic radioactive waste release spread over huge swaths of land. It is obvious that military action (and preparation for action) itself consumes a huge amount of energy and produces a huge amount of greenhouse gas emissions. According to a 2019 study at Boston and Brown Universities1, “the DOD is the world’s largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest institutional producer of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world.”

      • Counter PunchThe Proxy War in Ukraine Must End

        * No Guns For Nazis, No Love For Putin!

        * End The Proxy War Between NATO & Russia Now!

      • Counter PunchWar in Ukraine and ICBMs: The Untold Story of How They Could Blow Up the World

        Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, media coverage of the war hasn’t included even the slightest mention of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Yet the war has boosted the chances that ICBMs will set off a global holocaust. Four hundred of them — always on hair-trigger alert — are fully armed with nuclear warheads in underground silos scattered across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming, while Russia deploys about 300 of its own. Former Defense Secretary William Perry has called ICBMs “some of the most dangerous weapons in the world,”€ warning€ that “they could even trigger an accidental nuclear war.”

        Now, with sky-high tensions between the world’s two nuclear superpowers, the chances of ICBMs starting a nuclear conflagration have increased as American and Russian forces face off in close proximity. Mistaking a€ false alarm€ for a nuclear-missile attack becomes more likely amid the stresses, fatigue and paranoia that come with protracted warfare and maneuvers.

      • Telex (Hungary)EU foreign ministers express support for Ukraine in joint video, Hungarian FM only one to send substitute
      • MeduzaPutin announces plans to deploy nuclear-capable Sarmat missiles amid media reports of failed tests — Meduza

        In a video released by the Kremlin’s press service to mark Russia’s Defender of the Fatherland Day on Thursday, Vladimir Putin announced that the country’s nuclear-capable Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles will be moved to combat readiness this year.

      • MeduzaIn Defender of the Fatherland Day message, Russian State Duma speaker says holiday ‘doesn’t apply to those who fled’ the country — Meduza

        In a Telegram post marking Russia’s Defender of the Fatherland Day, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that the holiday is an occasion to celebrate “both the men and the women” who “faithfully serve Russia.”

      • MeduzaAfter days of pointed complaints, Evgeny Prigozhin says Wagner Group to begin receiving ammunition — Meduza

        Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin said Thursday that shipments of ammunition for the mercenary company are on their way.

      • MeduzaEvgeny Prigozhin blames Wagner Group casualties on Defense Ministry, demands ‘ammo for Wagner’ — Meduza

        Evgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group has published a photo of several dozen dead mercenaries. Prigozhin himself explains that all of them were killed on February 21, and that their deaths could have been avoided if not for the scarcity of ammunition supplied by the Defense Ministry.

      • MeduzaRussia charges Ukrainian soldier with using prohibited methods of warfare in first-of-its-kind case — Meduza

        Investigators in Rostov-on-Don have filed charges against Ukrainian soldier Anton Cherednik for allegedly using prohibited methods of warfare and forcibly seizing power, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday.

      • MeduzaRussian State Duma unanimously approves bill to suspend Russia’s cooperation with New START Treaty — Meduza

        Russia’s State Duma has voted unanimously to suspend Russia’s cooperation with the New START Treaty, which is the U.S. and Russia’s only remaining nuclear arms control agreement.

      • MeduzaStadium rally in support of invading Ukraine begins in Moscow. Putin is expected to speak. — Meduza

        A patriotic rally whose motto is “Glory to the defenders of our Fatherland!” is beginning in Moscow. TASS is running a live broadcast of the event.

    • Environment

      • The RevelatorThe First Must-Read Environmental Books of 2023 Have Arrived
      • DeSmogVivian Krause to ‘Oil Mafia’ Supporters: ‘The Environmentalists Have Won’

        Vivian Krause may well claim the title of the Canadian woman who launched a thousand op-eds.€ 

        For over a decade Krause’s claim — that American philanthropic organizations are influencing Canadian environmental groups — provided the basis for hundreds of editorials alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to landlock Canadian oil and gas resources. Columnists pointed to Krause’s research as evidence that American-backed eco-radicals had taken over federal and provincial governments in Canada, halted major pipeline projects, and “played right into the business interests of U.S. billionaires by becoming their useful idiots.”

      • Energy/Transportation

        • TruthOutPolicy Lets Norfolk Southern Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts
        • TruthOutNorfolk Southern Agrees to Paid Sick Leave for 3,000 Workers Amid Ohio Crisis
        • Common DreamsTrump Is Returning to the Scene of His Crime When He Visits the East Palestine Train Wreck

          When Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nod in Cleveland in July 2016, he might have been picturing a place like East Palestine, Ohio — just 85 miles southeast of the massive podium where he was standing — as he promised voters he’d “deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been ignored, neglected, and abandoned.”

        • Common DreamsAs Trump Visits East Palestine, Critics Say 'He Should Be Apologizing' for Safety Rollbacks

          Ahead of former President Donald Trump's Wednesday visit to East Palestine, Ohio—where a Norfolk Southern-owned train transporting carcinogenic chemicals derailed on February 3, prompting a mass evacuation and release of pollutants—progressive critics highlighted the key role his administration played in making the fiery crash and its toxic aftermath more likely.

        • Pro PublicaNorfolk Southern Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts

          Norfolk Southern allows a monitoring team to instruct crews to ignore alerts from train track sensors designed to flag potential mechanical problems.

          ProPublica learned of the policy after reviewing the rules of the company, which is engulfed in controversy after one of its trains derailed this month, releasing toxic flammable gas over East Palestine, Ohio.

        • Common DreamsUnder Massive Pressure Amid Ohio Crisis, Norfolk Southern Agrees to Paid Sick Leave Deal

          Facing intense scrutiny and backlash over the toxic derailment of one of its trains in eastern Ohio, Norfolk Southern on Wednesday reached a deal with a leading rail union to provide up to a week of paid sick leave per year to around 3,000 track maintenance workers.

        • ScheerpostA Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews To Ignore Safety Alerts

          In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio.

        • The NationIt’s Time to Talk About Nationalizing America’s Railroads

          If the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio, tells us anything, it is that the corporate CEOs, billionaire speculators, and profit-hungry investors who control America’s transportation systems are not up to the job of running railroads. As Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown told CNN, “There’s no question [that the railroad company] caused it with this derailment because they underinvested in their employees.”

        • Common DreamsElectric Vehicles Are No Silver Bullet—Transportation Fixes Must Go Further

          The U.S. faces a critical juncture for the decarbonization of its transportation system.Will zero emissions transportation be an electrified status quo, with ever more massive electric SUVs stuck in traffic on highways connecting sprawling metropolitan regions? Or will it diverge from car dependency to take the form of e-bikes and e-buses zipping around denser, more walkable cities and suburbs?

        • Common DreamsReport Urges Biden to Stop Aiding Big Oil 'Ploy to Prolong the Era of Fossil Fuels'

          Titled Liquefied Natural Cash: How Methane Exports Reverse Climate Progress, Harm Consumers and Endanger Communities, the report highlights the surge of methane gas delivery contracts inked in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago, a boom aided in part by the Biden administration's efforts to export more U.S. gas to European allies.

        • Common DreamsBiden Proposes First Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Lease Sales

          Clean energy advocates on Wednesday applauded an announcement from U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who said her department is proposing the first-ever offshore lease sale for wind power in the Gulf of Mexico, long a center of oil and gas extraction.

        • DeSmogThe Natural Gas Industry Sees Cow Manure Gas as the Key to a Net Zero Future

          Chevron has been talking a lot about cows lately. Alongside POLITICO articles about clean energy, in D.C. newsletters, on Facebook and LinkedIn, are Chevron’s recent ads featuring taglines like “We’re looking to turn the methane from cow 💩 into the fuels of the future.” Each ad links to a page on Chevron’s website which explains how methane captured from manure is actually “renewable natural gas.”€ 

          But Chevron isn’t the only one talking cow manure. As world leaders convened in Egypt last November to negotiate climate action at the United Nations COP27 summit, a dairy industry trade association also ran a social media campaign highlighting efforts to “upcycle methane” from cattle. The ads showed anaerobic digester machines capturing methane emissions from manure and turning it into biomethane, which can be upgraded into natural gas. The public relations behemoth Edelman, which has come under fire for its work for the oil industry, created Facebook, Twitter, and even TikTok ads for this campaign.

      • Wildlife/Nature

        • Counter PunchTwo Minutes

          I recently read an article discussing Held, et al v. Montana. This case, the first of its kind in the United States to go to trial, was filed in Montana First Judicial District Court by 16 young Montanans. These plaintiffs are suing to enforce their inalienable right to a clean and healthful environment, guaranteed under Article II, section 3 of our Montana Constitution.

          The article prompted me to reflect upon the evolutionary history of our species, homo sapiens–a story of soaring accomplishment and abject failure.

      • Overpopulation

        • Counter PunchAn Aging Population Poses Issues, Just Like the Baby Boom Did

          The New York Times had an interesting piece on aging societies in Asia and elsewhere. The piece rightly points out that as the elderly comprise a larger share of the population, societies will have to make adjustments to meet their needs. This is not some sort of crisis, as it is often portrayed, by rather a challenge that has to be recognized, similar to other challenge posed by past demographic changes.

          The NYT piece noted that older people are likely to need more medical care than younger adults. Also, many will face chronic conditions like dementia, which will be difficult to deal with, especially for those without children or other family members to help them. It also pointed out that many older people are forced to work late in life because they don’t have a sufficient income on which to retire.

    • Finance

      • ScheerpostMore Drivel Over the National Debt!

        How the hell can we expect Americans to understand what the national debt means if the media doesn’t report it accurately?

      • ScheerpostDistortion of Breakfast Price Hikes Leaves WSJ With Egg on Face

        At the same time these companies are acting like their hands are tied by supply disruptions, their profits have skyrocketed.

      • Telex (Hungary)Inflation of food prices in Hungary decreased for first time in 20 months, but we are still way ahead of rest of EU
      • Telex (Hungary)Hungarian inflation now more than two and a half times the EU average at 26.2
      • MIT Technology ReviewDigital business building driven by conviction and experimentation

        Investors today no longer reward companies for incremental changes in their core business. Embracing digital throughout the business can help traditional companies exponentially increase value and their ability to compete with digital natives, if done correctly.

      • Michael West MediaShareholders re-Joyce again, as Qantas ignores tax-payers, passengers and staff

        The ebullience with which Qantas chief Alan Joyce announced the airline’s well telegraphed record half year pre-tax profit of $1.4 billion, underscored perfectly the jarring disconnect now at play in the company. Michael Sainsbury reports.

        True to its priorities, the company also announced a share buyback of $500 million, its second in the past 12 months designed to prop up its share price. That’s a cool $840 million diverted to shareholders instead of investing much needed funds on its aging fleet, maintenance division and staff wages that continue – for the majority of employees – to go backwards in real terms, as inflation neutralises the small increases.

      • Michael West MediaShine Justice? Class action law firm poised to sue class action law firm

        It is understood that a class action law firm is planning to take a class action against class action law firm Shine Justice. What’s the scam?

        The scam is shonky accounting, as per the story below. The question is, is this law firm breaking the law? We posed questions to them and their auditors PwC but they declined to respond. Then they came out with more of the same today when they disclosed their financial statements and the share price tanked 20%.

      • Common DreamsHumanity Faces Converging Debt Crises

        An enormous debt bomb threatens the U.S. federal government and the nation's financial system unless warring politicians can agree on a plan to defuse it. However, there are even bigger debt bombs ticking away beneath us all, of which fewer people are aware. It may be impossible to disarm all of them, but action is required to minimize the casualties.

      • ScheerpostWhat Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk

        Financial podcasts have been featuring ominous headlines lately along the lines of “Your Bank Can Legally Seize Your Money” and “Banks Can STEAL Your Money?! Here’s How!”

      • Counter PunchBiden’s Missing Word: Inequality

        On February 2nd, Pres. Joe Biden delivered his annual State of the Union address and received considerable praise for both the “progressive” positions he took and his combative tone. He seemed awake, getting ready to announce his 2024 candidacy. According to one source, former Pres. Donald Trump offered some praise.

        However, the word “inequality” was absent from Biden’s speech.

      • Counter PunchThe Lesson We Need to Teach Our Nation’s Rich
      • Counter PunchThe Day the World Should Have Changed

        There was a day when humanity was invited to reinvent its relation with power, when we should have realized that competition among nations as we knew it was obsolete, as well as pretty well all our relations based on power and domination.

        The day was July 16, 1945, the day of the Trinity test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, when the first nuclear weapon was exploded, proving that humanity had pierced the secrets of the atom and could now build weapons staggeringly larger than the 25-kiloton bomb exploded that day. The hydrogen bomb was already envisioned. It would use fission devices such as the Trinity bomb to create a fusion reaction that would unleash energies hundreds of times greater. Even the name of the test indicated that scientists understood humanity had obtained a godlike power.

      • Telex (Hungary)Price of ticket for 100E airport bus in Budapest to increase by HUF 700 in April
    • AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

    • Censorship/Free Speech

      • Common DreamsRon DeSantis Carves Out a Brand as a Book-Burning, Anti-LGBTQ+, Racist Authoritarian

        Ideological attacks on public education are central to the politics of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is carving out a brand as a book-burning, gay-phobic, transphobic, racist authoritarian. A Fauci-hater and anti-vax hero of right-wing media, DeSantis restricted instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation with his "Don't Say Gay" law. He limited what schools can teach about racism and diversity with his "Stop WOKE" law. He rejected math textbooks en masse for what the state called "prohibited topics," such as critical race theory; and he banned an Advanced Placement course in African-American studies for high school students on the grounds that it is a tool for "political indoctrination." Playing the wannabe tough guy, he wants to troll his way to the White House as America's premiere culture warrior.

    • Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

    • Civil Rights/Policing

      • TruthOutSanders Says US Must Condition Aid to Israel to Rein in “Racist Government”
      • Common DreamsSeattle Becomes First US City to Ban Caste Discrimination With Kshama Sawant Ordinance

        The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday for the first U.S. ban on caste-based discrimination, a move the measure's socialist sponsor hopes will inspire similar legislation nationwide.

      • TruthOutWI Supreme Court Election Candidate Is Trump Loyalist Involved in Electors Plot
      • TruthOut“It’s White Supremacy” — Critics Lambaste Greene’s Call for “National Divorce”
      • The NationThe Supreme Court Just Heard 2 Cases That Could Break the Internet

        Humility, thoughtfulness, and restraint are not virtues one can in good faith associate with our current Supreme Court. The past few years have seen a rash of extremist rulings from the conservatives who control the court, with the six archconservatives assuming the power to invalidate human rights, grant new rights to guns and corporations, and win the culture wars for their far-right confederates. The Supreme Court no longer acts as an impartial panel of jurists but as a cabal of rulers eager to foist their worldview upon the rest of us.€ 

      • The NationProgressives Score a Major Win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court Primary

        Just 33 minutes after polls closed in the primary election for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat that will determine the balance of power on one of the most powerful and contentious judicial benches in the country, the Associated Press announced that liberal candidate Janet Protasiewicz will advance to the general election on April 4. The Milwaukee County judge, who ran as an unapologetic defender of abortion rights and fair elections, overwhelmed the other three contenders in the first round of a contest that political observers on both sides of the nation’s partisan divide consider the most consequential election fight of 2023.

      • Common DreamsIn 'Extremely Rare' Ruling, SCOTUS Orders Resentencing of Arizona Prisoner

        The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a rare rebuke of Arizona's criminal justice system as the majority ruled in favor of a death row inmate who has called for a resentencing, saying the state ignored legal precedents during his trial.

      • Common DreamsSupreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to 'Unconstitutional' Arkansas Anti-BDS Law

        In a move decried by one critic as a "significant loss for the First Amendment," the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a challenge to an Arkansas law requiring companies doing business with the state to sign a pledge vowing not to boycott Israel.

      • Counter PunchThe Cult of Violence: New Poll Finds Evidence of Authoritarian Values Driving U.S. Public Opinion

        Social scientists have long expressed concerns that a large number of Americans embrace authoritarian modes of thinking that are centered on suppression of dissent, violence, and an infatuation with strong leaders.

        New evidence reveals that these authoritarian values are endorsed by a disturbing number of Americans, with the trend being most acute on the American right. A new national poll sponsored by the Marcon Institute for anti-racist studies and social justice suggests that the way in which authoritarian values are manifested with the American public may be shifting. The poll was conducted from February 7-9, and contacted a nationally representative sample of 1,021 Americans.

      • TruthOutDisability Justice Organizers Dream Big and Resist a Culture of Disposability
      • Democracy NowGuilty: Mexico’s Ex-Top Cop García Luna Convicted in U.S. Drug Trafficking Case

        A New York court on Tuesday convicted Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former secretary of public security and a close ally of U.S. law enforcement for decades, of drug trafficking and money laundering, among other charges. Prosecutors said García Luna accepted millions in bribes from the very criminal groups he was meant to be fighting, including the infamous Sinaloa Cartel formerly led by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. García Luna faces up to life in prison and is the most high-ranking Mexican official ever tried in the U.S. For more, we speak with award-winning journalists Peniley Ramírez and Maria Hinojosa, co-hosts of Futuro Media’s podcast USA v. García Luna. They say the case exposes how corrupt the so-called war on drugs has been on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. “The U.S. government, the DEA, the entire security apparatus failed here,” says Hinojosa.

      • TruthOutWhile Ex-Elected Officials Invest in Cannabis, I Remain in Prison for Selling It
      • Common DreamsThe Democratic Party Failed Striking Warrior Met Coal Miners in Alabama

        After almost two years on the picket line, the hundreds of United Mine Workers of America members who have been on strike at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama have offered to go back to work. They still do not have the fair contract they have sacrificed so much for. Their negotiations will continue, but they did not win this strike—and that is tragic. The company and its private equity owners bear the most direct responsibility for precipitating this heartless, inhuman struggle. But if you are looking for a meaningful place to focus your rage over the way that this strike has turned out, look directly at the Democratic Party.

      • Common DreamsNew Biden Rule Denounced as 'Trump's Asylum Ban Under a Different Name'

        The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed a rule that immigrant rights groups, civil liberties organizations, and some Democratic lawmakers condemned as an illegal attack on asylum-seekers that resembles an inhumane policy pursued by former President Donald Trump.

      • Pro PublicaHelp ProPublica and The Salt Lake Tribune Investigate Sexual Assault in Utah

        We’re reporting on sexual assault by health care professionals, an issue we highlighted in our story about a Provo OB-GYN who was sued by nearly 100 women who said he sexually assaulted them during treatments. You can fill out our confidential form below to tell us about other practitioners and health care institutions you think we should report on.

      • The NationIn the Dominican Republic, the Fight for Abortion Rights Is a Fight Against Anti-Blackness

        Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic—There’s a citywide blackout. No street lights, no shop lights—just headlights from passing cars. “This is just your typical Friday night,” Alicia Mendez Medina says, and a bodega worker nods from behind her. Alicia bids her goodbye and we head to Parque Duarte, the place many have described as “the it spot” for nightlife in Santo Domingo. She orders some wine.

      • TechdirtI Explained To A Court How California’s ‘Kid’s Code’ Is Both Impossible To Comply With & An Attack On Our Expression

        Last year, Techdirt was one of only a very few sites where you could find out information on California’s AB 2273, officially the “California Age Appropriate Design Code” or “Kid’s code.” As with so many bills that talk about “protecting the children,” everyone we talked to said they were afraid to speak up, because they worried that they’d be branded as being against child safety. Indeed, I even had some people within some larger tech companies reach out to me suggesting it was dangerous to speak out against the bill.

    • Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

    • Digital Restrictions (DRM)

      • TechdirtColorado Passes Landmark Agricultural ‘Right To Repair’ Bill

        Colorado is the latest state to move forward on new “right to repair” legislation despite a growing and sustained lobbying effort by industry. The Colorado House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Consumer Right to Repair Agricultural Equipment Act (HB23-1011) with a 44-17 vote on Tuesday, the first major right to repair legislation to be passed so far in 2023.

    • Monopolies

      • Patents

      • Copyrights

        • Torrent FreakRussia Claims Ukraine & Allies Use Pirate Sites to Spread Propaganda

          A Russian security company is reporting a surge in movie and TV show-related domain registrations. Some believe that pirates are buying domains to exploit an upcoming gap in the market when Hollywood licenses expire at the end of the month. Telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor claims that Ukraine and its allies are running pirate sites for propaganda purposes.

        • Torrent FreakThe European Union's Official Site Has a Persistent 'Piracy' Problem

          The European Union warns that pirate sites can lead users to malware and other unwanted content. Unfortunately, the EU also has its own piracy problem; its official website continues to be exploited by bad actors to advertise piracy-related scams. Meanwhile, male enhancement gummies, Onlyfans hacks, gift card generators, and other scams are promoted too.

        • Torrent FreakMPA: Pluto TV .m3u Playlists Facilitate Piracy on a Massive Scale

          A condition of watching streaming service Pluto TV is that users must use approved methods such as official apps. This is the reason that Pluto TV is free, since revenue is generated through advertising. Unofficial Pluto TV .m3u playlists are easy to access and do away with advertising and user behavior tracking mechanisms. A copyright complaint sent by the MPA this week pulls no punches; these playlists facilitate piracy on a massive scale.

  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal

      • Contrasting Visual and Nonvisual

        I'm aggressively non-visual. So much so that I am still utterly baffled by the idea of a picture. I mean, how on Earth do you squish three-dimensional reality into two dimensions on a page, a screen, a canvas, or what have you? If I sit here and try to grok it, you'd probably see figurative smoke coming out of the top of my head.

        And yet, I love Lisp. Lisp, and S-expressions in particular, helped me understand trees.

    • Technical

      • My Pinebook Pro Lives!

        Really, that's it. I just goofed up the eMMC and since it boots to that first by default I had to remove the chip in order to be able to mess with it again using Armbian on an SD card.

        Now I've just gotta get around to grabbing an eMMC to USB adapter of some sort so I can re-flash it with a copy of the OS as it lives on the SD card, and I'll be back up to 64GB of cheap storage.

        For the kinda stuff I'll likely wind up doing here that's about as convoluted as I'd need my storage size to be.. anything more than that and I should probably be offloading it to a storage hard drive anyway.

      • A breakdown of the triple-star pointer

        I few days ago I read “Lessons learnt while trying to modernize some C code [1]” (via Lobsters [2]) and one of the problems of C stated stood out to me: “Avoid constructs like `char ***`. I thought it was a joke, but people do pass around `char ***` and it’s insane—almost impossible to comprehend why do you need a pointer to a pointer to a pointer.” Yes, it happens, but come on! That doesn't happen often enough to complain about!

      • GPT-3 On Electronic Pets

        I've lately wanted a pet, but no animal lives up to my criteria. Jokingly both I and friends have said that maybe I should get an e-pet instead, like a tamagotchi. Of course, an e-pet doesn't alleviate loneliness in the least! But don't just take my word for it; listen to an AI explain it for you.

      • Programming

        • Reply - Christina - February 2023 Five Questions (5Q)

          Christina, looks like the questions as posted on your gemcap have been truncated a bit by Nano or Emacs &c. FYI. I still cleave to Nano as my default $EDITOR, but have aliased it to always run with flags for line numbers and line wrap for this reason. Highly recommended. Not to mention setting the config for endearing ansi colours! Anyway, no worries, I shall make do with inference. If clarification is needful and interesting, please ping me by XMPP.

        • I'm learn-ding

          Illness aside, I've been trying to keep myself busy over the last month, mostly in my attempts to continue learning C. I still have no real desire to make my own applications, but I want to maintain and modify applications that I already use, like adding Atom support to `snownews`, and fixing some problems that I found when compiling it for Snow Leopard. I also kinda want to toy with other applications, like I did when learning what I know of Perl.

          Lua will come soon enough, as I use `wordgrinder` on a daily basis, and I'd like to be able to eventually fork the older 7.2 version I modified since it runs better on my OS of choice than the current version does.


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