John Rowe @JohnTheKea@nitech.online

A minimal cell phone with Signal integration seems ideal (if not for always, for moments when I want to be more unplugged).

Does anyone have any experience with Pigeon?

Could I securely text message Signal users with Pigeon?

Their site says Signal does not endorse Pigeon, is there a lawsuit looming?

https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/

We become numb to the risks that we are accustomed to, and that's quite natural. After all, it's extremely uncommon for gas leaks to happen in the grand scheme.

But you and I literally have pressurized pipes in our homes filled with an explosive gas - and the supply behind that pipe is for all intents and purposes limitless. Fun!

As some of you may have heard, Tweetbot is currently unable to authenticate with Twitter which currently has a huge impact on our business. Only mentioning this because we are going to be busy putting out fires and trying to get Ivory on the App Store ASAP. So it will be harder to answer your questions. However you can read our current roadmap for Ivory here: https://tapbots.com/ivory/

Also, here are 1000 more testflight openings for now. Thanks for all of your support! 🙏

https://testflight.apple.com/join/HiTBauI3

Things are coming along.

@malwaretech Don't forget Kaspersky finding 20 expired C2s belonging to the the NSA and gaining access to a massive hacking campaign that had gone undetected for 14 years.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/

"Perhaps most costly to the attackers was their failure to renew some of the domains used by these servers. Out of the 300 or so domains used, about 20 were allowed to expire. Kaspersky quickly registered the domains and, over the past ten months, has used them to "sinkhole" the command channels, a process in which researchers monitor incoming connections from Equation Group-infected machines."

@ieefa_institute: "Last year, utility-scale renewables in the power sector generated more electricity than coal on 169 days—and more than gas, the largest source of power, on 10 days": https://ieefa.org/resources/us-energy-transition-powered-forward-2022

I have become anecdotally aware of several (smaller) mastodon instances that are considering shutting down because they cannot afford their server bills.

If you are a #mastodonadmin of an instance that is 1000+ users and considering shutting down please reach out to me.

We may be willing to take over your instance and save your users if you are compliant with the Mastodon Server Covenenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant)

As the US prepares to take its #OffshoreWind installation from basically zero to something significant, the fossil fuels industry has gone and created a network of seemingly-local groups to oppose it.

This is the story of how they did so.

https://www.distilled.earth/p/the-man-trying-to-kill-americas-offshore

Making sure we decarbonize our electric supply means knowing what that opposition looks like, how it's structured, and what their disinformation looks like in advance.

#ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

The US is now tied with Qatar as the top LNG exporter

“Bikes are only good in nice weather!” #BikeTooter #FightForBike #Stockholm

Using Quality-Adjusted Life Years as a metric, the cost for society to buy 1 additional year of life at full health is as follows:
Vaccines $0.1K
Bike lanes: $1K
Medicaid $67K
Dialysis $129K
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costbenefit-bike-lanes-idUSKCN11Z23A #publichealth #BikeTooter #vaccines #healthcare #sdoh #walkability #cycling

Living along the Acela Corridor and traveling in Europe and Asia has made me a strong public transportation advocate.

Not sure if all Americans know how pleasant it can be to have useful, efficient public transportation infrastructure! We can have nice things—like trains!

Remarkable online tool for US residents to see the wide range of discounts and tax credits they can get since Jan 1st under the Inflation Reduction Act. From solar panels to heat pumps and electric stoves to electric vehicles:
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/app/ira-calculator

For over 40 years, one single factor has ruled the GOP. It’s why Americans can’t have nice things. It’s why we fall so far behind most of the rest of the developed world. It’s why our children don’t have good schools. It’s why working people are in debt.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/why-must-americans-walk-lifes-tightrope?r=nl8r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

For my own sanity — and as the unofficial moderator of The War on Cars account — I'm actively muting anyone who thinks "Not everyone can bike everywhere, you know" is a cogent argument against reducing car dependency.

I've taken the attitude of @notjustbikes to heart and simply don't have patience for it anymore.

I sometimes turn on my phone’s flashlight and momentarily realize I also carry a world map, an encyclopedia, an audio recorder, a video and photo camera, a history of most meetings and conversations I’ve had in the past decade, real-time and async voice, video, and text communication, a TV, and more. So do billions of other humans.

Then I go about my day.

It is a massive cognitive up-levelling that happened seemingly overnight. And we have not really changed how we govern society at all.

"Inhofe, 87, will retire in early January after nearly three decades in the Senate. He leaves behind a legacy of climate denial that might be laughable if it weren’t so embarrassing and dangerous. There are few members of Congress who have done more to sow public doubt about the mounting, deadly impacts of fossil fuel-driven planetary warming, or to block policies and regulations meant to confront the threat."

NYT's opinion page gets in under the wire in the competition for Worst Take of 2022: Signal is bad because the people who build it are morally committed to preserving the privacy of their users.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/opinion/jack-dorseys-twitter-signal-privacy.html

Lake Oroville is up three and a half feet since yesterday. Still well behind the last two years but heading the right direction for now.