L29Ah @L29Ah@qoto.org

#Greenpeace has just lost $667 million (!) “trespass, nuisance, defamation” lawsuit from Dakota Access Pipeline. Greenpeace claims this is a “free speech” matter and that it could potentially destroy the NGO.

And while I don’t support fossil fuel companies, I’m pretty much convinced disappearance of Greenpeace would be eventually positive for climate and environment.

Why? Because from an environmental activism Greenpeace turned into an aggressive and openly anti-scientific black PR company:

Greenpeace fiercely rejects IPCC scientific position on #nuclear power and has frequently falsified (!) IPCC findings in order to continue vilifying nuclear power
Greenpeace rejects scientific consensus on genetically engineered plants, which contribute to reduced use of herbicides and pesticides and reduced land use for farming.
Greenpeace has contracted known scientific frauds such as Seralini to procure falsified pseudo-scientific reports about evils of glyphosate
Greenpeace fiercely fights Golden Rice, an entirely harmless project that saves lives of millions of people suffering from vitamin A deficit
Greenpeace engaged in literal sabotage, destroying scientific plantations of genetically engineered plants for the sake of PR and fundraising.
Greenpeace Germany has been running Greenpeace Energy which, while vilifying nuclear power, has been trading fossil gas. They also sued (!) UK Hinkley Point C over “unfair competition” in probably the most absurd PR stunt ever - a fossil gas company presenting itself as “environmental” sues low-carbon electricity power plant.
Fierce propaganda of Greenpeace Germany has been one of the main factors for Germany’s nuclear phase-out which led to restarting of coal power plants and building dozens of new fossil gas plants.

Source about the lawsuit:

https://apnews.com/article/greenpeace-dakota-access-pipeline-lawsuit-verdict-5036944c1d2e7d3d7b704437e8110fbb

General rule of thumb: Every time an organization updates their terms of service and/or privacy policy, it is never because they have your best interests at heart.

Specific thoughts on this latest Mozilla action (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/)

Setting aside the "worldwide license" bullshit, the privacy policy appears to have broadened both the classes of data Mozilla aims to collect, and the situations in which they collect them.

These are not the actions of an org that cares about your privacy.

Опять власть меняется!

I was listening to a podcast and they mentioned a poll of a community. Let’s see what the Fedi think.

What desktop server do you run: XOrg or Wayland?

#AskFedi #FediPoll #PleaseBoost #Wayland #XOrg #Linux

30 days on this poll - get the most reach. Please boost for reach too.

In today’s “terminology matters”:

Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.