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How independent Venezuelan outlets, operating from exile and in alliance with reporters who remain in the country, managed to cover Maduro's ouster (César López Linares/LatAm Journalism Review)
https://latamjournalismrevie…

How Venezuelan journalists broke the information blockade with a 10-hour broadcast of Maduro’s ouster
How Venezuelan journalists broke the information blockade with a 10-hour broadcast of Maduro’s ouster Digital Native. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For Ramon Méndez Galain,
the energy transition isn’t just about climate
—it’s about economics.
Uruguay’s shift to renewables, he argues,
demonstrated that cl…

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

»Breite Allianz fordert von EU Ausbau von Open Source:
45 europäische Akteure aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft fordern die Regierungen der EU auf, die Präsenz von Open Source auszubauen.«
Ja aber was nichts kostet hat ja auch nichts an Wert!?!! Ne im Ernst, wird nun mittlerweile wirklich im breiten Rahmen Open-Source befürwortet? Ich hoffe es auf jeden Fall.
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Breite Allianz fordert von EU Ausbau von Open Source
45 europäische Akteure aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft fordern die Regierungen der EU auf, die Präsenz von Open Source auszubauen.

Week 18 NFL top storylines: Conference seeding, final playoff spots, Black Monday and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6934211/2026/01/04/week-18-nfl-storylines-playoffs-black-monday/

Week 18 NFL top storylines: Conference seeding, final playoff spots, Black Monday and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6934211/2026/01/04/week-18-nfl-storylines-playoffs-black-monday/

I have Unix “muscle memory” that is older than the millennium and remains valid on most of the machines I administer.
E.g. the old “net-tools” utilities (ifconfig, netstat, etc.)were supposedly replaced a couple of decades ago but they remain functional on most Unix-like platforms. Almost no one ever uses the iproute2 (i.e. ip, ss, etc.) tools. @…

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People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Mel Bonis, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Rumon Gamba:
🎵 Suite Orientale, Op 48 no 2: Prelude & Danse d'almees
#MelBonis #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #RumonGamba

Supreme Court considers Trump administration’s bid to fire Lisa Cook,
asking lawyer to provide evidence for alleged mortgage fraud
During today’s arguments, both conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett
and Ketanji Brown Jackson of the liberal wing of the court
pushed solicitor general Sauer to explain how the administration’s allegations against Cook would harm the public if she were to remain in her position.
Jackson went on to press Sauer to provide “evidence t…