Re: Wash Post: Greta Thunberg weaponized shame in an era of shamelessness

2019-09-26 Thread Molly Hankwitz
Dear Ted and Felix, Thank you these links. I have been following Ms. Thunberg with a mix of rapt interest, admiration, and fabulous disbelief at her courage for some time. I have picked up, now, on some of the bile that Monica Hesse bites into which is being directed at Greta by such patrons of

Re: Wash Post: Greta Thunberg weaponized shame in an era of shamelessness

2019-09-26 Thread Felix Stalder
Hi Freddy, I can assure you that there is a lot of hate towards GT in Europe as well, so this cannot be a problem attributable to the "American brain". I think it's an issue of how to deal with the climate crisis. I see basically three different approaches. The center left and center right

Re: Wash Post: Greta Thunberg weaponized shame in an era of shamelessness

2019-09-26 Thread Freddy Spierenburg
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:48:02AM -0400, tbyfield wrote: > Anyone who listens to all of that and immediately wants to > punish or attack Thunberg -- they're not having that reaction > because they think she's wrong, but rather because, deep down, > they fear she is right. Does the author truly

Open letter to the Free Software Movement

2019-09-26 Thread Jaromil
This is an open letter to all the people who, in their good faith, are concerned about the recent events which have shaken the long-standing leadership of the Free Software Movement and the GNU project. Online: https://www.dyne.org/open-letter-to-the-free-software-movement/ RT:

Wash Post: Greta Thunberg weaponized shame in an era of shamelessness

2019-09-26 Thread tbyfield
[a little collaborative text-filtering] < https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/greta-thunberg-weaponized-shame-in-an-era-of-shamelessness/2019/09/25/66e3ec78-deea-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html> Greta Thunberg weaponized shame in an era of shamelessness By Monica Hesse Columnist

Re: Supreme Court Rulling consequeces

2019-09-26 Thread Tom Keene
My experience of dealing with UK local authority housing managment has encountered a domain of large scale cartels with complex layers of contractors and sub-contractors in a hyper-accelerated efficiency drive. This efficiency has driven down the pay of contractors who sub-contract to an