Serra @serra@qoto.org

No way! A European Citizens' Initiative to (1) tax millionaires to (2) finance a Green New Deal via EU Commission own funds, and (3) whose proponents are (check notes) the president of the Belgian Socialist Party, a Polish former Employment and Social Inclusion Commissioner and Thomas Piketty (@pikettylemonde), possibly the world's most prominent scholar of inequality.

Did the timeline just reset? https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_en

#TaxJustice #inequality #europeanunion #goodnews #economics

Looks like this strip is already making the rounds. Fun with ethno-nationalist dog whistles!

#politics #cartoon #fascism #authoritarianism #democracy #comic

🚨 Data protection professionals! Do you want to go beyond mere compliance paperwork and have what it takes to enforce the GDPR?

We are looking for a data protection lawyer to expand our team and would love to hear from you! 🎉

https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-lawyer

The I in LLM stands for intelligence

On how people now use AI to submit security reports on #curl.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

Wake up babe, Godwin's Second Law just dropped

This is exciting: Apple is adapting @marthawells’s Murderbot stories! https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/apple-tv-plus-murderbot-martha-wells-scifi-adaptation/

🚨 GDPR complaint against X (Twitter) over illegal micro-targeting for chat control ads!

The platform unlawfully used the political views and religious beliefs of its users to determine whether they should see an ad campaign from the EU Commission.

https://noyb.eu/en/gdpr-complaint-against-x-twitter-over-illegal-micro-targeting-chat-control-ads

On this day, 22 years ago, the #Rockbox project started, co-founded by me. We wrote an open source firmware for mp3 players. On its 10 year anniversary 2011, I wrote this:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/12/07/ten-years-of-rockbox/

Since 2015, the Earth League (of which I'm a member), Future Earth & WCRP have published "10 New Insights in Climate Science" to COPs. This year's is out now as an accepted manuscript:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/ten-new-insights-in-climate-science-20232024/F7F1C10C07FD241BFE30ACC4BA555A56
Some headlines:
* Overshooting 1.5°C is fast becoming inevitable, greatly increasing risks
* Fast-shrinking carbon budget calls for fossil fuel phase-out
* Concern: the uncertain future contribution of land and ocean carbon sinks
* Climate and biodiversity emergencies are linked
* Justice

Wishmas, we need to talk about how trains work

it's happening!!!

from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF

print zines are 30% off with the discount code WIZARDPRINT

https://wizardzines.com/

I just received #TristanPerich’s newest circuit album, “Composition for Three Small Speakers”. This is part of Tristan’s 1-bit music series. https://tristanperich.bandcamp.com/album/composition-for-three-small-speakers

high risk, low reward

#Caturday

Portal: Revolution is an upcoming fully-featured Portal 2 prequel mod https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/portal-revolution-is-an-upcoming-fully-featured-portal-2-prequel-mod/

#Portal2 #PuzzleGame #Linux

Published today: 👉 The latest Emissions Gap Report of the UN's Environmental Programme.

⚡ Its exasperated title is: "Broken Record. Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again)" 💥

And indeed a broken record, but is anyone listening?

The figure shows that even the already existing fossil infrastructures are enough to blow right through 1.5 °C carbon budgets, and that is without the expansions and new developments so many are supporting.

https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2023

#HirschhausenUndADHS setzt sich tatsächlich mit der Thematik auseinander, statt #ADHS voreilig als TikTok-Trend abzutun. #ARD #ADHD https://www.daserste.de/information/ratgeber-service/hirschhausens-check-up/sendung/hirschhausen-und-adhs-100.html